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Wildcats run rule North Branch 10-0 in early season showdown
Leading 4-0 over the Vikings, the Wildcat baseball team erupted for six runs in the top of the fifth to go up 10-0. The Vikings came up empty in the bottom of the fifth, giving the Wildcats a 10-0 win by the ten-run rule. The game was played on Tuesday, April 14 at North Branch High School.
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Chisago Lakes rounding into form with early season triangular
The Wildcat track team participated in the Cambridge-Isanti Triangular at Cambridge-Isanti High School on Tuesday, April 14, with Monticello joining in on the fun. The girls’ meet was highly competitive, with the Wildcats finishing in second just 2 ½ points behind Monticello and 4 ½ points ahead of third place Cambridge-Isanti. The boys’ meet was not very competitive, with the Wildcats finishing a distant third behind the other two schools.
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CL starts hot behind lofty ranking
The second-ranked Wildcats got off to a 3-0 start this season. They opened with a 9-8 comeback win over the Big Lake Hornets in front of the home crowd on Wednesday April 8. They followed that up the next day with an 8-0 road victory over the Monticello Magic. And they headed to Rocori on Monday, April 13 and came away with a 5-1 win over the Spartans.
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Wildcats struggling to come out of winter hibernation
The Wildcat baseball team opened the season at home on Tuesday, April 7 with what will likely be their toughest game of the year and got crushed by the Hudson Raiders 15-1. Trenton Travis drove in Kellen Meissner with the only Wildcat run of the game in the fourth inning, which was shortened to five innings due to the ten-run rule.
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Area grapplers win some section matches
At St. Paul Harding High School last Saturday, the fourth-seeded Wildcat wrestling team made it to the semifinals of the Section 4AA Team Tournament before losing to top-seeded South St. Paul 54-21. South St. Paul went on to beat Mahtomedi 43-22 in the section championship and will represent and will represent Section 4AA at the state tournament.
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Chisago Lakes reeling a bit before section play
The Pine City Dragons hockey team took a 5-2 lead midway through the third period, and a Wildcat comeback fell just short as the Dragons hung on for a 5-4 win Monday, February 9 at Chisago Lakes Arena.
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Chisago Lakes claims conference crown
Three eighth graders – Zoe Neurer, Aven Lyckholm, and Brynn Secor – led a Wildcat comeback from a two-goal deficit in the first period as the Wildcats beat the Pine City Dragons 4-3 in the Wildcats’ final home game of the season Thursday, January 29 at Chisago Lakes High School. The Wildcats outshot the Dragons 46-15 for the game.
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‘Cats break losing streak with 7-4 win over South St. Paul
Elijah Fitch scored with ten seconds left in overtime to give the Sauk Rapids-Rice Storm a 3-2 win over the Wildcats Friday, January 30 at Sauk Rapids Sports Arena East, in a game that featured 96 shots between the two teams and some excellent goaltending by Wildcat goalie Jacob Schaeppi and Sauk Rapids goalie Chase Wheeler.
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Wildcat wrestlers pin opponent
The Wildcat wrestling team hosted a quadrangular last Thursday, January 29th and went 1-2 for the evening. They lost to Grand Rapids 51-21, fell to Princeton 48-22, and beat the North Branch Vikings 44-30. Conner Aspenson was the only Wildcats to win all three of his matches for the evening, wrestling twice at 114 pounds and once at 121 pounds.
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