MADELIA — Madelia was scheduled to play a baseball game Saturday. Baseball and softball games at St. Clair were supposed to be held Tuesday, the same day that Maple River was scheduled to play games.

Bresnan Arena opened in 2000 and has hosted 307 Minnesota State men’s basketball games, 243 of which were victories.

With everything that’s going on outside the sports world, you may not want to think about anything within it. And that makes perfect sense.

Like a lot of fans, Rustin Luedtke is looking forward to the day sports comes back.

MANKATO — Minnesota State’s Dryden McKay was named one of 10 semifinalists for the Mike Richter Award, which goes to the top goaltender in the men’s college hockey.

The NCAA made the right decision to grant another year of eligibility to spring athletes who are missing the bulk of their seasons right now due to the coronavirus pandemic.

For the last three seasons, J.D. Ekowa has played a lot of football for Minnesota State.

Following last year’s National Pro Fastpitch season, the Aussie Peppers left southern Minnesota in a perfect spot.

MANKATO — The Mankato East, Mankato West, Mankato Loyola and Nicollet/Loyola basketball teams combined for 89 victories this season, while the East boys and West girls each had 20-win seasons.

In a normal world, the Minnesota Twins would today be anticipating their season opener Thursday in Oakland.

Like everyone else, Shane Zylstra is hunkered down at home, waiting for the all-clear to resume a normal life, which for him includes working out daily, hoping to get an opportunity in professional football.

Teams in the Northwoods League tend to have issues filling out their rosters as the summer wanes.

Connor Mackey was invited to the Calgary Flames; summer prospect camp in 2017 following his final year of junior hockey and prior to starting his college hockey career at Minnesota State.

Flipping through the guides pages on the TV last weekend, it looks like To Be Announced is going to be a pretty popular show for the next couple weeks of corona-cation.

Rebekah Kolstad and a few of her teammates were in Vietnam, enjoying a vacation during a two-week break from the hockey season for Chinese New Year, when the call came in:

Marc Michaelis would rather have been preparing for the WCHA championship game and a trip to the NCAA tournament on Thursday.

While trying to decide where to go with my column this week, I considered a lot of different things.

The first time a Minnesota State hockey player won the WCHA Player of the Year award, Marc Michaelis was that player’s left wing.

MANKATO — Minnesota State senior center and co-captain Marc Michaelis was named WCHA Player of the Year and a top-10 Hobey Baker Award finalist on Wednesday.

During this week in March, Minnesota State men’s basketball coach Matt Margenthaler and his staff would usually be spread out across the Midwest, watching high-school state tournaments or junior college playoff games with an eye on potential recruits.

MANKATO — The Minnesota State men’s hockey team continued to clean up on WCHA year-end awards with four players earning individual honors.

MANKATO — Bethany Lutheran women’s basketball player Hanna Geistfeld was named First Team All-West Region and Gustavus Adolphus’ Caitlin Rorman was named the region’s Rookie of the Year by d3hoops.com on Tuesday.

MANKATO — Bethany Lutheran College on Tuesday canceled its remaining sports seasons in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The 2019-20 Minnesota State men’s hockey team will go down as one of the best in program history.

On Oct. 7, 2016, the Minnesota State men’s hockey team opened the season with a home game against Michigan Tech.

MANKATO — Minnesota State senior forward Marc Michaelis, junior defenseman Connor Mackey and sophomore goaltender Dryden McKay all received All-WCHA first-team honors on Monday, as the league announced its all-conference teams.

I was supposed to see three Twins spring training games last week in Fort Myers, Florida. I saw two.

The Minnesota State High School League updated its spring activity participation limitations on Sunday following Gov. Tim Walz’s executive order closing schools effective Wednesday through March 27.

A powerful argument can be made that the spring season is the best of Minnesota’s four yearly quarters.

When it was first reported that Utah Jazz’ Rudy Gobert had tested positive for coronavirus, Minnesota State men’s and women’s track field coach Mike Turgeon, along with wrestling coach Jim Makovsky figured they were in for a wild 24 hours.

MANKATO — Minnesota State’s spring sports are on hold right now, and the teams don’t know if or when they’ll return to competition.

Seniors Hannah Potter and Rachel Breck were in the gym at Waseca High School, about to board the team bus to drive to the University of Minnesota for Friday’s semifinal game of the Class AA girls basketball tournament.

This is the most thrilling time of the high-school sports season.

Everything was OK.

MINNEAPOLIS — Coach Tyler Kaus knew that Thursday could be the last game for the Waterville-Elysian-Morristown girls basketball team, but he didn’t tell his players before they took the court.

WATERVILLE — The volleyball and softball teams at Waterville-Elysian-Morristown have had plenty of success recently. The boys basketball, football and wrestling teams also have a rich history of state-tournament success.

MANKATO — It’s been four years in the making and junior Trenton McManus intends to make the most of his first trip to NCAA Division II wrestling nationals this weekend.

When it comes to big-time sports bosses, fans are generally going to be cautious, or cynical, in this state.

MINNEAPOLIS -- The shots weren't falling for either team, which magnified every turnover.