Baseball

Tiger baseball presents team awards

May 26, 2016

The Lake City High School baseball team awarded varsity letters and team-voted awards at an informal team picnic May 18 in Lake City. From left are Coach Dave Scharpen, Jarret Thomas (Top Defensive Player and Mr. Hustle Award winner), Drew Bailey (Most Improved), Alex Scharpen (Team Most Valuable...

Tiger baseball bids farewell to four seniors

May 25, 2016

Lake City Tiger’s Baseball honored its senior players May 16 before the last season’s last regular home game versus Stewartville. And as if the stars aligned for the four graduating players, they all contributed to an extra inning win against the rival Tigers team. The four senior players are...

Errors bite Tiger nine in loss to Lourdes

May 25, 2016

The Lake City Tiger baseball team ended their regular season with a disappointing 12-8 loss to Rochester Lourdes May 19 at Mayo Field. Disappointing might be putting it mildly as the Tigers turned in by far their worst defensive effort of the season as they committed eight errors. Early in the...

Baseball Tigers sizzle as winning streak extends to seven

May 11, 2016

Two and a half weeks ago, after losing the first game of a doubleheader at Kasson-Mantorville, the Lake City Tiger baseball team’s record was one win and seven losses. Including the 2-1 win in the second game at Kasson-Mantorville, Lake City has reeled off seven straight wins including s thrilling...

Tigers baseball wins two close games

May 4, 2016

There are a lot of ways to characterize a win in baseball. Lake City’s 7-2 victory over Rochester Lourdes April 26 was almost perfect--good pitching, hitting, defense. Not to mention beating Lourdes. But the Lake City Tiger baseball team is not perfect, and every game is not going to go like the...

Tiger nine wins one, then bows again

Apr 20, 2016

After finally breaking into the win column with a 12-2 thrashing of Wabasha-Kellogg Saturday the Lake City Tiger baseball team lost another close game 3-0 to a quality team, Kenyon-Wanamingo (K-W) on Monday. It was the Tigers’ fifth loss by three runs or less to a good team so far this season. The...

Diamond skills event to be April 27

Apr 7, 2016

Lake City Kiwanis Club is hosting the Major League Baseball (MLB) baseball and softball skills challenge on Wednesday, April 27 at Bluff View Elementary School Kieffer Field and softball field No. 2 Registration begins at 3 p.m. with competition starting at 3:15 p.m.All participants must enter...

Resilient Tiger baseball team bounces back after loss

Apr 30, 2015

After dropping a frustrating game to Hayfield last Friday, the Lake City baseball team rebounded Monday at Triton with a 12-1 win in a game shortened to five innings by the 10 run rule. [caption align="left"]Michael Pfeilsticker started on the mound for Lake City at Triton Monday and went four plus...