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RHP Cole Percival placed on 7-day IL (St. Paul)
LHP Brady Feigl transferred to 60-day IL (St. Paul)
C Daniel Pena activated (FCL Twins)
3B Billy Amick placed on 7-day IL (Cedar Rapids)
C Khadim Diaw placed on 7-day IL (Cedar Rapids)
C Ian Daugherty promoted to A Fort Myers
C Jefferson Valladares promoted to A+ Cedar Rapids
OF Jayson Bass promoted to A Fort Myers

Saints Sentinel
St. Paul 4, Iowa 7 
Box Score
Taj Bradley: 6 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 4 K
HR: Noah Cardenas (7)
Multi-hit games: Noah Cardenas (2-for-4, HR, 2 R, 3 RBI)

A disastrous seventh inning sank the Saints on Wednesday.

With eyes aplenty casting judgement upon his start, Taj Bradley performed marvelously. The 24-year-old kicked off his Twins organization debut with four consecutive 1-2-3 innings, with two coaxed double plays, and ended his day with a lone earned run struck against him—a solo homer off the bat of Chase Strumpf. He earned eight swings and misses. 

Unfortunately, John Klein found no such fortune. The Brooklyn Park native crushed AA this season with a 3.12 ERA across 95 strikeouts, earning a promotion to the Saints. Wednesday was his first appearance with his new team. He’d probably like a mulligan. The Cubs batted him around, totaling six knocks, two walks, and a hit by pitch in a seventh inning he started, yet could not escape from. Trent Baker arrived to nab the final out. Hopefully, Klein’s second AAA outing goes better.

St. Paul’s hitting effort was tepid; they plated an early run off a dribbling infield hit by Kyler Fedko before falling dormant for five frames. Noah Cardenas drew them from the doldrums with a ninth-inning three-run shot, though the blast was too little, too late. 

Iowa sent rehabbing big leaguer Javier Assad to the mound, and he pitched 4 ⅓ innings, allowing one earned run.

MLB’s 47th-ranked prospect, Moisés Ballesteros, DH’d for the Cubs, doubling once in five at-bats. 

Wind Surge Wisdom
Wichita 6, Naturals 0
Box Score
C.J. Culpepper: 4 IP, 4 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
HR: None
Multi-hit games: Kala’i Rosario (2-for-4, 3B, R), Hendry Mendez (2-for-3, 2 R, BB)

The Wind Surge pitched a combined shutout on Wednesday.

C.J. Culpepper kicked off the fun with four workman-like innings, narrowly escaping a bases-loaded situation in the third before ending his day with a breezy fourth. Logan Whitaker begat Jacob Wosinski, with both hurlers adding a pair of innings to the effort. That left Kade Bragg to conclude things—which he did, though not without two walks to add drama. 

For six innings, it seemed that Wichita’s bats may not do enough to support their pitchers, as the infamous murder’s row lineup went quiet. The silence did not last. Kala’i Rosario cracked a triple and broke the seal by scoring on a wild pitch. Two walks and a hit by pitch loaded the bases with two outs. Then, mild carnage: Ben Ross lined a two-run single to left, Jorel Ortega nubbed an infield hit to score one more, and Kaelen Culpepper pulled out his pitching wedge and dropped a flop-shot in front of the right fielder to cap the rally. 

Andrew Cossetti doubled in a sixth and final run the following frame.

Hendry Mendez is hitting .588 in 17 at-bats since joining Wichita.

Kansas City’s fourth-best prospect, pitcher Ben Kudrna, started for NW Arkansas, allowing three runs across 6 ⅓ innings. 

Kernels Nuggets
Cedar Rapids 2, West Michigan 8
Box Score
Adrian Bohorquez: 5 IP, 8 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 4 K
HR: Caden Kendle (8), Eduardo Tait (1)
Multi-hit games: None

The Kernels fell convincingly on Wednesday.

It was a day for team debuts, and Adrian Bohorquez was amongst those looking to impress his new peers. The reigning FSL Pitcher of the Month was… fine. He whiffed four—always a skill in his toolset—but allowed eight hits and hit two batters. The seemingly endless traffic resulted in three runs, likely a somewhat fortunate amount. Still, his feet at A+ ball have now been soaked, and the talented righty has a platform to grow from as he continues to develop.

