Amateur baseball playoffs open Wednesday as Cubs face Pipestone

Multiple southwest Minnesota amateur baseball playoff series will get underway Wednesday night following the conclusion of the regular season this past weekend.

The Worthington Cubs will enter the postseason following a 10-0, seven-inning loss to visiting Milroy on Sunday. The Cubs, who finished the regular season with a 5-9 record in league play and 7-10 mark overall, are seeded seventh in Region 10C for the play-in round and will now take on 10th-seeded Pipestone in a best-of-three series that begins Wednesday night. Worthington will host the A's in a game scheduled for 7:30 p.m.; game two is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday in Pipestone. A third matchup, if necessary, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Worthington. No admission fee will be taken for this round of playoffs.

In other play-in round action slated for Wednesday, eighth-seeded Fox Lake will play host to No. 9 seed Lakefield at 7:30 p.m. The times for later contests in that best-of-three series have yet to be determined. Additionally, sixth-seeded Jackson will entertain No. 11 Heron Lake at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Game two in the Bulls-Lakers series is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday in Heron Lake. A third game, if needed, would be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Jackson.