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Track and field: Straka, Birklid named head coaches for Ponies
For the first time in four decades, there will be new coaches leading the Stillwater boys and girls track and field programs this spring. Previous assistant Ben Straka has been selected to take over for hall-of-fame coach Scott Christensen on the boys team while Travis Birklid, an assistant at Roseville for the past decade, has been tabbed to replace Dawn Podolske as the girls head coach. The teams are scheduled...
Gymnastics: Ponies hand Forest Lake first SEC loss
OAK PARK HEIGHTS — Stillwater entered its gymnastics meet against Suburban East Conference front-runner Forest Lake with realistic expectations and things were playing out as expected through three rotations. But the Ponies finished with its top score of the night in the floor exercise and took advantage of struggles by the Rangers on beam to pull out a come-from-behind 142.175-141.825 victory on Thursday, Jan. 11 at Stillwater Area High School. The improbable victory over the third-ranked Rangers keeps Stillwater (4-1 SEC, 4-1) in the hunt...
Local sports calendar (Jan. 19-27)
Friday, January 19 Boys basketball — At Cretin-Derham Hall, 7 p.m. Girls basketball — Cretin-Derham Hall at SAHS, 7 p.m. Wrestling — At Kasson-Mantorville triangular, 5:30 p.m. Girls wrestling — At St. Croix Falls Invitational, 5 p.m. ...
St. Martin and Team USA capture gold
Making the most of her third and final opportunity to compete in the IIHF U18 Women’s World Championships, Josie St. Martin and Team USA captured gold medals with a 5-1 victory over Czechia on Sunday, Jan. 14 in Zug, Switzerland. The Stillwater Area High School senior led the Americans with six goals as they cruised through the tournament with a 6-0 record, outscoring their opponents by a combined 32-5. St....
Eide and Peterson are SAHS Athletes of the Week
Bianca Eide Girls wrestling A state runner-up a year ago, Bianca Eide is enjoying a strong season for the upstart Stillwater girls wrestling team. The sophomore, who is ranked No. 1 in the 100-pound weight class by The Guillotine, pinned all five of her opponents in the first period on the way to claiming the...
10 years ago this week...
This is a look back at some of the people and teams making news in the St. Croix Valley 10 years ago, as reported in the Stillwater Gazette. Girls basketball — Paige Becker delivers a game-high 22 points to help send Stillwater to a 69-67 double-overtime victory over Mounds View in a Suburban East Conference girls basketball game at SAHS. Erin Thiets adds 16 points for the Ponies (1-3 SEC, 4-7), who also received 13 points from Rilee Day. ...
Boys hockey: Stillwater collects SEC victories over Rangers, Bears
Stingy defense has kept the Stillwater boys hockey team among Suburban East Conference contenders following recent victories over Forest Lake and White Bear Lake. The Ponies handed White Bear Lake its first conference setback of the season with a 5-0 victory on Thursday, Jan. 4 and followed that up with a 2-1 triumph over the Rangers on Saturday, Jan. 6 at the St. Croix Valley Rec Center. Stillwater (5-1 SEC,...
Alpine skiing: Stillwater boys, girls sweep conference openers
TAYLORS FALLS — After having their Suburban East Conference openers postponed, the Stillwater boys and girls alpine skiing teams didn’t show any rust while cruising to victories on Tuesday, Jan. 9 at Wild Mountain. Behind a runner-up finish from senior Cash Jaeger, the Stillwater boys racked up 631 points to outdistance runner-up Forest Lake (573) and third-place Woodbury (566). The Ponies, who have won 18 consecutive conference titles The Stillwater...
Wrestling: Ponies finish with 3-3 record at The Clash Duals
LA CROSSE, Wis. — The Stillwater wrestling team finished with a 3-3 record to place 14th out of 32 teams in The Clash Duals on Jan. 5-6 at the La Crosse Center. The Ponies (6-0 SEC, 14-4), ranked No. 3 in Minnesota’s Class AAA by the Guillotine, opened with a 29-25 victory over Xavier (Conn.) in Bracket D before falling to Bettndorf (Iowa) 32-25 in the second round. Stillwater placed fourth in the bracket after coming up short in a 41-21 loss to fourth-ranked (Class...
Boys swimming and diving: Woodbury pulls away from Ponies in SEC dual
Jackson Kogler won two events for Stillwater, but Woodbury jumped out to a fast start and had too much firepower while upending the Ponies 106-70 in a Suburban East Conference boys swimming and diving dual meet on Thursday, Jan. 4 at Stillwater Middle School. The Royals, who improved to 4-0 in the conference after defeating eighth-ranked East Ridge 93-87 in a dual meet that came down to the final event on Jan. 10, won all three relays and finished first in five of nine individual...
