Baseball

The top of the first inning didn’t go the way the Miesville Mudhens had intended when they opened the playoffs on Sunday, Aug. 7, against the Northfield Knights. The heavily favored Mudhens surrendered two first inning runs and fell behind, 2-0, before they even got to the plate....

HASTINGS – Even while watching a six-run fourth inning for Hastings, Red Wing had to make sure the team wasn't frazzled. There was still five innings to chip away at the Hawks. “You like to fight. It's something to hang your hat on,” said Red Wing second baseman Adam Thygesen....

The Hastings Hawks opened up their 34th season on Saturday, May 7, with a 5-4 victory over the Ellsworth Hubbers at Veterans Park in Hastings. Second-year manager Shawn Matson, a Hastings native who has been part of the organization for 17 years, since he started as a bat boy, is...

by Brian Schommer Special to the Star Gazette The Hastings Hawks amateur baseball team closed out their 2015 season with a 7-3 loss at the hands of the Dundas Dukes on Friday, Aug. 11, at Veterans Park in Hastings. Dundas moves on in the Section 1B playoffs facing the Elko Express...

by Brian Schommer Special to the Star Gazette The Hastings Hawks are heading into the 2015 Section 1B playoffs beginning Sunday, Aug. 9, and they have nowhere to look but up. As the number six seed of six teams, the Hawks drew the third-seeded Dundas Dukes in the first round....

MIESVILLE – It is expected, at some point, that Miesville will lose another game. On Wednesday, St. Louis Park may have stumbled on how that loss could play out: hit the ball hard, get some crazy bounces, hope the Mudhens commit a couple errors and try to wear out the pitching staff....

The Hastings Hawks amateur baseball team found its way back into the winning column over the holiday weekend going 2-1. The two wins came courtesy of the Hawks offense as they were knocking the ball all around the field. On July 2, Hastings defeated the Eagan Bandits 10-5 and...

The loud pops coming from Jack Ruhr Field were not from Fourth of July fireworks. Rather, it was Red Wing’s wood bats cracking the ball across the diamond, and it was the pop from the catcher’s glove as Aces pitcher Aaron Johnson dominated on the mound. Thanks to a one-hit...