Lumberjacks pitch to victory
As a varsity point guard in for the Cloquet boys basketball team, Nate Weets uses his right hand to dribble past his opponents with the basketball.Pine Journal, 05/09/2013
Semi-pro football begins ‘Stampede’
Dewey Dupuis Jr. hasn’t played a game of organized football for more than two years, but the 19-year-old hasn’t lost his touch. “It’s my favorite sport,” said Dupuis, a 2011 graduate of Fond du Lac Ojibwe School and now starting free safety for the inaugural Carlton County Stampede semi-professional football team this summer.Pine Journal, 05/02/2013
Rebels and their pitcher mow down Barnum in first outside effort
Catcher Maia Killerud caught for all of Chloe Maloney’s 14 strikeouts, while Maloney knocked in a pair of late insurance runs to help lead Moose Lake-Willow River to a 6-4 victory over rival Barnum in a Polar League softball game Monday evening in Willow River.Pine Journal, 05/02/2013
Eighth grader finishes Fitger’s 5K in good company
Racing down Superior Street Saturday morning, Isaac Boedigheimer had no clue he was ahead of Minnesota Duluth’s eight-time NCAA Division II All-American, Morgan Place.Pine Journal, 04/25/2013
Golf season still snowed under
Conditions have been perfect at the Cloquet Country Club this spring … for cross country skiing.Pine Journal, 04/25/2013
Lumberjacks’ Hagen is helping his hometown
Eric Hagen, former four-year varsity pitcher for the Lumberjacks, who then threw collegiately for the College of St. Scholastica, has returned as an assistant coach for Cloquet.Pine Journal, 04/25/2013
Thunder baseball challenged by depth … of roster and snow
While the home ballpark remains covered in snow during a glacially paced winter, the Thunder baseball team is winless in all nine road games as they battle a readjusted roster, which now includes seven collegiate football players.Pine Journal, 04/18/2013
Softball Roundup
Eskomos enter season prepared to win and with plenty of indoor practice time.Pine Journal, 04/18/2013
Track and Field Roundup
The Rebels are running for return trip to state.Pine Journal, 04/18/2013
Kids just want to play ball, but weather won’t cooperate
As he repeatedly twisted double-plays at Tuesday’s indoor practice, Carlton second baseman Otto Gonzalez knew everything he needed to do with the baseball.Pine Journal, 04/18/2013
