New Ulm Sports Central - Preserving and Sharing New Ulm Area Sports History

WILLMAR- New Ulm scored three runs in top of second and two in the third to take 5-2 lead over Sobieski in today's state tournament game at Willmar.

Charlie (Bo) Paradowski was still a teen-ager when he rode the train from Texas to Chicago and then the Chicago and Northwestern "400" to New Ulm for the baseball season in 1955.

The MSMABA has announced their 2010 state tournament seedings and first round pairings with the seventh seeded Searles Bullheads taking on the Perham Silver Pirates at 7 p.m.

UNION HILL - The Searles Bullheads defeated the Union Hill Pitbulls 3-2 Tuesday evening in a non-league 35+ game. 

ESSIG - Despite that there were five teams in the 12-team Tomahawk League East with better win totals than Essig, the Bluejays celebrated a Region 2C championship here Sunday by mounting a 9-4 rout o

Essig and New Ulm Brewers play at Essig at 2 p.m.

By virtue of a pair of unearned runs in the ninth inning, New Ulm's Brewers squeaked past Searles 8-6 and now join Essig in play at the state amateur baseball tournament.

Playoff baseball in recent years has for the most part been about position seeding and drafting rights. But tonight at Johnson Park its for the marbles.

SEARLES - The Searles Bullheads defeated the Veseli Vulcans Sunday 7-3 to secure second place behind St. Peter in the River Valley League's Southern Division.

BELLE PLAINE - Pitchers Dave Fauth and Kevin Hulke were on their game and the Bullhead's bats came alive as Searles defeated Belle Plaine 15-1 in A final MSMABA River Valley League contest.