Mid MN Sports

MIDMNSPORTS 4/7/25

This week on MIDMNSPORTS: (weather permitting)
Tuesday: Melrose baseball at Browerville (Postponed)
Thursday: Sauk Centre softball at home vs Melrose
Friday: Melrose softball at Albany

MSHSL

Every two years, the Minnesota State High School League determines Section placement. It's determined by like classification, member schools are placed by enrollment and geographic location in sports and activities where they compete for postseason play.
MSHSL enrollment is determined by the schools Minnesota Department of Education enrollment in year one in grades 9 – 12, minus 40 percent of their educational benefit. (free and reduced lunch)
Here are enrollments from area schools that are used by the MSHSL for the next two years for Section placement.
Albany 553
Foley 533
Pequot Lakes 527
Melrose 437
Mora 431
NLS 412
Minnewaska 384
Pierz 383
Sauk Centre 342
Montevideo 330
Morris 324
Holdingford 308
Royalton 265
Osakis 244
Paynesville 238
LPGE 226
West Central 197
BOLD 176
BBE 161
Section placements for the next two years, click here.
Activities classification enrollment cut offs for the next two years, click here.

Thursday and Friday sports 4/3 + 4/4/25

All activities scheduled for Thursday and Friday have been postponed because of the weather.

Tuesday sports 4/1/25

The Sauk Centre softball game scheduled for Tuesday at Minnewaska has been postponed because of the weather. The make up date will be this Friday 4/4.

The Melrose softball game at BOLD has been postponed for Tuesday. Make up date 5/5.

The Sauk Centre track and field meet at Morris for Tuesday has been postponed. The meet will be held Thursday 4/10.

Sauk Centre Athletics Director and girls basketball coach Scott Bergman has announced he will be retiring from both positions. Here's more...

MIDMNSPORTS

This week on MIDMNSPORTS: (weather permitting)
Tuesday: Sauk Centre softball at Minnewaska
Thursday: Melrose baseball at Benson
Friday: Sauk Centre baseball at BOLD

The Melrose boys golf team is getting some swings in before the season starts. The team will have co-head coaches this year with Jonathan Rouff and Chad Doetkott. Coach Doetkott had these comments on the team.

The Sauk Centre boys golf team is anxious to get out on the course and begin the season. Sauk Centre coach Tait Midthum has more on the team.

A big number of athletes are out for the Sauk Centre track and field team. Coaches Jim Metcalf and Kelli Wehrman can fill us in.

Sauk Centre football

Sauk Centre athletic director Scott Bergman has announced that Charlie Warring will be the Sauk Centre head football coach next year. Coach Warring coached the Sauk Centre football team to the State tournament in 2022.

The Sauk Centre baseball team figures to be right in the mix each time out. Sauk Centre coach Bryan Zollman with this about the team.

The Melrose softball team is looking to be a strong team this year. Melrose coach Kristie Ekstrom had this to say.

It's going to be a younger team this year for the Sauk Centre softball team. Sauk Centre coach TJ Schmiesing tells us more.

The Melrose baseball team will be ready to take the field when the season starts. Melrose coach Kyle Shaughnessy explains.

A good number of athletes are out for the Melrose track team. Coach Sandy Enright has more.

Sauk Centre Superintendent Don Peschel has an update on the Sauk Centre gym project.

GBB State tournament 3/14/25

Consolation final: Caledonia over Sauk Centre 69-63.
For Sauk Centre, Cierra Kortan 30, Tory Jennissen 15, Maddy Schuster 6.
For the season....
Cierra Kortan over 2000 points and is now the all time leading scorer. Kortan is on the nominee list, along with 42 other players for MN Miss Basketball. See more on Miss Basketball.
Tory Jennissen, over 1000 points and is the all time leading shot blocker.
Maddy Schuster, single season assist record.

Girls basketball final: Sauk Centre over New Richland 79-54.
For Sauk Centre, Cierra Kortan 32, Elly Herickhoff 13, Paige Determan 10, Tory Jennissen 8.
Sauk Centre will play again Friday at 2:00 at St. Paul Concordia vs Caledonia.
Caledonia over Barnesville 76-64.
The game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS with AUDIO ONLY, also on 105.5 FM radio. NSPN.TV will have a pay per view live stream, click here.
Sauk Centre (28-3) Caledonia (28-4)
Class AA bracket.

Girls basketball: Minnewaska over Sauk Centre 60-53.
For Sauk Centre, Cierra Kortan 21, Maddy Schuster 12.

