Sartell recently won the Tier B third- and fourth-grade Central Minnesota Youth Baseball League Tournament held at Pine Cone Central Park in Sartell. It was a pool play tournament and the team won the second-place game over Sauk Rapids White 9-8 with a three-run walk-off home run in the last inning. The team then beat another Sartell team, Princeton Black and Sauk Rapids White and lost to Foley Blue to finish 3-1 in the tournament in Tier B; second place out of 11 teams. Team members include the following: (front row, left to right) Kalen Lewis, Eli Schlecht, Zach Mathiasen, Josiah Wolters, Jason Hager, Riley Prow and Blake Bierscheid; (middle row) Kade Lewis, Cameron Schreifels, Kristoff Kowalkoski, Isaiah Rinne, Brayden Lenzmeier and Noah Lutsch; and (back row) Coaches Mark Wolters, Jay Hager, Head Coach Paul Lenzmeier and Jim Rinne,
Alexander Hornung of Sartell and a student at Cathedral High School, was recently named the 2013 recipient of the Book Award for Academic Achievement with a Social Conscience from St. Michael’s College, Colchester, Vt.
The award recognizes students who demonstrate a commitment to leadership in volunteer service and academic achievement. Award recipients, named at schools throughout the country, are high school juniors who are inductees of the National Honor Society or an equivalent school-sponsored honors organization. They must demonstrate a commitment to service activities in high school or community organizations, taking leadership roles in these activities.
Hornung was presented the book First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (HarperCollins 2000) by Loung Ung, a 1993 St. Michael’s College graduate who has become a widely acclaimed author. In “First They Killed My Father,” Ung gives a powerful autobiographical account, from a child’s perspective, of surviving captivity during the genocidal Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. She reveals an indomitable spirit in the face of profound suffering, including the loss of both her parents and two of her siblings. Ung has written a riveting memoir about a family’s survival, and in turn, about the development of Ung’s on-going crusade for a landmine free world.
