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CL girls claim section crown, many state berths
At the Section 7AA track and field championship meet, six Wildcat girls and two Wildcat boys earned spots at the MSHSL State Track & Field Championships, which will be held June 4 through June 6 at St. Michael-Albertville High School in St. Michael.
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Baseball makes a spirited run in section 7AAA
Lucas Weinzetl allowed one unearned run in six innings to lead the fifth-seeded Wildcat baseball team to a 6-1 win over the fourth-seeded Hibbing Bluejackets in the opening game of the Section 7AA playoffs Wednesday, May 27 at Hibbing High School. Trent Travis doubled in two runs to give the Wildcats a 2-0 lead in the third. The Wildcats added to their lead with runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings. Weinzetl allowed five hits, walked five and struck out four in picking up the win.
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Wildcats make a spirited run at sections but fall short
In the opening game of the Section 7AAA softball tournament, Rylan Sheppeck singled with one out in the bottom of the tenth inning to drive in Jesa Leritz to give the fourth-seeded Wildcats a 7-6 win over the fifth-seeded Cloquet Lumberjacks on Tuesday, May 19 at Chisago Lakes High School. The win sent the Wildcats to a championship bracket game against the Rock Ridge Wolverines.
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Pearson smashes shot put record during M8C championships
The Wildcats hosted the Mississippi 8 Conference Track and Field Championships at Chisago Lakes High School on Wednesday, May 20. The girls came in second, just three points behind second place Monticello. The boys finished fifth. The Wildcats’ only first place individual finish at the meet was senior Mariana Cooksley, who heaved a personal best 40’5.5” in the shot put. The Wildcats swept the top two spots in the shot put, as sophomore Madison Eagle threw a personal best 37’1.5” to finish second. Eagle also finished second in the discus, with a throw of 114’6”. For the boys, Will Pearson’s throw of 55’4” set the school record in the shot put, breaking the mark of 53’1” set by Andrew Koehler in 2021.
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CL draws fifth seed in sections, heading to Hibbing for opener
Trent Travis hit a three-run homer and Kellen Meissner threw a three-hitter to lead the Wildcat baseball team to a 10-0 win over the St. Francis Fighting Saints Tuesday, May 19 at Chisago Lakes High School, in the Wildcats’ final regular season home game of 2026. The game was shortened to five innings because of the ten-run rule. Meissner walked just one and struck out four in his complete game shutout of the Fighting Saints.
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Vikings get the best of Wildcats again
The fourth-seeded Wildcat softball team won their opening round game in the double elimination Section 7AAA playoffs over the fifth-seeded Cloquet Lumberjacks Tuesday, May 19 at Chisago Lakes High School. This morning at 10 a.m. they will face the top-seeded and fifth-ranked Rock Ridge Wolverines at Braun Park in Cloquet in a second-round game. If the Wildcats win, they will play a semifinal game at Braun Park at 3 p.m. on May 26, and if they win that game they will play for the section championship at Hermantown High School on Thursday, May 28. At that point, if they will two more games on May 26 at Braun Park, the Wildcats would play on May 28 at Hermantown High School for the section championship.
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CL falls flat in section gauntlet
The Cloquet Lumberjacks baseball team scored four runs in the first inning and went on to beat the Wildcats 7-1 Monday, May 11 at Chisago Lakes High School. Cloquet loaded the bases with no outs in the top of the first inning. Wildcat pitcher Zander Bleymeyer hit the next batter to force in a run. A run scored on a wild pitch. After the batter struck out, the following batter grounded a two-run single to left to make it 4-0. The Lumberjacks added another run in the top of the second to make it 5-0. Quinn LeVasseur drove in a run with a bases-loaded, two out single in the bottom of the third to cut the lead to 5-1. The Wildcats put at least one runner on base in each of the last three innings but came up empty. Cloquet added single runs in the sixth and seventh to make the final 7-1.
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Bulldogs rally late but give it right back to Highland Park
The Bulldog baseball team scored six runs in the top of the sixth inning to take a 6-3 lead, but the Highland Park Beavers came back with five runs in the bottom of the inning and beat the Wildcats 8-6 Sunday, May 17 at McMurray Athletic Fields in St. Paul.
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Wildcat girls win true team section, head to state
The Wildcat girls’ track team won the Section 7AA True Team meet and will head to the state tournament for the second year in a row. The Wildcats piled up 500.5 points, finishing 75 points ahead of second-place North Branch. The Wildcat boys finished fifth with 382.5 points, 24 points ahead of sixth-place North Branch.
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