Cedar Rapids scored just twice. If you went to pee, you could have missed it: Caden Kendle homered in the sixth, then Eduardo Tait went deep in the same inning. 

That not only concluded the scoring on the day for the Kernels, but the two homers represented the only hits Cedar Rapids accrued on Wednesday. 

West Michigan’s second baseman John Peck ranks as the 17th-best prospect in the Tigers system; he racked up three hits in five trips to the plate.

Mussel Matters
Fort Myers 4, Clearwater 6
Box Score 
Jason Doktorczyk: 5 ⅓ IP, 9 H, 5 ER, 2 BB, 4 K
HR: None
Multi-hit games: Marek Houston (2-for-5, RBI), Dameury Pena (2-for-4, RBI), Peyton Carr (2-for-5, R), JP Smith II (3-for-5, 3B, 2B, 2 R, RBI), Bryan Acuna (2-for-4, R, RBI, BB), Luis Hernandez (2-for-4, BB)

The Mighty Mussels tried to piranha their opponent to death on Wednesday.

The ratio of players with multi-hit games to runs scored is incongruent. Perhaps it’s no surprise Fort Myers left 13 runners on base—and that’s not even the juiced way of counting. 

Spearheaded by a JP Smith II double in the second, the Mighty Mussels plated a trio of runs; Smith, Marek Houston, and Dameury Pena earned RBIs. Then, Smith—Minnesota’s 17th-round pick this last draft—tripled in the third, placing him in position to score off a Bryan Acuna single.

The Twins selected Houston in the first-round last month thanks in large part to the strength of his glove. He’s a warlock with the leather, they said. He showed off some of that ability in the third inning of Wednesday’s game. 

Rehabbing big leaguer Christian Arroyo earned two hits for the Threshers. 

DH Dante Nori is the Phillies’ fifth-ranked prospect. He tripled and walked in five plate appearances. 

TWINS DAILY PLAYERS OF THE DAY
Twins Daily Minor League Pitcher of the Day – Taj Bradley
Twins Daily Minor League Hitter of the Day – Noah Cardenas 

PROSPECT SUMMARY
Here’s a look at how the Twins Daily Top 20 Twins Prospects performed:
#1 – Walker Jenkins (Wichita) – 0-3, BB, K
#2 – Luke Keaschall (Twins) – 2-5 2 2B, 3 RBI
#3 – Kaelen Culpepper (Wichita) – 1-4, RBI, K
#8 – Gabriel Gonzalez (St. Paul) – 0-4, K
#10 – Marek Houston (Fort Myers) – 2-5, RBI, K
#11 – Brandon Winokur (Cedar Rapids) – 0-4
#14 – Kyle DeBarge (Cedar Rapids) – 0-4, 2 K
#15 – C.J. Culpepper (Wichita) – 4 IP, 4 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
#20 – Ricardo Olivar (Wichita) – 0-3, R, BB

Interested in learning more about the Minnesota Twins’ top prospects? Check out our comprehensive top prospects list that includes up-to-date stats, articles and videos about every prospect, scouting reports, and more!

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College track: Mount Pleasant’s Gabe Feldmann running with a purpose | The Hawk Eye – Burlington, Iowa

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PELLA — Central College track and field junior Gabe Feldmann of Mount Pleasant hasn’t let cystic fibrosis slow him down on the track or his generosity off the track to raise support for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

An inherited genetic disease, cystic fibrosis impacts the lungs, digestive system and other organs in the body. A build-up of thick, sticky mucus can lead to breathing problems, infections and digestive issues by blocking ducts and airways.

Depending on the weekend, Feldmann typically competes in races that range from the 200-meter dash all the way up to the 800-meter run. His focus is on the 400 meters, an event he has completed 13 times in his first two years at Central.

Breathing is an important part of all running events, but especially the 400.

“You breathe hard in a 400,” he said. “You feel it right in the chest.”

He completed the lap around the track in 51.62 seconds at the American Rivers Outdoor Championships in 2025, placing 22nd. He also was on the fifth-place 4×400-meter relay squad at that same meet.

Feldmann was approached by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation about using his college athletic experience as a platform to raise money. Starting earlier this fall and running through the end of the Dutch season in early May, Feldmann is posting content on his Instagram account (@gabetracksdowncf) and thanking supporters who have donated to the foundation.

“It was the option that really stuck out to me,” he said. “I work out every day no matter what for track, but I’m still raising money doing what I do normally.”

