The Post 152 Senior Legion split a pair of games in Vermillion on Saturday, falling 10-5 to Post 206 out of Colton before taking down Post 1 of Vermillion 9-1. Colton In their game against Colton, the 79ers held a narrow 5-4 advantage after three innings, but Post 206 plated four in the fourth and f...

The Post 152 Junior Legion and Senior Legion teams won Thursday night in Freeman, both taking down Lennox by the mercy rule. The juniors won 11-1 to improve to 6-1 while the seniors won 14-2 to improve to 4-4. In the Junior Legion game, Tannen Auch and Trey Maske both drove in four runs, with Auch g...

Oliver Waltner pitched three scoreless innings in relief and the bats finally came alive as the Post 152 Juniors rallied from an early 7-1 deficit to come away with a 13-7 win over Wagner in Wagner Tuesday night, June 10. The win moved the 79ers to 4-0 on the season. Wagner took advantage of early p...

The Scotland/Menno/Freeman/Canistota Junior Legion (16u) improved to 3-0 with another mercy-rule win, stamping out Elk Point-Jefferson 11-0 in Scotland Sunday evening, June 8. Post 152 used good plate discipline and timely hitting to built a 9-0 lead in the first inning and tacked on two more runs i...

Editor's Note: The Post 152 79ers are an American Legion baseball team made up primarily of players from Freeman, Menno and Scotland and includes two squads: Senior Legion (19-under) and Junior Legion (16-under). The name 79ers is a nod to the year 1879, when the railroad established stops in Freema...

Marion senior medals twice; Preheim returns to podium; relays finish strong Not only was it the end of an era for Freeman Academy/Marion’s top two runners — seniors Finley McConniel and Keaton Preheim — it was also the end of an era for a sports partnership of nine years. Last week’s South Dakota St...

STATE TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS Flyers finish strong —  with lots of momentum Peters, Scharberg make podium; six of nine relays earn medals JEREMY WALTNER  -  PUBLISHER On Monday morning, June 2, less than two days following the conclusion of the 2025 State Track and Field Championships, Freeman H...

A medal was his goal and a medal was his prize. Competing in his fourth state golf tournament, Freeman High School sophomore Tannen Auch golfed his way to a top-10 finish and will return with a tie for eighth place thanks to a strong two days at Cattail Crossing Golf Course in Watertown Monday and T...

Track and field participants from Freeman Academy/Marion, Freeman Public and Scotland/Menno will be busy this Thursday, Friday & Saturday At 12:50 p.m. on Thursday, May 29, four young men from Freeman High School and four others from Freeman Academy/Marion were scheduled to step foot on the track at...

Freeman High School sophomore Tannen Auch qualified for his fourth Class B State Golf Tournament by finishing eighth at the Region 3B meet held at Rocky Run Golf Courise in Dell Rapids Thursday, May 22. Auch finished with an 82 — seven strokes behind winner Kaden Burshiem of Flandreau Indian. Freema...