Pipestone County Star

Dahl Motors conducted its third annual car show at the “dealership of the crossroads” at United States Highway 75 and State Highways 23 and 30 in Pipestone. Owner/CEO Scott Dahl reported 51 entries for the three-hour event. The overall winner was this 1961 Chevrolet Corvette Retromod owned by Jim and Janet Voges of rural Slayton. A retromod is a classic vehicle restored to preserve a vintage look,...

INFORMATION SOFTBALL Minn-Dakota Slowpitch Standings Through July 15 Team             Record Lake Benton Bar 14-0 Anacondas 10-2 Lake Benton Bar II   8-2 Sluggers                   5-7 D&T’s Meat Market 5-9 Alcobolics 4-10 The Starfish             3-5 Staci’s Bar                 3-9 Dirty Dairymen       2-10 Schedule  Tuesday, July 21 Open league bye week. Several make-up games will be played....

Soon-to-be Pipestone Area Schools’ freshman Oliver Sterud will participate in the Prep Baseball Showcase later this week. “It’s going to be really cool to see good competition down there,” said Sterud, an all-Big South Conference first-team selection during the 2026 season as pitcher/outfielder for the Arrows. “I’m going to play against the best of the best.” Oliver’s younger brother, Elliott Ster...

Both the Pipestone A’s and Elkton Snappers head to the postseason this week. After the completion of Sunday’s Gopher League and First Nite League games, Pipestone finished as the 10th seed with a Region 10C record of 3-11. Since Lakefield nipped Pipestone, 5-4, on Sunday, June 14, the Frogs earned the No. 9 seed despite a 3-12 mark. The top five seeds have earned a bye into the Region 10C tourname...

Pipestone Area Youth Tackle Football sign-up is set for both Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 3-4. The site will be the Pipestone Area Schools’ elementary commons area. Equipment also will be issued on these nights. The fourth-grade sign-up session will be a 6 p.m. Aug. 3, with the fifth- and sixth-grade session at 6 p.m. Aug. 4. A 0 fee is due at the time of registration. Scholarships are available from...

Editor’s Note: This summer, the sports editor will be writing a six-week series on pickleball throughout the region. — BROOKINGS, S.D. — This past Sunday night, a casual drive on United States Highway 14 told the tale. Pickleball continues growing in Brookings, the fourth-most populous city in South Dakota. Four of the eight courts installed in Hillcrest Park were in use. “Honestly, it’s indescrib...

LUVERNE — Tens of regional high school basketball teams participated in the Southwest Minnesota Shootout on Wednesday and Thursday, July 15-16. Both the Pipestone Area Schools boys and girls were among them. “It’s a great event,” said PAS head girls coach Grant Everson, who highlighted the convenience of having a showcase just 25 miles from here. The Arrows squared off with Rapid City Christian fr...

The Pipestone County Star was present for the Southwest Minnesota Shootout basketball showcase. This event took place over two days on Wednesday-Thursday, July 15-16. Luverne High School served as the site, with four courts going at once. Ninety-six varsity and junior varsity teams participated. Due to a camera issue, some photos may appear washed.  Star sports editor Eric Viccaro took all the pho...

MOORHEAD — Talented Southwest Minnesota Christian/Edgerton runner Hannah Masselink will continue competing on the collegiate level. This past spring, Masselink announced her plans to join both the cross country and track and field programs at Concordia Moorhead. “I loved the atmosphere of the teams,” Masselink said in an email to the Pipestone County Star. “Everyone was so inviting, and genuinely...

TYLER — The yearly tradition known as Æbleskiver Days will begin on Friday, July 24 with several events. However, the signature æbleskiver bake-off originally set for Thursday, July 23, in the Lincoln County 4-H Building has been canceled. “We just didn’t get enough contestants to carry on with our plans,” said festival organizers on the Æbleskiver Days’ Facebook page. This year’s grand parade the...

Pipestone Country Club conducted its first-ever youth tournament on Thursday, July 16, at the facility. Golfers were treated to warm, sun-splashed conditions. A reported 40 golfers participated in the tournament, which featured various age divisions from 5-6 year-olds. The age limit for a player was 17 years old. Youth ages 9-10 years old played five holes. Contestants in the 7-8 division played t...

The Pipestone County Museum has two interns this year. Olyvia Weber returned for a second year and it’s the first year for Julia Berkenpas. Berkenpas is a 15-year-old 10th grader at Pipestone Area Schools (PAS). She’s the daughter of Brandon and Nellie Berkenpas. Berkenpas said she was interested in the internship because she likes social studies and she thought it would be a good opportunity to l...

Lincoln Pipestone Rural Water (LPRW) increased its net position by 5,813 in 2025. That’s according to the audit report presented by LPRW General Manager Jason Overby during the July 14 Pipestone County Commissioner meeting. Total revenue for the year was ,454,778. Of that ,230,973, which is about 69%, was from charges for services. Another ,481,934, which is about 24%, was from capital grants and...

