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Notebook: Regan Smith earns two more golds at world championships
Lakeville’s Regan Smith continues to make her mark in international swimming, earning the third and fourth world aquatics championships gold medals of her career in Budapest, Hungary. Smith, a three-time medalist at the Tokyo Olympics last summer, won the women’s 100-meter backstroke on June 20 and swam the opening leg for the U.S. team’s winning 4x200 freestyle relay June 25. The last time the world championships were held in 2019, Smith won the 200 backstroke, setting a world record in the semifinals, and swam on...
Tiger baseball reaches back-to-back championship games
Loss to Stillwater in Class 4A final breaks 13-game postseason winning streak The state Class 4A baseball championship game wasn’t Farmington’s finest hour but shouldn’t diminish what came before, coach Jon Graff said. “The last couple of years we’re 44-10,” Graff said following the Tigers’ 8-1 loss to Stillwater on June 17 at Target Field. “We’re 13-1 in postseason play. First-place and second-place trophies brought home by these guys. We...
Cougars reach their destination at girls lacrosse tourney
South scores last three goals to defeat Chanhassen in state final The clock was ticking. Not only for six Lakeville South seniors trying to win a state championship before their high school girls lacrosse careers ended, but also for head coach Patrick Crandall, guiding the Cougars for the last time before leaving to start a varsity program at the College of St. Benedict. ...
Eastview girls 3rd at state golf tourney
Finley shoots 70 in second round for top-10 individual finish Once again, Alexandria proved tough to catch at the state Class 3A girls golf tournament, but Eastview left with what it wanted. Eastview finished third in the team competition last week at Bunker Hills in Coon Rapids, significant because the top three teams receive trophies, and the Lightning were looking to bring something back from the tournament other than souvenir...
State golf: Irish’s Rexing is co-champion after topsy-turvy finish
Eastview, Lakeville North tie for 5th in team competition A back nine full of twists and turns produced an unusual three-way tie at the top of the state Class 3A boys golf standings – and gave Rosemount High School its first state champion. The state high school boys golf tournament was first contested in 1928, and the girls tournament followed in 1977. Rosemount never had a state individual or team...
Irish shine when it matters most
Strong second-day performance carries Rosemount to girls track championship Rosemount’s track and field athletes have a knack for turning it on when it matters most, a gift that helped the Irish win their third consecutive girls state team championship. The Irish were expecting a fight to the finish with Minnetonka for the girls Class 3A championship June 11 at St. Michael-Albertville High School. In reality, they put a lock on...
North relay keeps No. 1 ranking, adds state medals
Panther boys finish season with victory in 4x400 How do you build a championship 4x400-meter relay team? If you’re Lakeville North, you take two runners who specialize in distance races and combine them with a hurdler and an athlete experiencing the high-pressure world of state high school track meets for the first time. That eclectic group – senior Jack Kocher and juniors Bryce Stachewicz, Blake Licht and Andrew Casey –...
Tigers rally to win baseball tourney opener
Two-run sixth inning gives Farmington 3-2 victory over Park Giving up two runs in the first inning of a state tournament game would unnerve a lot of pitchers. For Zach Dohrmann, it was just another day at the office. “That’s usually how it goes,” the Farmington senior said with a grin. What happened next was...
Lacrosse: Rosemount girls topple defending champs
Seven-goal blitz in first half keys Section 6 victory Following a third-place finish in the 2021 state girls lacrosse tournament and returning everybody but the starting goalie, expectations were predictably high in the Rosemount girls soccer program. But the Minnesota State High School League threw the Irish a curve, to borrow a cliche from another sport. Section realignments, which take place every two years, placed Rosemount in the same girls...
Not an ending for Cougars, but maybe a beginning
South will return majority of state-qualifying softball team Although Lakeville South had a short stay at the state high school softball tournament, it probably was long enough to leave an impact on the Cougars’ program. “This is going to leave them hungry. They now know what this is like,” coach Lisa Smith said of a team that will graduate three seniors from a roster that reached the Class 4A tournament...
Bring food donations to Dew Days Parade to give to Farmington Food Shelf
Farmington Dew Days Parade spectators can bring food shelf donations to the Grand Parade that will be donated to the Farmington Food Shelf. The parade is scheduled for noon Sunday, June 26, and a 360 Communities van and food shelf volunteers with shopping carts will be collecting non-perishable, shelf stable food donations.
District 196 Destination ImagiNation teams have top finishes at state
Two Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District 196 Destination ImagiNation teams had top finishes at the state tournament in April and qualified to compete at the DI Global Finals in Kansas City, Missouri, May 21-24.
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