DULUTH, Minn. – In a battle of unbeaten teams, the Esko girls basketball team won a nail-biter over Duluth Marshall 62-59 Monday night. And the Eskomo boys got a combined 41 points from Mason Perich and Eli as they earned a road win over rivals Cloquet 78-47. Categories: High School, Sports
STEVENS POINT, Minn. – Monday, the WIAA put out the playoff brackets for boys and girls hockey, which begins next Thursday, February 4th. DIVISION TWO BOYS #5 Amery Co-op at #4 Hayward – 7 p.m. #7 Frederic Co-op at #2 Superior – 7 p.m. GIRLS #5 Hayward Co-op at #4 Chippewa Falls Co-op – 7:30 p.m. #6 Superior/Northwestern at #3…
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Monday, the UMAC released its preseason coaches poll for men’s basketball. Defending regular season champs Northwestern take the top spot with five of the nine first-place votes. St. Scholastica is right behind them at #2 as they nabbed three first-place votes. UW-Superior, who made a big jump last season, come in at #4 after graduating a…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – The UW-Superior athletic department announced Monday that fans will not be allowed to attend Yellowjackets home sporting events. This includes men’s and women’s hockey, basketball and indoor track and field. According to athletic director Nick Bursik, the decision was made in conjunction with guidelines from the Douglas County Health Department. The press release goes on to remind…
DULUTH, Minn. – Ben Almquist and Connor Kelley scored their first career goals as the No. 7 UMD men’s hockey team got the 4-1 win over Western Michigan on Sunday to sweep the weekend series. Cole Koepke and Noah Cates also scored while Quinn Olson and Nick Swaney picked up two assists each. Zach Stejskal got the start and finished…
DULUTH, Minn. – Grand Rapids running back Caden Hofstad announced that he has committed to the St. Scholastica football team. In seven games his senior season, Hofstad rushed for 344 yards and three touchdowns, and he also caught 52 yards and had a receiving touchdown. Hofstad led the Thunderhawks to an undefeated regular season this past fall. His junior season,…
DULUTH, Minn. – It’s finally game week for the St. Scholastica women’s hockey team. The Saints have plenty of scoring returning this season and have their largest roster size in program history, but they will have a new face in net. The Saints graduated standout Lexi Thomeczek in the spring but have a pretty solid backup: senior Lori Huseby will…
CLOQUET, Minn. – The Minnesota Wilderness struggled to get anything going offensively, as the Kenai River Brown Bears got the 4-0 road win on Sunday night. The Wilderness finished with 44 shots on goal. The Wilderness are scheduled to return to action on Saturday hosting the Austin Bruins. Categories: Sports
DULUTH, Minn. – Jackson Cates scored a natural hat trick in the third period, with all three goals coming less than 10 minutes apart, as the No. 7 Minnesota Duluth men’s hockey team got the 5-1 win over Western Michigan in the first game of the weekend series. The Bulldogs jumped out to an early lead, having a 2-0 advantage…
DULUTH, Minn. – Drew Blair dropped 26 points on Saturday but it wouldn’t be enough as MSU-Moorhead got the 103-95 win over the UMD men’s basketball team to sweep the weekend series. Jack Middleton scored a career-high 18 points while Joshua Brown finished with 13 points. The Bulldogs came out strong in the first half, but the Dragons went on…
ESKO, Minn. – Logan Orvedahl led the way with 27 points as the Moose Lake-Willow River boys basketball team got the 87-70 road win over Esko on Saturday. The Rebels improve to 3-0 on the season while Esko falls to 0-3. The Eskomos are scheduled to return to action on Monday in Cloquet while Moose Lake-Willow River will look to…
BEMIDJI, Minn. – Freshman defender Nina Jobst-Smith scored her first collegiate goal in 3-on-3 overtime on Saturday afternoon, giving the No. 6 Minnesota Duluth women’s hockey team the 1-0 win over Bemidji State to split the weekend series. The offensive struggles continued, as Jobst-Smith’s goal was UMD’s first goal since the series opener against Ohio State on Jan. 15. UMD…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – Garrett Lickiss loves basketball. So much so that he has spent the last three years as the team manager for the Superior boys basketball team. But when he was a child, he was diagnosed with an abnormality of his corpus callosum, a nerve in the brain that connects the left and right sides. In spite of that,…
