1390 Granite City Sports

Back for a sixth season at 1390 Granite City Sports/mnbaseball.org with your weekly amateur baseball (Town Team) baseball reports, including not only game summaries, but upcoming schedules, league standings, tournament summaries and an occasional special interest feature.

The first amateur game in the area took place in Kimball between two of the top Class C teams, certainly in the Central Valley and maybe all of Region 11C.

The St. Cloud Technical And Community College Cyclone baseball team took a pair of games against Central Lakes College Tuesday afternoon in Brainerd. Roger Mischke recaps the action.

The Gopher men's basketball team received a verbal commitment from 6-9 190 pound Isaiah Ihnen from Munich, Germany last night. He chose Minnesota over TCU. He is rated as the 89th best prospect according to 247 rating service and is a 4-star recruit.

The Rocori baseball team beat the Tech Tigers 11-3 Tuesday evening at Cold Spring Baseball Park. The Spartans scored eight runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to pull away for the win.

The Twins and Astros will meet again Wednesday night in Houston. First pitch is set for 7:10 p.m. on AM 1240 WJON.

Mike Trewick announced his resignation as head coach of the Tech boys basketball team on April 5th. This week, he joined Dave Overlund on WJON's "Hang Up and Listen" to talk about the decision and to reminisce.

St. Cloud Technical and Community College coach Jason Fischer joined WJON's "Hang Up and Listen" Monday afternoon to talk Cyclones baseball.

The Twins edged the Astros in Houston last night behind a 4 hit night from short stop Jorge Polanco. Outfielder Eddie Rosario has been red hot lately and Star Tribune Sports Columnist Jim Souhan, who joined me this morning, said Rosario is one of the best outfielders in the American League and shou…

The Sartell baseball team will host Fergus Falls Tuesday afternoon at Dick Putz Field. First pitch is slated for 5 p.m.

The Twins will play at Houston again Tuesday night, with first pitch scheduled for 7:10 p.m. Pregame coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. on WJON.

The Twins swept a 3-game series at Baltimore this past weekend to improve to 12-7 and have now taken a 1-game lead over Cleveland in the American League Central. Star Tribune Sports Columnist Jim Souhan joined me on WJON today.

The St. Cloud State Huskies baseball team played a weekend series at Crookston. Roger Mischke recaps the action.

The Cyclones played host to Northland Community and Technical College for a four game series at Dick Putz field. The Cyclones did defeat the Pioneers two marathon games, there were fifty-one total runs scored.

The St. John’s University baseball team cleaned house and extended their win streak to five games against St. Olaf in a Friday doubleheader on the road.

The St. Cloud State University softball team extended their win streak to twelve and then snapped it on the road against Upper Iowa on Friday.

For just the second time in program history, the no. 5 St. Cloud State University baseball team lost to the University of Minnesota Crookston in a road game on Friday. The loss snapped a seven-game winning streak.

Baseball
Sauk Rapids-Rice 9, Rocori 8
Alexandria 2, Sartell-St. Stephen 1
Apollo 7, Willmar 6
Royalton 9, Holdingford 8
Softball
Tech 7, Moorhead 6
Moorhead 10, Tech 7

The Twins lost 7-4 at home against the Toronto Blue Jays Thursday afternoon. Michael Pineda had his worst start of the year allowing 7 hits and 6 earned runs in 3 2/3 innings to take the loss and drop to 2-1.