Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017

Trivia Question:

In baseball and softball retiring the all batters in a game with no one reaching base, is a perfect game. In bowling 300 is perfect score. What is a perfect score in cross-country.
Tough luck at home

St. John’s David Eichinger (32) and Melrose’s Brandon Montanez chased down a loose ball in the contest this afternoon at Melrose.
The Dutchmen soccer team applied pressure for almost the entire game, but failed to get the ball into the net falling 2-0 to St. John’s Prep this afternoon. Home field didn’t help much on the tennis courts either where the Lady Dutchmen were edged 7-0 by Osakis. In Montevideo, however, the volleyball team and one of its betters all-around nights posting a 3-1 to keep in top of the WCC standings.  More on the games will be in the Oct. 4 issue of the Melrose Beacon.

Melrose doubles players Allie Toenies (left) and Makayla Schleper found it tough going against their Osakis opponents.

Trivia Answer:  If a team takes the top five places in cross-country it earn a total of 15 points. That is considered a perfect score in that sport.

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Dutchmen Baseball

Melrose third baseman Brennan Hoppe waited to tag out a Wadena-Deer Creek’s Wyatt Hamann to complete a pick off play in Melrose Area’s 11-1 win Thursday in the Section 6AA playoffs.  The Dutchmen hit well scoring nine runs in the second inning to take a 10-0 lead. A two-run double by Will Stone, followed by a three-run home run by Cody Pundsack, highlighted that inning. Melrose Area batted around in the second with Logan Funk, Zac Van Beck, Brennan Hoppe, Dillon Haider and Jordan Klaphake all having two at bats that inning. Brady Birch pitched a complete game to earn the win. He walked none and gave up six hits.  His third inning home run gave Melrose an 11-1 lead. Melrose turned two  double plays in the game. The game was called after five innings because of the 10-run rule.  More on the game will be in the June 7 issue of the Melrose Beacon.

Scores of other games were:

Foley-7 Sauk Centre-0

Pierz-1 Cathedral-0

Melrose-11 WDC-1 (WDC eliminated)

Milaca-3 LPGE-2 (LPGE eliminated)

Next Games

Monday, June 5:

Faber Field

5 p.m.-Milaca vs Cathedral (elimination game)

7 p.m.-Melrose vs Sauk Centre (elimination game)

Putz Field

7 p.m. Foley vs Pierz

Tuesday, June 6

Putz Field

5 p.m. Winner Milaca/Cathedral vs Winner Melrose/Sauk Centre

7 p.m. Winner 5 p.m. vs Loser Foley/Pierz.

Friday, May 26, 2017

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Lady Dutchmen Softball

Ashley Rademacher reached for and caught possible extra-base hit by Albany Tuesday in the Lady Dutchmen’s 16-0 four inning loss to Albany. Melrose now plays in the playbacks of the 6AA tournament. It faces Pierz Thursday at 5 p.m. in Waite Park. Pierz fell 2-1 to Cathedral. The winner faces either Albany or Cathedral in the final playback game following the 5 p.m. game.
Next Games are
May 24 at Alexandria High School:
Noon #3 Bertha Hewitt/Verndale (BH/V) vs #2 Pequot Lakes
 2:30pm #5 Perham vs #1 Osakis
May 25 in Waite Park
5pm #4 Pierz vs #3 Melrose (elimination game)
5pm #2 Albany vs #1 Cathedral (elimination game)
6:30 Winner Pierz-Melrose vs Loser Albany-Cathedral.
May 25 at Alexandria
3:30pm Loser Perham-Osakis vs Loser BH/V vs Peqout Lakes (elimination game)
4:30pm Winner Perham-Osakis vs Winner BH/V vs Pequot Lakes 
After 4:30 game: Winner 3:30 game vs Loser 4:30 game (elimination game)

Dutchmen Baseball

The Dutchmen topped Sauk Centre 11-4 Tuesday in their final regular season game.

The first round match-up for the Section 6AA baseball tournament are
Thursday, May 25

5pm-Bertha-Hewit/Verndale (6-13) @ Sauk Centre (16-4)

5pm-Milaca (7-1) @ Royalton (11-8)

5pm-St.John’s Prep (1-13) @ Foley (13-7)

5pm-LPGE (10-8) @ Peqot Lakes (12-6)

Pierz has a bye.

7pm-Osakis (12-7) vs Melrose (13-7) @ Freeport.

5pm-Staples-Motley (5-15) @ Wadena-Deer Creek (16-4)

5pm-Holdingford (7-12) @ Cathedral (12-8).

Section 6AA brackets can be viewed at http://www.mshsl.org/mshsl/doubleelim.asp?bracket=7043&tournid=262

Friday, May 19, 2017

Lady Dutchmen Softball

Holdingford’s Jenna Scott was too late in applying a tag to prevent Whitney Austing from stealing second. Austing, a courtesy runner, scored three runs in the game. Melrose won the playoff game 12-6.
Melrose had big rallies in the fourth and sixth innings to score their runs. Kenzie Meyer earned the win Holly Hellermann had three hits in the game.  Melrose next plays Tuesday in Waite Park.

Other Scores

6AA-South

Albany-11 Milaca-1

Pierz-7 Sauk Centre-4

Cathedral-9 Foley-5

6AA-North

Osakis-10 Ottertail Central-0

Perham-8 Staples-Motley-1

Bertha-Hewitt-Verndale-9

LPGE-2

Next Games

6AA-South 5 pm @ Waite Park-Plaza Field May 23 Melrose vs Albany; Waite Park-Miller Field:  Pierz vs Cathedral.

