WEAU Sports News

The UW-Stout baseball team is off to their best season in recent history, and Osseo native Ryan Freitag is a big reason for the Blue Devils success. As Chance Dickman reports in this week's Gordy's Athlete Of The Week, Freitag is grateful to play the game he loves, so close to home.

The ballpark that opened as Weeghman Park on April 23, 1914, has hosted millions of fans and been the scene of some of baseball's most indelible moments.

Game 4 is set for Thursday with the Avalanche up 2-1.

The coach has returned to the university after he was reinstated by an arbitrator who said he was improperly fired.

Penalties in this case include one year of probation, a review from the NCAA Committee on Financial Aid and an outside audit of athletic employment and scholarship awarding practices.

The Padres' bullpen allowed three hits and struck out eight to snap Milwaukee's four-game winning streak.

David Price allowed six hits in his first complete game of the season, David DeJesus drove in three runs, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Minnesota Twins 7-3 on Tuesday night.

Former Eau Claire Regis standout Connor Miller announced he will continue his college basketball career at Minnesota State-Mankato.

Prep sports take center stage on SportScene13 this Thursday, as we have baseball, softball, track and soccer action. Click here to see all the highlights on SportScene13!

Major League Baseball has suspended four players involved in last Sunday's brawl between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Milwaukee Brewers.

The team released the schedule on its website Tuesday.

The league said Tuesday that a wild-card matchup will be broadcast on ESPN in January.

Coming off a doubleheader sweep of UW-Stevens Point, the UW-Eau Claire softball team is hitting the home stretch of their schedule. They traveled to River Falls for a WIAC doubleheader with the Falcons. The Blugolds came out strong and picked up another sweep with a 6-1 win in game one, and a wild, back-and-forth 11-6 win in game two.

Aramis Ramirez homered, Ryan Braun drove in two runs and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the San Diego Padres 4-3 Monday night.

Mikael Granlund's diving swing at his own rebound 5:08 into overtime gave the Minnesota Wild a 1-0 win over Semyon Varlamov and the Colorado Avalanche in Game 3 on Monday to pull within 2-1 in the best-of-seven series.

Scott Kilgallon has been named Director of Athletics at Webster University. For the past decade, Kilgallon has served as Director of Athletics at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC), which has 22 intercollegiate sports with more than 500 student-athletes. UWEC is a member of the Wisconsin intercollegiate Athletic Conference, and is recognized as one of the most competitive Division III conferences.

The Minnesota Wild have switched goalies for Game 3 of their playoff series against the Colorado Avalanche, giving Darcy Kuemper the start instead of Ilya Bryzgalov.

Rick Adelman announced his decision Monday morning.

Rita Jeptoo of Kenya successfully defended the Boston Marathon title she said she could not enjoy a year ago after the fatal bombings.

The Brewers made the moves before playing Pittsburgh on Sunday.