Excerpts from past Tracy newspapers
May 3, 1956 — Tracy high school’s baseball team won its third game in four starts with a 6-2 verdict over Canby here on Monday. Merlyn Mickelson hurled five-hit hall for the Scrappers and chalked up his third win against one setback. Mickelson’s triple and single in two official trips to the plate paced the Scrappers 10-hit barrage which scored runs in the first, third, fourth and fifth innings.
May 5, 1966 — Warren Bjornebo’s 39 made his medalist at a meet in Sleepy Eye. Save Ostgaard and Mark Dolandson were tied with 42, and Pat Ford had a 44 to round out the team’s first-place effort.
April 29, 1976 — A run-scoring single in the seventh inning by Joel Daniels and the no-hit pitching of Torre Nelson gave Tracy High School a big 1-0 victory over District 9 title contender Cottonwood on Monday afternoon at Cottonwood. Nelson, who was credited with 10 strikeouts in the game, then promptly fanned three batters in Cottonwood’s last at-bat to preserve the win. Nelson also had seven walks.
May 7, 1986 — Amy Farber collected two first place finishes for the Walnut Grove Loggers girls’ track team Tuesday at the Tracy invitational. Farber placed first in the discus and shot put. The junior won the discus with a toss of 126-11 as she won that event by more than 30 feet. She also won the shot put comfortably as her throw of 36-8 won the event by more than two feet. Walnut Grove scored 23 points on the afternoon to finish in eighth place. John Wiggins placed third in the discus for the Loggers with a heave of 121-10. The Logger boys ended up seventh with 12 points.
May 1, 1996 — A young Panther boys’ track team struggled in a four-team quadrangular at Marshall Tuesday. Lucas Ludeman led TMB with two fourth-place individual finishes. The junior had a 57.09 time in the 400 meters. Ludeman also anchored the Panthers’ 1600 meter relay team, which did not place.
May 3, 2006 — Tracy/Milroy/Balaton outscored their opponent 40-1 Thursday to cruise to an easy sweep of an outgunned Central Minnesota Christian squad. The Panthers won the first game 24-0, and the second 16-1. Cassie Miller was 3 for 3 and drove in five runs in the first game. Stacy LaVoy and Mariah Schelhaas each had four RBIs. Alyssa Kirk and Bekah Zens had the only extra-base hits for the Panthers. Zens doubled in the second and Kirk had a two-run homer in the fourth. Ashlei Carpenter was just two walks away from a perfect game as she no-hit the Blue Jays. Ten Jays struck out.
May 4, 2016 — There is a new sport at Tracy Area High School. With the help of Amy Rubin and the encouragement of senior Caleb Lasley, Trap Shooting is now an official sport in the school. “A lot of kids are doing it through FFA in the fall,” Rubin says. The school trapshooting season is held in the spring starting in April. Twenty-six students are shooting on the school’s trap-shooting team this spring. “We would have more team members, but it gets expensive with ammo,” Rubin says. The team has been fortunate to have sponsors this year to help with the cost of shotgun shells, which can run around $5 to $6 a box. Each student shoots two boxes per practice.
