Class A baseball in Hastings, Minnesota
The Hastings Hawks are an amateur baseball club from Hastings, Minnesota, playing Class A in the Classic Cannon Valley American League under the Minnesota Baseball Association. They went 16-16 in 2026 under manager Shawn Matson at Veterans Park.
Thirty-two games and a record exactly level at the end of it. The Dundas Dukes in the same league also finished 16-16 across thirty-two games. Two Class A clubs, one division, identical seasons down to the game, graded forty-five points apart.
Forty-seven classification points for a Dakota County city of about twenty-two thousand where the Vermillion meets the Mississippi. That is a low grade for a city that size and a long way below the ninety-two Dundas carry with a fifth of the population.
This is the fifth Hawks in the Minnesota set. Minnesota towns like hawks.
Sixteen and sixteen across thirty-two games, identical to a club graded forty-five points higher. High Cheese gives Hastings the page to point that out.
Hastings Hawks in detail
- A summer season of Classic Cannon Valley American League games, region games and invitationals.
- Hastings Hawks finished 2026 at 16-16 in the Classic Cannon Valley American League.
- Results with full box scores on the club's MBA page.
- A published roster with positions, ages and schools.
- Season hitting and pitching lines, plus per-game box scores.
- Shawn Matson manages; the club lists no email or phone.
- No published tryout, form or fee.
- Home is Veterans Park, 2500 Millard Ave, Hastings, Minnesota 55033.
- MBA rules, Class A at 47 classification points.
- News runs through the MBA state feed, not the club.
- In-season invitationals, with the MBA state tournament above them.
- No founding date or title list published.
- No club officers published.
- Documents belong to the association, not the club.
- The MBA runs a state calendar; the club's dates are games.
- No merchandise or store published.
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