Baseball
Legion baseball team wraps up season with loss to Dodge Center
Jul 24, 2019
The Lake City Legion baseball team wrapped up it’s 2019 summer baseball season with two frustrating losses in tournament play.Lake City opened tourney play as the fourth seed, hosting Zumbrota-Mazeppa (Z-M) on Monday, July 15.Lake City gave up two runs in the first inning and two runs in the second...
Another Eastridge-Lake City connection
Jul 3, 2019
Coach Brian Sprout wasn’t Lake City’s only connection to the 2019 AAAA baseball state champion Eastridge High School team. Roman Newinski, senior, pictured above, was a member of the team. He is the grandson of Barbara (Willers) Buck formerly of Lake City and great grandson of Ruben and Bernice...
Walk-off seals win over Eyota for Lake City Legion team
Jun 26, 2019
Lake City Legion took Monday’s, June 24 game in dramatic fashion, with a 10-9 walk-off victory over Eyota Legion. The game was tied with bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth inning with two out when Hunter Grimm drew a walk, scoring the winning run. Bats blistered for both teams as Lake...
Lake City records 16-6 Legion win over Wabasha
Jun 26, 2019
It was an entertaining but not necessarily a cleanly played game on Monday, June 17, with the final score Lake City 16, Wabasha 6 in six innings. Wabasha got the scoring started in the first inning drawing two walks, a single, and a ground out to score the first run of the game. Lake City scored...
Lake City extends winning streak against Lewiston
Jun 26, 2019
On Thursday, June 20, Lake City Legion baseball travelled to Lewiston and took the lead late when in the top of the seventh Riley Borgschatz hit a fielder’s choice groundball which allowed Justin Wohlers to score from third, what would become the winning run. Wohlers opened the inning with a...
Lake City Legion outlasts Chatfield
Jun 26, 2019
It took nine innings but the Lake City Legion team outlasted Chatfield on June 10 down in Happy Valley.Lake City opened the scoring in the second inning when Kylar Ruffell led off with a walk, stole second, advanced to third on a passed ball and came home on a sacrifice fly by Mac Heise. In the...
Lake City Legion out pitches Plainview in 1-0 win
Jun 26, 2019
On June 6, Lake City Legion opened up summer league play with a pitching gem hosting Plainview-Elgin-Millville (PEM) at Bill Kieffer Field. The pitchers for both teams combined to only give up three hits across seven innings, two for Lake City and one for Plainview. Josh Matanich opened up the...
Lake City native coaches team to state title
Jun 26, 2019
Brian Sprout, a member of the Lincoln High School Class of 1998, has coached East Ridge High School’s baseball team to its first-ever state title. East Ridge was the No. 5 seed entering the AAAA tournament. They beat No. 4 seed Mounds View in the quarterfinals on June 14, No. 1 seed Stillwater in...
Tigers baseball gets eliminated in round one of subsection 6-1
May 29, 2019
The No. 7 seed Lake City Tigers baseball team traveled to La Crescent May 22 to take on the No. 2 seed La Crescent Lancers and were defeated 6-1.The Tigers jumped out to an early lead in the first inning with two outs Lake City strung together three consecutive singles by Josh Matanich, Jake...
Pages
The Lake City Graphic
graphic@lakecitygraphic.com
Ph: 651-345-3316 (M-Tu 8am-4pm, W-Th-F 8am-3pm)
Fax: 651-345-4200
P.O. Box 469
111 South 8th Street
Lake City, MN 55041
ISSN 2994-1059 (print) ISSN 2994-1067 (online)