Pipestone County Star

ALBERTVILLE — The Southwest Minnesota Christian/Edgerton 4x400-meter relay quartet was motivated. Highly motivated. The group had waited nearly a full calendar year to erase the painful memories of being disqualified during the 2025 Minnesota State High School League Class A state meet. This time, a more experienced foursome earned second place in the 4x400 finals in a scintillating new school-rec...

ALBERTVILLE — Pipestone Area Schools senior sprinter Aurora Winsel capped her stellar scholastic career with two more runs. However, Winsel was unable to reach the finals in either the 200-meter dash or 400 run during the Minnesota State High School League Class A state meet at St. Michael-Albertville High School on Thursday, June 4. “I was extremely happy to compete again at state,” Winsel said i...

INFORMATION SOFTBALL Minnesota State Tournament At Caswell Park, North Mankato Championship Games At Jane Sage Cowles Stadium University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Class A Tuesday, June 2 First-Round Games  United South Central 10, Sebeka 0 (5) Bird Island-Olivia-Lake Lillian (BOLD) 4, Southland 1 Red Lake Falls 5, New York Mills 0 West Lutheran 3, Barnum 2 Wednesday, June 3 Semifinals United South...

With more success comes more awards. That’s what the Pipestone Area Schools’ softball team learned during its season-ending awards program on Sunday, May 31, in “The Commons.” PAS junior pitcher Kaysa Douty was named to the Class AA Minnesota Fastpitch Coaches Association (MFCA) second team. Douty also earned most valuable player honors as voted on by her teammates. “We gave the ball to her,” PAS...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — Two Elkton-Lake Benton girls placed among the top-40 at the South Dakota High School Activities Association Class B state tournament. Contested over two days Monday-Tuesday, June 1-2, Evie Foss turned in a two-day total of 181. Foss finished in a tie for 32nd with Lita Fryer from Estelline-Hendricks, Warner’s Ellis Johnson and Halle Schulz from Howard. Evie recorded 11 pars and 1...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — Pipestone Area Schools’ graduate Brooklyn Goelz competed for the South Dakota State University rodeo team during the 2025-26 season. Goelz specialty was breakaway roping, competing on her “handsome boy” Hashbrown. Breakaway roping is a fast-paced, timed rodeo event where a mounted rider attempts to rope a calf around the animal’s neck. The rider doesn’t dismount to tie the calf....

The Pipestone Area Schools shooting sports program conducted an awards program at Pizza Ranch on Tuesday, May 19. The team will compete in the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League Championships on Monday, June 15 in Alexandria. Here are the award winners. Torin Schroyer was named Best Shot. Keely Burke earned the most valuable shooter honor. Jonah Basche was tabbed as the most improved s...

TYLER — The Tyler Golf Club will present its annual couples invitational tournament on Sunday, June 14. Registration will begin at noon, followed by a 1 p.m. shotgun start. The cost is 0 per couple for members and 0 non-members; a cart is not included in the price. That cost, however, features golf, one Mulligan per player, dinner and assorted prizes. Tyler Golf Club is located at 420 County Road...

Participation numbers continue to grow for the Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau golf tournament. Chamber executive director Erica Volkir reported 26 teams vied for the 20th annual championship on Thursday, June 4 at Pipestone Country Club. “That’s 104 golfers,” Volkir said in a press release. “It’s the largest number of golfers to date.” The tournament featured a scramble for...

This weekend, the region will celebrate the life and times of Joseph Douty with the third annual #LiveLikeJoe Memorial Golf Tournament. The event will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, June 13 at the Pipestone Country Club. There will be two 9-hole rounds with 18 teams per session. The first round will begin at 9 a.m. with a shotgun start. The second round starts at 2 p.m. The scramble-formatted tournamen...

Pipestone City Council members during their June 1 meeting voted not to extend a land lease and solar easement as requested by New Energy Equity LLC. The company had originally entered into a lease with the city in 2021 and planned to build a 1-megawatt solar garden on about 8.5 acres of city-owned land east of the city’s water treatment plant north of Pipestone. In 2024 the City Council approved...

Pipestone City Council members during their June 1 meeting voted not to extend a land lease and solar easement as requested by New Energy Equity LLC. The company had originally entered into a lease with the city in 2021 and planned to build a 1-megawatt solar garden on about 8.5 acres of city-owned land east of the city’s water treatment plant north of Pipestone. In 2024 the City Council approved...

The Pipestone Area Schools’ boys tennis team conducted its season-ending awards program on Wednesday, May 27 at Pizza Ranch in Pipestone. Arrow head coach James Skyberg reported Brady Dunn was named the most valuable player. Mathew Swenson earned the prestigious most valuable teammate honor. Joel Cardenas was named most improved player. Mikah Weets was tabbed as Mr. Hustle. In addition, Dunn was n...

