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.
Silver Bay Monday, April 10, 2023 4:00pm Softball: Girls Varsity vs. Chisholm Public Schools @ Silver Bay (Wm.
Northern Lights The text from a friend came at around 11:00 pm. “The northern lights are out”, it read.
It's Sunday eve and I'm contemplating the week ahead for our Minnesota WILD. They are returning from a short road trip that saw them play what was most likely their best game of the season in beating the defending Stanley Cup Champion COL Avs by a 4-2 tally. Of course, this Avs group is different from the one that hoisted the Cup a mere few months back. But it is still a formidable team. The WILD played an excellent game in winning in Denver. To our dismay, they followed it up with an indifferent effort against the Vegas Golden Knights last night and lost a 4-1 decision. There is little time to dwell on it though because the club will face them again tomorrow night in St. Paul at the 'X'. Unlike the Eastern Conference where six of eight playoff positions have been attained, only three invitations have been handed out in the West and the teams that have them all reside in the Pacific division. The Central is still up for grabs and so is the Conference for that matter. With most teams having seven games or less left on their schedules, that will clear up soon. The WILD could have clinched a spot by winning at Vegas last night but did not do so. A win in tomorrow night's game will get them in. But with a few good puck bounces here and there, the club could still win the division or the Conference. Based on the team's playoff history I believe it would be beneficial for them to do so. In the past ten seasons, the team made the Stanley Cup tourney ten times. They advanced to the second round only twice, with seven first-round exits and a 'did not qualify' mixed in. My outlook on this season's chances has led me to believe that the team must win one or both to obtain a bit of playoff success. I believe they will have to win the Central to advance past the first round. I also feel that if they won the Conference they could have a road to the WC Final. A win there gets a chance at the Stanley Cup, the greatest trophy this planet has ever seen. Could that happen or am I drea
While the Camp Shack Marching Band began to ferry instruments across the frozen Pigeon River on its way to the Tolton R. Murphy Arena to play at the Armistice Ceremony of the Intergalactic Major Junior Hockey League championship game, the reluctant editor had other plans. He had taken a slight break from all the goings on at the encampment for the Great March for Community Newspapers. He was taking a little trip to a remote area of Lake County, always looking for a place just beyond the horizon, and sent us the following account.
A call to Silver Bay girls’ softball coach Mike Guzzo told me right where he was, shovel in hand. He was moving snow at the softball field, hoping to speed up the melt so his club could get on the field in the next week or two.
Carmen Carlson, Two Harbors High School student, has been a student intern for photography this school year. Turning in excellent photography chronically the sporting events for Two Harbors, Carlson has only gotten better in the area of sports action-shots, one of the most difficult kinds of photos to do well.
The North Shore Storm Peewee B1 team took home the Minnesota State Consolation Championship Trophy hosted in Warroad MN last week. The boys had to battle every game.
