On Thursday January 28th, in a meet against Columbia Heights the North Branch gymnastics team stuck nearly all of their routines en route to a school record.
Although the girls have had troubles getting consistent finishes this year, they finally put it all together at the Centennial Invitational at Giants Ridge last weekend.
Despite a solid first half against a very good team, the Chisago Lakes Wildcats weren't able to earn their second win in a row for the first time this season.
After dropping three straight contests, the North Branch boys basketball squad needed a complete effort to bust out of their slump, and they got it with a 17-point drubbing of the Fridley Tigers.
Brett Lizotte's goal 30 seconds into overtime gave him a hat trick and gave the Wildcat boys' hockey team a 5-4 win over eleventh-ranked Class AA Spring Lake Park last Tuesday, January 26 at Chisago Lakes Arena.
After two straight heart-pounding meets -- a 93-93 tie with Fridley and a 92-91 loss to Spring Lake Park -- the Wildcats were able to breath a sigh of relief with an easy win over North Suburban Conference rival Robbinsdale Cooper.
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.