state tournament

The Class C and B State Amateur baseball tournaments start this weekend in Belle Plaine, Green Isle, Jordan and Shakopee. The lone St. Cloud area team playing in the Class B state tournament is the Cold Spring Springers. They will play the Minnetonka Monarchs Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in Shakopee.

St. Cloud Post 76 advanced to the 3rd annual MN Legion State Championship game Sunday vs La Crescent with a 3-1 win over Upsala in the semifinals. Ella Voit threw 7 innings, gave up 2 hits, 1 run, 0 walks and had 16 strikeouts. Tayla Vought went 2-4 with 2 doubles.

The St. Cloud Crush baseball team captured the Section 8-4-A title last Thursday when they beat Moorhead 9-1 in the section final in Cold Spring. Crush head coach Chris Koenig joined me on WJON.

ROCORI defeated Benilde-St. Margaret's 11-1 in 6 innings in the Class 3-A State Tournament consolation semifinals Thursday in North Mankato. ROCORI scored 2 runs apiece in the 1st, 3rd and 4th innings and erupted for 5 runs to put the game away in the 6th inning.

The Cathedral softball team will be making their 4th state tournament appearance in school history when they play Wednesday in North Mankato against defending Class AA Champion Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton at 3 p.m.

The Albany boys basketball team is back in the Class AA State Tournament but this time they are there to defend their title. The Huskies defeated Minnehaha Academy 72-65 to capture the state championship in 2023.

That can only mean when the boy's state basketball tournament rolls around we get blasted by another round of snow. Well, that would be correct in a typical winter here in Minnesota.

The Albany girls basketball team defeated Rochester Lourdes 58-41 Wednesday night at Maturi Pavilion on the University of Minnesota campus in the Class 2-A State Tournament quarterfinals.

The Albany girls basketball team has had a memorable season and could cap it with a state title this week. The Huskies won the Section 6-2-A title Friday night at St. Cloud State's Halenbeck Hall 76-50 over Holdingford.

This isn't anything new, students getting rowdy at the Minnesota State Hockey tournament seems to happen each year

The Cathedral boys hockey team won the Section 5-A championship 4-1 Wednesday night in Elk River to earn their 2nd straight state tournament appearance. Andrew Dwinnell, Caden Johnson, and Griffin Sturm all scored first period goals.

The Tech Boys Soccer team will play 2nd seeded Hill Murray Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 at U.S. Bank Stadium in the Class AA State Tournament semifinals. Tech was 5-7-3 when they started the section playoffs but after 4 straight playoff wins, which includes upsets over Willmar, Apollo and last week Cloquet-Esko-Carleton the Tigers are hot.