Excerpts from past Tracy newspapers
July 14, 1955 — Whitey Brekken, Eddie McFarlane and Lee Brandt all homered to lead the Engineers to an 18-7 blowout win over Slayton in the opening game of the Redwood County League playoffs.
July 15, 1965 — Shorty Engel managed to pitch himself out of trouble caused by four Tracy errors to outlast previously unbeaten Milroy 11-7 in a twilight duel at Legion Field. Bill Kluevein got four hits, while Gary Sandbo and Steve Stotka each had two. Stotka blasted a three-run home run.
July 10, 1975 — Lori Stensgaard, 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Stensgaard of this city, won the championship of the women’s invitational golf tournament at the Tracy Country Club. She scored a 94 for 18 holes and shot an eagle three on the par 5, 440-yard No. 4 hole to outpace 58 golfers from eight towns.
July 11, 1985 — A group of 50 women teed off Tuesday at the Tracy Country Club to participate in the annual Ladies Invitational Golf tournament. Maggie Johnson was the winner in the championship flight, Chris Stassen was first in the first flight, Iris Hayes took first in the second flight, Jeanna Vandendriessche was first in the third flight and Carolyn Vandendriessche won the fourth flight.
July 12, 1995 — Steve Wensmen and Jeff Blegen repeated as champions of the Tracy Country Club’s annual Member-Guest golf tournament this weekend. But it wasn’t easy. The Blegen-Wensmen team had to win a one-hole playoff against Jack Lau and Chris Hannasch.
July 13, 2005 — The Milroy Legion baseball team upset leagueleading MACCRAY 9-8 in 12 innings. Derek Radke pitched the first 3 2/3 innings giving up 8 runs. Derek Daniels pitched the next 7 innings giving up no runs while striking out 10. Anthony Rohlik pitched the last 1 1/3 innings and got the win. Matt Bauer led the hitting attack with 3 hits.
July 15, 2015 — The fatherdaughter team of Jay and Katie Swanson won the Tracy Country Club’s member-guest tournament.
