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Notebook: MSHSL hall to induct Manthei, Laws, Larson
The next class of Minnesota State High School League Hall of Fame members includes four inductees with ties to South Suburban Conference schools. Holly Manthei, Trevor Laws and Scott Larson will be part of a group of 12 honored at the induction ceremony and banquet April 14, 2024, at the InterContinental Hotel in St. Paul. The MSHSL announced the inductees Tuesday. Manthei won state championships in three sports at Burnsville...
Swimming: Rosemount, North compete in True Team finals
Irish defeat Panthers in SSC dual meet Rosemount and Lakeville North participated in True Team State on Oct. 21, getting a good look at competition outside of the South Suburban Conference as they prepare to enter post-season girls swimming and diving competition. Lakeville North head coach Dan Schneider chose not to rest and suit his team, hoping to save the Panthers’ best performances for Section 1AA and state. Instead, Schneider...
Eagan’s Li is top seed at Class AA tennis
Lakeville North players advance to state in doubles Eagan sophomore Cassandra Li takes an undefeated record into the state Class AA girls tennis singles tournament, where she is the No. 1 seed. Li (26-0) will play Rory Wahlstrand of Mounds View in a first-round match at 8 a.m. Thursday at the University of Minnesota Baseline Tennis Center. Li, who finished third in last year’s tourney, is seeking to become the...
Vukovics goes back-to-back at SSC cross country
South runner holds off Burnsville’s LaMotte for girls championship Last year when Claire Vukovics was South Suburban Conference girls cross country medalist, it was cold enough for snow the morning of the race. It wasn’t much better at this year’s meet. While there was no snow, it was damp enough for a steady rain the entire race. Vukovics, a Lakeville South junior, is a runner for all weather – but...
Rosemount splashes its way to SSC boys cross country championship
Lakeville North, South are second and third You’ve probably heard of the theory about reloading versus rebuilding. Count Rosemount’s boys cross country team among the believers. Running in weather that might have scared away duck hunters, the Irish splashed to the South Suburban Conference championship Oct. 13 at Eagan High School. They scored 42 points, 24 fewer than defending conference champion Lakeville North, which edged Rosemount by one point at...
State soccer tournament fields come into focus
North, Eagan girls teams are section champions The state high school soccer tournaments started taking shape Tuesday as numerous sections decided their championships. Seventeen of the 18 Class 3A state boys and girls tournament qualifiers were determined in section final matches. They included Section 1 boys, where New Prague edged Lakeville North; Section 3 boys, where Park of Cottage Grove upset top-seeded Rosemount; Section 1 girls, won by Lakeville North...
Panthers, Irish return to state True Team finals
Class AA meet Saturday at University of Minnesota Lakeville North athletes won six of the 12 events at the Section 1AA True Team girls swimming and diving meet Oct. 14 and set five pool records, but the Panthers narrowly lost the team championship to Rochester Century 1111-1095.5. Century, however, can’t compete in the state finals because of a scheduling conflict, so North will replace Century at the True Team state...
Loss to Shakopee drops Panther swimmers to third place
Lakeville South tops Apple Valley in SSC meet Lakeville North fell to Shakopee 94-84 in girls swimming and diving Oct. 10 as the Panthers dropped out of a tie for second place in the South Suburban Conference. North fell to 4-2 in SSC dual meets while Shakopee and Rosemount remained tied for second at 5-1. Prior Lake is 6-0 in the conference, including victories over Shakopee and Lakeville North. ...
Football Week 7: Farmington hits 50 again
Lakeville North moves up to second in Class 6A poll Farmington has caught fire just before the high school football playoffs are scheduled to begin. The Tigers, who lost their first five games of the 2023 season, scored 113 points in their last two games, both victories. They scored touchdowns the first five times they had the ball in a 57-0 victory at Burnsville on Oct. 13. Farmington’s defense, which...
