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HERMANTOWN — Owen Simonson rushed for 155 yards and two touchdowns, including a 69-yard scoring run, as Hermantown rallied past Esko 21-20 in nonconference high school football Friday night. The Hawks overcame an early deficit, dominated the ground game and scored the game's decisive touchdown in the
HERMANTOWN — Martin Sleen’s explosive start has moved well beyond being simply a Hermantown football story. The Hawks standout has established himself among the most productive running backs in Minnesota. Sleen has rushed for 900 yards and 15 touchdowns, placing him sixth statewide in rushing yardage and tied for second
HERMANTOWN — Hermantown football coach Mike Zagelmeyer isn't interested in moral victories. Not after Friday night's 24-15 Northeast Red loss at Grand Rapids, not after watching his previously unbeaten Hawks overcome a two-touchdown deficit and take the lead, and certainly not with another significant test
GRAND RAPIDS — Hermantown’s explosive offense finally ran into a defense capable of slowing it down. Grand Rapids handed the Hawks their first loss of the season Friday night, defeating Hermantown 24-15 in a battle of unbeaten Northeast Red teams at Noble Hall Field. The loss dropped Hermantown to
GRAND RAPIDS — Grand Rapids answered one of the biggest questions of the northeastern Minnesota high school football season Friday night. Grand Rapids won a battle of unbeaten Section 7, Class 4A contenders, defeating Hermantown 24-15 at Noble Hall Field and improving to 5-0. The Hawks, who had overwhelmed
Mike Zagelmeyer has good reason to like his Hermantown football team, and the reasons extend well beyond an unbeaten record and a running back who turned homecoming into a personal highlight film. Martin Sleen supplied the extraordinary Friday night. The homecoming king returned the opening kickoff 94 yards for a
Hermantown produced 316 yards of offense on just 31 plays, with Sleen accounting for most of its ground production and four of its five touchdowns.
HERMANTOWN — Hermantown has spent September demonstrating how quickly it can change a football game. Cloquet has spent the past two weeks demonstrating how quickly it can change a season. The teams collide tonight in one of the more intriguing early-season Northeast Red Conference games in northeastern Minnesota, when Hermantown
Hermantown’s unbeaten start has been powered by explosive plays, increasingly physical defense and the return of an experienced quarterback. Yet coach Mike Zagelmeyer understands that a 3-0 record guarantees his Hawks nothing when Northeast Red rival Cloquet arrives for Friday night’s homecoming game. Kickoff is scheduled for
HERMANTOWN — Hermantown has spent the first three weeks of the high school football season turning games into track meets. Cloquet, after a disastrous opener, has spent the past two proving it can recover quickly. Those two trajectories meet at 7 p.m. Friday, when the unbeaten Hawks host the Lumberjacks
HERMANTOWN — Martin Sleen rushed for 212 yards and five touchdowns and returned a kickoff for another score Friday night, accounting for six touchdowns in Hermantown’s 48-27 Northeast Red victory over Duluth East. Sleen averaged 14.1 yards on 15 carries, broke loose for a 45-yard gain and
PROCTOR — Hermantown rushed for 235 yards at 10.7 yards per carry and scored seven touchdowns in a 50-8 Northeast Red victory over Proctor on Friday night at Terry Egerdahl Memorial Field. The Hawks improved to 2-0 after scoring 35 points in the first half and finishing with
The Northeast Red needed exactly one weekend to remind everybody why nothing comes cheaply in this football district. Grand Rapids looked every bit like the defending champion. Hermantown opened with the kind of offensive performance expected from one of the district’s most established programs. Duluth East made perhaps the
The 2026 high school football season in northeastern Minnesota begins this week with a familiar measuring stick: Grand Rapids owns Section 7, Class 4A until somebody proves otherwise. The Thunderhawks were 10-2 a year ago, swept through the Northeast Red District without a loss, outscored opponents 518-101 and
Hermantown’s varsity teams enter the first week of September with early season tests against familiar opponents. The busiest schedule belongs to the boys soccer team, which opened with victories over Holy Family, 3-1, and Mesabi East, 4-1. The Hawks host Duluth Marshall at 6:30 p.m.
Mike Zagelmeyer has coached enough football to recognize the difference between a productive August and a successful November. He likes what he has seen from Hermantown through the opening week of preseason practice, but he also understands that effort, conditioning and enthusiasm have yet to win the Hawks a game.