• WHAT WE LEARNED AT SATURDAY’S SCRIMMAGES

    SAVAGE, Minn. — No one kept score, but the Owatonna football team played like winners on Saturday morning at Dan Patch Stadium. It was simply that type of effort. “I was pleased with how our guys came to fight today,” said Owatonna head coach Jeff Williams. “It was very encouraging.” Encouraging, indeed. In three organized,

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  • HASTINGS @ OWATONNA

    HASTINGS @ OWATONNA

    SEPT. 1, 2023, FEDERATED FIELD, OWATONNA HIGH SCHOOL, 7 P.M.

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  • LOWER COMMITS TO EMERGING D-II POWER

    Following a busy offseason on the recruiting circuit, Owatonna incoming senior lineman, Grant Lower, verbally committed to Division II Bemidji State University earlier this week, making his announcement via Twitter on Tuesday. After logging the majority of his playing time with the B-Squad and taking the field sporadically for the varsity as a sophomore in

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  • DAZZLING ON THE DIAMOND

    Summer sports took center stage over the weekend, shining bright in a trio of do-or-die postseason events BASEBALL: OWATONNA VFW POST 3723 Despite an anticlimactic finish and strange final few hours of baseball, the Owatonna VFW team was all smiles on Sunday night. They already had their ticket, and now they finally had their title.

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  • TALENT, TRIBULATIONS AND THE PLIGHT OF A ROOKIE MANAGER

    THE CODY JOHNSON STORY THE FOLLOWING SPOTLIGHT FEATURE IS PROUDLY PRESENTED BY HAVANA HILLS GOLF, RANGE & EVENT CENTER LOCATED JUST 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN OWATONNA. The new owners are bringing back Havana Hills to its glory days and invite you to visit HavanaHillsGolf.com to check out what’s new with the area’s premier Par 3

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  • POWERFUL PERSPECTIVE

    POWERFUL PERSPECTIVE

    THE JACOB GINSKEY STORY Nearly eight months removed from the incident and Jacob Ginskey still doesn’t blame Logan Burger for his trip to the hospital that fateful evening last November in Rochester. He never has, and never will. Sure, it was a scary situation and Burger was ultimately ejected from the game, but Ginskey has

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  • BUILT IN OWATONNA, SHARPENED IN OMAHA

    The Owatonna VFW baseball team made its annual pilgrimage to Omaha, Nebraska for a mega four-day tournament coinciding with the College World Series. The on-field results were great, but more importantly, the squad reaffirmed what many inside the program already know: This group is stacked, if not downright special. OMAHA, Neb. — Last week’s annual

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  • WHAT A WHIRLWIND

    WHAT A WHIRLWIND

    Payton Beyer is a former three-sport star and future college football player. Today, he’s neither of those. And loving it. BY JON WEISBROD It takes a special type of high school athlete to get recruited by multiple football programs at the Division II level. So what type of athlete does it take to get recruited

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