In one of the wildest section baseball playoff games ever played by Minneota, it came down to a tale of two rallies, and a quick turn of emotions on Saturday in Ruthton.
The Canby/Minneota girls outpointed BOLD/Buffalo Lake-Hector 127 to 123.5 to capture the Sub-section 3A East title Thursday in Montevideo.
Austin Buysse and Danny Hennen drove in four runs apiece as the Minneota Mudhens outslugged the Castlewood Monarchs 17-10 in a non-league game on Thursday night in Castlewood, SD.
The Minneota baseball team was seeded No.5 in Section 3A-South tournament and will take on No 4 Tracy-Milroy-Balaton at 1 p.m. in Ruthton.
The Minneota Vikings notched two wins last week, topping Dawson-Boyd 11-6 last Wednesday and Murray County Central 5-2 last Friday.
Minneota/Canby lost a heartbreaker to Windom, 3-2, in the Section 3AA quarterfinals Tuesday in Luverne.
Cole Myhre shot s 35 to lead the Minneota boys to a first-place finish in the three-team Yellow Medicine East Invitational Thursday at the Granite Falls Country Club.
The Canby/Minneota girls' track and field dominated the Camden Conference on Thursday in Tracy, winning their fifth straight title by over 100 points.
Garet DeBoer, a junior at Minneota, received a patch recently for hitting 25 straight clay targets during competitive rounds at the Southwest Sportsman's Club in Minneota.