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Down 21 points in the third quarter, Hermantown mounted an epic comeback to defeat top-seeded North Branch 35-28 in the Class 4A, Section 7 prep football championship game on Friday night at Marv Heikkinen Field in West Duluth.
Hawks defeat North Branch, advance to state 4A prep football quarterfinals
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Unbeatens, conference tests highlight northeastern Minnesota prep sports week
The largest stage comes Friday night, when Hermantown, Grand Rapids and Hibbing — each 2-0 — attempt to protect unbeaten starts in football.
Hermantown Sports This Week
Hermantown’s fall sports schedule moves into one of its busiest stretches of September this week, highlighted by the football team’s return to Centricity Stadium, three matches apiece for both soccer teams and important road tests for the Hawks volleyball team. The headline event comes Friday night. Hermantown (2-
Howie: Gophers exposed as unprepared, overmatched in embarrassing home loss
Mississippi State was not Alabama, Georgia or LSU. The Bulldogs entered the season without a winning record since 2022. They were picked near the bottom of the SEC by most preseason observers. Yet against Minnesota, they looked like a College Football Playoff team.
Hermantown, Cloquet battle to 2-2 conference draw
Hermantown twice took the lead, but Cloquet answered both times as the Lake Superior Conference girls soccer rivals played to a 2-2 tie Saturday. Bryden Giesen put the Hawks in front in the 13th minute, converting a pass from Vienna Kolenda for the only assisted goal of the match.
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Unbeatens, conference tests highlight northeastern Minnesota prep sports week
The largest stage comes Friday night, when Hermantown, Grand Rapids and Hibbing — each 2-0 — attempt to protect unbeaten starts in football.
Worker injured in explosion, fire at Duluth fuel facility
DULUTH — An explosion involving a 17,000-gallon fuel tank injured a worker and triggered a fire Monday afternoon at a fuel transfer facility in Duluth’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, prompting firefighters to cool two nearby tanks as crews worked to prevent the incident from spreading. The Duluth Fire Department
Titanium Partners revives major 148-unit Duluth housing development near Lake Superior College
Most of the development would consist of studio apartments, with additional one- and two-bedroom units. Titanium said the project is designed largely for college students and young professionals, putting a new concentration of housing immediately adjacent to LSC.
Minnesota Secretary of State Simon to visit Lake Superior College for voter registration event
DULUTH — Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon will visit Lake Superior College on Tuesday as the school holds a voter registration event tied to National Voter Registration Day and Constitution Day. The Lake Superior College Student Senate will host the event from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in