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Coming off a win in Hermantown a week earlier, the Cloquet boys cross country team came in atop a three-team triangular meet at their home course in Cloquet Thursday afternoon. Junior Harmony Tracy won the girls meet for the Lumberjacks, but as a team the girls couldn't quite catch the speedy Duluth East Greyhounds. The Lumberjacks boys saw another strong finish, placing five runners in the top 10 Thursday afternoon. Cloquet finished with a team total of 23 points, while the Greyhounds were... Full story
The Cromwell-Wright girls basketball team started off fast at last week's Minnesota girls state basketball tournament, but then they hit a wall - one not of their own making. After winning a quarterfinal game March 12, much of the sports world across the country went dark, including high school sports in Minnesota. "The state tournament weekend right now in my mind stays in the category of 'very deflating,'" head coach Jeff Gronner said. "We were hoping for a second chance at Minneota and a... Full story
The Cardinals girls basketball team is poised to make a deep run into the 2020 girls section playoffs as action begins this week. Cromwell-Wright has been one of the top teams in Class A over the past half dozen years and are, once again, the top seed in the Section 7A playoffs. Last season the Cardinals fell in the section title game to Mountain Iron Buhl. This season only two losses have prevented the Cardinals from an unbeaten regular season. Entering the playoff the Cards are 24-2 with the... Full story
With only 12 games remaining in the regular season schedule, the Minnesota Wilderness are hoping for a last season push to put themselves into the Central Division playoffs and the battle for the Robertson Cup. The Cloquet-based North American Hockey League team is coming off a weekend split with Bismarck, along with a road victory over St. Cloud on Thursday night. The Wilderness are 2-3 in their last five games. With only four of their last 12 games of the season against divisional opponents,... Full story
South Ridge and Fond du Lac Ojibwe met Monday night in Culver in a boys and girls doubleheader and each school came away with a win. The Panthers defeated FDL 62-45 in the girls contest, but the Ogichidaa came back and won the boys game 77-63. Adella Olesiak scored 30 points, including six three pointers, as the Panthers picked up the section win, while Tannia Misquadace finished with 22 points and connected on five long-range bombs in the loss for the Ogichidaa. The Panthers - who had dropped... Full story
Heading into the 2019-2020 season, the CEC wrestling team was behind the 8-ball with lower numbers than expected and injuries. While performing well in individual matches, the team has struggled as a result. Last Thursday the Lumberjacks hosted a quad meet including Cloquet, Proctor-Hermantown, Mille Lacs (Isle and Onamia) and Nashwauk-Keewatin. Each team wrestled against the other three teams. Despite low roster numbers, CEC was able to garner two team victories in the quad meet. The 'Jacks... Full story
Cromwell-Wright girls' basketball head coach Jeff Gronner said the highlight of the season thus far has been winning for Mountain Iron-Buhl Holiday tournament for the first time since playing in that event the past four seasons. "We beat Duluth Marshall in the championship game and they were ranked third in the state at the time and it showed we are a solid all-around team," Gronner said. "We also beat a very good Pine River team in what is one of the best holiday tournaments in the state."... Full story
The Esko boys basketball team captured their eighth consecutive Esko Coaches Classic Holiday championship Saturday by dominating Duluth Marshall 94-52 in the title matchup. In what was a split tournament for the boys portion of the tournament, Esko played Northwoods on Dec. 16, defeating the Grizzlies 95-77 in an opening round game. Three Eskomos scored in double digits in the win over Northwoods, including James LeGarde and Payton Wefel, who both hit for 30 points, along with Eli Blue, who... Full story
The Cloquet-Esko-Carlton wrestling team opened its 2019-2020 season with two early meets. Although shorthanded, the team excelled in a quad meet with two victories in Crosby-Ironton, and did very well in Lakeville this past weekend. "With only 25 wrestlers on the squad and losing 12 seniors from a year ago, we will have trouble filling all the weight classes we need to," said head coach Al Denman. "Those on the team now are highly committed, talented and very competitive. We focus on the long...
The 2019 girls swimming season came to an end recently and the Lumberjacks predict a bright future. With several swimmers making the state girls swim meet in recent years and state champion Makayla Suominen off to college in Alaska, it was a rebuilding season for Cloquet-Esko-Carlton. "In 2018 we had 12 girls qualify in the top 16 for our section meet, eight of whom qualified in individual events," head coach Rachel Peterson said. "In 2019 we had 13 girls qualify in the top 16 for sections with...
