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Eagles convinced they’re heading in right direction
Football team looks to improve on last year’s 4-6 record Apple Valley doesn’t play its first football game of the season until next week, but already there’s been measurable progress since Pete Usset’s first year as head coach. The Eagles took 97 players to a team camp this summer at Bemidji State University, an increase of more than 50% over the previous year. To be allowed to go to the...
A new group of Cougars anxious to show what they can do
Football season opener is Sept. 1 against Wayzata Most of the players from Lakeville South’s recent run of football success are gone now, although you can continue to watch some of them on college football Saturdays. They left behind a group at South that’s eager to prove they can play, too. Individual attention for certain...
Wildcats’ next goal? A playoff victory
Taste of success in 2022 leaves Eagan players wanting more Almost everything about Eagan football in 2022 was fun for the players, including the varsity’s first winning season in more than a decade and its first home playoff game in eight years. But future Wildcat teams want that to be a minimum expectation, not something to celebrate. Allow senior linebacker Carter Will to explain. ...
Panthers football goes into 2023 older, wiser, stronger
Opener is at Stillwater, the team that ended North’s 2022 season The issue wasn’t talent. It was readiness. Last year Lakeville North had people who could play football, because the Panthers always do. But they were a young team, with nine sophomores and a freshman getting significant playing time. Against a schedule that included Class 6A powers Lakeville South, Rosemount, Prior Lake, Shakopee and Stillwater, that caught up with them,...
Fall sports begin anew; here are some things to watch for
Local teams start competing as early as next week Monday morning brought the start of a new season of high school fall sports practices, with all of the hopes and dreams that come with them. Some teams will start competing as early as next week. Until then, here’s a look at some storylines for football, soccer, volleyball and cross country: ...
Baseball: Local players involved in state amateur tourney
100th annual event starts Friday Eighty men’s amateur teams will conclude their seasons at the Minnesota Baseball Association’s 100th annual state tournament beginning this weekend with games in Delano, Litchfield, Dassel and Waconia. Players from the Sun Thisweek and Dakota County Tribune coverage area will be involved, including a number that play for Class B tournament qualifiers Dundas and St. Patrick. ...
Rosemount High anglers qualify for national tournament
Myers, Charlton will compete in South Carolina in June 2024 Kyle Myers and Katelynn Charlton, who will be seniors at Rosemount High School this fall and are members of the school’s competitive fishing team, have qualified for the Student Angler Federation National Championship in June 2024. Myers and Charlton topped the point standings in the Minnesota Student Angler Tournament Trail to earn the trip to nationals in South Carolina next...
Federal League 35-and-over playoffs resume this week
Rosemount, Burnsville, Apple Valley, New Market remain alive in top bracket The champion of the top playoff bracket in Federal League 35-and-over baseball will be decided this weekend at Alimagnet Park in Burnsville. The Rosemount Pipers, Apple Valley A’s, Burnsville Bulldogs and New Market Northerns all remain in the Federal League’s AAA double-elimination tournament, with each team splitting two games last weekend. ...
Eastview football has a new face of the program
Wade Buckley is 2nd head coach in school history After reaching out to anybody and everybody he could think of to collect advice, Wade Buckley believes he’s ready for the start of two-a-day practices Aug. 14 to kick off his first season as Eastview’s head football coach. That included speaking with the coaches of the Lightning Dance Team, which might be the closest thing to a dynasty as there is...
MSHSL moves cross country meet back to Bolstad
U of M course last held event in 1990 The Minnesota State High School League board of directors approved several changes to its 2023-24 tournament schedule at its meeting Aug. 1 in Spicer. Several changes are relatively minor, but one is definitely significant. The board approved returning the state cross country meet to the University of Minnesota Les Bolstad Golf Course in Falcon Heights, ending a run of more than...
Wildcat football, Eagan police team up for community event
‘Cats vs. Cops’ game is in third year Eagan High School coach Nick Johnson’s takeaway after watching his players trade touchdowns with a team representing the Eagan Police Department in touch football Sunday night? “Good defensive game,” he said. He was being facetious to the nth degree about a 72-71 final that featured both teams...
Vikings throw training camp doors open to fans in Eagan
Jefferson: Practices have more energy when spectators are there Justin Jefferson, the Vikings’ star wide receiver, knows there’s a difference between training camp and training camp with fans. “When people come to see you, you want give your all,” Jefferson said following the team’s practice Tuesday at TCO Performance center in Eagan. “You want to make spectacular plays and give the crowd more energy. When they’re not here you don’t...
Smith has five-medal haul at world championships
Lakeville native swims backstroke leg of gold-winning medley relay Regan Smith more than doubled her career medal total at the World Aquatics Championships after winning five, including one gold, last week in Fukuoka, Japan. The Team USA women closed the 2023 world championships with a victory in the 4x100-meter medley relay Sunday. Smith led off by swimming the backstroke leg, swimming a 57.68-second split to give the U.S. the lead....
Town team baseball playoffs begin this week
Burnsville Bobcats need one victory to advance to state tourney The Minnesota Baseball Association men’s Class B playoffs started this week, and the Burnsville Bobcats are one victory from reaching the state tournament. The Bobcats (20-5), who finished first in the River Valley League East and are seeded first in Section 3B, split their first two games in the double-elimination section playoffs. After a 9-2 victory over Chanhassen on Sunday...
Notebook: Gable Steveson makes pro wrestling debut, with inconclusive results
Gable Steveson has succeeded at every level in amateur wrestling. Winning over fans of professional wrestling could be his next challenge. On Sunday, the Olympic gold medalist and four-time state high school champion at Apple Valley had his first pro match, nearly two years after signing with World Wrestling Entertainment. The results were inconclusive, in and out of the ring. Steveson’s match with WWE veteran Baron Corbin at the NXT Great American Bash in Texas ended in a double count-out after about six minutes. The...
With Rosemount athletics in good shape, Manning can step away
Retiring AD helped build one of state’s top programs Mike Manning thought he had seen it all in nearly three decades as Rosemount High School athletic director. Then the goats arrived. Proving that very little falls outside an athletic director’s job description, it was Manning’s responsibility to make sure the herd of goats at a...
Baseball: Junior Legion tourney comes to Burnsville
Ratters are part of eight-team field for double-elimination event One year after holding the state American Legion Senior Division I baseball tournament, Alimagnet Park in Burnsville is host to another Legion event. This year it’s the Junior Division I tourney, which begins Thursday and runs through at least Saturday. Action in the eight-team, double-elimination tournament begins at 10 a.m. Thursday. Thursday’s activities also include opening ceremonies at 1 p.m. ...
State cycling meet coming to Lakeville
July 29 road races designed for all ages and ability levels When it comes to scenery and challenge, not much beats Lakeville for competitive cyclists, G. Michael Bargas says. Bargas is a Lakeville resident who has ridden in the community for years, so read into that what you will. But he’s betting that as many as 200 cyclists will feel the same way after competing in the Minnesota State Road...
It’s onward and upward for Rohlwing’s career
Mr. Golf Minnesota award winner re-wrote Eastview record book Some of Minnesota’s biggest men’s golf tournaments, professional and amateur, draw players who spent time honing their games in the Eastview High School program. Now the question is, could Joe Rohlwing be the best of them all? That story still is to be completed because Rohlwing just graduated from Eastview in June and has yet to play his first college tournament....
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