Baseball: Saint Mary’s 3, Augsburg 2

Baseball: UW-LaCrosse 14, Luther of Decorah 3

Softball: Saint Mary’s 2, Gustavus Adolphus 1

Softball: Gustavus Adolphus 1, Saint Mary’s 0

Tennis (women): Macalester 8, Saint Mary’s 1

But when? Months ahead of its grand opening, high-flying signs for Pizza Ranch have ben hoisted where once Ground Round was in business and before that Beier’s. At U.S.  Highway 14 and Cottonwood Drive. Almost every wall has been pushed out to add capacity for the Iowa-based pizza and chicken buffet franchise.  Next: External wall-cladding with cowboy touches. Image: Steve Lunde

WABASHA, Minn. – A bookkeeper whose $3.7 million embezzlement helped put National Chemical of Lewiston into bankruptcy pleaded guilty. The plea from Sharon Schmalzriedt, 61, of Wabasha, was part of plea deal that requires her to return the money. There would be no prison time, just five years of probation. Also: A separate charge of stealing $17,000 from a vulnerable adult would be dismissed. The deal still needs approval from Judge Christopher Neisen. Schmalzriedt earlier explained that she had sent the money to an online lover she had never met and that the transfers were in hard-to-trace ways. The man had called himself Eric Lockwood and promised to repay. It was a scam.

Earlier: Wabasha bookkeeper blamed for $3.7 million embezzlement

ROCHESTER, Minn. – A Hayfield man was injured when his pickup truck went inot a ditch and stuck a tree northeast of Rochester on U.S. Highway 63. Ryan Blaine Severson, 43, was taken to a hospital with sustainable injuries. This was about 9:35 a.m. on West River Road.

Main exhibit room. In a cavernous 1915 armory where National Guard soldiers once stabled  their horses.

LEWISTON, Minn.– A 3-1/2 hour stand-off with police ended at a house with a Lewiston man surrendering without resistance. Lance Rashawn Gore, 38, came out hands up. With him were two juveniles, ages 14 and 13, who had been inside with him. There were no injuries. The incident ended at 1:10 a.m. There had been a disturbance in the townhouse, at 64 Benson Drive, with two shots fired before police arrived.

Earlier police call

Lewiston police had responded to a 911 call at the address about 5 p.m. By the time Winona County deputies arrived, the matter seemed resolved. Four hours later, neighbors called 911 that they had just heard two gunshots from the house. Police returned. No one answered the door ,but officers were aware of commotion inside. Police called for an armored vehicle and mobilized 20 officers, including a multi-agency emergency response team. With no one answering phones inside the house, negotiations began with loudspeakers on the armored vehicle. Nearby residents on the leagy residential street were evacuated.

Post-arrest house search

Eventually a police negotiator established sporadic communication with Gore. Through windows they could see Gore and the juveniles moving around inside the two-story house. Gore was carrying a long gun, police said. After the surrender and arrest, officers went into the house and located the long gun. About guns being fired, officers found two bullet holes – one in a ceiling, the other in a tree. The bullet in the tree apparently having been fired through an open window, although the window was closed by the time officers arrived. Offcers cleared the scene about 6 a.m.

Gore. Booked for reckless use of a firearms and being a felon with a firearm.

PLAINVIEW, Minn. – A Mayo Clinic helicopter made an emergency landing at the Plainview High School football field en route to the main emergency room in Rochester. The patient and four crew members were unhurt. The helicopter had flown into a large bird, which cracked the windshield. This was 20 miles short of the rooftop helipad at the Rochester hospital. The patient was transferred from the helicopter to a land ambulance for the rest of the way. The incident was Friday evening, but Mayo kept a lid on the event until late Monday. Even then, there was Mayo spin: Mayo’s acknowledgement called  the incident a “precautionary landing,” rather than emergency landing. The Mayo One helicopter based in Rochester has a usual service range that includes Wabasha and Winona counties. It is used mostly for traumatic accidents and hospital-to-hospital transfers. Mayo didn’t explain how it would rejigger its fleet of three med-evac helicopters — stationed in Mankato, Eau Claire and Rochester — to provide comprehensive regional med-evac service until a news windshield can be delivered to Plainview.

Publicity file shot. Of a Mayo One chopper over Rochester.

WINONA, Minn. – Deputies arrested a rural man after a dispute in which a family member was pushed to the floor. The pushing occurred while deputies were trying to sort through what happened. Matthew James Anderson, 36, was arrested for domestic assault. The victim, an adult male, was not hurt seriously. The issue was about taking Anderson to the hospital regarding ongoing issues about a brain injury. The incident was about 7:40 p.m. at 33000 Hunters Lane, beyond Sunny Ridge south of Homer.

