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Sleepy Eye’s co-op trap team between Sleepy Eye Public and St.

A season of high hopes for the town’s two baseball teams ended abruptly in the Section 2A playoffs last week, with both the Knights and Indians upset by lower-seeded teams on their way out of the playoffs.The Knights, seeded second in the tournament, lost 8-3 to No.

The Sleepy Eye United girls golf team won the Section 2A championship for the third year in a row this week, led by individual champion Sam Price.Price, a sophomore, also took first in the section meet last year.

Twilight approaches at Sleepy Eye Ballpark as St.

What a difference a little extra motivation makes.For the River Valley girls’ 4x400m team, the difference was five seconds under its previous season best, for a 4:06 on Saturday at the Section 2A meet in Mankato, putting the Wildcats within half a second of the fastest time this year in all of Class A.The motivation: finally getting pushed by another team, said coach Heidi McCone, in the form of Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton, which took second in just under 4:11.For Evan Thompson, the difference was about two-and-a-half feet, the distance by which he exceeded his personal record in the shot put to advance to the state meet.His motivation: getting upset, when he thought he had no chance to advance, Thompson said.

60 years ago - June 9, 1964Bob Ibberson won the senior Del Monte golf tournament and Jim Kruzich won the junior Del Monte event at the Sleepy Eye course Sunday.

Neither the Knights nor the Indians had much trouble in their opening playoff match-ups last week.