Joel Rippel

In other area college football games, Minnesota State Moorhead scored 16 points in the final three minutes to clip Minnesota Duluth.

The Twins have a 3½-game lead over Detroit for the final American League wild-card spot.

No. 12 St. John's heads into a big test Saturday against No. 5 Wartburg in Collegeville.

The Twins return home in need of a pick-me-up against one of the worst teams in the major leagues, the Los Angeles Angels.

AL wild-card standings are on the line with the Twins heading to Kansas City for a pivotal series.

The Tommies stumbled badly in a 34-13 home defeat against Division II Sioux Falls, and here comes a harder test with Northern Iowa visiting.

The Tampa Bay Rays need a September surge if they are going to return to the playoffs.

The Tommies return several key pieces from a team that finished second in the Pioneer Football League last season.

The Twins play host to an Atlanta team that is among the best in the majors at interleague play.

The Johnnies and coach Gary Fasching find themselves in unusual territory this year, needing to bounce back after missing the postseason last year.

San Diego has won 20 of its last 25 games to sit just three games behind the NL West-leading L.A. Dodgers.

It's been a rough season for the defending World Series champions.

The Twins are 5-2 against Kansas City this season but lead the Royals by only a half-game in the standings.

The teams are separated by 3½ games in the American League Central, and both enter on losing streaks.

After dispatching the White Sox, the Twins head to Chicago to visit Wrigley Field for the first time since 2021.

The White Sox have lost 17 in a row and are 0-53 when trailing after six innings during their 27-84 season.

Matthew Hurt, a 6-9 forward who played at Rochester John Marshall and Duke, signed a one-year contract with South East Melbourne on Monday.

The Twins will begin a three-game series Monday night against the Mets at Citi Field, where Minnesota is 2-6 all-time.

He went on to have a long, distinguished career as a radiologist.

Terry McLean was a member of the Minnesota High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

The Philadelphia Phillies, the team with the best record in the major leagues, visit Target Field for the first time since 2016.

The Twins are 8-4 against the Brewers at home since 2020.

The Twins are 7-0 this season against the major league-worst White Sox, winning four games (April 22-25) at Target Field before winning three a week later (April 29-May 1) in Chicago.

The last time a major leaguer had 12 hits in 12 consecutive at-bats, the Twins hadn't even moved to Minnesota yet.

Lance Johnson led the Redhawks to five state championships and produced two top-five NBA draft picks in Jalen Suggs and Chet Holmgren.

They are 10 games over .500 at 47-37 and have homered in a team-record 19 consecutive games.

A captain on the 1960 national championship team, Greg Larson went on to play 13 seasons for the New York Giants.

Ed Prohofsky's legacy includes helping Minnesota begin sanctioning adapted high school sports.

The Twins will face the Diamondbacks in their first trip to Phoenix since June 2022.

The Twins are making one final trip to Oakland before the A's spend three years in Sacramento purgatory as they await a new stadium in Las Vegas.

Tampa Bay is prone to giving up home runs as the Twins enter the series on a 6-1 run during the homestand.

Oakland arrives at Target Field on a five-game losing streak and has played 24 one-run games.

The Twins' only homestand in June begins with a three-game series against a team with the second-worst record in the NL.

The Twins get another shot at the Yankees, after being outscored 14-1 in a three-game series at Target Field in mid-May.

A nine-game, 10-day road trip opens for the Twins, who have won seven of their past nine games.

Despite defenses tending more sternly to him, Blake Piscitiello has scored 56 goals for Lakeville North's boys team.

Kansas City has its eight-game winning streak end Sunday, during which the Royals scored seven runs or more in six consecutive games, a franchise record.

Banged-up Rangers come to Target Field on a six-game slide, while the Twins have won two in a row.

A high school standout at Danube and a two-way player with the Gophers, Bob Bruggers played six seasons of pro football before becoming a wrestler.

After being swept by the Yankees, the team next faces the Guardians, which handed the Twins losses in their first two home games.

The Yankees have won seven of their past nine games, while the Twins have won six consecutive series for the first time since 2010.

Toronto bats have been mostly silent this season as the Jays are last in the AL East.

Jorge Polanco is batting .193 so far for the Mariners after his trade. Another former Twins regular is also in the Mariners lineup.

The team became the NBA's first dynasty in Minnesota. But locals were generally sympathetic to the move west.

Here's the Twins' challenge: Boston's pitching staff leads the major leagues in ERA and, unlike the White Sox and Angels, the Red Sox have a winning record.

The Twins have won seven in a row; the White Sox just swept three-game from Tampa Bay, doubling their win total for the season.

The Twins haven't won a series at Angels Stadium in five years, but the Angels have won just once in their last seven games.

The Chicago White Sox are off to the worst start in franchise history with a major league-worst record of 3-18. They visit Target Field for four games starting Monday night.

The Tigers are above .500 and recently split a four-game series with the Twins at Comerica Park.

As an associate director, John Bartz helped the league start state tournaments in girls hockey and adapted sports.

Baltimore has shown an ability to rally late in games, coming from behind in seven of its nine victories this season.

The Twins stopped a four-game losing streak by beating the Dodgers on Wednesday.

The NL West leaders are coming off a series loss against the Cubs to close a six-game road trip.

It's the home opener for the Twins on Thursday afternoon, with Pablo López on the mound.

The Twins will get an early look at Jackson Chourio of the Brewers, the major leagues' youngest player who has a huge contract to boot.

The righthander had Tommy John surgery in the summer of 2022 and missed all of 2023.

The Twins and Royals will begin their seasons with a three-game set starting Thursday in Kansas City.

All four state champions — two public schools and two privates —benefited from players who transferred. That and more from the weekend.

Poet Davis made certain Minneapolis South, winner of six games last season, ended its tournament drought this season.

Hopkins is back again, as are all of the top section seeds in Class 4A. Coaches Wendy Kohler and Mike Dreier carry special marks to state, and Jim Lien's there for the first time in his 45 years of coaching.

The Gophers open with 22 games on the road, but their roster has better pitching depth to bounce back after last year's 18-34 finish.

Phil Frerk, who led St. Louis Park to five state tournament appearances and two titles, went 152-21 in his short tenure.

Laura Hauge of St. Croix Lutheran broke Minnesota's mark for three-pointers and keeps going back for more.

Grace Heins scored 62 points for Ogilvie in an 89-82 victory at Pine City, which got 63 points from Karly Jusczak.

Seattle was 1-6 after seven games but now is 4-9.

The Lynx, winners of two in a row, pay a visit to Sin City, where the Aces look like contenders to repeat.

"A quiet player," her coach calls Madelyn Anthony, but she's 11-2 in the circle and hitting .551 with power.

Brittney Griner has scored 18 and 27 points in two games since returning to the U.S. after nearly 10 months in Russian detention.

After three consecutive series against interleague opponents, the Twins (24-20) still lead the AL Central.

A junior, she provided her girls basketball team key help in the state tournament.

The Beavers are coming off a sweep over Minnesota State Mankato. This will be the Gophers' second exhibition in three days.

The U.S. Under-18 team has five Minnesotans on its roster and is 10-0 against Division I teams.

Coach Glenn Caruso said the work being done is helping attract more players from outside Minnesota.

Gerten, a sophomore state champ, set a pool mark and a school mark last week.

Mike Dreier, in his 45th season as the girls basketball coach at New London-Spicer, passed a Chisholm coaching legend Friday night.