State baseball roundup: Pine Island, Red Lake County win first state titles

Red Lake County rides early offense to state baseball championship

MINNEAPOLIS — The Red Lake County baseball program is the Minnesota Class A state champion for the first time in program history. On Saturday morning, the No. 5 seed Rebels beat No. 2 New Ulm Cathedral 15-7 in the championship at Target Field in Minneapolis. Red Lake County, which hadn't appeared at the state tournament since 2015, had never advanced to a state championship game. The Rebels beat the No. 4, No. 1 and No. 2 seeds to win the tourna…

Full team effort leads to Pine Island's first baseball state championship

MINNEAPOLIS — Back in January, Jaxon Hartzell’s dad, Darin, made bracelets for the Pine Island baseball players with the words “Pine Island Baseball” on one side. On the other side were target symbols next to June 14, 2025, to represent the date and location of this year's Class 2A baseball state championship game. With the perfect combination of talent, grit and belief mixed with a bit a manifestation courtesy of Darin Hartzell’s wristbands, No…

State baseball roundup: Pine Island, Red Lake County win first state titles

Class 2A Pine Island 2, Glencoe-Silver Lake 1 Tied in the bottom of the third inning Saturday at Target Field, Nicholas Thein battled back from a 1-2 count and drew a seemingly harmless two-out walk with the bases empty. But then he stole second base. Shortly thereafter, Lucas Sems hit a grounder through the left side of the infield, scoring Thein from second for what was the game-winning run to power Pine Island to the program’s first state tit…

Pine Island wins close affair, captures first Class 2A title over Glencoe-Silver Lake

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