Saints suffer tough loss to open regions

A few county fair updates were posted at the end of this blog post on Saturday night and Sunday morning.

The Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team fell into the elimination bracket of the Region 15C tournament tonight with a tough-luck 10-8 loss to Pearl Lake. They trailed 10-4 before scoring four unanswered runs to make for an interesting final stretch. Two stranded runners in the bottom of the ninth inning was the outcome of their final at bat, however, as they now play to stay alive with an 11 a.m. game on Sunday back in Watkins. (Sunday, August 4).

The county fair activity in Sauk Centre and Glenwood is currently at its peak! I spent about three hours this afternoon at the Stearns County Fair in Sauk Centre, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! The mercury raced to nearly 90 degrees this afternoon. It was HOT! Officially, the high temperature today in Brooten was 88 degrees. We are blessed with tremendous county fairs in central Minnesota. This is something we should all be VERY proud about! REMEMBER: three county fairs are advertised in this week's Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper! I hope you have a copy to read for yourself!

Additional updates to this blog post will be added on Saturday morning.

Saturday night updates...
The Elrosa Saints will play either St. Martin or Spring Hill in a Region 15C elimination game on Sunday, August 4 in Watkins starting at 11 a.m. The Region 15C opener for St. Martin and Spring Hill took place at 3:30 p.m. today. Results are not yet available but will be posted here later tonight. Elrosa faces the loser of that game.

Okay! So I got some bad info and did not check the brackets...the Saints will play Farming or Cold Spring on Sunday in the elimination game. I am struggling to find updated brackets and scores.

Finally! I found the correct Twitter page to get scores. In the second game last night (Friday), the Cold Spring Rockies defeated Farming 8-6 in a terrific ball game. The Farming Flames are who the Saints will play tomorrow in the elimination game. In the 6 p.m. game tonight, the Cold Spring Rockies faced Pearl Lake in the first state-qualifier of Region 15C.

The Watkins Clippers defeated Richmond in their region opener today. I do not have a final score on that.

The Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website has a web article (just a video) added today...you can see that by clicking here: https://shorturl.at/znd9V. Now it's time to head to the Pope County Fair for the second time of the day. My family and I will be taking in the Pope County Cattlemen's Association supper. It will be great! Later tonight, the Sedan/Terrace-based band Wasted Time will be the feature entertainment at the fair in Glenwood.

Here's Brady Nelson of Brooten at the end of his run through the tractor pull at the Pope County Fair on Saturday night:


Brady Nelson is a 2019 graduate of B-B-E high school. He was driving a John Deere "G" tractor that had a tremendous pull. I was recording the pull, and for a reason I can't explain, my camera stopped recording in the middle of it. I hit record again after his tractor had stopped. Unfortunately, I did not record when he "dug down" just after it appeared that the tractor was stopping roughly 30 yards short of a full pull. The file on my card was corrupted, so all I had was this little short clip at the end. It's weird how technology can fail you in ways you don't see coming!

On Sunday morning, I'll be in Terrace at Chippewa Falls Lutheran church for their 150th anniversary of the church's founding in Pope County.