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Swimming: Lakeville teams collect hardware in Section 1AA
North and South athletes win 9 of 12 events Rochester Century won the Section 1AA boys swimming and diving team championship, but Lakeville went home with most of the hardware. Century was stymied by the top-end Lakeville talent. South dominated with individual and relay victories, taking five individual titles and two of the three relay titles. North had two individual champions, leaving Century with two individual winners and one first-place...
Irish leave state tourney with heads high, smiles intact
Rosemount goes 1-2 at Class AA girls hockey There’s a routine that takes place after every state high school girls hockey tournament game at Xcel Energy Center. Shortly after the final horn, a Minnesota State High School League representative directs coaches and players from each team to an interview room, where they answer questions from reporters for several minutes. ...
For Panthers, never too early to think about next year
State tourney experience leaves North skaters hungry for more Lakeville North’s program hadn’t been to the state girls hockey tournament in nine years. However, that did not apply to all of Lakeville North’s players. When the Panthers needed an idea of what to expect when they played in an NHL arena at Xcel Energy Center, they turned to teammate Addison Bowlby, who knew only too well. Bowlby, along with forward...
Andover, Edina dominate in Class AA girls hockey quarterfinals
Lakeville North and Rosemount play in consolation bracket Friday morning South Suburban Conference girls hockey rivals Rosemount and Lakeville North will play at 10 a.m. Friday at the TRIA Rink in St. Paul. Each team is looking for its first victory and first goal in the state girls hockey tournament. Andover and Edina have won the last six Class AA championships – and they were the teams the SSC schools...
Hockey: Eastview boys move on with OT victory
Section 1AA playoffs scheduled to start Thursday-Friday Not every break went Eastview’s way Tuesday night. But the last one did, and the Lightning’s season lives on. Senior forward Tyler Cords scored at 2 minutes, 46 seconds of overtime to give Eastview a 4-3 victory over Park of Cottage Grove in a Section 3AA quarterfinal game at Apple Valley Sports Arena. The puck appeared to deflect into the goal off the...
Wrestling: Eagles return to state with heightened ambitions
Apple Valley tops Farmington in Section 2 team final Marcell Booth called the Class 3A, Section 2 wrestling team tournament Apple Valley’s best day of the season. Now all the Eagles have to do is top it. Three wins in the section tourney – including a 44-18 victory over Farmington in the final – sent Apple Valley to the state tournament for the second consecutive year and 38th time overall....
Local gymnasts flock to state meet this weekend
Owatonna knocks off second-ranked South in Section 1AA Fourteen gymnasts from the Sun Thisweek and Dakota County Tribune coverage area will be in the state Class AA individual meet Saturday. That group includes three each from Lakeville South, Farmington and Rosemount; two each from Lakeville North and Eagan; and one from Apple Valley/Eastview. They will compete in the Class AA meet at 11 a.m. Saturday at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in...
State Nordic: Eastview/Rosemount girls team places 15th
ISD 196 finishes 15th in boys meet Eastview/Rosemount finished 14th in the girls team competition and ISD 196 was 15th in the boys standings at the state high school Nordic skiing meet Feb. 15-16 in Biwabik. Top local pursuit finisher at the state meet at Giants Ridge was Eastview/Rosemount junior Emily Percival, who finished 44th in the girls race. Gabe Wiegrefe of ISD 196 was 49th in boys pursuit. ...
North girls’ state drought ends this week
Hockey team wins Section 1AA for first time since 2014 Just two seasons ago, Lakeville North players needed to use social media to recruit a goalie. This week, the Panthers are preparing for the school’s first trip to the state girls hockey tournament in nine years. Yes, it’s been a long journey. “We had to...
Hockey: After waiting a year, Irish break through
Rosemount girls going to state for first time in 12 years In February 2022, Sophie Stramel and Anna Shandorf skated off the ice at Veterans Memorial Community Center, wondering if a golden opportunity had been squandered. They played for a Rosemount team that lost to Burnsville in the Section 3AA girls hockey championship game. Only a handful of players from the Irish roster would be back the following year. ...
