Mainstreeters' baseball earns a 5-1 win at Minnewaska Area tonight - Fastpitch softball drops 7-1 game to visiting Minnewaska in non-conference action

The Sauk Centre Mainstreeters baseball team picked up their third win of the season at Minnewaska tonight.

Meanwhile, in a home game, the Mainstreeters fastpitch team lost 7-1 to a very solid Minnewaska team. They had an early 1-0 lead after two innings, then suffered a blow when the Lakers plated five unanswered runs in the fourth inning.

Minnewaska Area's fastpitch improved to 8-2 overall with the win.

An online photo gallery has been uploaded to the Sauk Centre Herald website with photos from the Sauk Centre-Minnewaska fastpitch game. Click here to view it: http://saukherald.mycapture.com

(Left) Coach Ellens welcomes Ashley Gruber back to the dugout after scoring in the second inning. (Right) Kourney Nelson unleashes a pitch during the top of the third inning. (Below) Chelsea Donnay knocks the pitch foul in the fourth inning.

A couple video clips from a rough fourth inning in the Mainstreeters' fastpitch game against Minnewaska.



In golf action, the Mainstreeters' girls golf team took sixth place at the 11-team New London-Spicer Invite today at the Little Crow Country Club. Their top four scorecard brought a score of 431 on the 18-hole course.

Junior Laura Hintzen led the Mainstreeters, finishing as runner-up individually and losing to the medalist (Erin Dingmann of Kimball/Eden Valley-Watkins) by only two strokes.

~RO