Thursday, May 8 results

High school baseball
Windom 7, Jackson County Central 0
Luverne 15, Worthington 3 (5 innings)
Blue Earth Area 9, Martin County West 3
Martin Luther/Granada-Huntley-East Chain at Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial
Truman 5, Nicollet 4
Fairmont 6, Saint James 2
New Ulm 5, Fairmont 4
Murray County Central 4, Southwestern United 2
Mountain Lake/Butterfield-Odin 9, Red Rock Central/Westbrook-Walnut Grove 3
Adrian 10, Edgerton 0 (5 innings)

High school softball
Jackson County Central 6, Redwood Valley 0
Jackson County Central 15, Redwood Valley 9

Maple River 8, Martin Luther/Granada-Huntley-East Chain 3
Murray County Central 33, Southwestern United 5 (5 innings)
Saint James 12, Fairmont 3

Boys golf
Jackson County Central 167, Luverne 175
Windom 162, Luverne 175
Southwest Star Concept 189, Southwest Minnesota Christian 208
WWG triangular
1. Westbrook-Walnut Grove 168, 2. Hills-Beaver Creek 187, 3. Round Lake-Brewster 193.

Girls golf
Luverne 193, Jackson County Central 208
Luverne 193, Windom 193 (Luverne wins tiebreaker)
Adrian 214, Southwestern United 233

College baseball
Region XI Division II
At Mason City
First round
Ellsworth 7, Iowa Lakes 3

North Central Conference tournament
At Omaha
First round
Augustana 10, Minnesota-Duluth 3
Saint Cloud State 8, North Dakota 4
Second round
Nebraska-Omaha 2, Augustana 1 (10 innings)
Minnesota State, Mankato 6, Saint Cloud State 2

Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament
At Wayne, Neb.
First round
Bemidji State 5, Upper Iowa 2
Wayne State 6, Winona State 3
Concordia (Saint Paul) 2, Southwest Minnesota State 1

College softball
Big 10 tournament
At Evanston, Ill.
First round
Michigan State 2, Michigan 1
Northwestern 8, Ohio State 0 (5 innings)

Missouri Valley Conference tournament
At Carbondale, Ill.
First round
Wichita State 5, Indiana State 4
Missouri State 8, Evansville 6
Semifinals
Drake 8, Wichita State 4
Missouri State 5, Southern Illinois 0

NCAA Division II regional tournament
At Emporia, Kan.
First round
Winona State 2, Central Missouri State 1
Southwest Minnesota State 3, Northwest Missouri State 2 (8 innings)
Nebraska-Omaha 1, Minnesota State, Mankato 0
Emporia State 5, Washburn 3
Loser's bracket
Northwest Missouri State 1, Central Missouri State 0 (11 innings)

NCAA Division III regional tournament
At Eau Claire, Wis.
First round
Saint Thomas 8, Ripon 0 (6 innings)
Simpson 1, Illinois Wesleyan 0
Wisconsin-Eau Claire 10, North Central 0 (5 innings)
Wisconsin-Oshkosh 5, Aurora 0

Major League Baseball
Chicago White Sox 6, Minnesota Twins 2

Huskies to host softball tournament May 8, 2008

JACKSON - A field of eight teams is scheduled to compete in the Subway/JCC Invitational Saturday at the Field of Dreams complex.

Play starts at 9:30 a.m., with Jackson County Central facing Brandon Valley and Saint Peter facing Rockford.

Games at 11 a.m. have Martin County West playing Red Rock Central/Westbrook-Walnut Grove and Blue Earth Area taking on Big Lake.

Play continues throughout the day. The fifth- and seventh-place games are scheduled for 3:30 p.m., with the championship and third-place games scheduled for 5 p.m.

Subway/JCC Invitational
First round
Upper bracket
Jackson County Central vs. Brandon Valley, 9:30 a.m.
Saint Peter vs. Rockford, 9:30 a.m.
Lower bracket
Martin County West vs. Red Rock Central/Westbrook-Walnut Grove, 11 a.m.
Blue Earth Area vs. Big Lake, 11 a.m.

Semifinals
Upper-bracket winners, 12:30 p.m.
Lower-bracket winner, 2 p.m.
Consolation semifinals
Upper-bracket losers, 12:30 p.m.
Lower- bracket losers, 2 p.m.

Seventh place
Game at 3:30 p.m.
Fifth place
Game at 3:30 p.m.
Third place
Game at 5 p.m.
Championship
Game at 5 p.m.

Spring Sprint Car Nationals slated for Friday May 8, 2008

JACKSON - The 2008 season at Jackson Speedway is scheduled to start Friday with the Jackson Sprint Car Spring Nationals, sponsored by Van Wyhe Livestock and Folkens Brothers Trucking.

The event will feature 360 sprint cars, along with double barrel sprints and the Jackpot Junction IMCA touring sprint cars.

This event will be the highest paying spring 360 sprint car purse in the upper midwest, with first place paying $2,500.

The format will be heat race passing points with the top 10 in points competing in a dash for the starting lineup for the $2,500-to-win main event.

