Tournament opener

In their opening game of the Elite 8 tournament, the Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team clipped Buffalo 12-2 in six innings with Aaron Vogt going the distance for the win on the mound.

Sartell and Lamberton are playing this morning in Elrosa, and the winner of that game will face the Saints tonight at 6 p.m.

**Update: Sartell beat Lamberton 14-1 in five innings.

In other news...congratulations to the Maple Lake Irish baseball team, as they are the 2018 Class 2A state champions! They just defeated Duluth Marshall at Target Field around 18:00 tonight.

**Update: the Elrosa Saints defeated Sartell 1-0 in a rain-shortened game tonight; the game was called after five innings of play, as a "pretty decent" thunder/lightning storm passed over the area.