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Baseball: St. Cloud Crush 1, Sartell-St. Stephen 0 (8 innings) (Kadyn Mork went 1-3 with the game-winner RBI.  Drew Leiser threw 8 shutout innings with 1 hit allowed and 7 strikeouts for the Crush.  Wesley Johnson threw 7 shutout innings for Sartell) Fergus Falls 8, Sauk Rapids-Rice 7 Brainerd 8, ROCORI 3 Foley 11, Cathedral 3 (John Brew and Jacob Oliver each drove in runs for the Crusaders.) Eden

Jaromir Jagr returned to action Thursday for the first time since turning 52 and immediately scored as he surpassed legend Gordie Howe to become the oldest player taking regular shifts in professional ice hockey.

Earlier this week Emmett Keenan and Julie Murphy each received promotions at St. Cloud Catholic Community Schools and Cathedral High School. Keenan joined me on WJON to talk about his new title, which will take hold starting July 1.

The Cathedral Girls Golf team finished 7th among 17 teams at the Milaca Invite. The meet was played in a 6-6-6 format. The team of Cammy Sand and Averie Andvik carded an 86 to finish 10th overall. Abby Silver and Natalie Granowski shot a 93.

The Timberwolves are the 3rd seed in the Western Conference and will play 6th seeded Phoenix in a first round best of 7 series. Game 1 will be in Minnesota Saturday at 2:30, pregame on AM 1390/93.9 FM Granite City Sports at 2:15.

New sport to make its world premiere at Macalester College in St. Paul

Former St. Cloud State basketball player Forrest Witt is offering basketball camps in the St. Cloud area including one at Whitney Recreation Center July 16-18. Witt is the current Alexandria High School basketball coach who led the Cardinals to the State Tournament in 2023 and advanced to the State Tournament last month.

GRANITE CITY SPORTS HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ROUND UP I will bring to you game summaries of the following teams; weekly and possibly bi-weekly as well. Rocori Spartans, St. Cloud Crush, Sauk Rapids-Rice Storm and Sartell-St. Stephen Sabres of the Central Lakes Conference...

The St. Cloud Rox will start their 2024 season next month. A former Rox player, Michael Busch is seeing his first real significant opportunity in the majors playing for the Chicago Cubs. He is making the most of it and has reeled off home runs in 5 straight games.

Softball: ROCORI 6, Sartell-St. Stephen 5 (Jessica Boos threw all 7 innings with 5 earned runs with 11 strikeouts for ROCORI.  Jordyn Illies went 2-4 including the game-winning RBI single.  For ROCORI Sam Sufka went 1-3 with 2 RBI, Jessia Boos went 2-4 with a run and 1 RBI, Sophia Hess went 1-4 a a run scored and 1 RBI and Mady Hesse walked 3 times and scored the game-winning run). Cathedr... Read

The Right Thing to Do, the Joe Mauer story, is an event that will take place at the Moose Lodge #1400 this Friday. Former Twin Cities sportscaster Joe Schmidt has released the book "The Right Thing to Do, the Joe Mauer story".

MINNESOTA COLLEGE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE  CENTRAL DIVISION BASEBALL REPORT ALEXANDRIA TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEGENDS ANOKA RASMEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE GOLDEN RAMS CENTRAL LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE BRAINERD RAIDERS MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE FERGUS FALLS SPARTANS RIDGEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE WARRIORS ST. CLO...