A slideshow of Friday night's 42-6 win for the Mainstreeters! Next week they travel to Montevideo.

What a way to start the 2012 gridiron season!

The Sauk Centre Mainstreeters football team had a wildly successful debut in the revamped West Central Conference in Granite Falls tonight.

Final score: Sauk Centre 46, Yellow Medicine East 6.

 Noteworthy statistics: Roosevelt Austin piled up 196 yards rushing on 17 carries, while Patrick Knoblauch earned 10-for-15 passing marks for 110 yards and no interceptions. The Mainstreeters scored 20 points in both the first and third quarters. Also, YME's score was earned in the first quarter after they fell behind 7-0 out of the gates. Six different Mainstreeters found the end zone. Finally, Sauk Centre won the turnover battle by a 4-1 margin.

The 1-0 Mainstreeters now gear up for another long road trip to Montevideo next Friday night. According to Minnesota-scores.net, the Thunderhawks are 0-1 after losing 42-0 tonight to Paynesville Area on their home field. The Bulldogs limited the Thunderhawks to 40 yards of offense from scrimmage. Ouch.

Other West Central Conference scores in Week 1:
BOLD 34, A-C-GC 0
Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 34, Minnewaska Area 7
Lac qui Parle Valley 21, Benson 20
Paynesville Area 42, Montevideo 0

Football opener is tonight!

The Yellow Medicine East Sting football team is looking to rebound from a disappointing 0-9 season last year when they begin the 2012 season tonight with a home game against the Sauk Centre Mainstreeters. The game is in Granite Falls with a 7 p.m. kickoff.

Sixth-year head coach Mike Gaffaney said about his team, "Coming off an 0-9 season, there will be a lot of questions about returning players and how the season will go."

The Sting have been working hitting the weights in the offseason and having two-a-day preseason practice sessions. They have a 6-6, 275-pound two-way returning tackle in Tim Savig plus a returning senior quarterback in Aaron Lalim.

Streeters swimming and diving, volleyball teams both win on Thursday night

In their West Central Conference opener at Benson on Thursday night, the Sauk Centre volleyball team (ranked #4 in the latest Class AA poll) made quick work of the Braves in a 3-0 sweep. Now 5-0 overall, they host Minnewaska Area next Tuesday for another conference battle.

Game scores were 25-9, 25-12, 25-10. No Benson player had more than 8 kills on the night.

At Little Falls, the Sauk Centre girls' swimming and diving team drubbed the Flyers 105-80 in a non-conference dual. Julie Bushard, Sarah Nelson and Tiana Molitor won four events apiece to lead the Mainstreeters. They host Albany in another non-conference dual next Tuesday at 6 p.m.

Sauk Centre's new track is installed!

A photo of the new track, right after it was installed last week.

Mainstreeters cross country open season at Morris

The boys' team finished sixth out of 11 squads, while the girls' team took ninth out of 15 with only four total runners at the Pomme de Terre Golf Course in rural Morris on Monday night. Maren Greenwaldt led all Sauk Centre runners with a 9th-place finish individually (16:48).

See more on the Sauk Centre cross country team's performances in next week's Sauk Centre Herald.

Streeter football scrimmages at Browerville

The defense lines up against LP-GE's offense.

(Above) Patrick Knoblauch rolls out while running an offensive play against LP-GE in Browerville on Saturday.

Mainstreeters girls' swimming and diving 4th at Willmar

In their season opener on Saturday at the Willmar Invitational, the Sauk Centre Mainstreeters girls' swimming and diving team posted a fourth-place finish in a seven team field. In the process, they soundly defeated two West Central Conference opponents.

Read all the details on their invite performance in the Aug. 30 issue of the Sauk Centre Herald.