Excerpts from past Tracy newspapers
Sept. 5, 1955 — The Milroy Yankees, last year’s state B champs, won their way back into the state tournament, this time as a class A entry. Milroy is 19-17 on the season, but has displayed a type of come-from-behind baseball that may make them crowd favorites in the state tourney at Chaska.
Sept. 9, 1965 — A determined Tracy high school football team kept its poise in a close game here Friday night and finally wore down Redwood Falls 21-6 before a good opening night crowd. The Scrappers executed plays well, worked hard on defense, and came back from a scoreless first half to earn a 21-6 margin. Admittedly, it was a typical “first game” for two inexperienced ball clubs but the fact remains that the Scrappers did keep plugging away until the tide turned in their favor. Tracy iced the game on a 67 yard march as Bob Shoeman went over from the two yard stripe and took a Doug Johnson pass for the extra point and a 21-0 margin with a few minutes left.
Sept. 4, 1976 — Coach Ron Borchert’s Balaton Warriors ripped to a 22-0 halftime margin and then went on to beat the Milroy Spartans 3012 in opening football play here Friday night. Greg Erickson scored twice and Alvin Wieme caught a 61-yard touchdown pass from Dallas Sanderson. Kyle Flesner scored on a touchdown run and threw a scoring pass to Greg Soupir.
Sept. 6, 1985 — What a difference a week of practice can make. From the conference jamboree to the 13-0 season opening win over Redwood Falls, the Tracy Scrappers made noticeable improvements. Head coach Gale Otto said that the most obvious strides came with the offensive line. “They came off the ball and controlled the line,” Otto said. Defensively against Redwood Falls, the Scrappers showed improvement too. Redwood Falls rushed 30 times for only 80 yards, with 41 of the 80 coming on one carry. In the air. Redwood completed two of 13 passes for 25 yards. Doug Neisess led the runing attack with 74 yards on 16 carries. David Christian caught four passes for 58 yards.
Sept. 6, 1995 — Tracy-Milroy defeated Springfield 3-0 in their opening match of the 1995 volleyball season Tuesday night at Tracy. Brink led the team in hitting with 17 kills. She also had 4 blocks and 3 serving aces. Sarah Hayes added 5 serving aces and Denise Marks 4.
Sept. 7, 2005 — The Tracy/Milroy/Balaton cross country program hosts the Panther Invitational Thursday at the Tracy Country Club. The action will be the runners’ first since a season opening meet at Mt. Lake last week. Jillian Tholen was third in the girls’ varsity race. Her brother, Ryan, placed second in the boys’ junior varsity race.
Sept. 9, 2015 — The Panthers volleyball season got off to a strong start, with a 3-1 match victory at Windom last week. Set scores were 25-22, 25-21, 19-25, and 25-22. Gabbie Gervais served 23-for-24 and had 50 set assists. Kaylee Kirk came up with 21 digs.