Nordic skiing: Nelson and Peterson take top honors in sprint relay
The Stillwater boys and girls Nordic skiing teams produced strong results while competing in a classic tandem sprint on Wednesday, Jan. 10 at Battle Creek Regional Park. Team scores were not calculated, but the Ponies placed two entries among the top six in the boys competition. “This was a great event for our skiers to get used to sprint relay racing and to help us decide who will be racing...
World Cup: Diggins wins Tour de Ski
Afton native Jessie Diggins wrapped up her second Tour de Ski title after placing sixth in the seventh and final stage of the grueling event contested over nine days and three different locations. Diggins, a 2010 Stillwater Area High School graduate, finished 48.5 seconds behind U.S. teammate Sophia Laukli in the final stage, a 10-kilometer freestyle race that concluded with a climb of more than 400 meters or the final 2.5 kilometers of the race. The stage victory was the first-ever World Cup title for...
Boys basketball: Stillwater holds for Raiders
OAK PARK HEIGHTS — He’s not exactly sure how things have fallen into place, but Ponies coach Brady Hannigan is pleased with results as Stillwater knocked off Roseville 71-60 in a Suburban East Conference boys basketball game on Wednesday, Jan. 10 at Stillwater Area High School. It was the fifth victory in the last six games for the Ponies (3-3 SEC, 6-5) after starting the season 1-4. Stillwater’s victory over...
Gymnastics: East Ridge hands Ponies first SEC setback in four seasons
WOODBURY — A winning streak that began more than three years ago was halted by familiar rival East Ridge as the Raptors turned back Stillwater 136.575-133.1 in a Suburban East Conference gymnastics meet on Thursday, Jan. 4 at East Ridge High School. The Ponies (3-1 SEC, 3-1) had won 27 consecutive conference meets dating back to a loss to East Ridge during the 2019-20 season. Stillwater, which has won five of the last six SEC titles, was scheduled to face another conference front-runner in Forest...
Girls basketball: Raiders pull away from Stillwater
ROSEVILLE — Behind 21 points from senior guard Kendall Barnes, Roseville pulled away for a 56-45 Suburban East Conference girls basketball victory over Stillwater on Wednesday, Jan. 10 at Roseville Area High School. The Raiders (5-2 SEC, 9-2) snapped Stillwater’s five-game conference winning streak to pull into a three-way tie for second place with slip the Ponies (5-2 SEC, 9-3) and East Ridge (5-2, 8-5) behind league-leader White Bear Lake (7-0, 10-4). ...
Girls hockey: Ponies knock off White Bear Lake -- twice
A rare back-to-back match-up produced a sweep for Stillwater after turning back White Bear Lake 5-2 in a Suburban East Conference girls hockey game on Tuesday, Jan. 9 at the St. Croix Valley Rec Center. The game followed a 4-0 Stillwater victory over the Bears in a previous contest on Thursday, Jan. 4. The Ponies did not have a game in between, but White Bear Lake faced off against Woodbury on Saturday, Jan. 6, an off-day for Stillwater. ...
Finn and Nicholson are SAHS Athletes of the Week
Addy Finn Girls hockey One of at least four Division I signees for the Stillwater girls hockey team, Addy Finn has been a steady producer for the Ponies all season. The senior and University of New Hampshire delivered two goals for the Ponies in their 3-0 victory over Holy Family in the quarterfinals of the...
10 years ago...
This is a look back at some of the people and teams making news in the St. Croix Valley 10 years ago, as reported in the Stillwater Gazette. Colleges — After making 21 starts as a freshman, Stillwater Area High School graduate Savanna Handevidt is averaging more than six points and nearly five rebounds a game as a sophomore for the Minnesota State University Moorhead women’s basketball team. Boys cross country — After leading the Ponies to conference and section titles and a third-place finish in the state meet, junior Bailey Hesse-Withbroe receives the Most Valuable Athlete award for the Stillwater boys cross country team. Tayler Aarness, Allen-Michael Burback, Eli Krahn, Alex Percival, Sam Hanson, Tim Koenning, Austin Reed and Nick Yokanovich join Hesse-Withhbroe in earning all-conference honors.
Wrestling: Stillwater stays unbeaten against conference foes
ROSEVILLE — The Stillwater wrestling team improved to 6-0 in the Suburban East Conference with two victories in a triangular meet on Wednesday, Jan. 3 at Roseville Area High School. The Ponies (11-1) defeated the host Raiders 65-6 and also turned back Irondale/Spring Lake Park 48-18, running their current dual meet winning streak to 10 since falling to Simley on Dec. 2. Eli Nye (121 pounds), Mikey Jelinek (133), Brody...
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