Mainstreeters football faces #2-seed Osakis next Tuesday for the playoff opener at 6 p.m.

The final QRF has been calculated involving all Section 6AA teams as of 9:30 p.m. tonight. The Section 6AA seedings are as follows:
1 - Pierz
2 - Osakis
3 - Breckendridge
4 - Upsala/Swanville Area
5 - Holdingford
6 - Long Prairie-Grey Eagle
7 - Sauk Centre
8 - Wadena-Deer Creek

To open the Section 6AA playoffs, the Sauk Centre Mainstreeters will make the short trip up I-94 to Osakis for the quarterfinal round game next Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 6 p.m. at the LeRoy Mackove Athletic Complex at Osakis High School. It's a familiar location for Mainstreeter baseball and softball teams, and now the football team will make a stop there too.

Osakis enters the playoffs on a two-game losing streak and a 6-2 overall record. On Friday more information will be posted here about the Silverstreaks.

Melrose tops Streeters 25-14

Darin Bushard (62), Dylan Kohorst (81) and Cody Bartkowicz trapped Melrose quarterback Isaac Sawyer for a loss early in the game...Photo by Herman Lensing.

The Sauk Centre Mainstreeters football team fell to the Dutchmen in a crosstown rival regular season finale Wednesday night in Melrose.

The teams battled in the cold fall night, and Sauk led 14-7 at one point before Melrose rallied to score 18 unanswered points for the win.

Sauk got a 41-yard touchdown run from Cody Bartkowicz and Roosevelt Austin caught a 15-yard pass from quarterback Patrick Knoblauch.

But Melrose rallied, led by quarterback Isaac Sawyer and wide receiver Tanner Klaphake. Klaphake had TD receptions of 66, 16 and 27 yards as melrose improved to 3-5 while Sauk fell to 2-6.

The Streeters will likely get the No. 7 seed in the 6AA section playoffs, but that won't be set in stone until Friday morning.

Stay tuned to find out section seedings and Sauk's opponent in the section quarterfinals next Tuesday.

Gerhartz wins conference cross country title; Girls' swimming and diving crushes Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta/Minnewaska Area

The Mainstreeters swimming and diving team won 115-53 in a non-conference meet at Minnewaska Area high school. They are now 11-1 in dual meets on the season, as they prepare for the Section 6A playoffs over the second weekend of November.

At New London in the West Central North Conference meet, Jacob Gerhartz's time of 16:52 earned him the individual conference title. He finished the race a full 36 seconds ahead of runner-up Seth Hare from Albany.

Leading the Mainstreeters girls' squad were Elizabeth Hemsworth (4th place, 16:28) and Madison Greenwaldt (5th place, 16:32).

More will be posted on Wed. morning.

Mainstreeters have a doubles team still alive at Section 6A individual tournament

Kady Buschette and Mariah Rieland teamed up at one of the Mainstreeters two doubles teams and won 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in their quarterfinal match at Gold's Gym on Monday. Buschette/Rieland play at 5 p.m. today (Tuesday) at Gold's Gym in the semifinals against Emily Hellermann/Kayla Uphus of Melrose Area.

The other doubles team of Samantha Ritter and Carissa Rodenbiker lost their quarterfinal round match 0-6, 3-6.

At singles, Bethany Ellis won on Monday in her play-in round match 6-1, 6-1. She faced Brenna Warren of Parkers Prairie and lost 5-7, 2-6 in the quarterfinals.

Callie Rodenbiker lost her play-in round match 5-7, 4-6 on Monday.