Mainstreeters girls' golf finishes 3rd in WCC

In the 10-team West Central Conference final standings, the Mainstreeters girls' golf team finished in third place with 70 points. Minnewaska Area went 10-0 against WCC competition and won their 10th straight conference title. BOLD was second with 90 points, while Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta was fourth with 63 points. Morgan Kranz earned All-West Central Conference status with a fifth-place finish in the final individual standings. Up next: an 18-hole invitational at GreyStone Golf Club next Thursday at 1 p.m.

Softball rallies past Montevideo

The Mainstreeters softball team scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to rally past Montevideo in a 5-4 win on Friday. The Thunderhawks (11-8) had pulled ahead 4-3 in the top of the eighth. With the win, Sauk Centre improved to 10-6 overall, which marks the most regular season wins since the 2010-2011 season when they took a 10-9 overall record into the playoffs. In the West Central North Conference, the Mainstreeters finished 9-4 to take third place. (See full conference standings below)

On Thursday Sauk Centre earned the No. 4 playoff seed in Sub-Section 6AA-West. They host West Central South Conference co-champion Paynesville Area on Monday at 4:30 p.m. in the quarterfinal round. A win lands them a spot in the semifinals, which will be next Thursday.

2014 Sub-Section 6AA-West playoff seeding:
1. Minnewaska Area
2. Osakis
3. Staples-Motley
4. Sauk Centre
5. Paynesville Area
6. Melrose Area
7. Long Prairie-Grey Eagle
8. Wadena-Deer Creek

2014 West Central North Conference softball standings (final):
1. Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 11-2
2. Minnewaska Area 10-3
3. Sauk Centre 9-4
4. Montevideo 8-5
5. Melrose Area 4-9

Baseball, softball sweeps Melrose Area

In their second meetings against Melrose Area, the Mainstreeters baseball and softball teams earned a series sweep over the Dutchmen. The host baseball team won in dramatic fashion by a 12-11 score in eight innings to move to 7-3 overall, while the softball team beat the host Dutchmen 6-2 to improve to 9-4 overall.

In the baseball game, the Dutchmen took a 2-0 lead in their first at-bat. Sauk Centre responded with four runs to go up 4-2 headed into the second. They went ahead 5-2 in the second before giving up two runs to Melrose in the third. In the fourth, Sauk Centre plated two runs for a 7-4 advantage, but the bottom fell out when the Dutchmen scored twice in the fifth and four times in the sixth to go up 10-7.

Sauk Centre's second, third and fourth batters in the lineup went down in order in the bottom of the sixth to further worsen the outlook. In the top of the seventh, Melrose plated one run to built the lead to 11-7.

Trailing 11-8 in the bottom of the seventh with two outs and runners on second and third, Will Funk hit a long bomb for a two-RBI double to the outfield fence. Adam Froseth, the next batter, fell behind in the count zero-and-two but ultimately drew a walk. With Matthew Moritz at bat, Froseth started an early break play while getting into a hot box between first and second. Funk, on third base, made a break for home and got the game-tying run. Moritz ultimately flied out to send the game into an extra inning.

How did the 12th run of the game come in and lift Sauk Centre to 7-1 in the West Central North Conference? Read about that and more on tonight's action in this week's Sauk Centre Herald.

Rain wreaks more havoc

Here's the low down for a couple games today:
The Sauk Centre baseball team will not host 10th-ranked Osakis today. That game likely won't be made up, as it's a non-conference game.

The Sauk Centre softball team will not travel to Minnewaska Area today; that game is rescheduled to this Wednesday, May 14 at 3:30 p.m. at Minnewaska.

Tonight's band concert has not been rained out!!