Sauk Centre Mainstreeters track and field competes at the Sub-Section 6A-1

Senior Bryce Hentges clears the bar in the High Jump event.

The Mainstreeters' track and field teams competed at the University of Minnesota-Morris campus in the sub-section meet today.

Both squads finishes as runners-up at the Sub-Section 6A-1 meet. They advance to the Section 6A meet, set for 10 a.m. June 3 at Minnesota State-Moorhead. At stake are berths into the state championships June 11-12 at Hamline University in St. Paul.

Team boys' standings at Sub-Section 6A-1: (1) Morris 207 (2) Sauk Centre 120 (3) Osakis 78 (4) West Central 46 (5) Wheaton/Herman-Norcross 36 (6) Minnewaska 32 (7) Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley/Chokio-Alberta 30 (8) Ashby/Brandon/Evansville 8 (9) Hancock 1.

Team girls' standings at Sub-Section 6A-1: (1) Ashby/Brandon/Evansville 122 (2) Sauk Centre 119.5 (3) Osakis 76 (4) Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley/Chokio-Alberta 70 (5) Minnewaska Area 54 (6) Morris 50.5 (7) Wheaton/Herman-Norcross 24 (8) West Central 21 (9) Hancock 20.

A video clip from the 4x800 meter Relay race.


A video clip from the 100-meter Dash preliminaries.


At the Section 6AA golf meet (round 1) on Thursday, the Mainstreeters' girls golf team finished 10th out of 14 teams in a meet held at Territory Golf Course in St.Cloud. One highlight was the performance of junior Laura Hintzen, who advances individually to the section championship round coming next week.

Laura Hintzen shown in action at the final West Central North Conference meet on May 20. She finished as runner-up individually in the conference.

Round one of Section 6AA girls' golf team scores: 1. Albany 364, 2. St. Cloud Cathedral 370; 3. Staples-Motley 377; 4. Pequot Lakes 378; 5. Rocori 378; 6. Pine City 386; 7. Rush City 387; 8. Melrose 389; 9. Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 397; 10. Sauk Centre 416; 11. Milaca 422; 12. Pierz 428; 13. Foley 453; 14. Mora 501.

Streeters get No. 5 seed

The Sauk Centre baseball team will play Albany in Avon in the sub-section playoff opener Tuesday at 5 p.m.

The Streeters are the no. 5 seed in the sub-section and will play No. 4 seeded Albany, who is 10-8 on the year.

Sauk split with the Huskies this year, losing the first game 3-2 and winning the second 13-10. Sauk's regular season record is 10-9. They finished 8-8 in the West Central North Conference.

If the Streeters win they will play Wednesday against the Rocori/New London-Spicer winner.

Seedings are as follows:
1. Rocori
2. Paynesville
3. Litchfield
4. Albany
5. Sauk Centre
6. Melrose
7. Minnewaska
8. New London-Spicer

Mainstreeters' baseball edged by visiting Long Prairie-Grey Eagle

The Mainstreeters lost 7-5 in a conference battle with neighboring rival Long
Prairie-Grey Eagle on Tuesday night on the home diamond.

They remain above .500 with the loss, at 10-9 overall, and finish the West Central North Conference schedule with an 8-8 mark.

In what will be a grueling tournament for the eventual champion and runner-up, the Sub-Section 6AA-West tournament begins next Tuesday, June 1.

Playoff information will follow later this week.

Look for more Mainstreeters' fastpitch softball photos from their playoff opener to be added on Wednesday. You can see a gallery with over a hundred photos from their loss to Minnewaska at http://saukherald.mycapture.com

Sub-Section 6AA-West fastpitch results tonight:
Paynesville Area 3, Minnewaska Area 0 (Lakers load the bases in the bottom of the 7th inning but one of their top hitters is struck out swinging by Bulldogs' ace senior pitcher Whitney Woehler) (this was a #2 vs. #3 matchup)

Rocori 3, New London-Spicer 0 (the #1 vs. #5 seed game)

Polipnick hits epic blast in 13-10 win over Albany

Adam Polipnick hit a majestic home run with a runner on in the sixth inning Monday afternoon to give Sauk Centre a 13-10 lead, and Shane Trattles pitched a 1-2-3 seventh for the win as the Mainstreeter baseball team got back on the winning track after dropping both games of a doubleheader last Thursday to top-ranked St. Cloud Cathedral.

After the game teammates Tyler Berling and Shay Mieczkowski chased down the ball Polipnick drove up into the wind and over the center field fence, which measures 365 feet from home plate. They said the ball landed more than 450 feet from home plate and rolled another 75 feet for good measure, making it a 500-plus foot shot.

Really? Is that possible?

Polipnick stands 6'4" and weighs in the 220-230 pound. He has been known to pepper the fence in batting practice. On Thursday the wind was gusting out to left field at about a 30 mph clip. Polipnick got a high fastball from Albany pitcher Kyle Lieser and "got it all."

Following the game assistant coach Brandon Wolf, who was coaching on the field adjacent to the varsity field, said he heard the "ping" looked up and saw the ball land "about 80 feet beyond the fence."

With the fence measured at 365, plus another 80, that puts it at a 445 foot blast, according to Wolf's estimation. Add that to Berling and Mieczkowski's 450-foot estimation and the two corroborate each other.

Guess that means Polipnick really did "get it all."