BRAINERD-The Eskomos saw their season come to an end Saturday afternoon at the hands of the Annandale Cardinals. It was a snowy battle that ended 33-13 after the Cardinals outgained Esko on the ground by a margin of 357 yards to Esko's 74 yards. After a fumble and a punt on Annandale's first two drives of the game, the Cardinals took over on the ground. The Cardinals offensive line opened huge holes - allowing Annandale to pick up giant chunks of yards as they finished the game averaging over 6... Full story
DULUTH-Mountain Iron-Buhl put together an impressive show Friday night at Public Schools Stadium as the Rangers knocked off South Ridge 42-6 in the state quarterfinals of the 9-Man football tournament. Rangers senior running back Dillon Drake averaged 10.1 yards per carry on his way to 242 yards rushing on the night, scoring four of the Rangers' six touchdowns. He had two rushing touchdowns, one 81 yards and a 42-yard run. Drake also added a touchdown catch of 19 yards and returned an... Full story
Paynesville entered Friday's matchup with Moose Lake/Willow River averaging 38 points per game while allowing only 11 points per game. With that said, it was the Bulldogs who used Rebel mistakes and miscues to their advantage as Paynesville defeated ML/WR 56-8 in the state Class AA quarterfinals in North Branch. Seven Rebel turnovers led to short fields and even shorter drives as the Bulldogs built a 12-0 lead after one quarter of play. Three more second-quarter touchdowns, and the Bulldogs led... Full story
The Cloquet-Esko-Carlton girls hockey team got off to a fast start Thursday night as the Lumberjacks defeated defending section champion Proctor-Hermantown by a score of 4-2 at Northwoods Credit Union Arena. On Saturday, however, it was the CEC who was knocked off by Anoka-Spring Lake Park by the same 4-2 margin. Thursday the ’Jacks got off to a quick start, scoring four goals in the first period as CEC completed all the scoring they would need in the two-goal victory. Dana Jones started the s... Full story
The Moose Lake/Willow River football team is going back to the state football tournament for the 13th time in 14 years, as the Rebels knocked off Mesabi East last Thursday in the section 7AA championship game in Esko. Blake Juhl rushed for 169 yards and two touchdowns to pace the Rebels in the 36-8 victory over the Giants. Mason Olson also threw for 156 yards and a touchdown in the ML/WR win. Juhl started the scoring Thursday night on a 1-yard touchdown run; he also scored on the two-point... Full story
The Moose Lake/Willow River football team overcame several first-half penalties and an 8-point deficit at halftime to defeat Royalton 20-8 in the Section 7AA semifinals Saturday in Willow River. The Rebels advance to the section title game for the 13th time in 14 years. The Royals scored the game’s first touchdown late in the first quarter when Brady Conrad scored on a five-yard touchdown run; following a Dylan Skwira two-point conversion, the Royals led 8-0. Both teams had chances in the second...
Dwight Cadwell Pine Knot Sports LINDSTROM-The Academy of Holy Angels built a three-goal first-half lead and survived to defeat Cloquet-Carlton 4-3 in a Class 1A quarterfinal Thursday at Chisago Lakes High School. The Stars' Sydney Burns, Claire Lang, Hailey VonSee and Mia Van der Heide all scored in the first half, to give the Stars a 4-1 halftime lead. Burns scored in the game's second minute on a crossing pass from Ciara McCrory to give the Stars a 1-0 lead. Lang scored the second goal of the... Full story
NORTHBRANCH-Olivia Jameson was so stealthy when she scored the Lumberjacks' game-winning goal that even her coach didn't realize who deftly kicked the ball over the Chisago Lakes goalie, who was tangled up on the ground with Cloquet's Alexa Snesrud. "It was the first shift of the game for Olivia," coach Dustin Randall said about Jameson's "golden goal" - a sudden-death goal - in the second overtime of Thursday's section 7A championship girls soccer match vs. the Wildcats. "She was in to give a...
After upsetting Legacy Christian Academy last Thursday in Andover, the Lumberjacks boys soccer season came to a cold end with a 2-0 Section 7A playoff loss to Hermantown on a wet, rainy, and windy Saturday afternoon. It was CEC's third loss to the top-seeded Hawks. Like every other time the rivals faced each other this year, it was a close and fiercely competitive game. The 'Jacks did snap their recent round of bad luck in the first round against Legacy Christian. Entering the 7A tournament, CEC... Full story
It was a matchup of two unbeaten teams Friday night - each with a 6-0 record - as the Carlton/Wrenshall Raptors faced the Ogilvie Lions. Only one emerged unscathed. True to their namesake, the Raptors started fast and held on at the end to defeat the state's sixth-ranked 9-man team by a score of 34-32 at Carlton's Jim Erickson field. In a contest which saw each team punt only once on the night, offense prevailed. With the win, the Raptors captured the first football district or conference...
The Cloquet cross country teams were unfazed by the mud, the cold or the rain Saturday as the boys team captured first and the girls took fourth place in the 69th annual Swain Invitational cross country meet in Duluth. It was the first time the Lumberjacks had won the event since 1985, when Cloquet was combined with Esko and they won both the boys and girls championships. "With the cold wet weather conditions, the course was much slower than the runners are used to," said head coach Chandra Alle... Full story
On a cool Friday night in Willow River, Esko pulled off a 20-18 upset to end the Rebels' four-game winning streak. Despite four turnovers on the night, the Eskomos took advantage of an interception and an 87-yard return for a touchdown by Preston Lowe which broke a 12-12 tie. With a two-point conversion - also by Lowe - the Eskomos were able to hold off a late push by the Rebels in picking up the road victory. "We hung in there," head coach Scott Arntson said. "Offensively we didn't execute like...
After losing two sets earlier this year to Esko, Cloquet was hoping to rebound Tuesday night as the Eskomos and the Lumberjacks met in a cross- town rivalry match at the Cloquet Middle School. Esko defeated Cloquet 2-0 in the North Branch Tournament less than two weeks ago and continued with their impressive season as they defeated Cloquet 25-17, 25-21, and 25-16 to improve to 13-4 overall on the season. The host Lumberjacks saw their season record drop to 6-10. The Eskomos' losses have all come...
The 2019 combination of the Carlton Bulldogs and Wrenshall Wrens football teams continued its early season success Friday night as the Raptors picked up their third win of the season. Using stellar defense in the first half against Cromwell-Wright at Jim Erickson Field in Carlton, the Raptors rolled out to an early lead and never looked back. The final score was 48-6. "Our offense is finally starting to click," said Jeremy Zywicki, co-head coach for the Raptors. "We knew it would take a while...
For the first time in school history, South Ridge defeated Cromwell-Wright in high school football action, as the Panthers shut out the Cardinals 36-0 in Culver Friday, Sept. 6. "We saw some things we thought we could do both offensively and defensively in the first game against Floodwood that we could have some success with," head coach Brent Johnson said. "We also saw the things they did well and we knew if we played our game we could win." The Panthers would strike first Friday when Conner Bu...
