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Saints’ season comes to a close
COLLEGE BASEBALL: The St. Scholastica baseball team has played in nine straight NCAA Division III tournaments and been among the final three teams in the regional each of the past three years, but earning the program’s first College World Series berth has proven elusive.
College baseball: Saints one win away from regional championship game
St. Scholastica baseball coach Corey Kemp expected sophomore Mickie Keuning to be at his best today in the NCAA Division III tournament, and the hard-throwing right-hander from Duluth East didn’t disappoint.
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Left-handed pitcher Jamie Hora went the distance in leading Case Western to a 3-1 NCAA Division III regional baseball victory over St. Scholastica on Thursday in the Whitewater (Wis.) Regional, scattering six hits and striking out three.
Saints down No. 2 St. Thomas in NCAA tournament
St. Scholastica baseball coach Corey Kemp said the keys to beating second-ranked St. Thomas would be pitching, defense and squeezing out just enough offense.
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BASEBALL: Jake Casareto will lead St. Scholastica against St. Thomas at noon today in the opening game of the NCAA Division III tournament.
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Representatives from the area’s dirt racing tracks gathered on Wednesday for their annual Media Day, just as they’ve done for the last 50 years. Noticeably absent, for the first time in memory, was former Proctor Speedway president Crash Carlson.
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COLLEGE BASEBALL: Minnesota Duluth baseball coach Bob Rients may have wondered if the Bulldogs ever would get a win this spring after stumbling to the worst start in program history: 0-14.
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Brother Lucas and Jake Steinbach, sons of Minnesota Twins coach and former major league catcher Terry Steinbach, are members of the Minnesota Duluth baseball team.
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NORTHLAND GOLF: Record snowfall in April, and even into May, has pushed the Northland golf season to a historic late start. This comes on the heels of record early starts the past three years, making for a roller coaster of recent spring weather. Normal, this is not.
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Minnesota Duluth softball captains Tyra Kerr, Michaela Goris and Kierra Jeffers were in their hotel room in Rochester, Minn., on Thursday afternoon when they received a text saying that former teammate Mandy Matula had gone missing.
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Picking a Super Bowl winner is easy this year — just ask anyone with an older brother
JON NOWACKI COLUMN: The odds of two brothers coaching against each other in the Super Bowl are something like one in a gazillion. Trust me. I did the math. Seven billion people in the world, divided by two brothers, plus E=mc, uh, oh, I’ll explain later.
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NEWS TRIBUNE SPORTS STORY OF 2012: There was a time at Minnesota Duluth when thinking and dreaming big meant winning a conference title.
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JON NOWACKI: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell XXVII announced at a news conference today that the league finally has reached its goal: complete parity.
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Herb Galliart of Cloquet spends most days on the golf course. And he has 19 holes-in-one to prove it.
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Watch a NASCAR race, Proctor Speedway president Crash Carlson said, and you see a lot more empty seats than you did five to 10 years ago. A tough economy is likely to blame, and that has trickled to the grassroots level.
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We didn’t quite know what to make of him. Eating and drinking to excess and wearing Packers’ gear from head to toe, he was a shining example of the Green Bay faithful.
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St. Scholastica baseball coach John Baggs, now facing the fight of his life against a rare form of cancer, has built the Saints program seemingly from scratch into a national power. But as good of a coach as he is, he is equally skilled at public relations.
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