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Youth is served at Pan-O-Prog Run
High school, college athletes lead the pack at Lakeville race Events such as the Lakeville Pan-O-Prog Run are held shortly after the high school and college track and field seasons are over, so it stands to reason a lot of the top finishers are athletes who just finished their schools’ seasons. In the July 15 Pan-O-Prog Run at Lake Marion, recent Lakeville North High School graduates Ethan Kimmel and Niko...
Notebook: Payton Otterdahl throws personal best in shot put, qualifies for worlds
Rosemount native Payton Otterdahl will go to the World Athletics Championships in Hungary next month after finishing third in the shot put at the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships. Otterdahl threw a career-best 72 feet, 5.75 inches in the July 9 men’s shot put competition at the University of Oregon. He was just half an inch behind runner-up Josh Awotunde. Taking first with a throw of 75-0 was two-time Olympic gold medalist and current world record holder Ryan Crouser. The top three finishers at...
Team Tyus wins on Twin Cities Pro-Am opening day
Summer league brings together basketball players from varied backgrounds The Twin Cities Pro-Am basketball league started its 2023 summer season last weekend, featuring its usual eclectic mix of players ranging from emerging high school standouts to established NBA veterans. The league tipped off July 8 at Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis, featuring all six teams. Over the next several weeks, it will hold doubleheaders on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with games...
Local teams unable to advance past Gopher Classic pool play
American Legion baseball playoffs start next week Seven teams from Nebraska reached the knockout stage of the Gopher Classic American Legion baseball tournament, but the six teams from Dakota County were unable to advance past pool play. Teams representing Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eastview, Farmington, Lakeville North and Rosemount were among 95 entries in the tournament, which was in its 45th year. Teams were assigned to 16 pool-play sites for games...
More than 230 compete in Apple Valley Freedom Days run
Peterson siblings are among the winners Siblings were the 5-mile race winners at the Apple Valley Freedom Days Fun Run on July 4. Brennen Peterson, 20, a Rosemount High School graduate and former Irish distance runner, was first in the men’s division by approximately 40 seconds. He finished in 28 minutes, 26.3 seconds. His sister Lauren, 22, a distance running star at Farmington and Rosemount high school and now a...
Notebook: Greg May joins U of M women’s hockey coaching staff
Greg May is returning to University of Minnesota hockey, although in a different role – and with a different team. May, a Burnsville native who was head coach of the Augsburg University men’s team the last two years, last week was named associate head coach of the U of M women’s program. It’s his second time working at Minnesota, where he was director of operations for the men’s hockey program from 2019-21. ...
Regan Smith wins three events at U.S. swimming nationals
Lakeville native on her way to world championships later this month Lakeville’s Regan Smith ramped up her push to return to the Olympics by winning three events at the USA Swimming National Championships last week, setting U.S. Open records in two of them. Smith, who won two silver medals and a bronze in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, took first in the women’s 100-meter backstroke, 200 backstroke and 200 butterfly...
Snippes, Moes earn player of year awards
Rosemount, Lakeville South athletes were dominant in their sports Jessa Snippes of Rosemount and Emily Moes of Lakeville South have been named players of the year in their respective spring sports, which will come as no surprise to anybody who watched them compete. Snippes is the 2023 Ms. Softball Award winner after helping Rosemount go undefeated and win the Class 4A championship. Moes, the state’s leading scorer in girls lacrosse,...
Wild pick Rosemount’s Stramel in first round of NHL draft
Columbus chooses Whitelaw; Arizona takes Tanner Ludtke “No better feeling than to get picked to the hometown team.” Those were among Charlie Stramel’s first words to Minnesota Wild fans after the team selected the Rosemount native in the first round of last week’s NHL Draft. The 6-foot-3, 215-pound forward is likely to continue his college...
Local teams will slug it out in Gopher Classic
Fredrickson Field is one of the pool-play sites for Legion baseball tourney Ninety-six teams, including several from Dakota County, will play in the Gopher Classic American Legion baseball tournament beginning Friday. The tournament, in its 45th year, has approximately 50 teams from Minnesota. Others come from North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Montana and Wyoming. Two teams from Canada also are entered in the Gopher Classic, which bills itself as...
