The Tri-City United Titans fell to the Fairmont Cardinals 41-25 in week four of the football season. The Titans are now 2-2 and take on the Jordan Hubmen on Friday, Sept. 28.
Three Dakota-Rice-Scott League teams qualified for the final weekend of the Class C Minnesota Amateur Baseball Tournament, with New Prague and Faribault losing in the third round on Saturday, and New Market advancing to the quarterfinals before losing in 14 innings on Sunday.
Two DRS players, Matt Lane of Faribault and Nate Rost of New Market, were named to the All-Tournament team.
The New Market Muskies were the last Dakota-Rice-Scott baseball team to bow out of the State Amateur Baseball Tournamet, but they didn't go down easily. The Muskies tied Young America late in regulation before falling to the Cardinals in 14 innings, 4-3. the quarterfinal game was played Sunday afternoon in Shakopee
In the semifinals in Shakopee Sunday evening, Sobieski defeated Young America 2-1 and Plato downed defending state champion Kimball 12-5.
Sobieski and Plato are scheduled to play at 3 p.m. Monday at New Prague for the State Class C Championship.
New Prague could not come up with the timely hit and lost its State Class C Tournament third round game to the Kimball Express 2-0 Saturday, Sept. 1, in New Prague.
Nathan Sprouls pitched six innings and allowed just six hits while striking out 11, but one of those hits was a solo home run in the fifth inning that put the defending state champions on top 1-0. The Express also scored a run in the seventh off reliever Johnny Houston. Justin Novak had two hits for the Orioles.
The Minnesota Amateur Baseball Tournament will conclude this weekend with games at three sites, New Prague, Shakopee and Jordan.
Champions in Class B and Class C will be crowned on Monday, Sept. 3, with the Class B championship game or games scheduled for noon in Shakopee. The Class C Championship game is scheduled for 3 p.m. in New Prague.
The Tri-City United Titan Football Team opened its season by shutting out the Belle Plaine Tigers 15-0 in Montgomery.
The Titan defense had a spectacular performance and held the Tigers to one interception at the end, three turnovers on downs, and six punts in the game.
The Titan offense put themselves on the board in the first quarter on their second possession when Matthew Bartholomew handed off to Kyle Sladek for a touchdown. Sladek added a successful two-point conversion that put the score at 8-0.
Three of four Dakota-Rice- Scott baseball teams won their second round games at the State Class C Amateur Baseball Tournament Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 25 and 26, in New Prague and Shakopee.
St. Patrick played on Saturday in Shakopee and lost 4- 3 to Red Wing. The other three teams, playing consecutive games on Sunday in New Prague, all claimed wins to advance to the tournament’s final weekend. New Market defeated Fort Ripley 4-3, New Prague beat Hanska 3-0 and Faribault defeated Mora 8-0.
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Three of four DRS baseball teams advanced to the round of 16 at the Minnesota Class C Amateur Baseball Tournament over the weekend.
State Baseball Tournament Results
Friday, Aug. 24
Class B
Chanhassen 4, Sauk Rapids 0
Dundas 8, Cold Spring 5
Northfield 4, Moorhead 2
Miesville 8, Forest Lake 3
Saturday, Aug. 25
Winners Bracket
Chanhassen 12, Northfield 5
Miesville 2, Dundas 1
Class C
Saturday, Aug. 25
Sartell 4, Ada 0
New London Spicer 12, Chokio 3
Sleepy Eye 3, Fergus Falls 0
Red Wing 5, St. Patrick 4
Buckman 7, Hadley 5
Raymond 6, Richmond 2
Maple Lake 8, Midway 2
Young America 5, Jordan 1
More baseball on tap this weekend... The State Amateur Baseball Tournament continues this weekend with 10 games each scheduled in New Prague and Shakopee and two others set for Jordan.
Games in New Prague:
Friday 5 p.m. - Moorhead vs. Northfield
Friday 7:30 p.m. - Chanhassen vs. Cold Spring
Saturday 11 a.m. - New London-Spicer vs. Chokio
Saturday 1:30 p.m. - Sleepy Eye vs. Fergus Falls
Saturday 5 p.m. - Raymond vs. Richmond
Saturday 7:30 p.m. - Young America vs. Jordan
Sunday 11 a.m. - Fort Ripley vs. New Market
New Prague, New London- Spicer, St. Patrick, Fort Ripley, Raymond, Luxemburg, Sleepy Eye and Buckman were winners at New Prague’s Memorial Park Stadium during the first week of the Minnesota Amateur Baseball Tournament. All games were in the Class C portion of the tournament.
Eight other games were played at two sites each - Shakopee, which also hosted Class C games, and Jordan, which hosted the first round of the Class B tournament.
The first weekend of play at the 2018 Minnesota Amateur Baseball Tournament was a big hit. More than 2,200 people paid to see eight games over three days at New Prague's Memorial Park Baseball Stadium, including 640 for Friday’s tourney opener, a 7-2 New Prague win over Ortonville. Games were also played in Shakopee and Jordan. Members of the 1973 New Prague High School team were honored before the noon game on Saturday.
Derrick Isaacson's two-run single in the top of the ninth inning gave St. Patrick a 4-3 win over Lamberton in the first round of the State Class C Baseball tournament in New Prague Saturday, Oct. 18.
Up to that point it had been a frustrating game for the Irish, who had given up one run on an error in the fourth inning, had a would-be home run called foul and had a runner picked off second base earlier in the game.
Muskies earn 1st round bye; Faribault, New Prague and St. Patrick play this weekend
New Market used the long ball to claim the Region 3C championship Friday, Aug. 10, with an 8-1 win over Faribault at Veseli.
Earlier in the week, Faribault defeated New Prague on a bases-loaded walk to earn their way to the championship game. Faribault enters the State playoffs as the No. 2 seed from Region 3C, New Prague is the No. 3 seed and St. Patrick is the No. 4 seed.
The New Prague Orioles, hosts for the State Amateur Baseball Tournament, will play in the tourney opener at 7:30 pm. Friday, Aug. 17. New Prague faces Ortonville to open the tournament. Another local team, St. Patrick, will play at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in New Prague. They will face Lamberton.
Class C games will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 17, 18 and 19, at New Prague and Shakopee. Class B games will be held Saturday and Sunday in Jordan.