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

Pairings for the area's baseball teams who have qualified for the state amateur tournament at St. Cloud are complete and attached to this story for printing if you wish your own copy.

Of the four Tomahawk East League teams, only high seed Lamberton received the "champion's" first round bye and awaits a winner of a preliminary game. New Ulm Brewers, Leavenworth and Stark all need to play-in against other league representatives.

Courtesy of Tomahawk League secretary Terry Helget, Here's the state tournament bracket

Stark will play Waconia in one of the opening games Friday against 7B Waconia at Faber Field at 5:30 p.m. The winner faces Fergus Falls the following week.

New Ulm opposes Maple Lake at 11 a.m. Saturday at Putz field with Stewartville-Racine waiting the winner.

Lamberton rests until Sunday. Aug. 26 while Avon meets Young America this Saturday.

bird Island plays this Saturday against Ada. Leavenworth meets Belle Plaine Sunday at Faber field with the winner going against New London-Spicer the following week.

Additional drafted players have been determined for Region 2C's four teams as per:
Lamberton - Dayton Larson (Hanska) – originally drafted by Searles; New Ulm Brewers - Kyle M. Fischer (Searles): Stark - Andrew Woitas (Sleepy Eye) – originally drafted by St. James; Leavenworth - Jason Nachreiner (Springfield) – originally drafted by St. James

Tiebreaker game between Stark and New Ulm to determine the #2 and #3 seeds from Region 2C was cancelled due to inclement weather. New Ulm will be the Region 2C Runner Up and Stark will be the #3 seed from Region 2C due to the fact New Ulm beat Stark head-to-head earlier in the Region 2C Tournament.

For the record: Final Region 2C Standings (top four teams advance to State Class C Amateur Tournament in St. Cloud:

Lamberton .......... 5-0 ...... Region 2C Champion
New Ulm Brewers .. 3-2 ..... Region 2C Runner Up
Stark .................. 3-2 ..... Region 2C Third Place
Leavenworth ........ 2-3 ..... Region 2C Fourth Place
Searles ............... 1-4
St. James ............ 1-4