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Timberwolves point guard Ricky Rubio finished 2nd to Cleveland point guard Kyrie Irving in the NBA rookie of the year voting. Irving received 117 of 120 possible first place votes. Rubio had 49 2nd place votes and 23 3rd place votes with a total of 170 points while Irving had a total of 592 points. Rubio averaged 10.6 points and 8.2 assists a game in 41 games for Minnesota in 2011-2012.

The St. John's baseball team plays in the NCAA Division III tournament for the first time since 1998 Wednesday in Oregon at Linfield College at 2pm (Central Time) against the regions top seed Concordia of Texas. The Johnnies are coached by Jerry Haugen who's in his 35th year as head coach. Haugen has led the Johnnies to NCAA tournament appearances in 1994 and 1998 and sent the Johnnies to the MIAC tournament in 2003, 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

The Twins lost 5-4 at home to Cleveland Monday night. Shin Soo Choo hit an RBI single off Matt Capps to score the go-ahead run in the 9th inning after Minnesota scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 8th inning to tie the game at 4. Ryan Doumit hit a 2-run homerun and Josh Willingham had a RBI double in the 8th. Carl Pavano threw 6 innings with 4 earned runs but didn't figure in the final decision.

The St. Cloud Rox revealed their home and away uniforms at Buffalo Wild Wings in St. Cloud Monday night. The home uniforms have white tops while the road uniforms have a navy top.

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The St. Cloud Rox will reveal their new uniforms at an event at Buffalo Wild Wings tonight at 5:30. Current players Phil Imholte, and possibly current Gopher Andy Henkemeyer will model the uniforms. The Rox are also selling tickets and merchandise including the new uniforms at the event tonight. The event is free and open to the public.

The Twins downed Toronto 4-3 Sunday afternoon at Target Field. Scott Diamond threw 7 shutout innings with 5 hits allowed, no walks and had 4 strikeouts to get the win and improve to 2-0. Diamond has thrown 14 shutout innings since he's been called up from triple-A. Jared Burton struggled for the Twins allowing 3 earned runs in 1/3 of an inning. Glen Perkins recorded the final 2 outs of the 8th inning. Matt Capps threw a scoreless 9th inning to grab his 7th save.

The St. John's baseball team defeated St. Thomas 10-5 in the 2nd game played between the two teams in Minnetonka Sunday. St. John's had 2 chances to win 1 game and lost game 1 6-3 to force a deciding 2nd game which St. John's won. Joey Long had 1 hit and 2 RBIs in game 1 for St. John's. Max Forster was 2-4 with a homerun and 4 RBIs for the Johnnies in game 1.

The St. John's baseball team defeated St. Mary's 4-2 Saturday in the MIAC tournament to advance to the MIAC tournament championship. The Johnnies were led Dylan Graves with 4 hits and 1 run scored and Justin Thompson with 2 hits, 1 run scored and 1 RBI. Ryan Spengler threw 7 innings with 2 runs allowed to get the win.

Minnesota State-Mankato beat St. Cloud State 9-7 and 11-6 Saturday to win the NSIC baseball tournament title in Mankato. St. Cloud State had beaten Mankato earlier in the tournament 3-2 and was in the drivers seat but lost back to back games to the Mavericks. Garrett Fischer had 3 hits and Sean Borman had 2 hits and 2 RBIs for the Huskies in game 2.