United South Central's Mariah Anderson is something special. She is a junior who stands only 5 feet, 3 inches, but she is making history that stands tall.
The ballgames had everything fans expected. Umpires being in the right position to make the right calls, coaches spinning their arms to send rampaging runners on down the line to home plate. Warmup pitches concluding and catchers hollering, “Comin’ down!”
Red Lake County, a cooperative team with students from Red Lake Falls High School and Red Lake County Central in nearby Oklee, is making its first appearance in the big metro show.
Many facts about Waseca’s first state championship team have been lost to time, and another thing that was lost was the trophy. But after decades of mystery and rumors and speculation, the shiny hardware was found a few weeks ago.
Shaun Condon’s postgame tears were complicated. Yes, of course, he was sad at the outcome. But there are losses on the scoreboard and there is sadness in the heart.
The girls basketball team from West Central Area was up early Friday morning. It was going to be a big day and the Knights were excited as they prepared to play at Williams Arena for the first time.
Benilde-St. Margaret’s has won the last two Class 3A girls basketball state championships and the Red Knights will play for a third consecutive title on Saturday.
The East Grand Forks Green Wave created all sorts of memories at the Class A boys state tournament at Xcel Energy Center. It was the most storybookish of storybook endings.
When Jordan Leopold and Thomas Vanek walked to the benches for a quarterfinal game in the boys state hockey tournament, it felt a little like returning home.
Mir Amiri has seen a lot in his young life. Some are memories he would rather not think about, but being able to enroll at Bloomington Kennedy and join the wrestling team has been spectacular.
Kailee Olson is a 2009 graduate of Cambridge-Isanti, and her hometown turned out for her. There was a raffle, a silent auction, a halftime shooting contest and more, with a whole bunch of folks wearing “Full Court Fight For Kailee” T-shirts.
People in the school communities of Rocori, Albany, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, St. John's Prep, Eden Valley-Watkins, New London-Spicer and Paynesville know exactly what River Lakes is. It’s their cooperative girls hockey team.
This hasn’t been the dream of a basketball season that Tommy Ahneman may have envisioned. But there’s still plenty of time to create some wonderful lifelong memories for the top-ranked senior in Minnesota, who plays for the top-ranked team in Class 4A.
