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Lakeville North, Eagan players qualify for Class AA tennis
The field is filling for next week’s state Class AA boys tennis tournament, with three players from the Sun Thisweek and Dakota County Tribune coverage area earning places in the singles and doubles brackets. Lakeville North junior Anthony Scheglowski will play in the singles tournament for the second consecutive year after finishing second in the Section 1AA tourney last week. Scheglowski won his first three matches, dropping only three games over six sets, before losing to Rochester Mayo’s Tej Bhagra in straight sets in the...
Local teams heading to adapted softball tourney
Lakeville North, Eagan players qualify for Class AA tennis The Burnsville/Farmington/Lakeville Blazing Cats will try to go 3-for-3 at this weekend’s state adapted softball tournament. Not in the traditional baseball/softball sense, although any hitter would welcome three hits in three at-bats. The Blazing Cats are going for a third state adapted sports team championship in one school year, which would be a first in the program’s history. ...
Softball: Rosemount, North, Farmington still in the hunt
Panthers, Tigers play for Section 1 championship Thursday Rosemount and Lakeville North are one victory from qualifying for the state Class 4A softball tournament, while Farmington is two wins away. No. 1-ranked Rosemount remained undefeated at 22-0 with a 2-1 victory over Park of Cottage Grove in the Class 4A, Section 3 winners’ bracket final at Richfield Middle School. It’s the first one-run victory of the season for Rosemount, which...
Section 3 baseball: Irish, Panthers, Wildcats win in first round
No. 2 seed Eastview sent to elimination bracket In the Class 4A, Section 3 baseball playoffs, where seeds might not mean all that much, any victory is greeted with a sigh of relief. So it was for No. 1-seeded Rosemount, which scored four runs in the first two innings to defeat eighth-seeded Apple Valley 6-1 in a first-round game Monday. ...
Section 1 baseball: Farmington, South start with victories
Both teams will play Saturday in Dundas The Class 4A, Section 1 baseball tournament is not lacking for competitive teams as 33 percent of the field – two teams out of six – are conference champions. Big Nine co-champion Rochester Mayo (17-4) and South Suburban co-champion Lakeville South (13-8) are the top two seeds. And then there’s Farmington, which has a winning pedigree of its own. ...
Track: Bills breaks shot put record
Rosemount senior throws 66-8.75 at True Team finals Rosemount senior Hayden Bills has rewritten the state high school track and field record book in one event and still has time to do it in another. If he was on his game, there was little question Bills would win the boys shot put and discus at the state Class 3A True Team finals. The only question was whether records would be...
Cougar girls lacrosse wins SSC, sets sights higher
Victory at Prior Lake is South’s closest game of season by far Joel Tornell held his clipboard in front of the Lakeville South girls lacrosse players, pretending it was the South Suburban Conference championship trophy because the genuine article wasn’t available. “Is this the one we want?” Tornell asked. Then he tossed it to the side as the players smiled and nodded in agreement. ...
Rosemount High student Diego Hernandez an art competition winner
Rosemount High School junior Diego Hernandez is a winner in the 2023 Congresstional Art Competition, according to Christin Congdon, RHS visual arts educator. Congdon said Hernandez’s work will be displayed at the U.S. Capitol and he has been awarded a trip there. Hernandez is an active student who particpates in AP Portfolio class, National Honor Society, has won the Award of Excellence at the South Suburban Conference Visusal Arts Show at Normandale Community College and is a track and field athlete, Congdon said. “A good example of a AAA student, maintaining a balance of academic, arts, and athletics in our community. With his senior year coming up fast, he is set to do some amazing things in our region,” she said.
Tennis: Wildcats find a winning formula
Eagan relies on depth to take section championship Eagan’s task for the boys tennis season was easy to understand and daunting to accomplish. The Wildcats, who qualified for the Class AA team tournament in 2022, would need to find a way to do it again in 2023 – except without their top player from last year. ...
Blaze take second in state badminton tourney
Edina edges Burnsville 4-3 in historic championship match Very little about sports is predictable, but one thing you used to be able to count on was a St. Paul school reaching the championship match in the state badminton tournament. “Used to” are the operative words in the previous sentence. The final day of the state...