DULUTH, Minn. – For this week’s Coaches Corner, we hear from St. Scholastica women’s hockey head coach Jackie MacMillan as the Saints will start their season next week. Categories: Coaches Corner, College, Friday Night Frenzy, Sports
DULUTH, Minn. – Molly Henderson would score the lone goal for the Duluth girls hockey team as they fall to Dodge County 5-1 Friday night at the Heritage Center. Sophie Mitchell finished with 26 saves for the Northern Stars, who will be back in action Monday night as they host Grand Rapids/Greenway. Categories: High School, Sports
DULUTH, Minn. – The country’s top prospect Chet Holmgren and top-ranked Minnehaha Academy were too much for the Duluth East boys basketball team to handle, as they got the 77-36 road win to hand the Greyhounds their first loss of the season. Giovani Saldivar, Noah Paulson and Mattie Thompson each led the Greyhounds with nine points while Holmgren finished the…
DULUTH, Minn. – The UMD men’s basketball team dropped their second straight game, as MSU-Moorhead got the 93-76 win in the first game of the weekend series. Drew Blair led the way with 22 points while Joshua Brown finished with 19 points and four rebounds. Austin Andrews chipped in with 10 points and four rebounds. The Bulldogs shot 52 percent…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – In prep boys basketball action, Superior earned the home win over Duluth Marshall 73-58 Thursday night. The Spartans improve 3-2. And in girls basketball action, Maiah Christianson led the way with 24 points as Hermantown picked up the road win over Duluth East 58-53. The Greyhounds were led by Ashlynne Guenther, who finished with a game-high 25…
PROCTOR, Minn. – Seven different goal-scorers with find the back of the net as the Hermantown boys hockey team stayed undefeated with a win over Proctor 9-0 Thursday night at the St. Luke’s Sports & Events Center. Dominic Thomas and Ethan Lund led the way with two goals each, while Joey Pierce, Gavin Blomdahl, Zam Plante, Aydyn Dowd and George…
DULUTH, Minn. – The UMD women’s hockey team will be back in action this weekend as they travel to Bemidji State. The Bulldogs are coming off a great series at home against third-ranked Ohio State. Head coach Maura Crowell says while it was disappointing to allow just a single goal against the Buckeyes and not get the sweep, it was…
DULUTH, Minn. – Friday night, the Duluth East boys basketball team will host Minnehaha Academy and Chet Holmgren, who is the number one high school player in the entire country. He is over seven feet tall, but sometimes plays point guard for the Red Hawks. He’s an elite shot blocker with an unlimited shooting range. We spoke with the Greyhounds…
DULUTH, Minn. – The UMD women’s basketball team announced Thursday that their series against Minnesota State Moorhead has been cancelled due to positive COVID-19 cases in the Dragons’ program. This is the second straight week that the Bulldogs will not be in action. Per NSIC scheduling guidelines for this season, the series will not be re-scheduled. Categories: College, Sports, University…
DULUTH, Minn. – In the era of COVID-19, prep teams across the country have to be ready to make changes on the fly if players are out and schedules have to be adjusted. But at this time last year, the Duluth East boys hockey team was hit with a bug few teams have ever seen in recent memory with nearly…
DULUTH, Minn. – The UMD men’s hockey team has been a pleasant surprise this season. Four of the top five players in minutes played are freshmen, who have helped the team get off to a 2-1 start to the season. One of the keys has been the fact that those players are already used to winning as they come from…
DULUTH, Minn. – The UMD men’s hockey team are back from quarantine after a COVID-19 situation postponed their series last week. It was their first pause of the season, which gave them a chance to hit the reset button following a less than ideal series against St. Cloud State. “We were really hungry to play that Miami series and that…