He’s working towards clocking in at 48 seconds in the 400 this year.

“My goal is to run a 48 this year,” he said. “If I’m able to do that, I’ll be able to tell everybody who supported me in this that they were there with me.”

Raising money for the foundation is not new to the Feldmann family, who ran fundraising events in Mount Pleasant from 2016-2023.

Money isn’t the only motivation for Feldmann, who also wants to inspire other people with cystic fibrosis to chase big goals.

“I said I was never going to let being born with cystic fibrosis limit me.” he said. “I’ve been an athlete my whole life. If I could show any other kid that having cystic fibrosis doesn’t have to hold them back, that would be super cool. It’s the entire goal.”



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EKU Volleyball Adds Two Transfers For 2026 Season

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RICHMOND, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky University’s volleyball team has added two transfers for the 2026 season – Audrey Hudson, an outside hitter transferring from Wright State University, and Alexis Bull, a middle blocker/right side transferring from the University of Texas at Arlington.
 
“I’m so excited to add Audrey and Alexis to our program,” EKU Head Coach Johnna Bazzani said.  “They both come from championship programs.  That alone is going to help elevate and raise the standard in our gym!”
 
The 5-foot-10 Hudson will be a junior in 2026.  In her first season at Wright State, she played in five matches before suffering a season-ending injury.  In 2025, Hudson played in 18 matches and started three times.  She averaged 0.83 kills and 1.62 digs per set.
 
Hudson, a Fort Wayne, Indiana native, played high school volleyball at Bishop Dwenger and club volleyball for Munciana.  She helped Bishop Dwenger capture a 3A State Championship in 2020.  She was a second team all-state pick in 2022 and a first team all-conference selection as a senior in 2023.
 
Bull will be a senior in 2026.  She played in 42 matches over three seasons at UT Arlington.  As a junior this past season, Bull averaged 1.03 kills and 0.66 blocks in 19 matches.  She led the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) with an average of 0.41 aces per set.  Bull had a season-best six blocks at Louisiana and a season-high seven kills against Jackson State.
 
The 6-foot-2 Magnolia, Texas native was a 4-year member of the AVCA Phenom Watch List during her high school career at Oak Ridge and Magnolia.  She recorded 878 kills, 280 blocks and 123 aces during her prep career.  Bull was chosen as First Team All-Montgomery County and as the District 19-5A Offensive Player of the Year in 2022.
 
EKU tied for second in the Atlantic Sun Conference standings this season and advanced to the ASUN Tournament championship match.   The Colonels have won 20 or more matches in three straight seasons, the first time the program has accomplished that since 2003-05.

 



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Wyoming Area’s Taylor Gashi commits to Army for track and field

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Taylor Gashi just needed to find the sport that gave her the best chance at achieving the goals for her future.

High-level youth gymnastics competition gave way to years of work on the volleyball court that continued even after a development in Gashi’s freshman year at Wyoming Area pointed her on the right path.

“With track and field, I kind of knew a few years back,” said Gashi, who on Dec. 15 formalized her commitment to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and compete in the sport. “Volleyball has been a part of my life longer than track and field. Freshman year, I placed second in district for triple jump so that was kind of a wake-up call for my coaches and my family that this could probably go somewhere far.”

Gashi expects to concentrate on the long jump and triple jump while competing at Army West Point, but her overall athletic ability means she could potentially help the team in the heptathlon, a combination of events she tested and did well at with a Lehigh Valley club team last summer. As a junior at Wyoming Area, Gashi finished 20th in the state in Class 3A in the triple jump after taking silver medals in District 2 in the triple jump and discus and a bronze in the long jump.

Once Gashi realized track and field was her best option for a college sport, the rest fell into place.

“That same year, I also got to experience going to West Point for a football game,” she said. “One of my good friends brought me there. Both of my parents had been in the military, so the military was never something I was opposed to doing.”

Gashi learned more about the athletic program’s status on the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I level, leading to her verbal commitment in September.

“It was kind of everything I had been looking for and track and field was something that could get me there,” she said.

Gashi will report to West Point for plebe summer, beginning her military duties before academics start next fall. Accepting her nomination to the academy means a five-year military commitment after she is done with school.

While at Wyoming Area, Gashi has kept busy not just in multiple events in track and field, but in multiple sports.

