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BLACKDUCK — The area volleyball teams will begin their postseason playoffs Thursday and a pair of teams are seeded in the top four of the Section 8A East Division. Blackduck (13-8) is ranked third in the East and Cass Lake-Bena (13-9) is fourth. Fosston (17-10) earned the top seed while Walker-Hackensack-Akeley (13-9) is ranked second. Those four teams all received first-round byes and will host the sub-section quarterfinals on Friday. The first round matches are Thursday and in the upper bracket No. 8 Bagley (4-17) will entertain No. 9 Red L...
NORTHOME — Derrick Gross could see it coming. The Kelliher-Northome football team just completed an 8-0 campaign and the Mustangs have earned the top seed in Section 7-Nine Man. K-N will open its postseason 7 p.m. today at home against Northeast Range (Tower, Soudan, Babbitt and Embarrass) and Gross knows that the Mustangs will be ready. “Our success has been a few years in the making,” the coach said. “We’ve been improving over the last number of years and the leadership of our four seniors on this year’s team has made a big difference....
BAGLEY — Pine River-Backus is ruling the roost of the Northstar Conference’s East Division as the Tigers remained unbeaten last week with a 43-7 victory over Bagley. The loss dropped Bagley into a four-way tie for second with a 2-3 record. Sharing that mark with the Flyers are Cass Lake-Bena, Blackduck and Pillager. Still winless in five games are Red Lake and Walker-Hackensack-Akeley. Mahnomen is 5-0 in the West Division but on its heels are Lake Park-Audubon and Red Lake County which are 4-1. Fertile-Beltrami and Frazee own 3-2 records whi...
BLACKDUCK — Blackduck gave Prairie Valley of Parkers Prairie all it could handle last Friday but Prairie Valley scored a touchdown in overtime to hand the Drakes a 20-14 football loss. Friday’s setback dropped Blackduck to 1-3 overall and in the Northstar Conference. The Drakes will try to rebound this Friday when they travel to Walker-Hackensack-Akeley. In other Northstar Conference contests last week Pine River (4-0) toppled Cass Lake-Bena 50-8, Pillager downed Bagley 39-18, Red Lake County stopped Red Lake 65-20, Mahnomen blitzed WHA 60-...
BAGLEY — Bagley’s football team bounced Cass Lake-Bena from the ranks of the unbeaten last week as the Flyers stormed to a 20-6 lead and widened the final margin to 26-6. Last week’s victory upped Bagley’s overall and Northstar East Conference records to 2-1 while the Panthers dipped to 2-1. Bagley will seek its third win Friday when it heads to Pillager (0-3). Cass Lake-Bena hosts Pine River (3-0). “We looked very sharp offensively in our first two possessions,” said Bagley coach Brandon Schwegel. Both marches resulted in touchdowns...
CASS LAKE — The Cass Lake-Bena football team will shoot for its third victory of the season Friday when the Panthers head to Bagley. CL-B enters the contest tied for first place in the North Star East Conference standings as it shares a 2-0 record with Pine River. The Panthers are also receiving votes in the 9-man division of the latest Associated Press football poll, released Wednesday afternoon. Kelliher-Northome also got votes in the 9-man poll. Bagley is 1-1 overall and in league play while Blackduck, Red Lake, Pillager and W...
BEMIDJI -- Matthew Gregg of Bemidji shot the lone round in the 70s during Monday's Junior Championship division qualifying at the Bemidji Town and Country Club and he will take the favorite's role into the match-play portion of the tournament which begins Wednesday. Placing second in the qualifying was Brady Wright of International Falls (81) while Kyle Thompson of East Grand Forks was third (82). Jack Johnson of Bemidji and Gavin Loscheider of Grand Forks tied for fourth with 83s. Gregg will open his match-play against Bauer Brown of East...
JORDAN — During Wednesdaynight’s banquet for all of the state high school tournament baseball teams and theircoaches, Minnesota Twins general manager Terry Ryan congratulated the participants and offered some advice: No matter what happens during the tournament,they already had earned the right to define their seasons as successes. For Blackduck, taking Ryan’s advice to heart was the best the Drakes could do following Thursday’s Class A quarterfinal game. The Drakes dropped their state tournam...
