Defying early season expectations, the North Branch girls basketball team took on the defending state champion Totino-Grace Eagles in the Section 3AAA championship game.
With four out of the six state participants graduating this year, and all three of them participating in two events, the Chisago Lakes swimming and diving team wanted to send them out with one last hurrah.
Wildcat junior wrestler Clay Olson (171) was Chisago Lakes' lone representative at last week's state AA wrestling tournament at the Xcel Energy Center.
Wildcat freshman forward Whitney Tinjum scored 12 of her team's first 13 points, leading them to an early 13-8 lead at North Branch Friday, February 27.
After a sluggish start to the sectional tournament last week, the Chisago Lakes Wildcats kicked it up a notch to send a handful of swimmers to the state meet
The Wildcat wrestling team trailed by just one point, 25-24, going into the last three individual matches of the evening in the opening round of the Section 7AA team playoffs against Princeton last Tuesday, February 17
Offensive lineman Nick Jackson became the third North Branch player, and the second offensive lineman, to sign his letter of intent to play college football.