Category Archives: Sports

Track excels at state meet

Five events claim medals; Schaap earns 3 By Brian Tschetter – The Minnesota State Class A Track & Field Meet took place on Friday, June 18, at the St. Michael – Albertville High School Complex. SWC / E had 10

Trap Teams Compete At State

By Jill Fennema – Picture in your mind an open grassy field. A light breeze blows. The sun shines down on a large gathering of people. The air is filled with sounds of firing ammunition and burning gunpowder. No, you

DUTCHMEN SOFTBALL FINISHED – TAKES THIRD

Writeup of Wednesday’s game by Mike Drooger:   It wasn’t a disappointing effort vs. the Randolph Rockets, but it was a disappointing result when Edgerton/SW MN Christian lost 5-0, which forced them into the 3rd/4th place game on Wednesday, June

The End of an Era

Pictured:  The Nerem family (from left): Emily, Joel, Denise, Maren, and Hannah. By Skip Hunter – When the final horn of the final Southwest Minnesota Christian girls basketball game of the 2020-21 season sounded, it signaled not only the end

Girls Track Takes 2nd at True Meet

By Brian Tschetter – The Southwest Christian/Edgerton girls’ track team traveled to Park Rapids, Minn., to compete in the Minnesota State True Team Live Meet on Friday, May 28. It was a whirlwind of a week for the team. They

SWC/E Girls Section True Team Champs, Boys Runner-up

Girls Now in State Meet The True Team track meets were not run like a normal meet this year due to Covid, but the concept remained the same – find the best team in each section and crown them champion.

Track Sweeps At Mountain Lake

Both boys and girls win team titles, again. By Brian Tschetter – On Friday, May 7, the Southwest Christian/Edgerton track team traveled to Mountain Lake to compete in the Mt. Lake Invite #4. This was a triangular meet with SWC

NO HITS, NO RUNS, NO ERRORS, NO ANYTHING!

By Mike Drooger – If the Edgerton/SW MN Christian Flying Dutchmen softball program had a sports information director, he or she would have been forced to burn the midnight oil on Tuesday, May 4, after E/SW’s game vs. Heron Lake-Okabena/Fulda.

Rebels Overecome Dutchmen

By Skip Hunter – The weather has not gotten any warmer for baseball and neither have the Edgerton/SW Christian Dutchmen. Last week they played Murray County Central in Slayton. The forecast was for cool, aka less than 40 degree temperatures,

Dutchmen Cruise In The Cold

By Mike Drooger – It was mostly cloudy and 41 degrees in Edgerton on April 20 when the first pitch was thrown. For the Rebels of Murray County Central, it had to feel much colder than that, but for the