6AA-North 4:30pm @Alexandria-Field 1 Perham vs Osakis; Field 2 Berth-Hewitt-Verndale vs Pequot Lakes.

Dutchmen Baseball

The Dutchmen fell 7-0 to Cathedral at Melrose.

More information appears in the May 24 issue of the Melrose Beacon.

Saturday, March 4, 2017

M-SC Fusion Swimming

Kenny Warzecha earned fifth in the 100FLY and seventh in the 50FS. He holds Fusion records in both other those event and in the 100FS. He also swam with the record setting 200MR and 400FSR teams.

Also swimming on the last day of the swim season were the 200MR team of Isaac Schreiner, Dylan Fleischhacker, Kenny Warzecha and Spencer Van Beck, which finished ninth winning the consolation heat; Schreiner who finished 12th in the 100BK; and the 400FSR team of Kenny Warzecha, Nathan Douvier, Spencer Van Beck, Isaac Schreiner (11th).

SC-M Wrestling

Jordan Winter’s season, and the SC-M season ended the second round of wrestlebacks when when fell 3-1. Winter was 2-2 at state.

Lady Dutchmen Basketball

Melrose,12-15,  was outplayed and fell 63-32 to 26-1 Sauk Centre in the 6AA-West sub-section playoffs. In the other contest Albany defeated Osakis 66-56.  Maci Blommel score eight and Cassie Klaphake seven for Melrose.

Friday, March 3, 2017

Dutchmen Basketball

The Dutchmen finished the regular season unbeaten defeated Osakis 68-50 tonight at Osakis. Dillon Haider scored 19 points and Brady Birch 18 points and Reegan Nelson 14 points. Melrose led by eight half time then took over in the second half.

SC-M Wrestling

Jordan Winter

Winter (132) opened his state meet with a 7-0 win over Xavier Judge of Bloomington Kennedy, but fell 8-1 to Tyler Shackle of Scott West. Winter scored his second win of the tournament posting a 5-1 win over Kellen Schauer of Grand Rapids in the playbacks. He faces Jack Vaselaar of Winona-Winona Cotter in the second round of wrestlebacks.

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz (106)  wrestled just one match at state. He was pinned at 5:15 by Kole Krause of Bloomington Kennedy in the first round. When Krause lost in the quarterfinals, Ortiz’s season ended.

M-SC Fusion Swimming

Kenny Warzecha qualified for the state championships in the 50FS and the 100FLY after the preliminaries of the Class A swimming and diving meet. He was seeded fourth in the 100FLY and seventh in the 50FS. Swimming in the consolation round heats will be Isaac Schreiner in the 100BK; the 200FSR team of Isaac Schreiner, Dylan Fleischhacker, Kenny Warzecha and Spencer Van Beck; and the 400FSR team of Kenny Warzecha, Nathan Douvier, Spencer Van Beck, Isaac Schreiner. Also competing on Friday, but not swimming on Saturday were: Isaac Schreiner, 100FS; Spencer Van Beck, 500FS; and Dylan Fleischhacker, 100BT. New Fusion records were set in by the 200MR team (1:40.08), Warzecha in the 50FS (21.7) and 100FLY (52.14), Schreiner in the 100FS (49.35), and 100BK (54.62); Dylan Fleischhacker in the 100BT (1:03.2). Warzecha’s time in his leg of the 400FSR is (47.86) is now Fusion record for a 100FS.

Sunday, Feb.19, 2017.

Lady Dutchmen Gymanstics

The Lady Dutchmen gymnastics team is heading back to state after winning the Section 6A meet Saturday in Willmar. Melrose scored 149.175 and as a team finished first in all routines.

Individual finishes were as follows. An asterisk indicates the gymnast will compete in the state individual meet on Saturday.

Vault: 1-Kayla Austing*, 2-Camryn Brinkman*, 3-Greta Klaphake*, 5-Mady Brinkman, 12-Trish Thom. Video of Austing's vaults can be seen at https://youtu.be/-f1wslSOsS0

Bars: 1-Austing*, 2-M. Brinkman*, 5-Thom, 7-C. Brinkman, 9-Klaphake.

Beam: 1-M. Brinkman*, 2-Austing*, 5-C. Brinkman, 5-Klaphake, 6-Mackinze Wolbeck,11-C. Brinkman.

Floor: 1-Austing*, 4-M. Brinkman*, 7-C. Brinkman, 8-Klaphake, 14-Wolbeck.

All-Around: 1-Austing*, 2-M. Brinkman*, 5-Klaphake, 6-C. Brinkman.

Prairie Centre Hockey

Prairie Centre defeated Breckenridge/Wahpeton 3-1 Saturday night. Daniel Thompson, Petr Erhart and Hunter Fletcher scored for the North Stars. They next play Tuesday against. St. Cloud Cathedra.l.

SCM Wrestling

 SCM defeated Fosston Bagley 54-14, but fell  63-9 to Perham in the Section 8AA team wrestling tournament.

Dutchmen Basketball

The Dutchmen moved to 23-0 with a 70-56 win over Montevideo Friday. Brady Birch had 26 points and Dillon Haider had 18.