In volleyball, Gashi was a four-year starter, earning first-team, all-star status from Wyoming Valley Conference coaches this fall after previously receiving honorable mention.

After taking last year off, Gashi is back on the swim team this winter, specializing as freestyle sprinter.

Unsure of a major, Gashi has interest in looking into military intelligence and aviation.

“Those are the two that really strike interest for me,” she said.



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Minnesota Track Star Banned For Accepting $6,000 To Pay Tuition

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He claimed victory in 19 of his 28 races, won multiple conference titles, and twice finished second at the NCAA Championships. He also ran a blazing fast time of 2:12 at the California International Marathon earlier this month, which earned him a spot in the 2028 Olympic Trials with one of the fastest times in D-III history. His goal is to win a national title. It is within reach.

However, the soon-to-be second-semester senior will not be eligible for his final season of competition.

The Augsburg track and field star is banned by the NCAA.

Mohammed Bati announced on Christmas Eve that he will not be allowed to finish out his career. He was deemed ineligible to compete during his final indoor and outdoor seasons with Augsburg.

The ruling stems from financial assistance.

Bati is a nursing major. He struggled to make ends meet while working overnight shifts at an assisted living facility. His options were to not pay his tuition and drop out of school or ask for help. He chose the latter.

The local community raised $6,000 for Bati to pay his tuition. That allowed him to continue at Agsburg but it also ended his track and field career.

“I don’t think some NCAA rules are fair to everyone. I want to share something real today.

Last semester I was struggling a lot with money. I didn’t want to drop out or stop going to school, and the community around me came together to support me. People helped me with around $6000 so I could pay for that semester. I’m still grateful for that it was love, it was support, not anything big or business or something bad. Just people helping someone who needed it.

But the NCAA saw that support and said it was a violation. Because of that, I can’t run indoor or outdoor this year. They said someone paying for my school breaks the rule. I understand that’s their rule, but I don’t think they look at the story behind it. Sometimes people get help because life is hard. Not everyone has money. Sometimes it’s just one moment, one time, trying to survive and move forward.

It feels sad that instead of seeing support as community love, it’s seen as something wrong. I didn’t get paid. I didn’t get something crazy. Just help to stay in school. And because of that, I’m not allowed to run. That part is not easy to accept. I worked hard. I love running. I wanted to run this season with my teammates, make memories in my last year.

But even with all this, I’m still grateful. I’m thankful for everyone who helped me, who believed in me. I’ve been through a lot in life, and this is just another challenge. It will not break me. I’m not disappearing, I’m still here, still training, still smiling, still fighting for my dreams.

Sometimes rules don’t see the human behind the story. But I hope one day, things like helping someone won’t be a reason to stop them from doing what they love.

Thank you to my community, thank you to everyone who supports me. I will keep going.”

— Mohammed Bati on Strava

There is one key detail to note here. Division-III athletes are allowed to earn money through NIL.

Athletes at any level can be paid for endorsements, sponsored posts on social media, appearances, etc. Everything goes as long as the compensation is tied to the commercial use of the athlete’s name or image.

Athletes cannot receive outside financial assistance that functions as tuition support or additional athletic benefit unless it fits within the specific financial aid structure or NIL guidelines set by the NCAA. Mohammed Bati’s $6,000 gift did not qualify. It was more like emergency financial support.

As a result, he will not be allowed to finish out his college track and field career.

The NCAA guidelines on NIL are supposed to to prevent a pay-for-play system, even though it has been abused to the fullest extend on the Division-I level. Especially for football and basketball. Some athletes are making seven-figure salaries through “NIL” agreements. Bati’s money was not tied to this kind of agreement so it was technically illegal.





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Annie Nabwe ‘not giving up’ and ‘giving her best’ at Minnesota – Jamestown Sun

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JAMESTOWN — If you know anything about Annie Nabwe, you know she is never satisfied.

Last May, Nabwe completed the University of Minnesota’s hammer throw sweep at the BIG 10 Championships. Nabwe, a Jamestown High School Class of 2022 grad, set a BIG 10 Championships meet record with a lifetime best throw of 69.85 meters (229 feet, 2 inches), which also goes down as a new Minnesota program record.

Prior to that, Nabwe earned her second-straight conference title in the women’s weight throw at the 2025 BIG 10 Indoor Track and Field Championships. Nabwe’s championship throw measured 24.22 meters (79 feet, 5 inches) — a personal best for the former Blue Jay. With the win, Nabwe became the fifth BIG 10 women’s weight thrower to defend her conference title and the first to do so since 2016 when two-time Olympian Kelsey Card of the University of Wisconsin went back-to-back.

