The Two Harbors baseball squad is hoping to get out into the bright sunshine on the ball field at Rockridge in Virginia for their first game of the season Wednesday. We hope to have the results for you next week.
The Two Harbors Track team travelled to the Cities to ensure a snow-free track for the first outdoor meet of the season on Friday, April 14 in Irondale, Minnesota. Coming a week into the sharply warming temperatures, it was feast or famine. The temperatures were in the 90s at the beginning of the meet but cooled down into the 70s by 6:00 p.m.
Silver Bay Friday 4-21 Softball: Girls Varsity Game (vs. Mesabi East Schools) 4pm: William Kelly High School Lynch 2 Softball Field Softball: Girls JV Game (vs.
As long as the reluctant editor was still in Lake County, he figured he’d stop by one of his favorite places, the House of Gouda Cheese Commune. A wonderful place for the hungry traveler, the place is unique not only because of the good gouda and the patented “sleep curds” but it’s also a last bastion of the syndicalist movement that envisioned a worker’s paradise for all, where every worker lived in a big bartering world. Money would be useless, even cancerous.
Just when you think the weather will cooperate with spring sports in Lake County and along the North Shore, well, the weather changes. After an incredible melt last week, sprinter (spring-winter), as I call it, returns. Two Harbors baseball is set to get in some games up at the artificial turf field in Aurora Thursday if the weather cooperates. They hope to play Moose Lake-Willow River in a morning game and then play top-rated Esko in the afternoon. The Saturday contest at home against Pine City is up in the air depending on what weather shows up by the end of the week. Two Harbors softball is still looking for their first contest. Games scheduled against Barnum and South Ridge this week didn’t happen and coach John Sandstrom was hoping to get in a Saturday game against Pine City but with windchills expected to be in the twenties, he wasn’t sure that would happen.
The Silver Bay softball team finally got on the field for a practice last Thursday and then headed to Aurora and the artificial turf on Friday to open the season against Mesabi East. The Mariners came out of the gate with a 14-1, five inning win over a competitive Giants squad.
On Thursday, April 14 the William Kelley High School track team traveled south to Rosemount High School to compete in a triangular meet with Rosemount and Lakeville South. The Mariners were first invited to compete at Rosemount last year when Nate Bilben and Sophia Blanck competed unattached. Despite the 80 degree weather in Rosemount the Mariners had a good meet. On the girls side Sophomore Sohpia Blanck placed 2nd in the 800 meter run, topping her school record run at State last year by 5 seconds, running a 2:19. Junior Tonja Thomas finished 7th in the 100 (14.11) and 5th in the 200 (28.95). Freshman Valerie Melander finished 4th in the 400 meter dash (70.73). 8th grader Sierra Gaetz ran a strong 800 coming in 4th with a time of 2:37. Freshman Christina Kaiser had a three foot PR in the shot put, placing 7th with a toss of 24'09'.
The recent heat wave may melt some of that winter snow on the fields at Odegard Park in Two Harbors and get the Two Harbors softball team on the field. When things dry out, of course.
The 2023 High School Track season began last week in the northland with an indoor Polar Conference meet at University of Wisc-Superior’s indoor track. Both Silver Bay and Two Harbors were in attendance with strong early season showings. Top 5 finishers from the Mariners: Jacob Carpenter: 4th in the 200 meter dash Trenton Meeks: 4th in the Shot Put Sophia Blanck: 1st in the 400 meter dash Valerie Melander: 3rd in the 400 meter dash Sierra Geatz: 2nd in the 800 meter dash Christina Kaiser: 4th in the Shot Put Sophia Blanck, Valerie Melander, Sierra Geatz, Grace Swartz: 1st in the 4 x 400 relay Sophie Betzler, Valerie Melander, Camryn Hipple, Tanja Thomas: 3rd in the 4 x 200 relay Ayden Althaus, Cash Williams, Jacob Carpenter, Andrew Wehrman: 3rd in the 4 X 200 relay Top 5 finishers from the Agates: Tate Nelson: 1st in the 60 meter dash and 5th in the Long Jump Cam Nelson: 3rd in the 400 meter dash Ian Thorpe: 2nd in the 1600 meter run Will Fransen: 2nd in the 60 meter hurdles Carter Nelson: 3rd in the 60 meter hurdles Aiden Scoggin: 3rd in the Shot Put Trinity Giddings: 1st in the 60 meter dash, 1st in the 200 meter dash, 1st in the Long Jump Delaney Nelson: 3rd in the 60 meter dash, 3rd in the 200 meter dash Jenna Marxhausen: 4th in the 30 meter dash, 2nd in the 200 meter dash Grace Swanson: 2nd in the 400 meter run Lamar Gordon: 1st in the 800 meter run Jocelyn Carr: 3rd in the 800 meter run Amaya Grinde: 2nd in the 60 meter hurdles and 2nd in the High Jump Brooklyn Nelson: 4th in the 60 meter hurdles, 2nd in the Long Jump, 2nd in the Triple Jump Brooklyn Nelson, Natalie Tokvam, Ella Peterson, Delaney Nelson: 1st in the 4 x 200 relay Carter Nelson, Cam Nelson, Tommy DeChantal, Tate Nelson: 1st in the 4 x 200 relay Ava Oswald-Swenson, Dani Mattson, Signe Myers, Ryleigh Thorpe: 1st in the 4 x 800 relay Team Scores: Two Harbors: Girls 1st place, Boys 4th place Silver Bay: Girls 3rd place, Boys 7th place Two records were broken at this meet: Trinity Giddings broke the
Here we go again for another late start to the baseball season. Ball games have already been cancelled due to the snowpack. In Silver Bay, coach Ward Wallin say scheduling for spring sports is tenuous at best and he tips his hat to athletic directors Scott Ross and Kelli Ollila at Two Harbors and Silver Bay for their work to fit games into a spring season that has gotten much smaller the past few years due to snow.