DULUTH, Minn. – Last season, UMD’s Brooke Olson dominated on the hardwood, earning NSIC Player of the Year honors. And after the pandemic cut her sophomore season short, not allowing her to showcase her talents during the NCAA tournament, the Rice Lake native made sure to carry over that play into this year. Olson is currently tops in the NSIC…
DULUTH, Minn. – In prep girls hockey action, the Duluth Northern Stars got the season-opening win 10-7 over Superior, while Duluth Marshall blanked Moose Lake 7-0. In prep boys hockey action, Cloquet-Esko-Carlton picked up their first win of the season 3-0 over Virginia/MIB, and Proctor got hat tricks from Conner Pavlowich and Brett Bartlam as they won their home opener…
DULUTH, Minn. – The Duluth East boys basketball team improved to 2-0 on the season after getting the 80-38 win over Cloquet in their home opener. Mattie Thompson led the way with 28 points while Zaa Buffalo and Noah Paulson each finished with 12 points. Alec Turnbull led the Lumberjacks with 13 points. In prep girls action, Duluth Marshall and…
TWO HARBORS, Minn. – The infinity skating rink is officially open at the Superior Shores Resort in Two Harbors, capping off a project almost two months in the making. “We were approached by the owner of the resort and he had this idea that he wanted to do a 170 foot by 75 foot infinity shaped skating rink. So we…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – The UWS women’s hockey team is getting closer and closer to their first game of the season next week. The Yellowjackets are coming off of one of their best seasons in a decade, finishing 17-8-2, with six of those loses to ranked opponents. They also got two ranked wins last year, so the Yellowjackets are going to…
DULUTH, Minn. – This weekend, the UMD men’s hockey team will be back at home as they host Western Michigan University. Usually their series begins on Friday night, but this one will have a slight delay. The Bulldogs-Broncos series will be moved to Saturday and Sunday at Amsoil Arena. Puck drop on the first night is set for just after…
HERMANTOWN, Minn. – Last season, Duluth native Emma Stauber jumped into the Northland hockey coaching scene to become the bench boss for her former team, the Proctor/Hermantown Mirage. And for a first year head coach, she did a pretty good job. The team finished the season with a 19-9 record, falling just one goal short in the Section 7A championship…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – Superior native Mike Carlson has had a superb start to his season in the ACB League, widely considered the best basketball league outside of the NBA. In his debut game, the Duluth Marshall alum hit the game winning three-pointer to give his team their first victory of the season. “I’ve done that in my backyard a couple…
CROMWELL, Minn. – In their first home game of the season, the Cromwell-Wright girls basketball team defeated Wrenshall 79-18 Monday night. The Cardinals improve to 2-0 on the season as they will travel to Silver Bay on Friday night. Categories: High School, Sports
SUPERIOR, Wis. – Monday, the Mont Du Lac Resort hosted a high school alpine skiing meet. Duluth East, Duluth Marshall and Duluth Denfeld took part, along with CEC and Hermantown. The top time overall went to Duluth East’s Mia Arnold, who had a combined time for her two runs of just under one minute and ten seconds. Denfeld’s Margaret Duncan…
CLOQUET, Minn. – After a nearly three month wait, the Minnesota Wilderness finally held their home opener on Sunday night, getting a 4-3 shootout win over the Austin Bruins. The Wilderness put up three goals in the first period, then Austin battled back to force overtime. Cloquet native Gavin Rasmussen, Mitchell Allard and Josh Bohlin all scored for the Wilderness…
DULUTH, Minn. – The UMD women’s hockey team returned home this weekend, playing in their first games in over a month and split their series against Ohio State. It was a stellar weekend for junior netminder Emma Soderberg. The reigning WCHA goaltender of the month made 34 saves on Friday, recording her third shutout in seven games, then made 44…
CABLE, Wis. – The St. Scholsatica ski teams became the first Saints athletic programs to return to competition since March this weekend, as both teams competed at the Gitchi Gami Games at the Birkie Trailhead in Cable, Wisconsin. Junior John Schwinghamer was the top finisher for the Saints on both Saturday and Sunday, finishing in a career-best seventh place among…
