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Turnovers doom Wildcats as they start 0-2
The Cambridge-Isanti Bluejackets (2-0) jumped out to a 14-0 lead and went on to beat the Wildcat football team 42-13 on Friday September 5 at Cambridge-Isanti High School. The loss dropped the Wildcats to 0-2 on the season.
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AREA SOCCER ROUND UP: NB girls stay unbeaten
The Viking girls’ soccer team (2-0-4) stayed undefeated this season, tying the Monticello Magic 2-2 on Thursday, September 4 at Monticello.
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Wildcats fall flat in first game, lose 52-15 to Pioneers
In the season opener for both teams, the Wildcat football team was crushed by the Hill-Murray Pioneers 52-15 Friday, August 29 at Chisago Lakes High School.
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Bulldogs split two non-league games, playoff game vs NB next
Ty Escobedo drove in three runs to lead the Bulldog baseball team to a 7-2 win over the Albertville Anglers in the opening game of the Minnesota Baseball Association District 1B playoffs on Saturday, July 26 at Brennan Field in Hinckley. Jacob Mickelson started and went six innings to pick up the win, and Carson Luxem pitched the final three innings to get the save.
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Bulldogs get back on track with three straight wins
Playing at Elk River on Monday, July 14, the Bulldogs ran into a left-handed buzzsaw named Max Loven.
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11 inning pitchers’ duel goes to Princeton over the Bulldogs
In the best pitcher’s duel in the Eastern Minny League in at least a decade, the Princeton Panthers scored the only run of the game on a suicide squeeze in the bottom of the eleventh inning to beat the Chisago Lakes Bulldog baseball team 1-0 on Friday, June 27 at Mark Park in Princeton. Winning pitcher Cedric Moreno went the distance for the Panthers. In eleven innings allowed no runs on seven hits, walked one and struck out 13. Beau Fandel, who took the loss for the Bulldogs, also pitched a complete game. He allowed one earned run on seven hits, walked six and struck out 15.
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BULLDOGS SLAMMING THEIR WAY TO WINS
The Bulldogs pounded out 18 hits as they crushed one of the top teams in the Eastern Minny League, the Hinckley Knights, 15-1 at Brennan Field in Hinckley on Tuesday, June 17. The game was shortened to seven innings because of the ten-run rule. Every Bulldog starter had at least one hit. Beau Fandel went the distance for the Bulldogs. He allowed one earned run on three hits, walked two and struck out 13.
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Bulldogs finding their groove at the right time
The Chisago Lakes Bulldogs town baseball team played some of the best teams in the state to get ready for the Eastern Minny League season. Even though they lost all four games, the experience prepared them well. The Bulldogs have started the league season 6-1, including two exciting comeback wins.
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‘Cats make a deep push into sections, but run out of gas late
Catcher Kellen Meissner would likely have started the fourth-seeded Wildcat baseball team’s opening Section 7AAA playoff game at home against the fifth-seeded Hermantown Hawks, but the Wildcats’ only other catcher missed the game, so Meissner had to go behind the plate. The Wildcats exploded for six runs in the bottom of the second inning, but Wildcat pitchers allowed multiple runs if five of the game’s seven innings, and the Hawks beat the Wildcats 12-8. The loss sent the Wildcats to the elimination bracket for the section tourney.
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