Anderson. In argument over going to hospital for check.

WINONA, Minn. – An afternoon team leader at the Winona Burger King was punched in the face by an employee she had fired six weeks earlier. The team leader suffered a cut lip. This was about 4 p.m. Police began a search for the assailant, who had fled. Police were told the former employee, a 41-year-old woman, had been fired — also for a physical attack on the team leader. This time, police were told, the former employee charged behind the counter and flung a stack of cardboard cupholders at the team leader and then punched her. The team leader, age 32, told police she didn’t want medical treatment.

Burger King. 850 Mankato Avenue.

WINONA, Minn. –  A Winona woman reported being threatened online by a man who threatened to drive to Winona and assault her and her family. The call, police said, was believed to have originated in Rochester. The woman, who lives on the 450 block of Center Street, said threat followed an online argument. The woman said she had been communicating with the man for several weeks. She called police about the threat about 10:35 a.m.

Tennis (men): Hamline 7, Saint Mary’s 2

Tennis (women): Saint Mary’s 6, UW-Superior 3

LEWISTON, Minn. – A landlord at a house in the Arches, known as the “drug den,” reported that a tenant moved out and that appliances were all missing. The landowner discovered the loss about 10:35 p.m. Neighbors had seen the appliances being moved out a week earlier. There was no forced entry, deputies said. The address: 23121 Highway 14.  An investigator was assigned to find the latest tenant.

Earlier: Power snipped after months of electricity theft

ST. CHARLES, Minn. – Three passengers in an automobile roll-over were injured, albeit not seriously, and taken to a Rochester hospital. The accident was on Interstate 90 between the St. Charles and Lewiston exits about 2:20 p.m. The vehicle, a 2009 Dodge Nitro, was heading west toward Rochester when it left rain-slick pavement. Taken 31 miles to the hospital:

> Michaela Marie Busch, 31, of Red Wing.

> Kianna Leeann Olson, 13, of Red Wing.

> Dustin Michael Sorenson, 51, of Rochester.

The driver, Spence Evan Springwater, 34, of Red Wing, was unhurt

Solar eclipse. Starts Tuesday at 12:47 p.m. when the Moon’s disk moves in front of the edge of the Sun.  Ends at 3:17. Maximum eclipse at 2:04 p.m.  when the Sun to be eclipsed 80% by the Moon.

Prof has telescopes equipped with solar filters

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota House voted 100-32 to approve revisions to state policy on higher-education and to revise previous funding for campus construction. Here’s how southeast Minnesota representatives voted:

DAKOTA, Minn. – A Dakota driver was stopped for speeding and hen arrested for signs of significant impairment. Patrick Owen Coughlin, 48, was charged with drunken driving Police said the alcohol level in Coughlin’s blood was 0.22%, exceeding the allowable max almost three times. The arrest was about 1:55 a.m. at County Road 12 near Riverview Drive.

Coughlin. Failed field sobriety tests.

WINONA, Minn. – Police asked the driver in a traffic stop about the marijuana odor wafting from his car. Too, the officer said, the man’s pupils were dilated. Kjell Dean Nelson, 18, of Lakeville. conceded he had been enjoying marijuana-infused gummies, the officer said. Such gummies now are legal in Minnesota. At the jailhouse officers took a urine sample from Nelson. Whether Nelson will be charged depends on what the state crime lab finds in the urine. In the meantime, Nelson was charged with driving without proof of insurance.

WINONA, Minn. – Firefighters extinguished a fire on a front porch as it was starting up a wall in the 100 block of East Howard Street – but only after unlocking the front door and letting out a barking dog. Except for the dog, which was in obvious alarm, nobody was home.  The fire originated in a plastic bucket on the porch and burned through floor boards and then up the vinyl siding and an under-layer of wood. When the homeowner arrived home, he said he had put out a cigarette in the bucket five hours earlier. At least he thought he had put it out.

WINONA. Minn. – A Winona woman said her boyfriend whipped her with an elastic exercise band in a dispute over relationship issues. Arrested was Jeriah Timothy James Boardman, 22, of Winona. He denied any physical assault but acknowledged an argument, police said. Officers said they had seen marks on the woman’s left thigh and made the arrest. The incident had been in the 200 block of Olmstead Street.

Boardman. Booked for domestic assault.