Boys basketball: Spectrum over Sauk Centre 63-54
For Sauk Centre, Jacob Drevlow 19, Chad Herickhoff 14, Eric Schloegl 10.

The girls basketball Class AA State tournament begins Wednesday. The Sauk Centre girls will play Minnewaska Wednesday night at 8:00 at Williams Arena.
The game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS with AUDIO ONLY, also on 105.5 FM radio. NSPN.TV will have a pay per view live stream, click here.
You might like try this if you have purchased NSPN.TV. Open up MIDMNSPORTS and get the audio. Open a second window to NSPN. Then mute the sound on NSPN and have the audio from MIDMNSPORTS. You will probably have to sync the two by pausing MIDMNSPORTS to match them up.
#4 Sauk Centre (27-2) #5 Minnewaska (27-3)
Sauk Centre girls HUDL highlights.
Minnewaska girls HUDL highlights.
Girls basketball State tournament information.
Class AA bracket.

In the first game Wednesday night at 6:00 at Williams Arena, Providence Academy will play New Richland.
#1 Providence Academy (29-0) New Richland (23-5)
Providence HUDL highlights. New Richland HUDL highlights.
At Maturi Pavilion at 6:00, Crosby-Ironton vs Barnesville.
#2 Crosby-Ironton (30-0) #7 Barnesville (22-6)
Crosby-Ironton HUDL highlights. Barnesville HUDL highlights.
8:00 Minnehaha Academy vs Caledonia.
#3 Minnehaha Academy (20-9) #6 Caledonia (27-3)
Caledonia HUDL highlights.

At Minnewaska 12/31 Sauk Centre over Minnewaska 58-48

At Sauk Centre 1/31 Minnewaska over Sauk Centre 51-48

Section 6AA BBB 3/12/25

The Section 6AA boys basketball tournament will have the semi final games played Wednesday night at St. John's.
The Sauk Centre boys basketball team will play Spectrum in the second game, scheduled for 7:30.
The first game at 6:00 will have Albany playing Holdingford.
Both games will be broadcast on 1150 AM radio. Listen on line, click here.
NSPN.TV will have a pay per view live stream, click here.
#3 Sauk Centre (19-9) #7 Spectrum (21-7)
Sauk Centre HUDL highlights. Spectrum HUDL highlights.
#1 Albany (27-0) #4 Holdingford (25-3)
Albany HUDL highlights. Holdingford HUDL highlights.
Section 6AA boys basketball standings.
Section 6AA tournament bracket.

Section 6AA boys basketball 3/8/25

It was a close intense game all night, in the end, Sauk Centre won the game over Melrose 36-30.
For Sauk Centre, Chad Herickhoff with 15, Jeric Schloegl 7.
Melrose had Teague Dusha with 9, Brandon Revering 7.
Sauk Centre over Melrose 36-30
Spectrum over Mora 84-73
Holdingford over St. Cloud Cathedral 77-68
Albany over Osakis 80-40

#3 Sauk Centre (18-9). #11 Melrose (8-19)
Section 6AA boys basketball standings.
Section 6AA tournament bracket.
Other games Saturday:
1:00 #1 Albany (26-0) vs #8 Osakis (19-8)
2:30 #4 Holdingford (24-3) vs #5 St. Cloud Cathedral (18-9)
4:30 #2 Mora (26-1). vs #7 Spectrum (20-7)

Sauk Centre BBB highlights.

Melrose BBB highlights.

The entire game with Sauk Centre vs Melrose.

Sauk Centre BBB coach Kevin Kuefler.

State swim-dive 3/7/25

The Fusion finished in 8th place as a team, the highest finish at the State meet in program history.
400 Free Relay of Grant Eveslage, Macen Toavs-Etcheverry, Nolan Fleischhacker and Alex Wilwerding finish 8th with a time of 3:18.92
Sevrin Anderson finishes 8th in the 100 Breaststroke with a Sauk Centre and Fusion record time of 58.00
200 Free Relay team of Sully Stumler, Sevrin Anderson, Hunter Leslie and Sam Stangler finish 11th with a time of 1:31.09
Macen Toavs-Etcheverry finished 11th in the 500 Free with a time of 5:00.12
Grant Eveslage finished in 12th place in the 100 Free with a time of 49.53
Andrue Stalboerger finishes fourth in diving with a score of 423.05
Alex Wilwerding 13th in the 50 free, time of 22.65
Hunter Leslie finished 14th in the 200 Freestyle with a time of 1:51.59
200 Medley Relay of Alex Wilwerding, Sevrin Anderson, Grant Eveslage and Sam Stangler finish fifth at state with a time of 1:37.97

