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Detroit Lakes Secures First Win of the Season with Victory Over Rocori Spartans, Avenging Last Year’s Playoff Loss
The Laker football team secured a 41-14 victory over the defending section champion Rocori Spartans on Friday night, marking their first win of the new season and avenging last year’s playoff loss. Despite trailing 14-13 at the end of the 1st half, the Lakers dominated the second half, shutting...
Hawley Falls to Perham for the First FB Game of the Season
The Hawley Nuggets opened their 2024 Football Season with a home game against the Perham Yellowjackets Friday night. The game started Hawley receiving the opening Kickoff. They did get 1 First Down before they had to punt. Perham began their first drive of the Season 2 first downs, before having to punt. The Nuggets returner muffed the punt and turned it over to the Yellowjackets at the Hawley 11 yard line. Perham’s QB Alex Blume punched it in from one yard out and then threw a 2-pt conversion, to give Perham the early 8-0 at 3:49 of the First Quarter. A back and forth battle saw Hawley get the ball with 1:30 to play in the First Half and capped off a drive with an 18yd scramble by QB Noah Nelson, but Hawley missed their 2pt try. Perham held a 8-6 lead at Half. The second Half saw 4-punts, 2-Turn over on downs and one Hawley Fumble…all before the Nuggets took their first lead of the game with 2:05 left in the game, going up 12-8 on a 1yd TD from Noah Nelson. After the Nuggets Kicked it off, the Yellowjackets, with 2:00min left, went on a 70 yard TD drive in :39sec on a 17yd TD pass from Alex Blume to Ashton Detloff, for Perham to get a 14-12 lead. Hawley had one more drive with 1:17 left, but a couple of penalties kept the drive from putting Hawley back on top. The game finished 14-12. Hawley falls to 0-1, Perham goes to 1-0 before they play Detroit Lakes next Friday at 7pm on KDLM and the Lakes 99.5. Hawley goes to Frazee on Friday September 6th at 7pm on KRCQ. Hawley’s QB Noah Nelson was named the Muscatell Burns Ford MVP of the game.
Laker Volleyball Suffers Loss to St. Cloud Tech in Conference and Section Matchup
The Laker volleyball team sustained their second loss of the season, falling to St. Cloud Tech 3-1 on Thursday night at the Lakeshirts Fieldhouse. Despite winning the first set, the Lakers could not close out the second and third sets, and the Tigers secured the win by dominating the fourth set. St. Cloud Tech’s junior outside hitter, Miracle Jensen, led the team with 27 kills.
Flyers CC girls take sixth in Perham; boys in 13th
The Little Falls Flyers boys and girls cross country teams started the season, competing at the Brave Like Gabe Meet at Arvig Park in Perham Saturday, Aug. 24. The girls team placed 6th place, scoring 161. Malin Youngberg came in 13th, crossing the finish line in 20:23.1. Rose Jarnot later came in 26th (21:15.5), Leah Couture in 29th (21:27.1) and Grace Wamre in 42nd (22:19.1) The boys team took 13th...
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