softball

Owatonna High School softball and baseball face the best in the state Thursday, each playing a doubleheader against Mankato West. Softball is at 4PM in Owatonna. Baseball at 5PM is in Mankato.

The 37th annual Corky's Early Bird Men's Slow Pitch Softball Tournament featured a record-breaking field of 176 teams and one of the best weather weekends in its history.

Anna Lundberg tossed a no-hitter in an 18-0 win over Glenville-Emmons on Tuesday. Dempsey Tucker twirled a three-hitter in a 4-1 victory at Zumbrota-Mazeppa.

Owatonna junior Andrew Wall shot a 75 to win the Byron Invitational on Monday. The three-over par score was enough for a one-shot victory.

Pitching, fielding and hitting all came together for Owatonna's softball team in an 8-1 win over Rochester Century on Friday night at Morehouse Park.

Owatonna senior Alec Holcomb was masterful on the mound, not allowing a hit until the sixth inning and striking out eight, but Northfield scored a 3-2 nine-inning win.

Temperatures barely hit 40 degrees and the wind remained strong throughout the day, but most area baseball and softball games were played as scheduled.

First-year head Medford softball coach Alyssa Strunk would like to see her cousin Elly Strunk of Blooming Prairie pitch well on Monday, just not too well.

After all the local events were postponed Tuesday by cold, wet, windy weather, teams are hoping for better conditions for the rest of the week. Mother Nature might not be listening.

Blooming Prairie coach Ali Mach spent some time recently with the KRFO coaches show for an outlook on the season for BP softball.