400 free relay 8th 3:19.50
100 breast Sevrin Anderson 8th 58.09 Fusion record.
200 Free Relay of Sully Stumler, Sevrin Anderson, Hunter Leslie and Sam Stangler finished 13th with a time of 1:32.26

500 free Macen Toavs-Etcheverry 12th 4:59.46. Will swim Saturday in consolation.
100 free Grant Eveslage 14th 50.01. Will swim Saturday in consolation.
100 Fly Sevrin Anderson 9th 53.56. A new Sauk Centre record. Anderson will swim in the final because of a DQ. Anderson will finish in 8th.
50 free Alex Wilwerding 13th 22.53. Will swim Saturday in consolation.
200 freestyle Hunter Leslie 16th 1:50.79. Will swim in the consolation Saturday.
200 medley relay 4th 1:37.54. New Fusion record.

The State swimming and diving State meet is coming up Friday and Saturday. For all the State meet information, click here.

Fusion coach James Schreiner.

Sauk Centre GBB 3/7/25

#4 Sauk Centre vs #5 Minnewaska Wednesday at 8:00 at Williams Arena.
Class AA bracket.
Sauk Centre girls HUDL highlights.
Minnewaska girls HUDL highlights.

The next stop, the State tournament for the Sauk Centre girls basketball team. Sauk Centre beat Milaca 60-37 in the championship game in Section 6AA. Sauk Centre will play Wednesday night at 6:00 or 8:00 at Williams arena or Maturi Pavilion. The State tournament brackets will come out Saturday at about noon. NSPN.TV will have a reveal show at that time.
For Sauk Centre, Tory Jennissen 21, Elly Herickhoff 10, Kahlen Suelflow 9, Cierra Kortan 8.
Other girls basketball scores: The winning teams advancing to the State Class AA tournament.
Crosby-Ironton over Proctor 59-46 Crosby-Ironton (30-0)
Providence Academy beat Jordan 99-60 Providence Academy (29-0)
New Richland over GSL 66-64 New Richland (23-5)
Barnesville beat DGF 57-56 Barnesville (22-6)
Minnehaha over Visitation 69-46 Minnehaha Academy (20-9)
All ready in, Minnewaska (27-3) and Caledonia (27-3)
More girls basketball scores.

Section 6AA girls basketball 3/7/25

There are two teams left in the Section 6AA girls basketball tournament. The winning team Friday night will get to go to the State tournament.
The Sauk Centre girls basketball team will play Milaca at 6:00 Friday night at St, Cloud State.
The game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS with AUDIO ONLY, also on 105.5 FM radio. NSPN.TV will have a pay per view live stream, click here.
You might like try this if you have purchased NSPN.TV. Open up MIDMNSPORTS and get the audio. Open a second window to NSPN. Then mute the sound on NSPN and have the audio from MIDMNSPORTS. You will probably have to sync the two by pausing MIDMNSPORTS to match them up.
Sauk Centre (26-2) Milaca (22-5)
Sauk Centre HUDL highlights.
Milaca HUDL highlights.

A big win for the Melrose boys basketball team Thursday night in the first round of the Section 6AA tournament.
#11 Melrose beat #6 Annandale 66-59. Melrose led at the half 29-28.

#3 Sauk Centre won at home over #14 Pine City 67-40.
In the quarter finals, Melrose will play Sauk Centre Saturday night at St. John's, scheduled for 6:00.

For Melrose, Brady Goihl 25, Riley Elfering 12, Brandon Revering 12.
Sauk Centre had Jacob Drevlow 26, Chad Herickhoff 20.
Other Section 6AA scores:
Albany over Rush City 102-38
Mora beat Royalton 74-64
St. Cloud Cathedral over Foley 71-69 OT
Holdingford beat Milaca 75-52
Osakis beat Legacy 69-59
Spectrum over Kimball 70-62
More boys basketball.

Girls basketball:
Minnewaska beat Fairmont 53-38. The Minnewaska girls have advance to the State tournament.
Other girls basketball.

