Mid MN Sports

Volleyball 8/22/25

Volleyball at Albany: Pool play,
Sauk Centre over Big Lake 2-0, 25-15, 25-15.
Sauk Centre over Watertown Mayer 2-1, 25-23, 25-27, 15-10
Winners pool play:
New London Spicer over Sauk Centre 2-1, 25-23, 16-25, 15-12.
Sauk Centre over Rocori 2-1, 17-25, 25-15, 15-9.
Winners pool result:
1. NLS 2-0
2. Sauk Centre 1-1
3. Rocori 0-2.

Volleyball at Howard Lake: Pool play,
Annandale over Melrose 2-0, 25-18, 25-16.
Melrose over ACGC 2-1, 22-25, 25-19, 15-11.
Tournament play:
West Central over Melrose 2-1, 25-18, 23-25, 15-9.
Melrose over KMS 2-1, 17-25, 25-22, 15-7.

The Sauk Centre and Melrose volleyball teams will be playing in separate tournaments Friday.
Sauk Centre will play at Albany.
Sauk Centre schedule at Albany, click here.
Albany will supply a live stream on selected courts. Click here.

The Melrose volleyball team will be at Howard Lake.
Melrose at Howard Lake schedule, click here.
Howard Lake will have a live stream on selected courts, click here.

Sauk Centre volleyball at Albany tournament Friday.

Melrose volleyball at Howard Lake tournament Friday.

Girls swimming and diving 8/22/25

The Melrose and Sauk Centre girls swimming and diving teams competed at Willmar Friday.
Meet results, click here.
Team scores, click here.

Melrose girls swimming and diving coach Nathan Meyer.

Sauk Centre girls swimming and diving coach James Schreiner.

The Melrose football team can't wait to get out on the field. Melrose coach Ike Vesel.

Melrose tennis 8/21/25

Melrose girls tennis over BBE 6-1 on Thursday at the Melrose courts.
Melrose results, click here.

When the whistle sounds the Sauk Centre football team will be ready. Sauk Centre coach Charlie Warring.

The Melrose girls tennis team is out there competing. Melrose coach Sara Engelmeyer.

Sauk Centre tennis 8/19/25

Girls tennis final: Sauk Centre over St. John's Prep 4-3.
Sauk Centre results.

Another top volleyball team this year will be the Melrose volleyball team. Melrose coach Colleen Schmiesing.

The Sauk Centre volleyball team will be right in the mix of some good teams this year. Sauk Centre coach Jim Klaphake.

Melrose tennis 8/15/25

Girls tennis final: New London Spicer over Melrose 6-1.
Melrose results.
Sartell over Melrose 5-2
Melrose results.

The Sauk Centre girls swimming and diving team is looking forward to the new season. Sauk Centre coach James Schreiner.

Another strong Melrose girls swimming and diving team is getting ready for the season ahead. Melrose coach Nathan Meyer.

A new season is underway for the Melrose cross country team. Here's Melrose coach Scott Brever.

The Sauk Centre cross country team is off and running with some key runners returning. SC coach Jim Metcalf has more.

Sauk Centre Titans vs Perham

Legion softball 8/2/25

Legion softball final Sunday: Melrose over Belview 2-1.

In the three games at the Legion State tournament, Melrose pitcher Kaitlyn Klasen struck out 41 batters. That sets a new Legion State tournament record. Klasen was named the pitcher of the tournament. The Melrose team was also given the Sportsmanship trophy for the tournament.

Melrose pitcher Kaitlyn Klasen.

Stearns County League baseball 7/20/25

Sunday finals:
Spring Hill over New Munich 10-0 in 8 innings.
Elrosa over Greenwald 8-0.

The Stearns County League playoffs continue Sunday for the teams in the North.
At noon Subday, Spring Hill will play New Munich.
At 2:30, Elrosa will play Greenwald. Both games will be played at the Elrosa field.
Both games will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS. Click on Live broadcast in the upper left to watch the game.

Saturday results:
Spring Hill over Greenwald 3-2.
New Munich over Elrosa 7-3.

Legion baseball + softball 7/17/25

Saturday final: Glenwood over Benson 7-1.

The Sauk Centre Legion team will not be playing Benson today. The Sauk Centre Legion season is done.

Legion baseball final: Glenwood over Sauk Centre 10-1.

The Sauk Centre Legion team will play Glenwood at the Minnewaska high school field at about 5:30 Friday.
MIDMNSPORTS will not be broadcasting.

Legion baseball final: Sauk Centre over Benson 3-1
Glenwood over Osakis 11-1.
Sauk Centre at Glenwood Friday.

