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Park softball enters section swinging red-hot bats
Four straight doubles nearly completes comeback against Chaska Softball and baseball seasons are quickly approaching the end of the all to brief spring season with section playoffs starting this week for softball. Baseball wraps up the regular season this week before starting section play next week. Park softball wrapped up the regular season with three...
STMA boys’ tennis falls to Monticello in team section tournament
The St. Michael-Albertville boys’ tennis team battled hard during the 2024 Section 8AA Boys Team Tennis Tournament. The Knights played in two matches on May 14 at Monticello High School. Willmar was first and St. Michael-Albertville took care of the Cardinals 7-0. Next, they played Monticello during round two. The Magic beat the Knights 5-2 during the regular season so the blue and gold were out for revenge. It was...
Lake Conference Sports Notes
Bucks for a Buc Former Eden Prairie High and University of Minnesota football player Antoine Winfield Jr. became the highest-paid defensive back in the NFL when he signed a four-year $84.1 million contract with the New Orleans Buccaneers. $45 million of the contract is guaranteed. The 2024 season will be Winfield’s fifth with the Buccaneers. Last season he had 122 tackles, including six quarterback sacks. Winfield also picked off three...
Wildcats defeat Spartans
After a strong start to the 2024 season, the Waconia baseball team had a tough week last week, winning one out of four games. The Wildcats lost 11-6 to Benilde-St. Margaret’s, 8-2 against New Prague and 10-4 against Prior Lake. Their lone win was a 9-4 victory over Orono. The Wildcats outhit the Red Knights 10-9, but still fell in the 11-6 game. Culley Ohm and Soren Marker led Waconia...
Orioles pick up Metro West track crowns
Park 4x100 boys and girls sweep sprint relay at conference championships The Metro West Conference crowned track and field champions May 15 at New Prague High School with Waconia boys topping Chanhassen by 10 points (141-131) and Chanhassen girls beating New Prague by 17 points (128-111) for the respective team titles. St. Louis Park boys placed sixth (44) and the girls were fifth (91), 1.5 points behind fourth-place Chaska (92.5). ...
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. ...
Westonka golfers hit the greens in Jordan, Hopkins
The Mound Westonka boys golf team had two meets last week. The first was Lord Nelson’s Classic at the Ridges at Sand Creek in Jordan on May 7. The team had the chance to play against some of the best players in the state, with seven of the top ten ranked teams competing. Maple Grove won the Classic, with Spring Lake Park taking second. Sophomore Luke Sunnarborg started the round near the top of the leaderboard with four pars, but fell behind after that, finishing...
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