Melrose BBB coach Ryan Dusha

Section 6AA girls basketball

Here is some important ticketing information for Friday at SCSU.
NO cash ticket sales. All sales are electronic.
Each School has an allotment of lower level tickets. These are $10 - no matter student or adult. Any one wanting to be on the lower level will need one of these tickets. A note, the student standing sections will be on the lower level.
There are also general admission tickets for the upper level. These are $8 for adults and $5 for students.
But - again - anyone wanting to be on the lower level must purchase one of the lower level tickets from the allotment at $10 - student or adult.
Here are your links:
General Admission upper level -- https://www.vancoevents.com/us/CZUM
6AA Home - Sauk Centre -- https://www.vancoevents.com/us/CZUN

Section 6AA boys basketball 3/6/25

The 16 team Section 6AA boys basketball tournament begins Thursday night with first round games. The eight higher seeded teams will play at home.
The Melrose boys basketball team will play at Annandale at 7:00. The game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS with audio only. Also on 105.5 FM radio. Annandale will provide a live stream, click here. You could try this, click on MIDMNSPORTS for the audio, then open a second window on your computer. Then click on the Annandale live stream. You might have to pause MIDMNSPORTS to sync the video.
#11 Melrose (7-19) #6 Annandale (16-10)
Melrose HUDL highlights. Annandale HUDL highlights.

The Sauk Centre boys basketball team will play at home vs Pine City at 7:00. Sauk Centre will have a live stream, click here.
#3 Sauk Centre (17-9) #14 Pine City (9-17)
Sauk Centre HUDL highlights. Pine City HUDL highlights.

Other Section 6AA boys basketball games:
#1 Albany (25-0) at home vs #16 Rush City (6-19)
Albany live stream, click here.
Albany HUDL highlights. Rush City HUDL highlights.
#2 Mora (25-1) at home vs #15 Royalton (8-18)
Mora live stream, click here.
Mora HUDL highlights. Royalton HUDL highlights.
#4 Holdingford (23-3) at home vs #13 Milaca (6-19)
Holdingford live stream, click here.
Holdingford HUDL highlights. Milaca HUDL highlights.
#5 St. Cloud Cathedral (17-9) at home vs #12 Foley (10-15)
Live stream, NSPN.TV.
Cathedral HUDL highlights. Foley HUDL highlights.
#7 Spectrum (19-7) at home vs #10 Kimball (16-10)
Spectrum live stream, click here.
Spectrum HUDL highlights. Kimball HUDL highlights.
#8 Osakis (18-8) at home vs #9 Legacy (17-9)
Osakis live stream, click here.
Osakis HUDL highlights. Legacy HUDL highlights.
Section 6AA boys basketball standings.
Section 6AA tournament bracket.

Sauk Centre GBB 3/4/25

With a win Tuesday night, the Sauk Centre girls basketball team has advanced to the Section 6AA championship game Friday night. Sauk Centre beat Annandale 72-43.
Sauk Centre had Cierra Kortan with 28 points. Kortan is now the all time leading scorer in Sauk Centre girls basketball with 2052. Kahlen Suelflow 13, Tory Jennissen 11.

Milaca over Royalton 56-53.
Sauk Centre will play Milaca Friday night at 6:00 at St. Cloud State.
More girls basketball scores.
Boys basketball scores.
Sauk Centre (25-2) Milaca (22-5)
Sauk Centre HUDL highlights.
Milaca HUDL highlights.

Section 6AA girls basketball 3/4/25

The Section 6AA girls basketball tournament will play the semi final games Tuesday at St. Ben's.
The Sauk Centre girls basketball team will play Annandale at 6:00.
The game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS with AUDIO ONLY, also on 105.5 FM radio. NSPN.TV will have a pay per view live stream, click here.
You might like try this if you have purchased NSPN.TV. Open up MIDMNSPORTS and get the audio. Open a second window to NSPN. Then mute the sound on NSPN and have the audio from MIDMNSPORTS. You will probably have to sync the two by pausing MIDMNSPORTS to match them up.
On line tickets, click here.
Sauk Centre (25-2) Annandale (22-6)
Sauk Centre HUDL highlights. Annandale HUDL highlights.
Section 6AA girls basketball bracket.
Section 6AA girls basketball standings.
State basketball rankings.

The second semi final game will have Royalton playing Milaca at 7:30.
Listen on line, click here. NSPN.TV.
Royalton (28-0) Milaca (21-5)
Royalton HUDL highlights. Milaca HUDL highlights.
Section 6AA girls basketball bracket.
Section 6AA girls basketball standings.

Saturday sports 3/1/25

The Sauk Centre girls won Saturday afternoon in the Section 6AA quarter finals. Sauk Centre beat Foley 68-48.
For Sauk Centre, Kahlen Suelflow with 22, Cierra Kortan 17.
Annandale over Osakis 58-57.
Sauk Centre will play Annandale Tuesday at 6:00 at St. Ben's.
Royalton over Albany 49-43.
Milaca over Spectrum 61-35

Fusion coach Nathan Meyer.