Legion softball final:
Melrose over Osakis 2-0 and 13-2
Sauk Centre over Little Falls 8-1 and 8-2.

The Sauk Centre American Legion baseball team will play a playoff game Thursday night at Benson at 6:30. The game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS. Click on Live broadcast in the upper left to watch the game.

Legion softball Thursday:
Melrose at home vs Osakis at 6:00.
Sauk Centre at Little Falls at 6:00.

Volleyball 7/15/25

For 5th place: Norwood Young America over Melrose 2-1, 25-20, 14-25, 16-14. For
Pool play: Pequot Lakes over Melrose 2-0, 25-20, 25-18.
Pool play: Willmar over Melrose 2-0, 25-19, 25-19.

Championship: Albany over Sauk Centre 2-0, 26-24, 25-20.
Semi final: Sauk Centre over Sartell 2-1, 26-28, 25-19, 15-12.
Volleyball final: Sauk Centre over Cedar Mountain 2-0, 25-23, 25-17.

There's a breakdown volleyball tournament at Sartell on Tuesday. The Sauk Centre and Melrose varsity teams will be playing. Look for updated scores on MIDMNSPORTS.
Sauk Centre schedule click here.
Melrose schedule click here.

Melrose Legion baseball 7/14/25

Legion baseball final: NLS over Melrose 5-4. The Melrose legion summer season is done.

The Melrose American Legion baseball team will have a game in the Legion playoffs Monday night. Melrose will play at New London Spicer at 6:30 at the Spicer baseball field.
The Melrose Legion baseball game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS. Click on Live broadcast in the upper left to watch the game.

Legion baseball and softball 7/10/25

Legion baseball: Sauk Centre over Osakis 10-4.
Holdingford over Melrose 10-0.

Legion softball: Melrose over BBE 2-0 and 5-4.
Glenwood over Sauk Centre 10-2 and 6-3.

In American Legion baseball Thursday night, the Sauk Centre Legion baseball team plays at Osakis at 6:30.
The Melrose Legion baseball team has a game at Holdingford at 6:30.

In American Legion softball Thursday, the Melrose Legion softball team has a game at BBE at 6:00.
The Sauk Centre Legion softball team will play at home vs Glenwood at 6:00.

Legion softball and baseball 7/9/25

Legion baseball: Sauk Centre over Browerville 4-3.

The baseball and softball games are available to watch. Click on Live broadcast, then click on the game. Use the cursor on the bottom of the screen to move it forward of backwards.

Legion softball: Game 1: Sauk Centre over Melrose 2-0.
Game 2: Melrose over Sauk Centre 4-0.

American Legion softball has the Sauk Centre softball team playing at home vs Melrose Wednesday afternoon. Note game time, the game will start at noon Wednesday.
The softball game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS. Click on Live stream in the upper left to watch the game.

The Sauk Centre Legion baseball team will play a make up game Wednesday night. Sauk Centre will play at home vs Browerville at 6:30. The baseball game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS.

American Legion baseball 7/7/25

The Sauk Centre Legion baseball game vs Glenwood has been called off tonight because of the rain.

The Melrose Legion game at ACGC has been called off for tonight because of the rain.

The Sauk Centre American Legion baseball team will play Glenwood Monday night at the Minnewaska high school baseball field at 6:00.
The Sauk Centre game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS. Click on Live broadcast in the upper left to watch the game.

The Melrose Legion team will play at ACGC at 6:30.

American Legion baseball 6/30/25

American Legion baseball Thursday: Parkers Prairie over Sauk Centre 11-1 in 5 innings.

New London Spicer over Melrose 13-8.
Melrose had Carson Theiler with a 2 run home run, Zach Rieland 3 run double, Tyler Nathe a 2 run double, Luke Funk a RBI hit.

Sauk Centre Legion over Osakis 5-4.
Sauk Centre Brody Laven with a walk off RBI hit in the bottom of the 7th.

American Legion baseball Monday night has Melrose playing New London Spicer at the Spring Hill field at 6:30. The game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS. Click on Live broadcast in the upper left to watch the game.

The Sauk Centre Legion baseball team will play at home vs Osakis at 6:30.

Stearns County League baseball 6/29/25

Stearns County League baseball Sunday at 1:30 has Spring Hill playing at home vs New Munich.
The game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS. Click on Live broadcast in the upper left to watch the game.
Stearns County League standings, click here.
After the game, if you missed watching the game or would like to watch parts of the game again, click on Live broadcast and click on the game. Use the cursor on the bottom of the screen to move ahead.

