Excerpts from past Tracy newspapers April 21, 1955 — Tracy baseball coach Arch Ward listed the following possibilities at the following positions: catchers, Elrick Gregoire, Reed Sammons, Bob Hanson, Roger Salmon; pitchers, Merlyn Mickelson, Al Zender, Wayne Carter; first base Bob Hanson, Curt Jette, Larry Schoer; second base, Bob Shaw and Gale Brekken; third base, Zender or Brekken; shortstop, Mickelson, Brekken or Shaw; left field, Sammons or John Oberstad; center field, Carter, Curt Paulson or Bob Williams; right field, Gordon DeVetter or Tom Hansen.
April 22, 1965 — Tracy took two firsts in a meet in Redwood Falls: Ken Bicek in the high hurdles and Nick Kurtz in the board jump.
April 17, 1975 — Three senior lettermen are back for the Tracy nine. Brian Johnson, a pitchershortstop; Paul Mickelson, infielder: and Dave Sebastian, first basemen. Bob Lauthen is the other senior on the team.
April 18, 1985 — When you’re hot you’re hot. And Keith Engesser is hot. The Tracy bowler recently rolled perhaps the highest series ever at the Tracy Lanes. Bowling on the Whitey’s Body Shop team, Engesser logged a 710 series two weeks ago. Gary Schaar, bowling alley owner, says the series is the highest he can remember in the years he’s been in Tracy. Last week, Engesser nearly equaled his record-breaking performance with a 696 series in league play. Engesser has been bowling superbly for the past two months. His league series scores for the past eight weeks are: 613, 645, 616, 689, 639, 693, 710, 696. During that period he also bowled in a city tournament and racked up 685 and 601 series.
April 19, 1995 — Aldon Struchen, Tracy sixth grader, won his division in a Coon Rapids wrestling tournament Saturday, boosting his season record to 38-0. Two other sixth graders who have rolled up impressive records this season include Eric Jacobson 314, and Mike Kamrud (30-6). Brian Mickelson is their coach.
April 20, 2005 — The Panther baseball team improved its season record to 2-1 (1-0 in the 212 Conference) with a 9-3 win over A/C/GC last Thursday. Matt Bauer and Derek Daniels led the 9 hit Panther offense with 2 hits each. Also getting hits were Donald Strand, Sean Castle, Derek Radke, Erik Frisvold and Lucas Walling.
April 22, 2015 — Lexi Tauer was 3-4 with four runs scored in a 12-2 win over Red Rock Central. Syd Lanoue was 3-3 with three runs scored. Also contributing hits were Nordsiden (2), Radke (2), Dolan (2), and Caron, Paczkowski, and Towne.
