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Girls basketball: Top seeds go to Panthers, Irish
Eagan draws third seed in Section 3 South Suburban Conference champion Lakeville North and runner-up Rosemount received No. 1 seeds for section girls basketball tournaments that begin this week. Lakeville North (21-5), seeking its third consecutive state tournament appearance and 12th since 2010, is the top seed in the Class 4A, Section 1 playoffs. Seeded second is Lakeville South, which has never been to the state tournament but split two...
Cougars earn historic gymnastics championship
South wins state Class AA team meet Anybody who follows Minnesota high school gymnastics knows about Lakeville’s place in the sport. Last weekend, Lakeville South made a significant addition to the legacy. The Cougars won the Class AA team title by 2.5 points Feb. 23 at Roy Wilkins Auditorium, earning the school’s first state gymnastics championship – team or individual. ...
Cougars’ Keith 4th all-around in debut season
Four Farmington gymnasts compete at state Already a successful club gymnast, Piper Keith came to the Lakeville South High School program looking for a change. It seems she will be sticking around awhile. It’s hard to imagine many more successful high school debut seasons than the one Keith just completed. Not only did the ninth-grader...
Irish can’t manufacture a victory at state hockey
Rosemount girls fall to Andover, Roseau, finish 14-11-5 The sizable Rosemount student section chose a Red-out, White-out and Blue-out theme for the state Class AA girls hockey quarterfinals. Not coincidentally, Feb. 22 was the 44th anniversary of the greatest upset in the sport’s history – the U.S. men’s national team’s 4-3 victory over the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the 1980 Olympic tournament, now known as the Miracle on...
JV swimming: Eagan wins five events at SSC meet
Eagan had a stellar showing at the South Suburban Conference boys junior varsity swimming and diving championships Feb. 10 in Prior Lake. The Wildcat squad was led by first-place finishers Gavin Yang, Riley McRoberts, Sam Frost, Ethan Jenkins and Pranav Ontivillu. Yang and McRoberts each won two individual events, and together with Frost and Liam Edel, led their 200-yard medley relay to victory in 1 minute, 56.53 seconds. The Wildcats won eight events overall. ...
Cancer hits hard; Eastview basketball community hits back harder
Girls program rallies to support player’s mom Athletic teams at virtually every level now do fundraisers to bring awareness to various cancer-fighting causes and support to those undergoing treatment. Usually the perspective is big-picture as teams seek to do something to benefit their communities, but oftentimes it also becomes personal. Such is the case with the Eastview High School girls basketball program, which held its inaugural “Ballin’ for a Cure,”...
Eagles survive section wrestling donnybrook
Apple Valley outlasts Prior Lake, New Prague Josh Barlage doesn’t want to say he told you so, but ... yeah, he told you so. A few weeks ago the Apple Valley wrestling coach said as many as four teams could come away with the Class 3A, Section 2 team championship. He didn’t offer any predictions at the time, other than to say the Eagles would be one of the four. ...
Eastview, Lakeville South boys skaters draw No. 1 seeds
Rosemount is a No. 2 seed in Section 3AA Eastview and Rosemount are seeded first and second in the Section 3AA boys hockey playoffs and will be among the teams looking to end a seven-year private school winning streak. Eighth seed Hastings (16-9-1) defeated ninth-seeded Apple Valley/Burnsville (5-21) in a play-in game Tuesday and advances to play Eastview (17-7-1) in the quarterfinals Thursday at Apple Valley Sports Arena. Other quarterfinal...
Panthers clinch SSC girls basketball title
North allows 18 second-half points in victory at Eastview Lakeville North’s 57-48 victory at Eastview on Tuesday night clinched the Panthers’ second consecutive South Suburban Conference girls basketball championship. But it wasn’t a stroll to the victory on Tuesday – North trailed 30-25 at halftime – nor was it an easy route to the title. “The last time I looked at the rankings, there were five or six teams from...
State Nordic: Lakeville skier 30th in pursuit
Eastview/Rosemount girls team 16th at Giants Ridge Lakeville sophomore Faye Braun finished 30th in girls pursuit at the state high school Nordic skiing meet last week in Biwabik. Braun, who skis for a combined Lakeville North/South team, had an overall time of 29 minutes, 59.1 seconds in the Feb. 14 pursuit race at Giants Ridge Recreation Area. She had the 33rd-fastest time in the 5-kilometer freestyle race, the first of...