BLACKDUCK — Colton Bales admits to being a small-town kid who appreciates baseball and looks forward to playing the game in quality ballparks. The Blackduck junior will be behind the plate Thursday when the 18-2 Drakes face 18-2 Osakis in the opening round of the state Class A baseball tournament in Jordan. Baseball is part of the town fabric in southern Minnesota and the game in that part of the state is a component of the community’s culture. And the parks reflect that reverence. “We have...
BEMIDJI – The 13th annual Kraus-Anderson Walleye Classic on Lake Bemidji and Lake Irving will be June 8 and any team that plans to participate should contact tournament officials very soon. A year ago the event attracted 97 two-angler teams and Bob Fitzgerald, who helps organize the event, believes that a full field of 100 boats will enter this year’s tournament. “We are projecting a sell-out,” Fitzgerald said. “If any team wants to get into the tournament they better hurry.” The Kraus-Anderson Classic annually attracts the top anglers fro...
BEMIDJI — Bob Saeger and his wife Gloria are not fans of cold weather. Living in Scottsdale, Ariz. since 1974 they don’t usually have to contend with temperatures that dip into the 40s or worry about having to put on an extra sweater. “I’ve been back to Bemidji for some high school reunions,” Saeger said. “I really don’t like cold weather but we’ll be happy to deal with it this week.” In the 1960s Saeger was too busy to notice the cold. A member of the Bemidji High School class of 1965, Sa...
WALKER – Friday’s 58-38 victory over Northern Freeze vaulted Walker-Hackensack-Akeley into the state Class A boys basketball tournament for the first time in the program’s history. The Wolves were one of three unseeded teams in this year’s state field and will bring a 27-2 record into the tournament. They will begin their quest for a state championship 5 p.m. Thursday at Williams Arena against third-seeded Southwest Minnesota Christian of Edgerton. If WHA can pull off the upset it will face either Battle Lake (22-5) or No. 2 ranked Upsala (30-0...
The Class A tournament will begin Thursday. First-round action is scheduled for Williams Arena and Target Center while the championship semifinals and finals will be played at the Target Center. The state field includes all four defending champions. Last year Maranatha Christian Academy won the Class A title, Providence Academy claimed the Class 2A crown, DeLaSalle captured the Class 3A championship and Hopkins won the Class 4A title. Tournament officials have ranked the top five teams in the Class 3A and Class 4A divisions and earning the top...
BEMIDJI – If you are not in peak physical condition, don’t challenge the Red Lake girls basketball team. “We try to pressure the ball at all times and we try to create turnovers. It’s the same old Red Lake brand of basketball – run it down your throat until you show that you can stop us,” said Warriors coach Randy Holthusen. Red Lake employed that style Thursday in the East Sub-Section 8A quarterfinals at Bemidji State University and on this night Lake of the Woods couldn’t maintain the pace. Re...
KELLIHER – The East Sub-Section 8A girls basketball playoffs resume tonight at Bemidji State University and Bagley High School and among the players who are eager to hit the floor is Kelly Heck of Kelliher-Northome. The junior reached a milestone last week during the regular season finale against Cass Lake-Bena. With 8:18 to play Heck headed down the court as part of a fast break. The ball found its way to the junior and she converted a short jump shot for her 1,000th career point. The bucket h...
BLACKDUCK – The section 8A and 8-2A wrestling tournaments begin Saturday at the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Thief River Falls. In Section 8A Blackduck-Cass Lake-Bena earned the fourth seed and will square off against No. 5 Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton at 2 p.m. That winner will return to the mat at 4 p.m., most likely against top-seeded Frazee. The Bears will take an 11-9 record into its opener. BCLB and Dilworth-GF have not met this winter but both teams participated in the Big Bear meet in mid-December. The Bears scored 78 points in that c...
The Section 8A girls basketball playoff picture is beginning to materialize and the chase for the top spot in the East Sub-Section continues between Clearbrook-Gonvick and Red Lake. Entering this week’s action the Bears owned that position with a QRF ranking of 68.9. Red Lake, however, was on their heels with a 63.0 QRF. Fosston has a solid grasp on the No. 3 position with a 54.3 QRF and Kelliher-Northome clings to fourth at 46.9. Not far behind the Mustangs is Mahnomen with a 42.0 QRF. A heated chase is developing for the final six division p...