The race will be the inaugural event to the newly formed Jackson Speedway Touring Series. This series will be for 360 sprints and include approximately 10 events at Jackson Speedway and various surrounding tracks.

Listen to KKOJ and KRAQ for reports starting at 5 p.m. Friday.

ILCC announces another wrestling walk-on May 8, 2008

ESTHERVILLE - Iowa Lakes Community College has announced another student-athlete who will attend the school and join the wrestling program as a walk-on.

Darrick Minner, who will wrestle at 125 pounds, is from Nebraska City, Neb.

He had a career high school record of 90-33, qualifying for the state tournament three times, finishing as high as fifth his junior year.

Minner will enroll in Iowa Lakes’ criminal justice program.

Windom tops JCC in golf duals May 8, 2008

WINDOM - Host Windom was a winner over Jackson County Central in both the boys and girls meets in a golf dual Wednesday at Windom Golf Club.

The Eagles won the boys match 148-163, led by Jordan Stahl's medalist effort with a 33. Windom's other counting scores had Hunter Johnson with a 35, Jordan Higley with a 39 and Jared Hager with a 41.

Scott Benson was low for JCC with a 37. Pat Garvin followed with a 41, followed by Tyler Asa (42), Tanner Asa (43), Colton Ward (45) and Evan Sieler (49).

Windom won the B-squad boys meet 171-212. Micah Wiegelt carded a 48 for the Huskies, followed by Kyle Edlin (49), John Marker (57), Ben Kocak (58), Andrew Dose (61) and Jordan Snyder (69).

In the girls meet, Windom was a 181-194 winner, led by medalist Sabrina Bolin with a 43. Other counting scores had Ashley Jackson with a 44, April Buhler with a 46 and Casey Christensen with a 48.

Emily Marker was low for the Huskies with a 44, followed by Kaylee Benson (48), Rachel Hanson (51), Karlee Schneekloth (51), Erika Voss (56) and Briel Hendrcksen (57).

In the B-squad girls meet, Courtney Donnelli had a 54 for JCC and Kadee Grages shot a 74.

The Huskies are at Luverne Thursday. JCC had originally been scheduled to host Red Rock Central, but that meet had to be moved to make room for the conference dual.

Trojans score in seventh to beat Huskies May 8, 2008

JACKSON - Worthington scored a run in the top of the seventh inning to beat Jackson County Central 2-1 in a Southwest Conference baseball game at Wacker Field Wednesday.

The Huskies took a 1-0 lead in the fourth when Trevon Bargfrede drew a bases-loaded walk. The Trojans scored single runs in the fifth and seventh.

Matt King went the first five innings for Worthington, allowing one run on four hits while walking seven and striking out three. Joe Ahrens went the final two innings, allowing no runs while not walking a batter and striking out two.

Ryan Rasche went the distance and took the loss for JCC, allowing two unearned runs on five hits while walking two and striking out six.

Kent Knutson had two hits for the Trojans.

Rasche had two hits and walked once for the Huskies. Cook had the double in the first inning.

Worthington won the B-squad game 9-8.

Worthington is 4-3 in the conference and 5-4 overall, while Jackson County Central is 4-4 and 6-5.

Wednesday, May 7 results

High school baseball
Worthington 2, Jackson County Central 1
B squad: Worthington 9, Jackson County Central 8

Mountain Lake/Butterfield-Odin 7, Adrian 5
Truman 12, Glenville-Emmons 9

Boys golf
Windom 148, Jackson County Central 163
B squad: Windom 171, Jackson County Central 212

Girls golf
Windom 181, Jackson County Central 194

College baseball
North Dakota State 9, Minnesota 4
Northern Iowa 9, Wisconsin-Milwaukee 6

Concordia (Moorhead) 6, Saint Mary's 4
Concordia (Moorhead) 7, Saint Mary's 6

Saint Olaf 17, Bethel 3

Major League Baseball
American League
Minnesota Twins 13, Chicago White Sox 1
Detroit Tigers 10, Boston Red Sox 9
Kansas City Royals 9, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 4
Cleveland Indians 3, New York Yankees 0
Oakland Athletics 6, Baltimore Orioles 5 (10 innings)
Toronto Blue Jays 6, Tampa Bay Rays 2
Texas Rangers 2, Seattle Mariners 0
National League
Cincinnati Reds 9, Chicago Cubs 0
New York Mets 12, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, San Francisco Giants 1
Atlanta Braves 5, San Diego Padres 2
Florida Marlins 6, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Houston Astros 4, Washington Nationals 3
Colorado Rockies 4, Saint Louis Cardinals 3
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Arizona Diamondbacks 4

WNBA preseason
Minnesota Lynx 78, Indiana Fever 64

NBA Playoffs
Orlando Magic 111, Detroit Pistons 86
(Pistons lead series 2-1)

Los Angeles Lakers 120, Utah Jazz 110
(Lakers lead series 2-0)

JCC '9' to host Worthington Wednesday May 7, 2008

JACKSON - The Jackson County Central baseball team will host Worthington in a makeup Southwest Conference baseball game Wednesday at Wacker Field.

