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To say the Cloquet volleyball team has been on a tear would be putting things mildly. The Lumberjacks are 22-2 on the season. They won 15 straight matches in September and, after a narrow loss to Hermantown, have won three matches in a row with two matches left in the regular season. On Thursday, Oct. 5, Cloquet marked its senior night by defeating Superior, 25-14, 25-23, 25-21. With 17 assists in the match, senior setter Carly Johnson surpassed 1,000 career set assists the same night....
Homecoming went a little differently at Cloquet High School this year, with no "home" football field. The coronation was celebrated during the high school pepfest Friday afternoon rather than halftime of the football game that evening in Proctor, the football team's home away from home while the Cloquet outdoor athletic complex is under construction. Saige Moran and Madysen Waters were crowned 2023 Cloquet Homecoming king and queen after a couple hours of pep session fun, including tricycle and...
A slow start for the Cloquet football team proved costly against Denfeld in Proctor Friday, during Cloquet's homecoming-away-from-home game. Denfeld raced out to a 20-0 first-quarter lead and by halftime they were up 34-8 on their way to a 40-16 win. "They're an explosive and fast team," said Cloquet head coach Jeff Ojanen. "You can't give them back-to-back possessions on a short field, and that is exactly what we did." Denfeld took the opening kickoff and returned it to the Lumberjacks 48-yard...
The team portion of the season ended for the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton girls tennis team last week when the Lumberjacks fell to Cambridge in the opening round of the Section 7AA tennis tournament. CEC came in as the No. 12 seed and were playing the No. 5 seeded Blue Jackets. The 'Jacks fought hard but came up short in the 5-2 loss Tuesday, Oct. 3. Lumberjacks got a win at No. 2 singles from Addison Ranta, who defeated Isabelle Sullivan by a score of 3-6, 6-3 and 10-4. "Addison started slow, but got...
All three Carlton County soccer teams were seeded No. 1 heading into their respective section tournaments. As of presstime, Esko had demolished its opponent in the first round of the 7A playoffs, while both the Cloquet-Carlton girls and Cloquet-Esko-Carlton boys teams got a bye for the first round. Esko defeated No. 8 seed Two Harbors 14-0 Tuesday at home Monday, and advanced to a semifinal game against No. 5 seed Legacy Christian Academy Wednesday, also at home. Esko won 5-1 and will face No. 2 seed Duluth Marshall for the Section 7A...
The Cloquet boys cross country team dazzled Tuesday at the Lake Superior Conference championships at Grand View golf course in Duluth. The Lumberjack boys varsity team took home the trophy, winning the meet with 40 points. Ninth-grader Evan Rothamel led the Cloquet boys team, winning the 5-kilometer race with a time of 18 minutes, 27 seconds. In the three-lap course, Rothamel took the lead in the first lap. He built on his lead with each lap and finished 21 seconds ahead of second-place...
Both the girls and boys Lumberjacks soccer teams and the Esko girls soccer team are aiming for a section championship Tuesday and another trip to State. All three teams are seeded No. 1 in their section. After defeating Two Harbors 14-0 and Legacy Christian Academy 5-1, the Esko girls team will play Duluth Marshall at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Esko for the Section 7A championship. After a first round bye, the Cloquet-Carlton girls team beat Hermantown 1-0 on Thursday to advance to the section...
Cloquet High School has been celebrating all week long. With the football field in the final stages of construction, the Lumberjacks will crown their king and queen at a pep rally Friday afternoon in advance of the homecoming football game in Proctor and a dance back at the high school. Candidates for 2023 homecoming court are, front row, from left, Quinn Danielson, Madysen Waters, Grace Swanson, Erin Loeb, Ella Chartier, Kiley Issendorf, Carly Johnson, Mary Kayser, Autumn Peterson and Ava...
After many years of dominating the Section 7AA girls soccer tournament, the Cloquet/Carlton Lumberjacks are once again one of the teams to beat. "I really think we're on the cusp of some good things," said coach Dustin Randall. "We have only two seniors, so we will need the younger players to step up and continue to improve, and so far we've been seeing that." The Lumberjacks' lone two seniors are Madison Frederickson and Kiley Issendorf. Frederickson is a defender and Issendorf a forward in...
After opening the season by losing two of their first three games, the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton boys' soccer team has reeled off 12 straight wins and is the prohibitive favorite in the looming Section 7AA playoffs again. Last Saturday, the Lumberjacks throttled Hermantown, 4-0, and on Tuesday they downed North Branch, 7-0. Against Hermantown the 'Jacks recorded the first goal of the game at the 10-minute mark when Logan Kunze rammed home a ball off a corner kick by Anders Gunnelson. "It's nice and i...
While the fall football and soccer seasons are starting to reach the end of their regular seasons, boys and girls in cross country still have about a month of running ahead of them. That time will be used to make sure teams are continuing to train as they try to lop time off their runs in hopes of winning a section title. "I'm happy with how hard our kids are working," said Cloquet boys and girls cross country coach Chandra Allen. The Cloquet boys team has made continuous improvements and has...
After opening the season with two straight losses, the Cloquet football team picked up their second win in a row Friday with a 38-12 win over Rock Ridge. The home game was played at Proctor's Egerdahl Field because Cloquet's home field is still not ready for play after getting turf this summer. The game was played in a dense fog where at times the fans could not see the opposite side of the field. "We just don't see fog like that when we play at our field in Cloquet," said Cloquet coach Jeff...