Softball - baseball 6/26/25

The Sauk Centre vs Melrose softball game has been postponed for tonight.

The Melrose American Legion baseball game has been called off for tonight.

American Legion softball Thursday night has the Sauk Centre softball team playing at home against Melrose. Game time at 6:00.
The softball game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS. Click on Live broadcast in the upper left to watch the game.

The Melrose American Legion baseball team has a home game vs Eden Valley Watkins at 6:30.

The Sauk Centre Legion baseball team is playing at Browerville at 6:30 Thursday.

Legion baseball 6/23/25

Legion baseball final: Sauk Centre over Wheaton 19-0 in 5 innings.

Melrose did not play.

American Legion baseball Monday night.
The Sauk Centre Legion baseball team will play at home Monday at 6:30 against Wheaton.
The Sauk Centre game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS. Click on Live broadcast in the upper left to watch the game.

The Melrose Legion baseball team will play at Kimball at 6:30.

MIDMNSPORTS 6/23/25

This week on MIDMNSPORTS:
Monday: Sauk Centre Legion baseball at home vs Wheaton
Thursday: Sauk Centre Legion softball at home vs Melrose
Friday: Sauk Centre Titans baseball at Long Prairie
Sunday: Spring Hill baseball at home vs New Munich

Softball 6/18/25

American Legion softball:
Melrose over Glenwood 3-0 and 12-4.
BBE over Sauk Centre 5-4 and 15-7.

American Legion softball Wednesday:
The Melrose Legion softball game has a game against Glenwood at the Minnewaska high school softball field at 6:00 Wednesday.
The Melrose softball game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS. No radio. Click on Live broadcast in the upper left to watch the game.

The Sauk Centre Legion softball team has a game at noon against BBE at the Brooten softball field. Note game time.

MIDMNSPORTS

This week on MIDMNSPORTS:
Monday: Sauk Centre Legion baseball at home vs Glenwood
Wednesday: Melrose Legion softball at Glenwood
Sunday: Spring Hill baseball at home vs Greenwald

Volleyball 6/13/25

Breakdown volleyball was held in Alexandria Friday.
The Sauk Centre and Melrose teams played in different brackets.
Sauk Centre: 1/4 final, Sauk Centre over Wadena/Deer Creek 2-0, 25-21, 25-16. Semi final, Sauk Centre over Underwood 2-0, 25-14, 25-7. Championship: Sauk Centre over DGF 2-0, 25-22, 25-23.
Sauk Centre bracket, click here.

Melrose: 1/4 final, Melrose over Breckenridge 2-1, 25-16, 21-25, 15-11. Semi final, Sartell over Melrose 2-0, 25-18, 25-19. Third place, Melrose over Perham 2-0, 25-21, 25-16
Melrose bracket, click here.

Section 6AA baseball

The State baseball tournament begins on Wednesday. Here's the bracket for the Class AA tournament, click here.

Winners bracket final:
Albany over Pierz 6-2
Championship game final:
Pierz over Albany 3-0
Pierz will advance to the State baseball tournament.

Baseball final Wednesday:
Loser bracket:
Albany over St. Cloud Cathedral 4-2
Albany over Royalton 5-1

Baseball final Tuesday:
Winner bracket: Pierz over St. Cloud Cathedral 1-0.
Loser bracket:
Royalton over Foley 4-3
Albany over Staples/Motley 5-0

Baseball final Thursday:
St. Cloud Cathedral over Albany 11-1 in 5 innings
Pierz over Royalton 8-3
Baseball final Wednesday:
Royalton over Staples/Motley 4-3
St. Cloud Cathedral over Foley 3-0
Albany over Kimball 7-2
Pierz over Wadena Deer Creek 11-7
Section 6AA baseball bracket.

Baseball final: Royalton over Sauk Centre 7-1.
Staples Motley over Melrose 8-5.
Foley over Spectrum 8-1.
Kimball over Holdingford 6-2.
Albany over Eden Valley Watkins 3-1.

The Sauk Centre baseball team will play in the Section 6AA baseball tournament with a game at Royalton Tuesday at 5:00.
The Sauk Centre game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS with AUDIO ONLY, also on 105.5 FM radio.
#15 Sauk Centre (6-11) #2 Royalton (13-6)

MIDMNSPORTS will broadcast the lower seeded team between Sauk Centre and Melrose.