State wrestling 2/28/25

The Defenders Afton Vogt takes 5th place at the State, winning her last match by a fall at 2:35.

At the State meet Saturday, Isaac Frericks lost his match by a fall at 4:31.
Afton Vogt lost her opening match 9-3. Vogt won her next match by a fall at 3:17.

At the State wrestling tournament Friday, the Defenders Isaac Frericks won his opening match by a fall. In the quarterfinals, Frericks lost 12-8. In the wrestle backs, Frericks won 1-0. He will wrestle again Saturday at #285 AA.
At the girls State wrestling tournament, Defenders freshman Afton Vogt will wrestle Saturday morning starting at 9:00 am at #124.
For all the State wrestling tournament information, click here.

Boys basketball 2/28/25

In boys basketball Friday night, it was Sauk Centre winning at Melrose 62-46. Sauk Centre led at the half 29-18.
Sauk Centre had, Jacob Drevlow 23, Noah Borgerding 15, Chad Herickhoff 11.
For Melrose, Riley Elfering 15, Teague Dusha 9, Brady Goihl 8.
More boys basketball scores.

Sauk Centre boys basketball

Melrose boys basketball

Melrose BBB coach Ryan Dusha

Friday sports 2/28/25

It's the final game of the regular season in boys basketball as the Melrose boys basketball team plays at home against Sauk Centre. The JV game is 5:45, the varsity game at 7:15. Both games will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS, the varsity also on 105.5 FM radio.
Melrose (7-18 WCC 3-9) Sauk Centre (16-9 WCC 8-4)
West Central Conference.
Section 6AA boys basketball standings.

Fusion diver Andrue Stalboerger will advance to the State meet.
The Section swimming and diving meet will be held Friday and Saturday at the U of Morris pool. Diving Friday begins at noon, swimming at 5:00.
There will be a live stream, click here.

The Defenders Isaac Frericks won his opening match by a fall at 5:19.
Defenders wrestler, senior Isaac Frericks will wrestle at the State individual wrestling tournament Friday starting at 9:00 am.
Frericks, a senior, will wrestle at #285 in Class AA. Frericks will be on mat 5.
For all the State wrestling tournament information, click here.
In the girls tournament, freshman Afton Vogt will wrestle Saturday morning at 9:00 am at #124.

Section 6AA GBB 2/17/25

In the first round of the Section 6AA girls basketball tournament, it was Milaca winning at home over Melrose 64-46. Milaca led at the half 40-24.
For Melrose, Brooke Welle and Lexi Beste had 9 points each.
Other girls basketball scores:
Foley beat Holdingford 64-53. Watch Foley vs Holdingford, click here.
Spectrum over Kimball 52-49
Osakis beat Legacy 60-41
Annandale over St. Cloud Cathedral 49-25
Albany beat Pine City 58-41
Royalton over Mora 66-30
Minnewaska beat NLS 42-36
More GBB scores.
Section 6AA girls basketball bracket.

Section 6AA GBB 2/27/25

The Section 6AA girls basketball tournament will begin Thursday night with first round games. The winning teams will advance to the quarterfinals on Saturday.
The Melrose girls basketball team will play at Milaca at 7:00 Thursday.
#14 Melrose (10-16) #3 Milaca (19-5)
The Melrose game will be broadcast on MIDMNSPORTS with AUDIO ONLY - NO VIDEO. The game will also be on 105.5 FM radio. Milaca will have a live stream, click here.
Section 6AA girls basketball bracket.
Section 6AA girls basketball standings.
State basketball rankings.

The Sauk Centre girls basketball team will get a first round bye and will not play Thursday. Sauk Centre will play Saturday against the winner of #8 Holdingford (15-11) at home vs #9 Foley (14-12)
Holdingford will have a live stream, click here.

Other first round games:
#2 Royalton (26-0) at home vs #15 Mora (7-19) Royalton live stream, click here.
#4 Annandale (20-6) at home vs #13 St. Cloud Cathedral (11-15) Annandale live stream, click here.
#5 Legacy (15-11) at home vs #12 Osakis (15-10)
#6 Spectrum (20-6) at home vs # 11 Kimball (15-11) Spectrum live stream, click here.
#7 Albany (12-14) at home vs #10 Pine City (14-12) Albany live stream, click here.