CASS LAKE – Few area rivalries match the intensity of the annual battles between the Cass Lake-Bena and Red Lake boys basketball teams. Wednesday in Cass Lake the rivals met for the second time this year and, for the second time, the Panthers found a way to earn the victory. CL-B dominated the early portion of Wednesday’s contest and opened an 8-1 lead. Midway through the first half the Panthers extended that margin to 29-11 and the quick start vaulted Cass Lake-Bena to a 91-73 win. Earlier this winter the Panthers edged the Warriors 97-96 in R...
BAGLEY – The Bagley girls basketball team built an 18-7 lead over Fosston last week but the Greyhounds continued to nibble at their deficit and eventually downed the Flyers 54-44 in Pine to Prairie Conference action. Jaysha Pemberton, who was named the Pine to Prairie girls basketball Player of the Week, scored 19 points to lead Bagley. She also had four rebounds and four steals. Tuesday night the Flyers fared better as they blitzed Climax-Fisher 69-32. Pemberton scored 19 more points in that contest, going 8-of-12 from the field and 3-of-4 f...
BAGLEY – Last weekend’s storm impacted all of the area high school sports teams as every event that was scheduled for Thursday, Friday and Saturday were postponed. The Bagley girls basketball team resumed its schedule Tuesday with a 73-49 loss at Ada-Borup. On Jan. 8 the Flyers fell 49-25 to Win-E-Mac. Bailey Fultz scored 12 points and Kari Skersick seven. Bagley heads to Mahnomen tonight and hosts Roseau on Saturday. Clearbrook-Gonvick dropped its first game of the year Monday when it lost 53-37 at Pine River. The Bears bounced back Tue...
CASS LAKE – Earlier this winter, the Cass Lake-Bena boys basketball team outgunned Red Lake 97-96 in Red Lake. On Friday the teams will stage their rematch in Cass Lake, and the fans on both sides will be expecting another offensive show. During the past decade a Red Lake-CLB game usually matches two of the top teams in the Northland Conference. This winter, however, Walker-Hackensack-Akeley is the king of the hill. WHA is 4-0 in the conference and 10-1 overall after defeating Clearbrook-Gonvick 82-51 Tuesday night. It’s a tight race at the...
KELLIHER – The Kelliher-Northome girls basketball team and most of its peers resume their schedules today when the Mustangs visit Cass Lake-Bena. Kelliher-Northome fared well in its pre-holiday action, posting 5-2 record and seeing Katey Heck score her 1,000th point during a 57-48 win over Lake of the Woods in mid-December. The Mustangs will bring a 5-2 record into today’s game while Cass Lake-Bena is 0-8. Kelliher-Northome is coming off an 80-55 pre-Christmas win over Blackduck, a victory that was sparked by a 20-5 run which led to a 33-...
RED LAKE – The Cass Lake-Bena boys basketball team ended the 2012 portion of its schedule on a high note last week as the Panthers outgunned Red Lake 97-96 here. “As usual, there was a packed house for this classic rivalry,” said CL-B coach Brian Michaelson whose team evened its record at 2-2. “Going in we knew we had to play better than we did in the previous two games.” Red Lake forged a 45-39 lead at intermission but Michaelson and his players made some “minor changes” at the break. “We also had an understanding about our missed opportun...
KELLIHER – Katey Lutz scored her 1,000th point Tuesday to lead Kelliher-Northome to a 57-48 victory at Lake of the Woods. The senior forward has helped K-N open the year with a 4-2 record. Among the victories was a 75-50 home triumph over Nevis a week ago. Against the Tigers, Kelliher-Northome’s defense set the tone as the Mustangs led 34-15 at intermission. Shelene Head hit six 3-pointers in the opening period and she finished with 20 points. Lutz had 23 points and Kelly Heck 17 points. Carrie Carrigan grabbed 15 rebounds and Mary Pula had...
CASS LAKE – Learning how to play together will be one of the tasks of the Cass Lake-Bena girls basketball players. The Panthers return six letterwinners including seniors Justine Jourdain, Mariah O’Brien and Adrienne Cloud. No juniors return but the roster does include sophomore letterwinners Mariah Reyes, Meghan Brun and Tifani Ellis. “We have some new players on varsity and we have to learn to play together,” said CL-B coach Carl Dugstad. “I hope our seniors and returning letterwinners will step up and become leaders. “At this early point...