New Market earned the Region 3C Championship and a first-round bye at the State Class C Baseball tournament with a 3-1 win over Prior Lake Friday, Aug. 9. The tournament begins Friday, Aug. 16, at Delano, Maple Lake and Dassel.
The Muskies earned the bye for the second straight season. They will begin their quest for a state championship Sunday, Aug. 25, at 4:30 p.m. at Maple Lake, playing either Carver or Luverne.

Brackets were released Sunday evening for the State Class C Baseball Baseball Tournament, which begins Friday, Aug. 16, at Maple Lake and Delano.
Three of the four Dakota-Rice-Scott/Region 3C qualifiers, St. Patrick, St. Benedict and Prior Lake, will be in action this weekend with the fourth, New Market, getting a bye into the second round.
St. Patrick will open the tournament in Delano on Friday. The No. 2 seed from Region 3C will face Cold Spring, the fourth seed from Region 11C, at 7:30 p.m.

Riley Ahern pitched six shutout innings and Andy Henkemeyer had an RBI double int he first inning to lead New Market to a 3-1 win over St. Patrick to claim the Region 3C Championship Friday in Veseli. Phillip Garcia was the losing pitcher, but allowed only three hits and two runs in his stint. St. Patrick's lone run came on a solo home run by Seth Ambroz in the eighth inning. New Market, as region champion, draws a first round bye in the State Class C Tournament. St. Patrick, St.

New Market, St. Patrick, St. Benedict and Prior Lake have qualified for the State Class C Amateur Baseball Tournament, which begins Friday, Aug. 16, in Delano, Maple Lake and Dassel.
New Market was the first team to earn its spot in the tourney with a 17-0 win over Faribault Tuesday, July 30. The next night, St. Patrick defeated Prior Lake 8-2. St. Benedict and Prior Lake qualified with wins on Friday in the loser’s bracket of the double-elimination tournament.

St. Benedict and New Market won their Region 3C playoff games Sunday, Aug. 4. St. Benedict’s win means Prior Lake will be the No. 4 seed from the region at the State Class C Baseball Tournament. St. Benedict will host St. Patrick on Wednesday, Aug. 7, at a site to be announced, in a loser’s bracket game, with the loser becoming the No. 3 seed.
Saints 17, Mudcats 4

New Prague High School will induct four people into its Athletic Hall of Fame.
Eric Dorzinski (football, hockey, baseball), Amanda Haeg (volleyball, basketball, track), Kacy Ambroz (hockey, softball) and Ron Gunderson (girls basketball coach) will be inducted during halftime of the New Prague-Mankato West football game on Friday, Sept. 20. A social hour will begin at 5:15 p.m. in the high school commons and a program will be held at 6 p.m. They will receive their plaques and be recognized at halftime of the football game.

The Prior Lake Mudcats and St. Benedict Saints earned the final two berths into the state tournament from Region 3C with wins on Friday evening.
Prior Lake’s Ben Morrison struck out nine and allowed just four hits in a 7-0 shutout over Lonsdale. Luke Weber, Cole Bjorge and Jake Lehrer each had two this for the Mudcats. Tyler Milford started for Lonsdale and took the loss.

Nick Spitt pitched six shutout innings and Matt Ambroz went 3-for-4 with a home run and a double to lead St. Patrick to an 8-2 win over Prior Lake Wednesday, July 31, in Veseli. With the win, St. Patrick joins New Market as two of four Region 3C representatives at the State Class C Tournament, which begins Aug. 16.
Meanwhile in Montgomery, the Lonsdale Aces scored two runs in the eighth inning to claim a 10-8 win in a back-and-forth game. The loss eliminated Montgomery from the tournament.

New Market became the first Dakota-Rice-Scott baseball team to qualify for the State Class C Tournament, which begins Friday, Aug. 16, in Delano, Maple Lake and Dassel.
The Muskies defeated Faribault 17-0 in a winner’s bracket game in the Region 3C Tournament Tuesday, July 30. Tyler Bergstrom had a grand slam and Tony Vocca pitched six shutout innings for New Market. The game was played in Veseli.

Prior Lake, New Market and St. Patrick won their first round games in the Region 3C Playoffs Sunday, July 28. A fourth game, Montgomery at Faribault, was postponed due to rain and will be played at 8 p.m. Monday, July 29, in Faribault.
Sunday’s results:
Mudcats 3, Orioles 1

After being rained out on Sunday, Faribault's Matt Lane and Montgomery's Johnny Krocak squared off in a pitcher's duel Monday, with both taking a no-hitter into the fifth inning. The Lakers' Mitch Johnson got the game's first hit in the bottom of the fifth with a leadoff double and he eventually scored on a sacrifice fly by Mike Carpentier for the game's only run as Faribault defeated Montgomery 1-0. The Mallards got their first hit in the sixth on a bunt single by Aaron Dwyer.

St. Benedict and Lonsdale botb claimed wins on Friday, July 26, to win their DRS Baseball best-of-three series 2 games to 1 and advance to the Region 3C playoffs, which begin Sunday, July 28.
St. Benedict’s Nick Heitkamp drove in two runs with a double in the bottom of the ninth to give the Saints a 4-3 win over Union Hill.
Lonsdale defeated Veseli 8-5 to claim their spot in the region tournament.
The eight-team double-elimination Region 3C playoffs begin Sunday with the following match-ups scheduled.
Lonsdale at No. 1 seed New Market, 1 p.m.

The New Prague Post 45 American Legion baseball team couldn’t hold on to a 5-2 lead and lost to St. Paul Park 7-6 in the Sub-State Tournament Friday, July 26, ending their season with a 10-7 record.
New Prague parlayed a leadoff single and a double by Nate Picka, along with two errors, into a pair of runs in the first inning, and scored once in the second and twice in the third, again with the aid of errors.

Prior Lake and Montgomery won spots in the Region 3C playoffs with two-game sweeps in their best-of-three DRS playoff series, while two other series are headed to a game 3 Friday, July 26.
The Prior Lake Mudcats defeated Webster 9-3 Thursday in Elko to win their series 2-0. Cole Bjorge and Lucas Pumper both homered for the Mudcats.
Montgomery traveled to Shakopee and claimed a 7-0 win. Rob Marshall had six strikeout and allowed three hits for the complete game win, Mike Flicek had four hits and Eric Iverson had a two-run home run.

Angel Cortes hit a two-run single in the sixth inning to give New Prague Post 45 a 6-5 win over Rosemount in the Sub-State American Legion baseball tournament Thursday, July 25. Rosemount had jumped to a 5-1 lead, but New Prague chipped away at the lead before getting the winning run in the sixth. Nate Picka pitched 5-1/3 innings of scoreless relief to get the win.
New Prague is now 1-1 in the double-elimination tournament. They will face St. Paul Park at 3:30 p.m. Friday, July 26, at Alimagnet Park in Burnsville. If they win, they play at noon on Saturday, July 27

New Market, St. Patrick, New Prague and Faribault earned the top four seeds for the Region 3C playoffs and byes into the tournament, as the Dakota-Rice-Scott League finished play Sunday, July 21.
New Market and St. Patrick had already clinched the top two spots. The Irish defeated the Muskies at St. Patrick on Sunday. New Prague defeated both Prior Lake and Shakopee on the season’s final day, giving the Orioles a 14-9 season record to clinch the third spot.