Senior John Morrison pinned his opponent for the one-hundredth win of his career as the Viking wrestling team crushed conference foe Irondale 49-21 last Friday, January 22 at Irondale.
Taking a break from their tough Northwest Suburban Conference schedule, the Chisago Lakes boys and girls alpine ski teams converged on Giant's Ridge in Biwabik on Martin Luther King Jr. Day last week.
In a prelude to their North Suburban showdown against St. Francis, the Chisago Lakes Wildcats were beaten soundly by the stacked co-op of Northern schools, Rush City, Pine City and Hinckley Finlayson.
Despite being outshot by the Wildcat boys' hockey team 35-27 for the game, the Totino Grace Eagles continued their historical domination of the Wildcats with a 7-2 win last Tuesday, January 12 at Chisago Lakes.
After years of dominating the Northwest Suburban Conference, the Chisago Lakes boys alpine ski team failed to win a the conference championship last year.
At the annual Winter Wonderland tournament in River Falls, WI, the Chisago Lakes gymnastics team continued their impressive season with a second place finish in the meet.
In the second part of the Chisago Lakes/North Branch doubleheader, the Wildcat girls took care of business, much like the Wildcat boys had done an hour previous.
Basketball can be a game of inches and feet, seconds and milli-seconds, and as the two Chisago County teams found out last week, heartbreak and triumph.
The Columbia Heights Hylanders were clearly overmatched when they took the court against the supremely talented North Branch girls basketball team early last week.