Excerpts from past Tracy newspapers April 26, 1956 — David Rolland, a junior at Milroy high school, is a threesport athlete, but the effort is beginning to tell on his nose. Last Friday, his nose was badly broken when he collided with teammate Donald Zwach while chasing a foul ball during the Milroy-Balaton baseball game. He was taken to Tracy hospital, where he spent till Saturday afternoon, and was out of school most of this week. David suffered a broken nose in the past basketball season. Previously, he broke it playing football.
April 28, 1966 — The Tracy Engineers blanked Cottonwood 3-0 in the season’s opener Sunday behind the air-tight pitching of Mgr. Dick Bosacker who allowed only one hit, a double, and chalked up 15 strikeouts. Jim Venard scored Tracy’s first run on an overthrow of third base after two errors and a fielder’s choice. Bruce Knigge, after walking, scored the second tally after the catch when Jerry Mickelson hit a long fly to right field.
April 22, 1976 — Errors continued to plague Tracy High School’s baseball team as the Scrappers committed a total of 10 in losing to Slayton here Tuesday afternoon. Tracy runs were scored on a Mike Eischens single, a John Lindstrom single, two errors, a fielder’s choice and a single by Tracy Nelson.
April 30, 1986 — Doug Neisess continued his streak of victories in the 100 meter dash, and a school record fell last week in Tracy Scrapper track action in two separate meets. the 400 relay team composed of Neisess, Richard Stanek, John Schaffer and John Apostol set a new school record in that event with a clocking of 43.3 seconds to earn first place.
April 24, 1996 — The Panther boys won their meet over Red Rock Central at Sanborn Friday. The girls finished second to RRC and won over Fulda. The boys edged RRC by I point 182-183 and the boys B squad won 193·230.
The boys varsity squad scores were Andy Rau 41 (medalist), Chris Ruppert 44, Brad Hengel 47 and Scott Zick 50. The B squad individual scores were Mike Erbes 47, Justin Peltola 47, Aaron Fritz 48 and Jay Strand 52. The girls’ team scores were RRC 187, T·M 218 and Fulda 255. Scoring for the T-M girls were Melissa Erbes 53, Heidi Peterson 54, Nadine Brandt 55 and Amanda Rau 56.
April 26, 2006 — Tracy/Milroy/Balaton softball girls overcame a stubborn effort from the Adrian Dragons to notch a 13-6 win at home Friday. After Adrian had scored three in the top of the second to take a 3-2 lead, the Panthers roared back with five in the bottom to claim a 7-3 lead. Ashlei Carpenter led the Panthers with four hits in five at-bats. Mariah Schelhaas and Casie Miller both had three-hit games. Miller had four RBI.
April 27, 2016 — Panther track teams placed fifth in both the boys’ and girls’ divisions in the 12-school Fulda Invitational, held last week in Slayton. Kendra Ludeman led the Panther girls with by winning the high jump and 200 meters. Taylor Schmidt was second in the pole vault. For the boys, Josh Kirk was second in the 100 meters and Caleb Lasley was third in the high jump. The TMB 4x100 relay team of Michael Munson, Spencer Smith, Lasley, and Kirk was third.