Rick's Bike Sale raises over $62,000 for nonprofits
Apple Valley resident Rick Anderson’s 15th annual bike sale held May 13 sold more than 460 bikes and raised $62,955 for two local nonprofits, according to a news release. The money will benefit Kids ‘n Kinship, which matches positive adult role models with children in need, and DARTS, which provides access to information and services for those caring for an aging adult and older adults. The few unsold bikes were...
Roundup: Top-seeded Irish, Tiger softball teams win playoff openers
Baseball postseason begins next week No. 1-ranked Rosemount won quickly and decisively in its first-round game in the Class 4A, Section 3 softball tournament Tuesday afternoon. The Irish defeated Apple Valley 10-0 in five innings, running their record to 20-0. Jessa Snippes pitched a no-hitter with 10 strikeouts. Paige Zender and Kayla Bartol each had three hits and drove in two runs. Isabelle Nosan scored three runs. ...
SSC track: Rosemount teams grab Day 1 leads
Eastview triple jumpers finish first, second Defending champion Rosemount jumped to an early lead in the boys team standings after winning three events on the first day of the South Suburban Conference track and field championships. Rosemount has a slimmer lead on the girls side following Day 1 on Tuesday at Burnsville High School. Finals for the 3,200-meter run and several field events were held Tuesday, with preliminaries held in...
Softball: Slugging Irish clinch South Suburban championship
Section playoffs begin next week After scoring at least 10 runs in each of its first 12 games, the Rosemount softball team went through a stretch where it was “held” to six runs or fewer in three out of four games. The Irish came through it just fine and clinched their third consecutive South Suburban Conference championship. They had a three-game lead over Shakopee in the loss column with two...
Panthers looking to carry over tennis success to postseason
North boys go undefeated in SSC matches Michael Long has three directives for his Lakeville North boys tennis team: “Have fun, be kind, do your best.” Nowhere in there does it mention winning matches, although it turns out the Panthers have been doing a lot of that, too. They just completed a 9-0 run through the South Suburban Conference and defeated Lakeville South in the Section 1AA quarterfinals Wednesday. The...
Panthers making a push in boys lacrosse
North climbs to No. 3 in state rankings Others might consider Lakeville North a boys lacrosse surprise team, but rest assured the Panthers don’t share that view. They might have gone 6-8 in 2022 and exited the playoffs in the Section 1 semifinals. But that was last year. This year their confidence – not to mention their strong, consistent play – has been rewarded with victories in their first nine...
Cougars play their way into suddenly heated SSC baseball race
South gets past Burnsville 2-1 in eight innings The strength of the 2023 Lakeville South baseball team showed up in a year when no high school games were played. It goes back to 2020. It was to be Bill John’s first season as the Cougars’ head coach. Baseball teams got in their first week of workouts in March before schools were ordered closed because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The shutdown...
Golf: Eastview boys, South girls leading SSC
Lightning’s Wanous shoots 68 at Valleywood As the temperature increased, Eastview’s scores dropped as the Lightning boys golf team remained unbeaten in South Suburban Conference varsity tournaments. Two Eastview players broke par in their team’s 10-stroke victory at a conference tourney Monday at Valleywood Golf Course. Eastview has won the first three varsity conference tournaments. The fourth SSC tourney was scheduled Thursday at Fountain Hills in Farmington, with the final...
Notebook: Steveson is back, and maybe better
The Gable Steveson freestyle wrestling comeback tour had a blazing start at the U.S. Open Wrestling Championships, where he won all four of his matches in the 125-kilogram class by technical fall. After winning a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and back-to-back NCAA championships in 2021 and 2022, Steveson appeared ready to launch the next phase of his life, which was a professional career with World Wrestling Entertainment. He signed a multi-year contract with the company in 2021 that allowed him to...
True Team track: Rosemount, Lakeville South teams advance
Lakeville North relay breaks boys 4x800 record Home-track advantage might have meant something to Rosemount and Lakeville South, which came away with three championships at True Team section track and field meets the schools hosted Tuesday. Rosemount won dual boys and girls titles in the Class 3A, Section 3 meet at Irish Stadium, repeating their feat from last year. Lakeville South took first in the girls Class 3A, Section 1...
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