Spring track and field preview: Track numbers escalate in Cloquet, Esko
Thomas Udenberg, now a 6-foot-3, 270-pound senior, helps anchor the Lumberjacks’ largest track and field team under ninth-year Coach Tim Prosen, who estimated 140 students are participating in the ever-increasing program this year.Pine Journal, 04/11/2013
Prep Baseball Preview: No field, no worries for Eskomos
As a result of last year’s epic June flood and the upcoming construction for the school’s new outdoor athletic facilities off Canosia Road, the Eskomos will not have a home baseball field this spring. Instead, they will play all games on the road.Pine Journal, 04/11/2013
Area golf preview: Golfing good anytime, anywhere for ’Jacks
Wedged between sunrise and the first bell at school, Brett Morrison and other members of the Cloquet-Esko boys golf team have been bettering their game for nearly a month indoors during early morning practice sessions at Esko’s Lincoln School.Pine Journal, 04/11/2013
Softball preview: Senior-less Cloquet is confident
A look at Cloquet and Carlton softball teams as well as other county high school softball teams around the state.Pine Journal, 04/04/2013
Thunder’s Sylvester returns to softball, this time to coach
There are days at softball practice where Laura Sylvester watches her team and remembers when she played third base years ago. Sylvester is now the energetic base of the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College women’s softball program, as the upbeat 29-year-old enters her first season as the coach of the Thunder.Pine Journal, 04/04/2013
Korby's Corner...Battaglia’s a basketball coach
In last week’s edition of the Pine Journal, a shocking letter to the editor was published inferring that Battaglia was a racist for removing Diver from the contest. In my opinion, it wasn’t racism, but strategy.Pine Journal, 04/04/2013
Spring sports at a standstill
All practices for the Lumberjacks’ spring sports programs — and surrounding area — have been inside this month, as snow banks still sit high, ice blankets the ground and temperatures remain bitter cold entering Easter Sunday and the beginning of April.Pine Journal, 03/28/2013
Goessling sets his sights for the top
As the sun melted snow away every spring, Maura Goessling said her son, Raleigh, would pile up what was left in the shade. It was there, she said, her youngster would ski for hours.Pine Journal, 03/28/2013
Korby’s Corner..Esko's selfless seniors
The “us-first” attitude defined Esko’s senior class.Pine Journal, 03/28/2013
State tournament experience ‘a dream come true’
The Eskomos lost to Annandale 59-58 Saturday afternoon in St. Paul on the season’s final day, finishing fourth place in the Class AA State Championships. Yet for the prestigious Polar League school, making just their third-ever state appearance after trips in 2003 and 1955, it was an everlasting experience for Esko.Pine Journal, 03/28/2013
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