Notebook: Northern Lights teams sparkle at nationals
Teams from Northern Lights Volleyball are making their presence known at the AAU Junior National Championships, including winners at the girls Open and Classic levels. The Burnsville-based club’s 14-1 team won the 14 Open division, winning 10 of its 12 matches over four days at the nationals in Orlando, Florida. The Open division is the tournament’s highest competitive level. In its last two matches, Northern Lights had to come back after losing the first set to win a best-of-three match, They defeated A5 Volleyball Club...
Dual-sport roles test discipline, time management
Rosemount athletes had chance to compete for two state titles in one week There was no late-night celebration for outfielder Will Harder after Rosemount clinched a section baseball championship June 7. The next day, he was scheduled to be at St. Michael-Albertville High School to run the 3,200 meters at the state track meet. He’s had it tougher. ...
Rosemount, Lakeville South teams reach clay target tourney
Irish finish 36th, Cougars 37th Rosemount and Lakeville South were among 40 teams to qualify for the Minnesota State High School League clay target state tournament June 23 at Minneapolis Gun Club in Prior Lake. The Irish were 36th and the Cougars 37th in the team competition, which United South Central won with 484 points. In the team event, five shooters fire at 100 targets each, with the combined number...
Cougars take third place at state girls lacrosse
When Emily Moes thinks about what the Lakeville South girls lacrosse program has meant to her, it will always come back to the pink pig. “It’s called the Dingus,” Moes said about the stuffed animal that’s gone from player to player during her time at South. “It started as something we gave to a player who did something kind of silly, like they forgot their stick somewhere or forgot their jersey. They got the Dingus and we passed it around. It was a sign that...
State golf: Eastview boys hold first-round lead, finish third
South’s Ordal ties for third in girls Class 3A tourney Although Eastview couldn’t keep up with the torrid pace Edina set in the final round of the Class 3A boys golf tournament, the Lightning earned their third consecutive top-five finish. Eastview was the first-round leader by one stroke at the June 13-14 tournament at Bunker Hills in Coon Rapids. Defending champion Edina took command on Day 2 as two Hornets...
Oh so close for Irish baseball
Bloop single in 7th the difference as East Ridge wins Class 4A championship It was a postgame talk Chris Swansson couldn’t rehearse because the circumstances seemed so unlikely. After all, what were the chances of a team outscoring its state tournament opponents 16-3 and not winning the championship? But that’s what the Rosemount baseball players had to process as they walked slowly toward right field to hear what Swansson had...
State champion Panthers are overtime warriors
Nate Long started the state championship game as the eighth-leading scorer on his team. He finished it as a Lakeville lacrosse legend. If opponents and fans overlooked Long because he scored eight goals in Lakeville North’s first 18 games, maybe that’s understandable. But the fact remains he scored the two biggest goals in program history, including the one that gave the Panthers their first state championship in an 11-10 overtime victory over Prior Lake on June 17 at Stillwater High School. ...
Irish will play for state baseball championship
Rosemount races past Edina with 10-run inning After turning a two-run deficit into a huge lead in a matter of minutes, Rosemount is on to the state Class 4A baseball championship game. The Irish, who defeated Edina 12-2 in the semifinals Wednesday, will play East Ridge in the final at 7:30 p.m. Friday at CHS Field. It will be the second championship game for Rosemount High School in 10 appearances...
State lacrosse: South girls, North boys advance
Moes, O’Brien combine for 11 goals in Cougars’ victory A 19-9 victory over Elk River/Zimmerman in the state quarterfinals was the latest stop on Lakeville South’s girls lacrosse journey. The Cougars’ destination, of course, is the state championship game again. Defending state champion Lakeville South pulled away from Elk River/Zimmerman in the second half of Tuesday’s tournament game at White Bear Lake High School and remained the state’s only undefeated...
Tough pitching, timely hitting help Irish advance
Baseball team tops Sartell in Class 4A quarterfinals The Rosemount-Sartell game in the state Class 4A baseball quarterfinals featured a duel of two Division I-bound pitchers. After it ended, the Irish’s Jack Thompson was sporting the big hat. Thompson pitched a shutout as the Irish (18-6) won 4-0 at CHS Field on Tuesday, earning a place in the semifinals against Edina on Wednesday afternoon, after this edition went to press....
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