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Minnetonka boys place third in state True Team track
No one who follows Minnetonka High boys track was surprised to see senior captain Tobias Williams win three events in state True Team competition May 17 at Stillwater High School. Williams’ wins in the 100- and 200-meter dashes and the long jump propelled Minnetonka to third place in the 12-team event. The Skipper supported their leader with some other impressive performances. The only teams to finish ahead of Minnetonka were champion Mounds View and runner-up Blaine. ...
STMA High School announces 2023-24 Academic Awards
St. Michael-Albertville High School held its annual Academic Awards ceremony on May 15. The Academic Awards ceremony recognized over 470 students for their academic success during the 2023-24 school year. The awards honored students for their commitment to learning and for their achievement in the classroom. Among those awards given were STMA’s ExCEL, AAA, Student of Excellence and Student of the Year Awards. Davin Dufner and Claire Kvant were STMA...
Royals sweep Annandale in baseball and softball
baseball The Watertown-Mayer baseball team bounced back from 2-0 loss to Rockford with three wins, sweeping Glencoe Silver Lake 6-5 and 14-8 before a 6-1 win over Annandale. Noah Weinzierl and Jaren Vogt both had two hits in the loss to Rockford, while Gannon Lee had one. Michael Foley struck out seven in five innings, allowing just one earned run. Landon Meyer pitched two innings in relief with no hits...
Crusaders end busy week with wins
baseball The Mayer Lutheran baseball team book-ended the week with a pair of wins, defeating Lester Prairie 6-4 on Monday, before ending the week with a 4-2 win over West Lutheran. The Crusaders jumped out to a 5-0 lead through three innings when taking on the Bulldogs, before Lester Prairie made it close at the end of the game. Seth Aurich, Zach Jacobs, Sean Droneck, Jack Lorenz, and Mark Stephenson...
Sydney Drevlow continues to shine on the track
As one of the greatest endurance athletes in the history of the Lake Conference, Hopkins junior Sydney Drevlow is a runner and skier the Royals can count on. During the State Class AAA True Team Track and Field Meet May 17 in Stillwater, Drevlow competed in three events while leading the Royals to eighth place in the team standings. The highlight of her day was definitely the 800-meter run, in which Drevlow managed a narrow win over another track superstar, Minnetonka ninth-grader Evie Malec. ...
Wayzata boys track regroups after True Team State Meet
Wayzata’s streak of 11 straight top-two finishes in the State Class AAA True Team Track and Field Meet came to an end May 17 at Stillwater, due to a combination of circumstances. Untimely injuries and sicknesses were the main obstacles in the Trojans’ path. Then, there was the weather, which became particularly adverse during some of the Trojans’ best events later in the meet. For the first time in years,...
Rogers baseball takes down Hopkins at Target Field
Rogers won 3-1 on Thursday, May 16 by Erik Nelson Sports Reporter The sun shined on the players at Target Field on Thursday, May 16, as if both the Hopkins and Rogers baseball teams were being blessed by the baseball gods. In this battle between two teams that share the nickname Royals, Rogers (11-7, 10-1)...
STMA softball earns #1 seed for Section 8-4A playoff
Winning a conference title is fun but this time of the year is what teams gear up all spring for. After going 14-5 and winning the Lake Conference championship at 11-1, the St. Michael-Albertville softball team was given the #1 seed for the 2024 Section 8-4A Softball Tournament. The Knights are hoping for a repeat of last year, when STMA went 4-0 in the section tournament and made a state tournament appearance for the first time since 2019. They are hoping to make a similar...
Raiders defeat Whitehawks, Stars
The Central softball team capped off a busy week with a pair of wins over Mound Westonka and Southwest Christian on Saturday. The Raiders started the week with a split against Tri-City United, bouncing back from a 2-1 loss with a 10-7 win. The Raiders then split with Sibley East, losing 3-4 before winning 16-1. After a couple of losses to Glencoe Silver Lake and Holy Family, the Raiders defeated Mound Westonka 17-1 and Southwest Christian 3-2. ...
Rebels softball earns share of Northwest Suburban Championship
Champlin Park softball played three games last week amid an eventful end to the regular season, including a dramatic comeback 4-3 win over Wayzata on May 15. The night following the win over Wayzata, it also became official that Champlin Park, Andover, and Rogers had each finished the season tied for first in the Northwest Suburban Conference with 10-2 records, meaning all three would end the season as conference champions. ...
Orono, Westonka speakers advance at national tourney
The National Individual Events Tournament of Champions (NIETOC) brought together the nation’s best and brightest students in Oral Interpretation and Public Address categories to compete in a national tournament which took place at Bellevue West High School in Bellevue, Neb. Speakers from across the country earned an invitation to NIETOC based on their performance at various tournaments throughout the season. This year there were 1,600 entries from across the nation. Four speakers from Orono’s speech team and one from the Mound/Westonka team competed at this...
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