Thursday Results
Baseball
Duluth Marshall 5, Superior 1
Cloquet 2, Hermantown 1
Esko 6, Warroad 1
Barnum 4, Two Harbors3
South Ridge 5, Hibbing 1
Softball
Hermantown 18, Grand Rapids 0
Proctor 19, Duluth Marshall 1
Superior 13, Cloquet 3
Silver Bay 16, South Ridge 6
Carlton-Wrenshall 8, Moose Lake-Willow River 6
Ely 15, Chisholm 0
His stat line towered over the league: a .383 batting average, 17 home runs, 68 RBIs, 23 doubles, three triples, 48 runs scored, 28 walks, and 15 stolen bases over 52 games. His OPS landed at 1.252, powered by a .471 on-base percentage and a .781 slugging percentage.
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But it could also be the season the Kenny Linsemans of college hockey put Duluth back on the map. And if you’re a fan of old-school, pot-stirring hockey, that’s the script worth betting on.
Howie's daily column is powered by Lyric Kitchen · Bar We’re watching the best individual football player in northeastern Minnesota since the late Terry Egerdahl of Proctor, my close buddy, and the comparisons in terms of talent and personality are frighteningly similar. Hermantown junior running back Martin Sleen
If J.J. Jefferson starts giving us Marvin the Martian looks after failed third downs, the locker room is about one Acme dynamite stick away from full implosion.
Hermantown rallied from a two-goal deficit to defeat Duluth Denfeld 4-2 in a high school girls soccer match Saturday. Ana Haugen put the Hunters on the board in the eighth minute with an unassisted strike, and Stella Nickila doubled the lead in the 23rd minute off a setup from Luci