Pipestone County Commissioners during their July 14 meeting approved an agreement whereby the county would share its highway engineer with Murray County. If approved by the Murray County Commissioners, the agreement would be in effect until Dec. 31. Highway Engineer Nick Bergman said Murray County asked if Pipestone County would share his services on a temporary basis until it can fill the positio...

Pipestone Area Schools (PAS) students have had several opportunities to travel this summer. French students went to France, Spanish students went to Spain, members of the Pipestone Area Marching Arrows went to Chicago, and a group of high school students went to New York. Below is a brief summary of each of those trips. Spain Seventeen students and three adults took a trip to Spain from June 10 to...

Pipestone County Commissioners are considering added funding for Southwest Health and Human Services (SWHHS), which serves Pipestone, Lincoln, Lyon, Redwood, Murray and Rock, in response to a variety of financial challenges facing the agency beginning in 2027. SWHHS Director Stacey Timm told the commissioners during their July 14 meeting that the federal government reduced the amount of funding it...

The first ever Holland Days is planned for Friday, July 24 and Saturday, July 25. Many communities in the area have summer celebrations and Nicole Buffington, speaking on behalf of the Holland Days Committee, said a group of community members decided Holland should too. Darbi Kor, owner of Kor’s Korner Pub in Holland, was planning to have a street dance and the Holland Days Committee, which includ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Soon-to-be Elkton-Lake Benton sophomore Quinn Slegers can call herself an All-American. This was based on her performance at the Amateur Athletic Union girls volleyball national championships at the Orange County Convention Center on Wednesday, July 1. Slegers was a member of the Avera Health Kairos 15 White squad. She was the team’s primary libero. “My goal this year for club was...

FARGO, N.D. — Pipestone Area Schools’ soon-to-be junior wrestler Miklo Hernandez is once again an All-American. Hernandez finished sixth overall — with a field of more than 100 wrestlers — in the junior freestyle 132-pound weight class bracket at the U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals. “I think Miklo performed well,” PAS head wrestling coach Paul Young said. “He was finding his shots, and his go-b...

INFORMATION CALENDAR  Wednesday, July 22 Amateur Baseball TBD, Pipestone A’s at Gopher League Tournament Thursday, July 23 Festival  7 p.m., Æbleskiver Days (bake-off, 4-H building, Lincoln County Fairgrounds) Friday, July 24 Amateur Baseball TBD, Pipestone A’s at Gopher League Tournament Festival  9 a.m., Æbleskiver Days (golf tournament, picnic, chalk the walk, pool party) 5 p.m., Holland Days (...

WORTHINGTON — The Pipestone Athletics and Worthington Cubs were locked in a pitcher’s dual Sunday, July 12 in Gopher League action. Unfortunately for Pipestone, the team found itself on the business end of a 1-0 loss at Trojan Field. As A’s coach Avery Ploeger explained, the only run that scored was unearned. “Mark (Abrahamson) had 11 strikeouts and Matt (Geister) pitched phenomenally,” Ploeger sa...

INFORMATION RED ROCK CONFERENCE All-Conference Teams ACADEMICS Baseball Landon Koehne, Adrian/Ellsworth; Cameron Brunck, Heron Lake-Okabena-Fulda; Carter Hanson, Murray County Central; Teague Meyer, MCC; Cayden Veldhuisen, MCC; Carter Therkilsen, Red Rock Central/Westbrook-Walnut Grove  Golf Ellie Freking, Heron Lake-Okabena-Fulda/Westbrook-Walnut Grove; Neil Kuehl, HLOF/WWG; Dominic Lee, HLOF/WWG...

LAMBERTON — The Edgerton/Southwest Minnesota Christian softball program tied Adrian-Ellsworth atop the Red Rock Conference. Both the Dragons and Flying Dutchmen posted 10-2 records. Meanwhile in baseball, Russell-Tyler-Ruthton finished second in the Red Rock Conference during the 2026 season. Thanks to those high placements, both E/SWC softball and RTR baseball received a slew of conference accola...

The Pipestone County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) Board of Supervisors during its July 9 meeting approved eight grant contracts totaling 1,730 to help Pipestone County farmers purchase soil health equipment. It was the first time the SWCD has offered such grants. SWCD Board members voted during their April meeting to offer the grants using 0,000 in project fund dollars from the stat...

JASPER — There will be plenty of sports-related events during Quartziter Days set for this weekend. There will be a classic car cruise-in and show from 5-8 p.m. Friday, July 17. The show is sponsored by Reclaim Community. There will be a sand volleyball tournament in City Park beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 18. The festival also will feature both children’s and adult bale tosses, and turtle r...