The Melrose baseball team will play at Staples/Motley at 5:00 Tuesday in the Section 6AA tournament.
#10 Melrose (10-7) #7 Staples Motley (13-6)

The Section 6AA baseball tournament begins on Tuesday with first round games. There are 16 teams in Section 6AA, the top 8 seeded teams will play at home. The winning teams Tuesday will play again the next day, the losing teams will end their season.
The seeding has been completed.
#1 St. Cloud Cathedral (18-1) at home vs #16 Osakis (5-14)
#2 Royalton (13-6) at home vs #15 Sauk Centre (6-11)
#3 Pierz (11-8) at home vs #14 Pillager (9-11)
#4 Holdingford (14-6) at home vs #13 Kimball (7-13)
#5 Albany (10-8) at home vs #12 Eden Valley Watkins (10-9)
#6 Wadena Deer Creek (12-8) at home vs #11 Annandale (7-11)
#7 Staples Motley (13-6) at home vs #10 Melrose (10-7)
#8 Foley (9-10) at home vs #9 Spectrum (13-5)
Section 6AA baseball bracket.
Section 6AA baseball standings.

State track and field 6/10/25

State track and field results from Tuesday and Wednesday.
Melrose
Pole vault Andrue Stalboerger 3rd 14-00.00
Pole vault Josie Eveslage 10th 9-06.00
Long jump Kendall Jaenicke 25th 19-03.25
Grant Eveslage 9th 13-00.00
200 Kendall Jaenicke 20th 23.23
400 Kendall Jaenicke 10th 50.59
4x400 relay 25th 3:35.24

Sauk Centre
Shot Damian Ahrens 9th 52-04.75
Disc Lucas Ahrens 18th 133-03
4x100 prelim 3rd 43.31
4x100 finals 4th 43.39
100 Jeric Schloegl 12th 11.32
4x200 prelim 9th 1:30.73
4x200 finals 8th 1:31.6
1600 Logan Wiehoff 5th 4:25.92
200 Jeric Schloegl prelim 6th 22.46
200 finals Jeric Schloegl 7th 22.41

More prelims and finals on Wednesday.
For all the Class A track and field meet information, click here.

Thursday sports 6/5/25

State softball tournament final Friday:
St. Cloud Cathedral over Hawley 7-2. St. Cloud Cathedral is the Class AA State Champion.

Legion softball final:
Albany over Sauk Centre 4-0
Sauk Centre over Albany 5-2

American Legion baseball final:
Howard Lake over Melrose 6-1

The summer American Legion softball season will begin play Thursday.
The Sauk Centre Legion softball team will play at home vs Albany at 6:00.
The Sauk Centre softball game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS. No radio. Click on Live broadcast in the upper left to watch the game.
American Legion softball schedule, click here.

The Melrose Legion softball team will be playing two games Thursday at Upsala. Melrose will play Upsala at 5:15 and then play Staples Motley at 6:30.

The American Legion baseball teams will start their schedule Thursday.
The Sauk Centre Legion baseball team has a game against Parkers Prairie but the Parkers Prairie high school baseball team is still playing in their playoffs, so no Sauk Centre Legion baseball game on Thursday.

The Melrose American Legion team has a game at Howard Lake at 6:30 Thursday.

Legion baseball 6/2/25

The Sauk Centre American Legion baseball game has been called off for tonight.
The Sauk Centre Legion baseball team will have a home game vs Browerville at 6:30 Monday.
Sauk Centre American Legion schedule, click here.

The Melrose American Legion baseball game has been called off for tonight.
The Melrose Legion baseball team has a game at Litchfield at 6:30.
Melrose American Legion baseball schedule, click here.

Track and field 5/29/25

The Sauk Centre track and field team will compete at the Section 6A meet Thursday at Pelican Rapids at 10:00 AM.
For results, click here.
Senior Damian Ahrens set a school record in the shot put of 52'9", breaking a record that was set in 1972 by Ed Walin of 51'01"
State track and field meet information, click here.

The Melrose track and field team competed Wednesday at the Section 5A meet at St. John's.
For the results, click here.

Section 6AA softball 5/23/25

State softball tournament information, click here.
Section 6AA softball Thursday:
St. Cloud Cathedral over Kimball 10-4.
St. Cloud Cathedral will advance to the State softball tournament.
Kimball over St. Cloud Cathedral 8-5

Section 6AA softball Tuesday:
Winners bracket: St. Cloud Cathedral over Kimball 11-1.
Loser bracket: Pierz over Holdingford 1-0.
Kimball over Pierz 13-3.

In the Section 6AA softball tournament Friday.
Melrose beat Eden Valley Watkins 8-3. Then it was Pierz over Melrose 4-2. The Melrose season comes to an end.
In the other games, Holdingford beat Paynesville 5-2, then Holdingford beat Pequot Lakes 5-4.
The Section 6AA tournament continues on Tuesday.
Section 6AA softball bracket.