Two of the top teams in northeastern Minnesota did battle at Cloquet Middle School Tuesday, when Cloquet defeated Esko 3-0. "It's always fun to play Esko," said Cloquet coach Heidi Anderson. "They have a talented team and they make you work for everything." The Lumberjacks came in fresh off winning the Duluth East tournament championship over the weekend. The talented team showed just how tough they are by dominating at the net and controlling play as they moved their record to 16-1 on the seaso...
Optimism is running high for the Lumberjacks boys soccer team. Heading into Tuesday night's game against Superior, Cloquet-Esko-Carlton had reeled off six straight wins and improved its record to 7-2. "Our two losses were to a Top 10 team in Class AAA and the top-ranked team in Class AA," said CEC head coach John Sundquist. "We feel that we have all the pieces to make another strong run at the end of the season." CEC finished third at the Class AA state tournament last year and they are loaded...
A young Cloquet-Esko-Carlton girls swim team had the dubious honor of having to open the season against the three toughest teams in Section 7 this season. Starting with Grand Rapids, Proctor-Hermantown and Hibbing was tough, but the Lumberjacks' young swimmers continue to show improvement this season. "It's been a rebuilding year for us," said CEC coach Rachel Peterson. "We have a lot of young swimmers. It will take a while, but the girls are working hard and doing what they need to do to...
Cloquet senior Ava Carlson notched her 1,000th career kill to open Tuesday night's volleyball match at Rock Ridge High School in Virginia. The Lumberjacks swept the Wolverines 3-0 and improved their record to 10-1. Carlson finished with 16 kills and 13 digs in a 25-11, 25-9, 25-17 win. After the match, the Cloquet volleyball team celebrated with Carlson with signs to mark the achievement....
It's still sinking in for Cloquet native Jamie Langenbrunner. Already a revered hockey player from the high school, professional and national team ranks, he will become a hall of fame inductee in December. "I was up playing golf at Giants Ridge a week ago and, when we drove by the (United States) Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, it kind of hit me that this time next year I will be there," Langenbrunner said from his home in the Twin Cities area. Langenbrunner has known since July that he will be...
The Cloquet volleyball team raced to a fast start this season, a trend that continued with a sweep of Moose Lake/Willow River on Tuesday at Moose Lake Area School. Cloquet won the first set 25-15, and the second set 25-16. Each of those sets were tight battles in the early going, but the Lumberjacks took control and distanced themselves from ML/WR in both games, thanks to timely kills from Ava Carlson, who finished with 22 kills on the night. The Rebels were unwilling to quit in an extended...
When does a high school home opening football game not feel like a home game? When your home game is played 12 miles away in another town, that's when. Such was the case last Friday night when Cloquet opened its home season at Proctor playing against the Hermantown Hawks. The game was moved because the new Members Cooperative Credit Union Stadium is not quite ready for a home game. "Anytime you get to play football under the lights on a Friday night is special," said Lumberjacks head coach Jeff...
It's been an interesting year for the 43-member Cloquet-Esko-Carlton girls tennis team. With construction of the new $4.7 million Members Cooperative Credit Union Stadium complex going on, the 'Jacks have played all their matches so far on the road, and at this point they are not scheduled to have a home game this season. "That's been tough, especially because we have 13 seniors who would like a chance to play at home," said head coach Derek Johnson. "There is excitement for what the future hold...
Before head coach Jeff Ojanen became a 21-year fixture in the coaching ranks of the Cloquet High School football program, he was a Lumberjack football player. Even then, the program was buoyed by the sale of discount cards. "We've been doing it for as long as I can remember," he said. "The cool thing is how supportive the community is." Every year, the team's players sell between 1,500 and 1,600 cards for $20 apiece, Ojanen said. Doing the math, that comes to $30,000 to $32,000 each year, minus...
After months of negotiations with the local youth lacrosse association, Cloquet school board members voted Monday to add both boys and girls lacrosse as a spring sport this school year. The boys team will be a combined Cloquet-Esko-Carlton Lumberjacks team, similar to boys hockey and soccer. The girls team will be part of the already existing Hermantown/Proctor Stealth team, because numbers aren't yet strong enough for a CEC program. Girls practices and most games will be held at Proctor or...
When the Cloquet/Carlton and Esko girls soccer teams met Tuesday night, the game featured the Class AA and Class A Section 7 champions from last year. It also featured quality defensive efforts by both teams, ending in a 1-1 tie. Esko evened up the score in the last 53 seconds on a goal by Kaitlyn McConnell. "We haven't had a lot of time to practice set pieces," said Esko coach Sharon Lahti, referring to things like free kicks and corner kicks. "What we tell the girls is just get a body part on...
It will be an interesting slate of games for the Cloquet Lumberjacks football team this season as most, if not all, games will be on the road. Home games will be played at Egerdahl Field in Proctor while work continues on the Members Cooperative Credit Union Stadium in Cloquet. "We see the progress they are making every day we are at practice," said second-year Cloquet coach Jeff Ojanen. "We are excited about the new field and we are hoping we get to play our last home game there, and maybe a...
In 2023, the Cloquet Country Club will be celebrating its 100-year anniversary since formation. Inaugurated in 1932, the Cloquet Invitational tournament just completed its 92nd annual event with Brian Moores of Duluth securing the coveted golf championship title. It was Moores' first invitational win in 13 tries. He defeated two-time past winner Alex Kolquist (2012 and 2020), by one stroke in the final group. "I want to thank Bill Manahan [manager] and all his pro shop and clubhouse staff and...