DULUTH, Minn. – Gianna Kneepkens scored 51 points as the Duluth Marshall girls basketball team won their home opener 73-58 over Grand Rapids. Seventh grader Ava Meierotto finished with 10 points while Laila Monroe finished with four points and 14 rebounds. Jessika Lofstrom finished with 18 points while Taryn Hamling had 17 points for the Thunderhawks. In other prep girls…
MOORHEAD, Minn. – The Grand Rapids boys hockey team started out slow offensively on Saturday but picked things up in the third, getting the 3-0 road win over Moorhead. Hayden DeMars, Justin Kerr and Wade Brouse all scored for the Thunderhawks as they improve to 2-0 on the season. Grand Rapids is scheduled to host Duluth Marshall on Tuesday. Categories:…
DULUTH, Minn. – Netminder Emma Soderberg recorded a career-high 44 saves in net, but a lucky bounce went Ohio State’s way as the No. 3 Buckeyes got the 1-0 win over the sixth-ranked UMD women’s hockey team to split the weekend series. The Bulldogs put 32 shots up but just couldn’t find the back of the net on Saturday. Soderberg…
DULUTH, Minn. – The UMD men’s basketball team battled back in the second half but it wasn’t enough, as the University of Mary got the 80-70 win to hand the Bulldogs their first loss of the season and split the series. Joshua Brown led the Bulldogs with 19 points while Austin Andrews finished with 17 points. Mason Steffen recorded a…
DULUTH, Minn. – Junior netminder Emma Soderberg finished with 34 saves and picked up her third shutout of the season as the UMD women’s hockey team defeated Ohio State 2-0 Friday night at Amsoil Arena. Anna Klein and Taylor Anderson each scored for the Bulldogs, who won their 10th straight home game against the Buckeyes. UMD will aim for the…
DULUTH, Minn. – Sophomore Drew Blair scored 20 points as the UMD men’s basketball team returned to action in a big way, dominating U-Mary 72-50 Friday night at Romano Gym. Freshman Joshua Brown chipped in with 16 points and 12 rebounds, while Austin Andrews also finished with a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds. UMD improves to 2-0 and…
DULUTH, Minn. – Senior forward Gianna Kneepkens led the way with 38 points as the Duluth Marshall girls basketball team defeated Duluth Denfeld 84-39 on the opening night of the Minnesota prep basketball season. Selah Reinertsen and Lexi Lowinski each scored 12 points for the Hunters. In other prep basketball action, the Superior girls held on for the home win…
DULUTH, Minn. – On the opening night of the prep boys hockey season, Duluth Denfeld and Duluth East skated to a 4-4 tie Friday night at the Heritage Center. In other action, Duluth Marshall and Proctor also ended in a tie as they each scored twice, while Hermantown got an 8-1 road win to start their season in Superior. Joey…
DULUTH, Minn. – When sports schedules get changed in the Northland, it’s usually because of the weather. But now, we’ve got a new enemy in COVID-19, which has left a lot of teams Having to start and stop their seasons, including the UMD men’s basketball team. But the Bulldogs will be back in action this weekend in their first game…
DULUTH, Minn. – The UMD women’s hockey team will be making their return to action this weekend at Amsoil Arena. But for them, it’s been a long wait, well over a month to be exact. The team has been back to practicing since last week and they prefer to find the silver linings of their current situation. “I think it’s…
DULUTH, Minn. – The UMD women’s basketball team will not be in action this weekend as they announced earlier this week that their series against the University of Mary has been cancelled due to COVID-19 protocols. The Bulldogs were already shorthanded in their home sweep over Minot State last weekend. But now, the team is split up due to quarantine…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – Tuesday night, the Superior boys hockey team picked up their first win of the season, an overtime thriller over Wausau West. And that victory gave head coach Jason Kalin his 300th career coaching win. Kalin has been with the Spartans for the past 20 years, leading the team to its three most recent state championships in 2003,…
