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Weishaar cards rare albatross with hole-in-one at MSU’s Aloha Scramble

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The rarest of accomplishments in golf is the albatross, also known as the double eagle, with the odds sitting at 1 in 6 million. Recent Minot North graduate Kyler Weishaar will forever be able to lay claim to the fact that he has accomplished the feat. Weishaar carded a hole-in-one on the Par-4 first hole at Beowolf Golf Club during the Minot State University Men’s Basketball Aloha Scramble on Thursday, June 18. To make the moment even richer – literally – Weishaar’s hole-in-one awarded him an insured hole prize of $75,000. The Aloha Scramble featured 26 teams of four. ...

Legion Baseball: Metros hold Burlington scoreless in series sweep

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The Minot Metros held the Burlington Bulldogs scoreless in eight innings over two games, limiting the home team to just three hits in a pair of victories on Thursday, June 18. The Metros posted an 11-0 win in Game 1, which ended after five innings via mercy rule. Weather held Game 2 to just three innings, with Minot pitching a second consecutive victory with a 6-0 result. The Metros have allowed just one run during their current three-game winning streak. Grady Weppler did a little bit of everything in the opener, tossing a complete-game two-hitter, striking out seven and walking ...

Nodak Speedway set to hand out hardware on Championship Night

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Seven weeks of racing – with a couple of rain outs sprinkled in – have all led up to one final night of racing as part of Nodak Speedway’s regular season in which five drivers will be crowned champions across five classes of feature car models at the Playground of Power. Nodak Speedway ...

Legion Baseball: Anderson smacks 2 homers in Vistas sweep of Jamestown

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A day after squandering a late lead en route to being on the wrong side of a walkoff, the Minot Vistas made sure to seal the deal against Jamestown Post 14. The Vistas scored the first five runs in the opener, including four in the first inning and never trailed, getting back in the win column with an 11-4 victory. Minot struck for two runs in the opening frame in the nightcap and held Jamestown to one hit for a 6-1 win to complete the sweep on Thursday, June 18. With the pair of victories, the Vistas return to .500 in conference play at 4-4. It was Minot’s first conference sweep ...

Legion Baseball: Vistas suffer first sweep of season with losses to Chiefs

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The Minot Vistas appeared poised to return to conference play on a positive note with six outs to go and nursing a five-run lead. But the Mandan Chiefs scored six unanswered runs across the final two innings and plated three runs in the bottom of the seventh to win in walk-off fashion, defeating the Vistas, 8-7, in Game 1 of a doubleheader on Wednesday, June 17, at Veteran’s Memorial Balllpark in Mandan. The Vistas couldn’t recover in the nightcap, scoring one run and committing four errors in a 7-1 loss, suffering their first series sweep of the season. Peyton Koppy delivered ...

Honeybees drop opener to Wausau

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It was a quick turnaround for the Minot Honeybees, as they weren’t afforded a travel day in between their series finale against La Crosse and their series opener against Wausau the following night. The 150-mile trip across Wisconsin cooled off Minot’s offense, as the Honeybees fell 10-2 ...