The Wright Call By Dave Wright State tournaments are unusual events in the life of a coach. You prepare all season for the possibility of getting to one. When you get there, you finish one game and you need to…
Things were getting a bit tense for Minnehaha Academy early in the second half of their Section 4AA boys’ basketball championship game against Concordia Academy on March 17. The Redhawks raced to a 6-0 lead in the first two minutes…
The Cretin-Derham Hall boys’ hockey team can certainly feel better about its state Class AA tournament appearance earlier this month than it did a year ago when it qualified for the first time since 2009.The Raiders put together a dominating…
The Cretin-Derham Hall boys’ hockey team rode a strong start to a 4-2 victory over Saint Thomas Academy in the Section 3AA title game on March 1 to return to this week’s state tournament.The Raiders (18-9-1) will face Maple Grove…
The Wright Call By Dave WrightTom Dobbs watched the state volleyball tournament at Xcel Energy Center a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, it was from the stands, not the sidelines. For 10 weeks, Dobbs and his Nova Classical Academy volleyball…
It had been a decade since the Saint Paul Academy boys’ soccer team had made it to a state championship game. But the fourth-seeded Spartans made the best of their opportunity at U.S. Bank Stadium on November 4 by defeating…
The top-seeded Saint Paul Academy boys’ soccer team defeated second-seeded Minnehaha Academy 1-0 in a thrilling Section 3A final on October 18 to earn a trip to the state tournament for the first time in 10 years.The winning goal came…
The Two Rivers/Gentry Academy Warriors felt good about going into their first state girls’ lacrosse tournament last week. The Warriors were riding a 13-game winning streak, not having lost since their regular-season opener against a team from Illinois. However, the…
Saint Thomas Academy got to the Class AAA state baseball tournament by beating Two Rivers twice in the section finals when all odds seemed stacked against them. But coming up with those heroics again at state proved a bit much…
Saint Paul Academy got a little payback when it defeated Breck 5-2 to win the state Class A boys’ tennis title on June 7-8 at the Reed-Sweatt Family Tennis Center in Minneapolis. It was the fifth state crown and first…
Highland Park senior HaNeul Jeong McDonell has played her last high school badminton match, and what a match it was when she won the state individual singles championship on May 19.Heading into the state finals against Washington’s Cinderella Nwe, there…
It could have been one of the best prep sports comeback stories ever, but the Cretin-Derham Hall softball team was unable to write the final chapter. The fourth-seeded Raiders made it to the Section 4AAA finals undefeated in the double-elimination…
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