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Josiah Strong signs pro deal
Champlin Park-alum Josiah Strong has signed his first professional contract as a basketball player, joining Bosnian team HKK Siroki ahead of the 2024/25 season. Strong concluded his college career last season as a graduate student at Colorado State. He previously played for Illinois State. He played 758 minutes last season and went 72-for-182 on two-pointers, 21-for-98 on three-pointers, and had 46 assists. He had three blocks and 14 steals. Colorado...
Blast From the Past Sports: July 2024
50 YEARS AGO: JULY, 1974 Dan Frie wins berth in a national golf tournament. The Monticello 17-year-old earned a berth in the United States Amateur Golf Championship in Fairfield, Connecticut. Frie missed the cut by one stroke the year before but shot a 72 in the 1974 Minnesota sectional tournament at Hillcrest Country Club in St. Paul to claim second in the 36-player field. The top four scorers advanced to...
MapleBrook Soccer Club 19 Boys Fall to Academy Sports Club at USA Cup
In the USA Cup semifinal match-up of the boys under 19 gold division, the MapleBrook Soccer Club fell to Academy Sports Club by a score of 3-0. Goalkeeper Evan Martin kept MapleBrook in the game in the first half with a few nice stops, but ASC got on the board with a goal from Jakub Rus.
Kamara commits to DI basketball at CSUN
Somah Kamara has announced her commitment to play NCAA Division 1 college women’s basketball at California State University, Northridge. Kamara, a recently graduated senior at Robbinsdale Cooper High School, earned attention last season as the Hawks’ only senior on the 2023-24 girls basketball team. The opportunity to lead the way was welcomed by Kamara, who was a standout shooting guard for the Hawks and left the school with several program...
Park Center Legion dominate Armstrong rematch
The Park Center Legion baseball team completed a statement win on July 16 rematching and beating Armstrong 17-0. The game came just days after a home loss to the Falcons. The scoring started early and with style for Park Center. Drew Paape walked home for the first run of the day, before two left-leaning home runs from Otto Arlt and Ty Lovcik brought in four total runs. Armstrong eventually brought...
Klersy earns Clay Target State co-championship
The Monticello High School trapshooting team finished second in the conference this past spring. Senior Emily Bohnsack and junior Lance Klersy both finished third in individual conference scoring. Klersy shot an average of 24-of-25 during the season and ranked in the top 100 scorers in the state out of over 11,000 participants. That was good enough to qualify for the Minnesota State High School League Clay Target Trapshooting Tournament at the Minneapolis Gun Club in Prior Lake on Friday, June 21. ...
Brooklyn Park Tops Osseo 7-2 in American Legion Baseball
The Brooklyn Park American Legion baseball team scored six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to rally past Osseo and win 7-2. Otto Arlt and Ty Lovcik both delivered two-run doubles in the inning. Neither team scored in the first four innings with each team scoring once in...
Polecats win Sauk Valley League East
The Monticello Polecats amateur town ball team has had another excellent summer and is ready for the Sauk Valley League playoffs. Three separate win streaks, including one of seven games, helped Monticello go 13-5 over the regular season and 10-1 in league play. After winning their last eight league games, the Polecats won the East by four games over Clearwater. The Sauk Valley League playoffs begin this week. Monticello plays the Clear Lake Lakers in the opening round on Friday. Monticello beat Clear Lake 14-3...
Raspberry title repeat for A&M Lumber
The A&M Lumber men’s slowpitch softball team showed up at Central Park July 20 determined to repeat as champions of the Hopkins Raspberry Tournament. Eleven other teams had the same goal, so it wasn’t an easy path to the championship for A&M, but their poise and resolve got them through as they defeated the Mighty Mulch Heads 6-3 in the second championship game. “We had lost to the Mulch Heads...
Bats heating up for Monticello Legion baseball as playoffs approach
The Monticello Legion Post 260 baseball team has played in a lot of close games this summer and that trend continued over the last two games. On Thursday, July 11, Monticello tied played STMA Golds 6-6 and then lost a marathon 16-15 games to Hutchinson on Monday earlier this week. At 2-8-1, the team hasn’t seen as many wins as they would have liked so far, but four of those losses have been by one run. They didn’t add to the win total but the...
Park defeats Tonka in bottom of the ninth
The Minnetonka Monarchs led most of the way against the St. Louis Park Pirates in a Riverview Amateur Baseball League game July 15. However, the Pirates pulled out a victory 5-4 on a run-scoring double by center fielder Brady Burzynski in the bottom of the ninth. Minnetonka pitcher Wyatt Nelson was dominant into the early and middle innings, but three errors led to four St. Louis Park runs. Michael Bohlke started on the mound for St. Louis Park and trailed 3-0 when he left the...
Hopkins banks on pitching for sub-state
Several changes in sub-state alignments left American Legion baseball teams in Sub-State 3 with a one in six chance of making it to the State Division I Tournament. Chaska announced that it was dropping out of the playoffs and Bloomington 1 was moved into a different sub-state by the state Legion tournament committee, leaving only six in Sub-State 3: The host team from Shakopee, plus Chanhassen, Edina, Hopkins, Hutchinson and Waconia. None of those six teams made it to state in 2023. Hopkins and Edina...
Railcats come up short with a pair of two-run losses
St. Louis Park Legion baseball marked the final week of the regular season with tough losses to Excelsior Post 259 Senior 1 8-6 on July 17 before losing a slugfest 15-13 against Wayzata Post 118 on July 18. The Railcats were 7-11 heading into Friday’s regular-season finale against Hopkins Post 320 Flyers. Against Excelsior, Park built a 6-1 lead, scoring twice in the second inning and adding four more runs...
Setback costs Excelsior No. 1 Legion seed
An unexpected slip-up last week cost the Excelsior American Legion baseball team the No. 1 seed for this week’s Sub-State 4 Tournament. Chanhassen ambushed the Fire Club for a 6-3 decision July 8. Meanwhile, Eden Prairie won three straight games against tough competition to gain the No. 1 seed. Excelsior (22-5) and Eden Prairie (23-5) were almost identical record-wise at the end of the regular season. The coaches in Sub-State...
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