Gymnastics: Cougars patch lineup, keep pushing forward
Top-ranked South goes to state team competition Friday A season-ending injury not only is devastating to a gymnast, it tends to be pretty rough on her team. Lakeville South captain Alexa Drew, one of the Cougars’ top all-arounders, saw her 2023-24 season end early after being injured in January. Clearly, that caused the Cougars to wonder what was next. ...
Irish are ready for their return engagement
Girls hockey quarterfinal is rematch with Andover A feeling of deja vu swept over the Rosemount girls hockey team twice within a few days last week. The first time, it was absolutely welcome. When Rosemount defeated Apple Valley 6-1 in the Section 3AA championship game Feb. 14, the Irish knew what it meant. They were going to the state tournament for the second consecutive year. ...
Irish, Eagles, Cougars advance in girls hockey playoffs
SSC champion Lakeville North suffers overtime upset Apple Valley avoided an upset in the Section 2AA girls hockey semifinals, but Lakeville North did not escape that fate. Rosemount defender Maggie Erickson scored at 7 minutes, 11 seconds of overtime as the Irish defeated top-seeded Lakeville North 4-3 on Feb. 10 at Ames Arena. In the other semifinal, No. 3-seeded Apple Valley got past Park of Cottage Grove 3-2 on Makayla...
Skiing: Section meets produce compelling races
Rosemount boys Alpine team earns state berth via tiebreaker Close calls were the order of the day at the Section 6 Alpine skiing meet, where the Rosemount boys team earned a state meet berth via tiebreaker. Rosemount and Lakeville North each finished with 309 points at the section meet Tuesday at Buck Hill. They were four points behind champion Mankato West. The section’s second-place team also advances to state, necessitating...
Basketball: South boys overtake Farmington in final seconds
Lakeville North girls hold two-game lead in SSC Evidently, Lakeville South learned a lot in the six weeks between its two boys basketball games against Farmington. When the teams first met Dec. 19, things got ugly in a hurry for South, which lost 87-47. In the Feb. 2 rematch, the Cougars were ready. After trailing by double digits in the second half they stormed back and won 72-70 on Ryan...
Former local resident qualifies for U.S. Olympic Team
Dakotah Lindwurm cruises to third place in the marathon at Olympic trials Dakotah Lindwurm, 28, a Hopkins resident who used to live in Burnsville and Eagan, can add Olympian to her list of accomplishments after placing third at the United States Olympic Marathon Trials this month in Orlando, Florida. The finish qualified her for the 2024 Paris Olympics, which begin July 26. Lindwurm, who is supported by Puma, ran 26.2...
Tiger wrestlers top sixth-ranked New Prague
Section team tournament is next week at Farmington High One result from last week might catch coaches’ attention when they seed teams for the Class 3A, Section 2 wrestling tournament. Farmington’s 31-30 victory over New Prague on Feb. 1 could have an effect on the seedings. New Prague, which finished second in the 2023 Class 2A tournament before moving up this year, was sixth in the state Class 3A rankings...
Lakeville wrestlers reach individual milestones
Section team tournament comes up next week Lakeville wrestlers have hit some important career milestones this season, including three who won their 100th career varsity matches. Wrestlers reaching career victory No. 100 are sophomore Riley Clark and senior Bo Bischof, both of Lakeville South, and Lakeville North senior Antonio Menard. Lakeville South senior Leo English...
Lakeville flag football organization expands to include all-girls teams
Play in spring league begins in April Anybody who snickered at the sight of NFL stars playing flag football at the Pro Bowl on Sunday might be wise to reconsider. Players such as C.J. Stroud, Keenan Allen, Tyreek Hill, Jalen Hurts, CeeDee Lamb and Baker Mayfield didn’t appear to mind slinging the ball around a stadium in Orlando, Florida, in a no-contact environment for fans’ enjoyment in the run-up to...
Swimming: Panthers win back-and-forth meet against Irish
Lakeville South breaks 5 pool records at Shakopee Lakeville North and Rosemount traded the lead several times in a Feb. 2 South Suburban Conference boys swimming meet before North prevailed 95-90, moving to 5-3 in the SSC. Rosemount fired the first shot, with seniors Spencer Rudd, Quinlan Schroeder, Jackson Preusse and Josh Sikorski winning the 200-yard medley relay in 1 minute, 42.55 seconds. North took the next victory, with Jonah...
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