The TCU Titan Football Team is getting a home playoff game after going 1-7 on the season. The Section 3AAA game will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. at the TCU High School Athletic Complex. The Titans, #4 seed, will face Sibley East, #5 seed.
Tri-City United lost its Wednesday, Oct. 16 contest against Norwood Young America (NYA) with a score of 6-18 in Norwood. The Titans’ only win on the season came against Sibley East on September 27 with a score of 14-0.

The Tri-City United boys’ soccer team finished their season with a game against Mayer Lutheran on Saturday. The Crusaders ran away with the 3-1 win.
The Titans started the game with a leg up on the competition when Chris Ruiz made the first goal, unassisted.
After back-and-forth action, Crusader Jake Benton tied up the game with 17 minutes left in the first 40-minute period.
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The time of 16 seconds was the difference between the first and second places of the varsity boys’ times at the New Prague Trojan Invitational on Tuesday, Sept. 24.
TCU’s Austin Antony won the boys’ race with his time of 17:05. On his heels was Jacob Malecha of New Prague, who finished 16 seconds later with a time of 17:21.
As a team, the Titans took third. Lakeville South won the meet, and New Prague came in second. The other runner for TCU who finished in the top ten included Hunter Rutt who finished in eighth place with a time of 17:51.

The TCU Volleyball Team went into Saturday’s tournament at Waterville-Elysian-Morristown High School on the heels of 3-0 losses to Southwest Christian and Jordan. Coach Renae Chappuis said her team started out slow and without energy.
However, the girls did one thing that has always been an obstacle: beat the mental block.
“The team was able to turn things around and start playing our game. This is exciting for this team as their one weakness has always been the mental games not the physical game,” Chappuis stated.

The New Market Muskies of the Dakota-Rice-Scott League fell short in their quest for a state title.
The team won two games during the final weekend ofthe State Class C tournament.They won handily over New London-Spicer 16-0 on Friday and claimed a 1-0 win over Red Wing Sunday morning, but then lost 7-5 to Hutchinson in the tournament semifinals.
The loss put an end to an exciting weekend for the Muskies, as they fell one game short of their quest for the championship game.
New Market’s Brett Herber was named to the all-tournament team.

Within their first week of the season, the Tri-City United Volleyball Team is already looking to surpass last year’s record.
The Titans have three wins under their belt after the first week of the season compared to last year’s dismal overall record of 4-22. The wins came in an invitational at Howard-Lake-Wavery-Winsted where the team won two of four matches, and a 3-1 win over St. Peter last Friday.
In their first home game, the Titans beat St. Peter 25-19, 25-22, and 25-18. St. Peter won the third game 25-23.
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Tri-City United Schools debuted one of its new sports last Tuesday when the girls’ soccer team took on Cannon Falls at the high school athletic complex.
The Titans took to the field under cloudy skies, with a cool temperature and rain in the second-half of the contest.
The inexperienced team didn’t net any goals during the game, that saw Cannon Falls finish with a 10-0 score. However, the Titans’ coach, Carey Langer, said the team did what they learned in practices.

The New Market Muskies of the Dakota-Rice-Scott League defeated Red Wing in the quarterfinals of the State Class C Amateur Baseball Tournament, but then lost to Hutchinson in the semifinals to end their season Sunday, Sept. 1.
In the first game, Tony Vocca pitched a complete game shutout, striking out eight as the Muskies defeated the Aces 1-0. Andy Henkemeyer drove in the Muskies' run in the first inning.

After two scoreless innings, the New Market Muskies exploded for 13 runs in the third inning of their third round game at the Minnesota Class C Baseball Tournament on their way to a 16-0 win over New London-Spicer Friday, Aug. 30.
The Muskies sent 18 men to the plate in the inning and had two home runs. Kyle Bergstrom led off the inning with a solo home run and Tony Vocca, who drove in a run with a double earlier in the inning, hit a three-run shot. Tyler Bergstrom added a tow-run homer later in the game.

After two scoreless innings, the New Market Muskies exploded for 13 runs in the third inning of their third round game at the Minnesota Class C Baseball Tournament on their way to a 16-0 win over New London-Spicer Friday, Aug. 30.
The Muskies sent 18 men to the plate in the inning and had two home runs. Kyle Bergstrom led off the inning with a solo home run and Tony Vocca, who drove in a run with a double earlier in the inning, hit a three-run shot. Tyler Bergstrom added a tow-run homer later in the game.

The New Market Muskies advanced to the third round of the Minnesota Class CBaseball Tournament with a 1-0 win over Luverne

One run was enough for the New Market Muskies as they defeated the Luverne Redbirds 1-0 in a second round game at the State Class C tournament in Maple Lake Sunday, Aug. 25.
Kyle Bergstrom got a leadoff single in the bottom of the eighth and Nick Rost sacrificed pinch runner Justin Firpo to second. Brett Herber connected with a base hit that scored Firpo just ahead of the throw to give the Muskies a 1-0 lead.
Tony Vocca pitched seven shutout innings for New Market. Matt Lane,draftee from Faribault, pitched the final two innings and got the win.

The Prior Lake Mudcats were the only one of three Dakota-Rice-Scott League teams to win their first-round game at the Minnesota Class C Amateur Baseball Tournament over opening weekend.
The Mudcats claimed a 4-1 win over Foley to advance to the tournament’s second round.
Meanwhile, St. Patrick’s bats were silenced in a 4-0 loss to Cold Spring and St. Benedict lost a heart-breaker on a walk-off home run in a 3-2 loss to Waterville.

The St. Patrick Irish dropped its first round game at the Minnesota Amateur Baseball Class C Tournament, losing 4-0 to the Cold Spring Rockies Friday, Aug. 16, at Delano.
St. Patrick managed just two hits, by Matt Ambroz and Seth Ambroz, and couldn’t put anything together against Cold Spring’s Ryan Hennen. Hennen struck out 10 and hit one batter. Another batter reached on an error.
The Irish had their best opportunity in the bottom of the fourth, with runners on first and second and one out. However a strike out and a runner caught stealing third ended the threat.

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.