Sauk Centre HOF

The Sauk Centre Hall of Fame Committee has announced the Class of 2025. They are:
Gary Gilbert Athlete 1963
Don Kleinschmidt Athlete 1982
Brent Egan Athlete 2007
Megan Rieland Bendix Athlete 2010
Macy Weller Knutson Athlete 2013
Salli Brown Community Member

The banquet will take place at Diamond Point on Jan 17, 2026. More details to come at a later time.

Sauk Centre baseball 5/23/25

A good game for the Sauk Centre baseball team at Osakis on Friday, Sauk Centre won 4-3. That was the last game of the regular season, the playoffs start Tuesday.
Good pitching from Evan Zales, 12 K and just one hit. Zales also hit a home run. Eli Warring homered and had 2 hits.
Other baseball scores.
Section 6AA baseball.

Track and field 5/22/25

The Sauk Centre track and field team competed in the sub section meet at Wadena.
For the results, click here.

The Melrose track and field team competed in the sub section meet in Litchfield.
For the results, click here.

Friday sports 5/22/25

The Melrose softball team will play again Friday morning at 10:00 AM in the Section 6AA softball tournament. Melrose will play Eden Valley Watkins in Waite Park at the Kwik Trip Field #1.
The game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS with AUDIO ONLY. Also on 105.5 FM radio.
If Melrose wins, they would play again right away Friday at noon. The losing team will be done for the season.
Melrose (16-5) Eden Valley Watkins (9-13)
Section 6AA softball bracket.

It's a match up of two baseball teams in Section 6AA as the Sauk Centre baseball team plays at Osakis at noon Friday.
Sauk Centre (5-11) Osakis (5-13)
Section 6AA baseball standings.
The baseball playoffs begin on Tuesday.

Section 6AA softball 5/22/25

Final: Kimball over Pequot Lakes 3-0.
Final: Pequot Lakes over Melrose 1-0.
Melrose will play Eden Valley Watkins at 10:00 Friday morning in Wait Park at Kwik Trip field #1.

Final: St. Cloud Cathedral over Holdingford 10-2.
Final:Pierz over Paynesville 2-1.
Final: St. Cloud Cathedral over Pierz 12-2 in 6.
Final: Kimball over EVW 16-0 in 4.
The new bracket is out for the Section 6AA softball tournament. All games in the next round will be played at St. Ben's on Thursday.
The Melrose softball team is scheduled to play at 4:45 Thursday vs Pequot Lakes. If Melrose wins that game, they would play right away Thursday night. If Melrose would lose vs Pequot Lakes, they would play again Friday morning at 10:00 am in Waite Park.
Keep in mind, the next game at the tournament will start approximately 25 minutes after a game has been completed.
The Melrose softball game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS with AUDIO ONLY. Also on 105.5 FM radio.
Follow the other games on the Game Changer App.
#3 Melrose (16-4) vs #6 Pequot Lakes (10-10)
Section 6AA softball bracket.

Baseball 5/22/25

In baseball Thursday:
Melrose beat Benson two times, 4-3 and 5-0.
In game 1: Melrose pitchers Owen Funk and Carson Theiler held benson to 1 hit. Daniel Spanier and Owen Funk had 2 hits each.
Game 2 had Melrose pitcher Tyler Nathe throw a 1 hitter, 6K.
Zach Rieland 2 hits, 2 RBI.

It was Sauk Centre winning at Kimball 8-6.
Sauk Centre had 11 hits in the game. Eli Warring had 3 hits, 1 RBI. Leyton Fuchs with 2 hits, RBI. Hunter Dickinson picked up the win.
More baseball scores.

Thursday sports 5/22/25

The Melrose baseball team has a West Central Conference double header at Benson starting at 4:00 Thursday.
Melrose (8-7 WCC 7-4) Benson (7-10 WCC 4-8)
West Central Conference baseball.
Section 6AA baseball standings.
The Section 6AA baseball playoffs begin Tuesday 5/27.

The Sauk Centre baseball team has a game at Kimball starting at 6:00. This is a time change.
Two teams in Section 6AA.
Sauk Centre (4-11) Kimball (6-11)

The track and field teams will be competing in the sub section on Thursday.
Sauk Centre is at Wadena at 4:00.
Melrose is at Litchfield at 3:00.

Other Conference schedules:
West Central Conference.
Granite Ridge Conference.
Central MN Conference.
Prairie Conference.
Central Lakes Conference.
Wright County Conference