Nabwe owns the NCAA No. 21 mark all-time in the weight throw and also holds the second-best indoor shot put mark all-time at the University of Minnesota at 56 feet, 6 1/2 inches.

Still — the former Blue Jay would categorize her second season with the Gophers as a “learning experience.”

“I had a lot of highs but also challenges both mentally and physically,” Nabwe said. “I didn’t finish exactly where I wanted, but that helped me grow more as a person and an athlete.”

What she’s growing into should scare her competition.

At the university’s M City Classic on Dec. 5, Nabwe secured wins in the weight throw and the shot put. Both of Nabwe’s winning marks in the shot put and weight throw were school records. Nabwe launched the shot 16.40 meters (53 feet, 9 3/4 inches) and the weight 23.74 meters or 77 feet, 10 3/4 inches.

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Annie Nabwe prepares for her weight throw.

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“People should know that I am motivated, focused, committed and overall having fun,” Nabwe said. “I am thankful for the support that I have gotten from loved ones, teammates, coaches, and everyone who has supported me. I am grateful and excited to keep growing and to see what the future holds.”

Nabwe’s season-opening weight throw mark is more than 4 feet farther than her 2024 opening weight throw of 73-8. Nabwe’s mark in shot was also an improvement from last year’s opening indoor competition by nearly 2 feet.

On Dec. 9, the Big Ten tabbed Nabwe as the conference’s indoor track and field athlete to watch.

“People should know that I am ready, working hard, and I don’t give up easily,” Nabwe said. “They should know that every time I show up, I give my best.”

Her “best” is honed daily by the University of Minnesota’s training program.

Since the season officially began, Nabwe and her teammates weight lift on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for four hours. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, team members lift for anywhere between 1 hour, 45 minutes, and 2 hours. On Saturdays, the team practices or lifts for about 90 minutes.

“A typical training session is based on my class schedule,” Nabwe said. “A normal, let’s say, Monday, I have practice at 8:30 (a.m.) so I wake up at 7, get ready and eat breakfast. Then I scooter over to practice, warm up with my teammates and have practice.

“After, I go home and if I have time to eat and shower, I do, then I have class from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.,” she said. “I try to eat in between or after that class, because my next class is at 1 to 2:15 and after that class I have lift at 3. … After lift, I go to the trainer’s to get worked on and after that it’s about 5 o’clock. I go to the dining hall to eat dinner and then go home around 6-7 (p.m.) and do school work or if I do not have any I try to relax.”

The next competition on the docket for Nabwe is the Minnesota Open at the University of Minnesota on Jan. 10. The indoor season will conclude with the BIG 10 Indoor Track and Field Championships on March 13-14.

“My goals for this year are being more confident, being mentally tough and starting off competitively instead of laid back, breaking some records and winning titles,” Nabwe said. “These are all achievable because I have worked hard and I am in the position to do it. All I have to do is connect the pieces.”

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Shot put is one of the events Annie Nabwe participates in for the University of Minnesota.

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Katie Ringer

Katie Ringer is a sports reporter for the Jamestown Sun. Katie joined the Sun staff in the summer of 2019 after graduating from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire with a degree in journalism. She can be reached by email at kringer@jamestownsun.com or by phone at 701-952-8460.





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Texas A&M’s Emily Hellmuth will join the LSU Beach Volleyball team

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Dec. 26, 2025, 7:37 p.m. CT

The historic Texas A&M volleyball season has concluded, and now the seniors are moving on to pursue other endeavors. For some, it might be entering the job market, while for a few, it might be beginning a professional volleyball career. However, for one Aggie, it’s the restart of another college athletic career.

On Friday, it was announced that senior outside hitter Emily Hellmuth will be transferring to LSU to compete in beach volleyball. Although she is not eligible for indoor sports, beach volleyball is considered a separate sport and is not offered at Texas A&M. That means she would have to transfer, regardless of whether she wants to continue playing. She will be eligible for the spring season and will have two years remaining.

Hellmuth was excellent in her role at Texas A&M, appearing in several crucial moments that helped propel the Aggies to their first national title. Below is the official announcement from the LSU beach volleyball X account.





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