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Prep softball season preview: Cherry waits to extend streak

Defending state champ Cherry takes a 26-game winning streak into a new and delayed season.

• Cherry is team to beat in Section 7A

Field of screams: Snow delays spring sports season

PREP SPORTS: Maybe the Minnesota State High School League can sponsor new spring activities to replace ones like baseball and softball that have been hampered by unseasonably cold and snowy weather. How about shoveling? Or snowball throwing?

• Snowblowing the infield
• Snow-covered dugout

LCA's Broman is News Tribune's Player of the Year

Anders Broman became Minnesota’s most prolific high school boys basketball scorer and finished his six-year career at Lakeview Christian Academy with 5,119 points and was named News Tribune All-Area Player of the Year for a second consecutive season.

• Anders Broman
• News Tribune boys basketball players of the year
• Minn. prep boys basketball 2,000-point career scorers
• Minnesota boys basketball single season scoring leaders

Superior's Lindstrom is All-Area Player of the Year

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL: Junior forward Jessica Lindstrom averaged a team-high 21 points and 16.7 rebounds per game and led the Spartans to a school-record 23 victories and their first Wisconsin Division 1 high school state tournament since 1995.

• Jessica Lindstrom

Duluth East's Moore the News Tribune's player of the year

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS HOCKEY: Defenseman Meirs Moore scored 19 goals and added 30 assists in leading the Greyhounds to their fifth consecutive Minnesota Class AA state tournament.

• Meirs Moore

Cloquet hockey coach to learn fate tonight

The job status of Cloquet-Esko-Carlton boys hockey coach Dave Esse is expected to be resolved tonight at a Cloquet School Board meeting, the third time the board has met to discuss the future of the 14-year coach after a parental complaint to have him removed was filed Feb. 4.

• Dave Esse

Today's prep boys basketball playoff game: Esko vs. Litchfield

Lakeview Christian drops opener at state basketball tourney

Lakeview Christian Academy lost to Rushford-Peterson 72-54 victory Thursday afternoon in a Class A state tournament boys basketball quarterfinal.

• Anders Broman
• Prep playoff schedule

State boys basketball: Lakeview Christian Academy falls in Class A quarterfinal

Most Lakeview Christian Academy opponents this season have taken advantage of the Lions’ lack of height and exploited the middle of the defense. Rushford-Peterson decided to test the perimeter instead, and the move paid off.

State boys basketball: Lakeview Christian Academy trails at halftime

Lakeview Christian Academy’s hopes of winning its first boys basketball state tournament game are in jeopardy after one half of its Minnesota Class A quarterfinal today against Rushford-Peterson.

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Wanted: One true Minnesota hockey champ

Granted, this might be a bad time to consider the idea of altering the Minnesota high school boys hockey state tournament.

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Bulldogs benefit from coach’s foreign connections

Perusing the Minnesota Duluth women’s hockey roster is a little like paging through a Fodor’s travel guide.

Outside the arena

John Mayasich doesn’t have far to look to bring back memories of playing outdoor hockey.

Silence is green and golden

The New York Giants’ upset of the Green Bay Packers on Sunday has ensured some peace of mind for Minnesota Vikings fans the next couple of weeks.

If I could turn back time ...

Bob Nielson recently reinstalled himself as Minnesota Duluth football coach.

College volleyball: UMD stunned with weekend of nationals disasters

Early last week, Minnesota Duluth senior Eric Atkinson’s NCAA hopes came crashing to Earth, literally. Days later, the UMD volleyball team’s NCAA title hopes also hit the ground with a thud.

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Storm’s streak lives on

For the past nine years, members of the News Tribune sports staff have been listening to one of our own reverently discuss his high school alma mater’s football team and the unending success of the program.

A fan-tastic showing

Though it shares her surname, the Gangelhoff Center in St. Paul is the last place Katie Gangelhoff wants to see again this year.

Wanted: Quality coaches

Though it wasn’t front-page news, the high school sports community in the Twin Ports lost a key figure last week when Duluth East softball coach Stan Karich resigned.

College teams, UMD's opponents are playing faster and gaining more yards

It’s appropriate that a track encircles Griggs Field because Minnesota Duluth football games, along with nearly every other college football game, have become track meets these days.

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