Friday, May 9, 2014

MELROSE LADY DUTCHMEN GIRLS BASKETBALL

Chris Anderson, head coach since the 2009-10 season at Melrose, confirmed he will be accepting the head boys coaching position at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa.

MELROSE DUTCHMEN AND LADY DUTCHMEN GOLF:

Boys: The Dutchmen finished sixth at Minnewaska and sixth at Morris. At Minnewaska Isaac Lieser, Blake Loxtercamp and Zach Austing all scored in the top 30 of the participating golfers. Lieser scored in the top 10 in the match at Morris

Girls: The Lady Dutchmen were fifth at Minnewaska and eighth at Morris. Kate Maus qualified for the top ten scoring a 48 at Minnewaska. Loxtercamp scored a 52. At Morris Loxtercamp had Melrose's best score with a 54 and Maus scored a 55.

MELROSE LADY DUTCHMEN SOFTBALL: 

Melrose defeated Atwater 16-6 in six innings. The Lady Dutchmen pounded out 14 hits this afternoon with Justine Revermann hitting three of them.  Emily Tschida had had home run. Kayla Austing, who did not record a hit or an at bat, scored three runs for the Lady Dutchmen. Justine Revermann had five steals for Melrose, which finished with 12 steals in the game.

CANCELLATIONS AND POSTPONEMENTS

MELROSE DUTCHMEN BASEBALL: At Foley has been cancelled

More information will appear in the May 14 issue of the Melrose Beacon.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

MELROSE DUTCHMEN AND LADY DUTCHMEN TRACK AND FIELD

The 2014 Dave Sieben Invite was held this afternoon with 14 team participating.  Melrose had two three first place finishes. 

The 4X800 Relay Team of Brent Blommel, Brian Thielen, Garrett Hoeschen took first with a honor roll qualifying time of 8:45.05.  

Lydia Butkowski won the Long Jump and Triple Jump events for the Lady Dutchmen. Her triple jump distance of 33-3.75 qualifier for an honor roll listing.

The meet was halted after 12 events because of rains. Events that were no held were the boys' and girls 200, 3200, 300 hurdles and 4X400 relay. The girls' pole vault and boys high jump were also cancelled.

Earning runners-up  honors was Caleb Rothfork in the boys' triple jump.

Melrose girl triple jumpers are in the video below.
Melrose's next meet is next week Thursday at the West Central Confence meet in Paynesville.

Cassie Klaphake, Becky Klaphake
4X200 Relay

Tyler Bertram

Brent Blommel

Delaney Anderson, Vanessa Van Beck
4X200 Relay

Trevor Keaveny

Cassie Klaphake

Caleb Rothfork, Brent Reller
4X200 Relay

Alyssa Leraas

Gentry Middendorf

Rodrigo Milla

Nathan Dragseth

Cally Roering, Gabby Grave
4X100 Relay

Tyler Bertram

Lydia Butkowski

Payton Petermeier

Bailey Feldewerd

Jesse Middendorf

Brian Thielen

Madi Brinkman

Cassie Feldwerd

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Sidney Rasmussen

Caleb Rothfork

Amy Berscheit 

Jailyn Brinkman


Brian Thielen

Thursday, May 8, 2014

MELROSE DUTCHMEN BASEBALL: 

Melrose fell 5-4 at Minnewaska

MELROSE LADY DUTCHMEN SOFTBALL: 

Melrose fell 11-4 at Minnewaska. Except for the first inning Melrose played a strong game and actually outscored Minnewaska 3-2.  Kayla Austing and Justine Revermann both had two hits.  Sandra Sprenger was charged with the loss.

For more information see the May 14 issue of the Melrose Beacon.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014-Golf

MELROSE DUTCHMEN GOLF:

Melrose finished in fourth place at both the Sauk Centre and Melrose matches today.  The Dutchmen shot a 180 at Sauk Centre and at Melrose.  Blake Loxtercamp's (photo) 42 gave tied him for sixth at Sauk Centre. Isaac Lieser was tied for 10th with a 47.  At Melrose Isaac Lieser finished with a 46 tie for ninth place.

MELROSE LADY DUTCHMEN GOLF:

Melrose shot a 225 to take seventh at Melrose and finished seventh at Sauk Centre with a 235.  Brooklyn Loxtercamp (photo) scored a 49 to lead the Lady Dutchmen on their home turf.  Her 51 led Melrose at Sauk Centre.

Kate Maus

Isaac Lieser 

Kasey Bertram

Tara Ostendorf

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

MELROSE LADY DUTCHMEN SOFTBALL:

Melrose fell 2-1 to Montevideo in the first game of the double-header and 9-5 in the second game. In the opener four different players accounted for the four Melrose hits. Sandra Sprenger allowed only three hits in the loss. In the night cap Melrose rallied for five in the fourth to take a 5-4 lead but allowed five in the sixth inning. Again four different players had one hit each for Melrose. Kayla Austing and Justine Revermann had a hit in both games

MELROSE DUTCHMEN BASEBALL:

Melrose fell 5-4 and 2-1 to at Montevideo this afternoon. In the first game Anthony Welle had two hits in both games.  

More information will appear in the May 14 issue of the Melrose Beacon.

Monday, May 5, 2014

MELROSE LADY DUTCHMEN SOFTBALL:

The Lady Dutchmen downed Benson 10-4 at Benson. The win was the 100th in the coaching career of Coach Jamie Kinzer.

Nikki Zierden and Justine Revermann lead Melrose with three hit each. Sandra Sprenger had a double an three RBI. Morgan Notch walked one and struck out six in a complete game victory.

MELROSE DUTCHMEN GOLF:

Melrose finished fifth in a WCC match at Atwater this morning. Merose was led by Blake Loxtercamp, Isaac Lieser and Jacob Dickhaus. All three shot a 42 on the day and finished tied for ninth.  Melrose had a team score of 175.

In the match at Paynesville in the afternoon, the Dutchmen shot 189 as a team. Lieser's 42 lead Melrose. He tied for fourth place.

MELROSE LADY DUTCHMEN GOLF: 

Brooklyn Loxtercamp's 52 led the Lady Dutchmen who finished with a 244 and in eighth place in the team standings at Paynesville this morning.  In the afternoon match at Atwater, Loxtercamp tied for sixth with a 43. Melrose as a team finished in eighth place.

MELROSE DUTCHMEN AND LADY DUTCHMEN TRACK AND FIELD:

The Boys 4X800 relay team finished at 8:47.42 to claim first place in this afternoon at New London. It was the only first captured by the boys. Team members are: Zach Zink, Brent Blommel, Garrett Hoeschen and Brian Thielen.

In the girls meet Melrose dominated the triple jump with Lydia Butkowski, (34-10),  Madison Brinkman (32-7) and Jailyn Brinkman (32-5) taking first, second and third. Delany Anderson at 28-5 finished in 10th place.

The Melrose boys finished fourth and the girls finished in fifth place.