Girls tennis: Irish, Panthers are section runners-up
Rosemount loses tight match against East Ridge Two South Suburban Conference girls tennis teams played for section championships Tuesday, but both were turned away just short of qualifying for the state tournament. It was a particularly agonizing near-miss for Rosemount, which lost to East Ridge 4-3 in the Section 3AA final. East Ridge won all three doubles matches in three sets, including one that went to a third-set tiebreaker. ...
Most section soccer favorites advance, but not all
Semifinal games scheduled Thursday Many first-round games in the Minnesota high school soccer playoffs took place Tuesday. Typically, there aren’t a lot of upsets in the first round, but Eagan’s boys were not able to avoid being tripped up by a lower-seeded team. Bloomington Jefferson, seeded seventh in the Class 3A, Section 3 tourney, edged No. 2 seed Eagan 2-1 in a quarterfinal game Tuesday. The Wildcats, who finished second...
Ratzlaff’s reinvention takes him back to the ice
After injuries derailed football career, Rosemount grad is playing hockey at St. Thomas Not long ago, Jake Ratzlaff’s athletic dreams involved roaming sideline to sideline, making tackles in one of college football’s most festive settings for a team with Big Ten Conference championship ambitions. But career paths are rarely linear, and Ratzlaff’s journey has taken a few detours. To continue as a college athlete, he has had to change schools...
Rosemount cashes in on its last chance
Irish upset Lakeville South on 2-point conversion with no time remaining Rosemount lost a fumble in the final minute and the Irish’s student section glumly left the Lakeville South High School stadium, thinking their team had squandered its last chance. Truth be told, some of the Irish players also wondered if they had run out of ammunition. “After the fumble, I fully expected the game to be over,” Rosemount running...
Lightning football team gathering steam
DeSutter scores offensive, defensive TDs against Park Cooper DeSutter is an equal-opportunity pass catcher. Last week the Eastview senior grabbed one from each team’s quarterback and took it to the end zone. Those two plays – an interception return and a touchdown pass from his own quarterback, Grayson Osberg – were instrumental in the Lightning’s 42-14 victory over Park of Cottage Grove on Oct. 5. Eastview (4-2) has won four...
Week 6 football: Tigers’ offense breaks out
Fourth-ranked Lakeville North keeps rolling For a couple of weeks Farmington appeared on the verge of its first football victory of 2023. Last week the Tigers broke through in a big way. Big, as in 634 total yards and five second-half touchdowns in a 56-28 win against Eagan on Oct. 6 at Tiger Stadium. Quarterback Jonah Ask orchestrated the outburst with 284 passing yards and 113 rushing yards, and he...
SSC swimming: Eastview-South dual meet goes to the wire
Lakeville North defeats Apple Valley to remain tied for second Eastview and Lakeville South were tied with three events remaining before the Lightning pulled away for a 98-88 victory in a South Suburban Conference girls swimming and diving dual meet Oct. 5. It was an exciting meet from start to finish at Falcon Ridge Middle School. The 200-yard freestyle turned into a showdown between South’s Taylor Hintz and Lily Sisson...
Wildcats are SSC girls soccer champions
Eagan shows ability to score big goals in second half Qassim Ilmi has coached soccer at the club, high school and college levels in the metro area, but he thought something special was brewing in the Eagan High girls program. He was right, as it turns out. The Wildcats, in Ilmi’s first season as head coach, won the South Suburban Conference championship. They might not have clinched the way they...
Notes: Farmington, South teams take Cowbell Classic titles
Section tennis playoffs underway Farmington, the host team, ran to the girls championship at the Cowbell Classic cross country meet Sept. 28 at Dodge Middle School. Winning the boys championship was another South Suburban Conference team – Lakeville South, which came in 19 points ahead of runner-up Two Rivers. SSC runners were prominent in the...
Irish overtake Tigers in second half
Three third-quarter TDs are the difference in Rosemount’s 29-21 victory It’s safe to assume the halftime mood in Rosemount’s locker room was a little surly. The Irish allowed two Farmington touchdowns in the final two minutes of the first half of their Sept. 28 Metro South district football game, turning a Rosemount lead into an 11-point deficit. But the Irish channeled their annoyance with themselves into something positive – namely,...
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