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Girls Golf: Wingers chasing Lakers for State AA Title

Four time defending state champion Minnewaska Area shot a 305 team total and has a 14 shot lead on the second place Red Wing Wingers after the first round of the Girls State Class AA Golf Tournament at the Ridges at Sand Creek in Jordan.

Senior Sarah Roering of Minnewaska Area fired a 71 with fellow senior Allie Ostrander in second place individually with a 73.  Red Wing sophomore Katie Kesti is alone in third place with a first round score of 76.  The other scores for the Wingers: Rachel Oeltgen 79, Marisa Toivonen 81 and Danielle Brooks 83.  The scores that didn't count in the first round: Ashley Brooks 89 and Nikki Pasch with a 90,

The Wingers 319 total is one of their best scores of the season and while they trail Minnewaska Area by 14 shots, Red Wing has a 34 shot lead on third place Detroit Lakes.

Lake City has three golfers individually in the AA field.  Annalise Wallerich shot an 83, Erika Meincke an 87 and Abby Gruber a 90.

The final round is today with the first group of golfers teeing off at 7:30am and the final group getting underway at 9am.

American Legion Baseball: River Falls 7 Red Wing 1

Amateur Baseball:

Wednesday scores:

Lake City 10 Hayfield 0 (8 innings) Serpents are now 10-1 on the season

Ellsworth 13 River Falls 3 (7 innings) Storm Gram and Scott DeWyre 3 RBI each for the Hubbers

The 23rd Annual Dewey Tauer invitational gets underway with two quarterfinal matchups at the Red Wing Athletic Field this evening.

The New Richmond Millers face the Hastings Hawks at 6pm followed by the Rochester Royals and St. Paul Roosters. 

Friday night it's the Red Wing Aces and New Prague Orioles in the first game with the pre-game show at 5:45pm and the first pitch at 6pm on Bluff Country 1250 KCUE and on the web at www.1250kcue.com,

The Mankato Twins and Cannon Falls Bears meet in the second game Friday night.

Four games are on tap Saturday with three games on Sunday including the championship game which should start around 4pm.