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    June 25, 2019
    Alexandria first baseman Kade Loge applies a late tag on an attempted pick-off play during Post 87's game against the Moorhead Blues on Tuesday night at Knute Nelson Memorial Ballpark. (Eric Morken / Echo Press)
    Baseball: Post 87 lacking energy as Moorhead sweeps a doubleheader
    The Alexandria Post 87 baseball team hopes to be a factor in the district come tournament time, but a district foe made an early-summer statement...
    sports/baseball17 hours 8 min ago
    Tristan Angen (left) and Ethan Goodwin help stock brown trout into the Spruce Creek at Spruce Hill County Park near Miltona Saturday. Volunteers used buckets to transport about 3,000 brown trout from a truck to the creek. Some rainbow trout were also stocked in that location earlier this spring. (Lowell Anderson / Echo Press)
    Giving trout a try: Outdoor groups fund trout stocking project in Douglas County
    Douglas County is home to popular fisheries where anglers can target an abundance of bass, walleyes, northern pike and panfish. The area is known...
    sports/outdoors22 hours 10 min ago
    Baseball: Alex Junior Legion Reds 10-5 after Bemidji split
    The Alexandria Reds Junior Legion baseball team is off to a 10-5 start to its summer with a lot of games in a short amount of time already. The Junior Reds’ latest action came in a doubleheader against Bemidji on Monday that saw the two teams split. Alexandria won the nightcap...
    sports/baseballJune 25, 2019 - 1:03pm
    Sports schedule for Tuesday, June 25
    LEGION BASEBALL Alexandria vs. Moorhead (DH), 5 p.m.
    sportsJune 25, 2019 - 10:52am
    Gabriele (Anderson) Grunewald competes during the women's 5000 meters at the 2016 U.S. Olympic track and field team trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Grunewald died on Tuesday, June 11, after a decade-long battle with cancer. Kirby Lee / USA TODAY Sports
    Gov. Walz to honor runner Grunewald during memorial run
    ST. PAUL — Gov. Tim Walz will present a proclamation declaring Tuesday, June 25, as "Gabe Day" at a memorial run in honor of 2004 Perham (Minn.)...
    sports/track-and-fieldJune 25, 2019 - 9:46am
    June 24, 2019
    Sports schedule for Monday, June 24
    LEGION BASEBALL Osakis at Glenwood, 6:30 p.m. Alexandria Junior Legion Red vs. Bemidji (DH), 4 p.m.
    sportsJune 24, 2019 - 11:33am
    June 23, 2019
    Isaac Peterson (top) makes a leaping throw to first over the head of Kade Blankenship during Alexandria's 6-1 win over Ham Lake on Sunday morning in the final game of the Alexandria legion baseball tournament. (Jared Rubado / Echo Press)
    Baseball: Post 87 finishes home tournament on a high note
    Alexandria Legion baseball catcher Riley Simonson assisted on the final out in his second consecutive game behind the plate. With a Ham Lake...
    sports/baseballJune 23, 2019 - 8:20pm
    Alexandria's Shaun Peterson and his daughter, 3.5-year-old Hadley Rae, are all smiles after Peterson won the 15-lap Modified feature to wrap up the races at the Viking Speedway on June 22. (Eric Morken / Echo Press)play button
    Viking Speedway: Alex drivers see plenty of success after long delay
    Mother Nature has wreaked havoc on the races at the Viking Speedway so far this season, and things did not look good again on Saturday night....
    sports/motorsportsJune 23, 2019 - 10:38am
    June 22, 2019
    Starting pitcher Matthew Carlsen throws from the windup in the rain during Alexandria's 1-0 win over Sartell on Saturday night in the Alexandria Legion baseball tournament. (Jared Rubado / Echo Press)
    Baseball: Carlsen's shutout lifts Alexandria over Sartell
    At the start of the Alexandria Legion baseball season, Matthew Carlsen wasn't in the dugout. The quarterback of the Alexandria Area High School...
    sports/baseballJune 22, 2019 - 9:46pm
    A pelican soars over the St. Louis River Valley. The largest white pelicans can have wingspans of 10 feet, an overall length of more than 60 inches, and weigh more than 20 pounds. Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com
    Western Minnesota pelicans slowly rebounding
    MARSH LAKE, Minn. — White pelicans nesting on Marsh Lake in the Upper Minnesota River watershed appear to be rebounding from a decline in numbers...
    sports/outdoorsJune 22, 2019 - 12:10pm
    June 21, 2019
    Shortstop Andrew Revering catches the throw from catcher Josh Wegner at second base during Alexandria's 2-1 loss to Elk River on Friday night. (Jared Rubado / Echo Press)
    Baseball: Alexandria's offensive slump continues in loss to Elk River
    Alexandria Legion baseball head coach Jake Munsch had a long talk with his team following the 2-1 loss to Elk River in the opening game of the...
    sports/baseballJune 21, 2019 - 11:55pm
    Alexandria's Erik Knight shoots at the championship in Alexandria on June 16. Knight led Alexandria in the team competition at the state tournament in Prior Lake on June 21 by busting 99 out of 100 clays. (Eric Morken / Echo Press)
    Trap shooting: Alexandria wraps up its season second at state
    The Alexandria trap shooting team went to the state tournament at the Minneapolis Gun Club on June 21 hoping to win a state title. It came close,...
    sports/outdoorsJune 21, 2019 - 4:26pm
    Jim Lehman wins MGA Senior Players' Championship
    With his win last fall at the Minnesota Golf Association Senior Amateur Championship, Jim Lehman became only the third player since 1922 to claim...
    sports/golfJune 21, 2019 - 4:23pm
    Seth Moore, director of biology and environment at the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, attaches a transmitter to a moose. Ron Moen photo
    Researchers tackle brainworm epidemic in northern Minnesota moose population
    ST. PAUL — Funding from the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund will enable researchers from the University of Minnesota,...
    sports/outdoorsJune 21, 2019 - 11:45am
    June 20, 2019
    Team members of the Alexandria fourth-grade girls basketball team that took third at the Great-Five State Tournament are (back, left to right) Abby Evink, Lylah Radach, McKinley Hoelscher, Malia Sayre, (front) Gretta Kelly, Erin Cross, Avery Ketelsen and Kierra Ostendorf. (Submitted photo)
    Basketball: Alex youth teams finish top three at Pacesetter Great-Five State
    The two Alexandria youth basketball teams that qualified for the Pacesetter Great-Five State Tournament on June 15 came back from the metro area...
    sports/basketballJune 20, 2019 - 5:00pm
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