MARSHALL — Jackson County Central senior Mady Wachal tossed 16 strikeouts in eliminating Pipestone Area Schools during the Section 3AA championship game. “Mady was effective,” PAS head coach Robert Petersen said. “She was able to get us to swing on pitches outside the strike zone. We couldn’t lay off them. Good pitching defeated good hitting.” Despite the loss, PAS returned to the section title ro...

MILROY — The Adrian-Ellsworth baseball team proved to be Russell-Tyler-Ruthton’s kryptonite all season long. And the Dragons earned their fourth win of the season over the Knights, 5-3, in the Section 3A Tournament elimination bracket semifinals on a cool, cloudy Saturday, May 30 at Irish Yard. With the exception of the Section 3A South subsection contest between A-E and RTR on May 23, an 8-0 Drag...

LUVERNE — The Pipestone Area Schools’ baseball team saw its season come to an end with a Section 3AA South subsection loss to rival Luverne. “They are a good program,” PAS head coach Rick Zollner said. “They take baseball seriously, and play a lot of games.” The Cardinals were simply better in the three major categories: offense, fielding and pitching. PAS finished the season with a 7-14 record. T...

WORTHINGTON — Russell-Tyler-Ruthton senior Teigyn O’Leary qualified for the Minnesota State High School League Class A state tournament a fourth time. That was by virtue of her finish at the Section 3A tournament on Wednesday, May 27, at GreatLIFE Golf & Fitness Club. O’Leary carded a 30-over par 172 in this 36-hole tournament spread over two days, with the earlier round on May 20. She tied Ca...

MARSHALL — Bird Island-Olivia-Lake Lillian pitcher Kaitlyn Flann threw a complete-game four-hitter to eliminate Edgerton/Southwest Minnesota Christian during a Section 3A elimination game on Tuesday, May 26. Flann struck out 10 and allowed just one walk in 93 pitches, 69 of them for strikes (74.2 percent efficiency). Cara Ruiter went 2-of-2, Cali Wagner doubled, Kaya Voge singled and Liana Bloemen...

The Pipestone City Council during its June 1 meeting tabled the lone bid of 8,000 to repair the east wall of the former Carnegie Library building in order to obtain more information about another potential funding option. The bid included an alternate involving the use of salvaged stone from the city’s stock pile that would deduct ,000 and another alternate involving the use of a manufactured ston...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Five Elkton-Lake Benton athletes earned podium finishes at the South Dakota High School Activities Association Class A state meet. The drama unfolded at Howard Wood Field, with recent ELB graduate Taiton Boersma grabbing silver in the discus with a mark of 167-feet even. Boersma also was sixth in the shot put, marking at 50-4.75. ELB head coach Mark Harming said Boersma is cons...

Pipestone Area Schools’ senior track and field athlete Aurora Winsel has enjoyed a storybook career. Winsel will add one final chapter this week at the Minnesota State High School League Class A state meet. That’s because Winsel earned gold in the 400-meter run, her signature event, with a time of 1:00.10, which also happens to be a season-best performance. “I’m extremely happy and grateful to be...

Several years ago, the Pipestone A’s approached Pepsi Bottling Company President/General Manager Tim Haubrich about sponsoring a local amateur baseball tournament. A partnership was formed. The Sixth Annual Pepsi Invitational is set for Friday, June 5, and the A’s will play the opening game versus the Volga (S.D.) Cormorants at Westview Park. “We’re big on sports and everything Pipestone,” Haubric...

When it came to the “Windy Cities,” Chicago sound of the ‘60s, no single group quite defined the sound as well as Chi-Town’s New Colony Six. This sextet, along with the Buckinghams, Cryan’ Shames, Shadows of Knight, American Breed, Chase and the Ides of March jointly defined Chicago ‘60s rock and roll. The New Colony Six were a recording and hit making machine. In total they recorded for such labe...

The long-awaited sunshine and summer months are here. Kids are at home with new routines, or you could argue no routine at all. If you have followed my column long enough you know that we like routines in my house. With four kids in the house, and a 10-year age difference between the oldest and the youngest, the activities that fill the calendar vary greatly. Weightlifting, softball games in the J...

The Pipestone Economic Development Authority (EDA) during its June 1 meeting approved a childcare incubator application from Rhonda Van De Brake, allowing her to use the former Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran Church as a daycare for 0 a month for the first six months. EDA members also approved a childcare development forgivable loan for Van De Brake that she plans to use for daycare equipment,...