JV meet opens swimming championship season
Lakeville South wins three events Traditionally, the South Suburban Conference Junior Varsity Championships is one of the favorite meets of the year for swimmers, divers, coaches and parents. If an athlete had not appeared in varsity events during the regular season, the Feb. 11 meet at Shakopee Middle School was their chance to shine. Lakeville...
Panthers are used to the pressure cooker
North defeats Eastview, extends SSC boys basketball lead to two games For the near-capacity crowd at Eastview High School watching the Lakeville North-Eastview boys basketball game, it was intense, high-energy, physical and competitive. For the Panthers and Lightning players, it was Tuesday. Games like Tuesday’s 73-68 Lakeville North victory, while not necessarily routine, are frequent...
Blaze’s upset of Eastview signals turnaround
Boys basketball team believes it can be factor in postseason Burnsville’s 76-64 victory over third-ranked Eastview on Feb. 10 is one of the biggest upsets of the high school boys basketball season, but that seems to just scratch the surface. It’s one of the biggest turnaround stories of this or any other season. About two...
Wrestling: Alagbo, Myers among state girls qualifiers
Six from AV, one each from Eastview, Rosemount advance through section Six wrestlers from Apple Valley and one each from Eastview and Rosemount have qualified for the second Minnesota girls high school state wrestling tournament. That group includes two members of the inaugural class of girls state champions from 2022 – Apple Valley junior Grace Alagbo and Eastview junior Riley Myers. ...
Cougars’ Nida 10th at state Alpine
Eagan girls 6th, North boys 8th in team competitions Lakeville South senior James Nida, along with Eagan’s Courtney Bumpers and Lakeville South’s Olivia Murphy, were All-State performers at the state Alpine skiing meet Tuesday. Nida was the top finisher from the Sun Thisweek and Dakota County Tribune coverage area at the state meet at Giants Ridge in Biwabik, taking 10th place in the boys race. Bumpers and Murphy were 12th...
Team sprints help propel ISD 196 Nordic skiers to state
Competitors eagerly embrace new event High school Nordic skiing coaches’ jobs became a little more complicated now that team sprints are part of the equation for determining state team champions. Team sprints were introduced at the Olympics in 2006. The Minnesota high school state meet has held relays before, but at first they were separate events that had no bearing on the team competition. The Minnesota State High School League...
Notebook: South boys hockey team wins 4th straight SSC title
Lakeville South overcame a two-goal deficit in the first period to defeat Rosemount 6-4 on Tuesday and clinch its fourth consecutive South Suburban Conference boys hockey championship. Senior forward Tate Pritchard sparked the rally, scoring three times in a four-goal outburst in the second period. Pritchard had 22 goals and 45 points this season, leading Lakeville South in both categories. John Novak, Aidan Willis and Jack Ohlund also scored for...
Top seeds fall in girls hockey playoffs
Rosemount, Lakeville North are one victory from state tourney The unpredictability of playoff hockey was in evidence Feb. 7 as the top seeds in the Section 1AA and 3AA girls tournaments were unable to get past the semifinal round. Northfield, seeded fourth in 1AA, scored three goals in the final five minutes (the last two into empty nets) to upset top-seeded Lakeville South 5-2. The Raiders, who are defending section...
Divers, ironmen take center stage in SSC finale
South’s Woodson breaks school record held by his coach South Suburban Conference diving grabbed the spotlight at the final meet of the regular season at Blanchard Aquatic Center in Lakeville. Lakeville South junior Porter Woodson pulled off something thought to be nearly unobtainable – a school record on the 1-meter board. He scored 295.65 points in the event during the Cougars’ 95-69 victory over Burnsville on Feb. 7. Woodson will...
Prep skiers get a chance to extend their seasons
Numerous Alpine, Nordic competitors qualify for state meets While some might want winter to just go away already, that definitely doesn’t apply to local high school Alpine and Nordic skiers, a number of whom just extended their seasons by one week. Highlights of Tuesday’s busy day of section competition included championships for Eagan’s girls Alpine team and the ISD 196 boys Nordic team. They’ll be among those headed to Giants...
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