Game time is 4 p.m. We'll have the game on 1190 KKOJ.

The Huskies are 4-3 in the league and 6-4 overall, while the Trojans are 3-3 and 4-4.

JCC won the first meeting between the teams 9-2 in Worthington on April 17.

Brown earns co-Player of the Week honor May 7, 2008

Katie Brown

IOWA CITY - Spirit Lake High School graduate Katie Brown has been named a co-winner of the Big Ten Conference softball Player of the Week Award for the final week of the regular season. Brown, a sophomore first baseman-designated hitter, powered Iowa's offense in a two-game sweep of Illinois last weekend. She finished the weekend with an .833 batting average by going 5-for-6 with three home runs, one double, six runs batted in, one intentional walk and four runs scored. Brown also tallied an impressive 2.500 slugging percentage and an .857 on-base

percentage.

Brown started the weekend by going 2-3 with a solo home run and a double in Iowa's 5-2 win over Illinois Saturday. She gave Iowa its first run of the game with a solo shot to right field and drove in the fourth Hawkeye run with a double in the sixth inning.

Sunday was a career day for Brown, going a perfect 3-3 with career highs in home runs (2), RBI (4) and runs scored (3). She smacked a solo home run to the deepest part of center field in the fourth inning to give Iowa a 3-0 lead. After Illinois knotted the score at four later in the game, Brown delivered a three-run home run to right field to help Iowa regain the lead for good at 7-4.

It’s the first time in her career that she’s been honored as Player of the Week. She shares this week’s award with sophomore second baseman Nicole Pauly of Northwestern.

Brown and the Hawkeyes are the third for the upcoming Big Ten Tournament and will face No. 6 seed Illinois at 9 a.m. Friday.

Tuesday, May 6 results

High school baseball
Luverne 14, Marshall 1 (5 innings)
Luverne 9, Marshall 3

Maple River 3, Martin Luther/Granada-Huntley-East Chain 0 (6 innings)
Edgerton 4, Southwestern United 1

High school softball
Windom 6, Luverne 5
Luverne 9, Windom 1

Madelia/Truman 5, Alden-Conger 0 (5 innings)

Boys golf
Saint Clair 188, Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Martin Luther 210

Girls golf
Minneota Invitational
1. Minneota 184, 2. Fulda 205, 3. Adrian 212, 4. Lakeview 215, 5. Lincoln HI/Lake Benton 217, 6. Westbrook-Walnut Grove 220, 7. Wabasso 226, 8. MACCRAY 238, 9. Russell-Tyler-Ruthton 242.

Track and field
Section 2AA true team
At Faribault
Boys
1. Faribault 361, 2. Mankato East 338, 3. United South Central/Alden-Conger 261, 4. Fairmont 233.5, 5. Albert Lea 220, 6. Worthington 210, 7. Waseca 173.5.
Girls
1. Mankato East 338, 2. Waseca 297, 3. Fairmont 270, 4. Faribault 256, 5. Worthington 230, 6. United South Central/Alden-Conger 229.5, 7. Albert Lea 178.5.

College baseball
Iowa 13, Valparaiso 5

Concordia (Moorhead) 7, Augsburg 4
Concordia (Moorhead) 10, Augsburg 7

Carleton 25, Minnesota-Morris 5

Major League Baseball
American League
Chicago White Sox7, Minnesota Twins 1
Boston Red Sox 5, Detroit Tigers 0
New York Yankees 5, Cleveland Indians 3
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 5, Kansas City Royals 3
Tampa Bay Rays 5, Toronto Blue Jays 4
Oakland Athletics 4, Baltimore Orioles 2
Texas Rangers 10, Seattle Mariners 1
National League
Pittsburgh Pirates 12, San Francisco Giants 6
Chicago Cubs 3, Cincinnati Reds 0
Atlanta Braves 5, San Diego Padres 3
Florida Marlins 3, Milwaukee Brewers 0
Houston Astros 6, Washington Nationals 5
St. Louis Cardinals 6, Colorado Rockies 5
Arizona Diamondbacks 6, Philadelphia Phillies 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, New York Mets 4

NBA Playoffs
Boston Celtics 76, Cleveland Cavaliers 72
(Celtics lead series 1-0)

VIRGINIA - Jackson County Central's Scott Benson is tied for eighth in the latest Class 1A individual boys ratings by the Minnesota Golf Coaches Association. Benson and Danny Johnson of Rochester Lourdes both have an average of 74.8.

Scores are based on the best four of the last six scores and all scores are adjusted by MGA course ratings.

Robert Bell of Pierz is first (71.7), with Blue Earth Area's Jon Trasamar second (72.2).

Jordan Stahl of Windom is seventh in Class 1A with a 79.4 average. Meadow Creek Christian's Tyler Champ is first (76.1).

Windom is fifth in the combined Class 1A-2A boys team ratings with an average of 317.5. Detroit Lakes is first (300.5).

In the combined Class 1A-2A girls team ratings, Windom is 10th at 375.0. Minnewaska Area is first (320.0).

For the complete ratings, click here.