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  by Bruce Strand, Sports editor Elk River will take on the best hockey team in the state Saturday after grinding out a 4-3 win over Cloquet-Esko-Carlton in their Section 7AAA opener on Tuesday evening. Two goals by Andrew Zerban helped the No. 4 seeded Elks prevail in their final home game.  Ryan Heid and [...]

  by Bruce Strand, Sports editor Five straight losses, three of them in overtime and another by one point, is Elk River’s  ledger for the last two weeks after the Ellks fell to last-place Andover 79-76 at home on Tuesday evening. Despite Andover’s extremely judicious shooting — 23-for-36 from the field, 28-for-37 at the line [...]

  Brookyn Center pulled out a 61-59 win over Zimmerman in a back-and-forth game Tuesday evening, led by Taneisha Brooks with 22 points. Zimmerman (7-12) led by 12 in the first half, and the Centaurs (5-19) led by 12 in the second half. The Thunder rallied within a basket and missed a shot in the [...]

Sartell-St. Stephen handed Rogers a 63-58 loss on Saturday, led by Ashton Haider and Abigail Whitney with 19 points each. Haley Guetter with 14 for the Sabres (17-8). Emily Riechert scored 16 points, Taylor Anderson 11, and Jordyn Motter and Lindsay Dorr 10 each for Rogers (10-14). The Royals will close the regular season at [...]

Free throw accuracy late in the game helped the Irondale Knights slip past the Rogers Royals  70-65 on Tuesday evening at Irondale. Jock Martinek scored 22 points for Irondale (11-12), sinking 7 of 8 free shots. Nolan Johnson scored 17, and Mark Stasson 14, including 6-for-6 at the line. The Knights were 18-for-20 and Rogers [...]

The Zimmerman/Spectrum gymnasts, in their debut with an all-JV roster, placed last among 11 teams in Section 7A at Chisago Lakes last Saturday, scoring a respectable 118.25. Five JV competitors (one injured) from the Elk River-Rogers-Zimmerman team comprised the lineup for this first-ever instance of a Zimmerman team competing separately. They had one  girl from [...]

by Bruce Strand, Sports editor There was one consolation after Elk River-Zimmerman’s crushing four-overtime loss to Grand Rapids-Greenway, 2-1, on Thursday evening in the Section 7AA finals. “I told the girls, you played in a four-overtime game.That doesn’t happen very often, and everyone will remember that game,” said Elk coach Joe Heasley. Elk senior star [...]

  by Bruce Strand, Sports editor The Rogers and Elk River gymnasts overcame the weirdness of competing against each other as both teams performed as well as they could have hoped at Section 8AA on Saturday. Rogers was team runner-up and the Elks, with just four competitors, placed fifth among eight, and combined they had [...]

The Rogers Royals lost to Maple Grove 51-15 in the first round of Section 5AAA on Saturday at Maple Grove, ending their dual meet season 7-13. “To be honest, we wrestled well today,” said coach Chris Donnay. “The score may not reflect it but the boys should be proud of how far they came this [...]

The Elk River wrestlers lost to Cambridge-Isanti 56-21 in the first round of Section 7AAA on Friday at St. Michael, finishing their dual meet season 5-15. The Elks will host the section individuals next Saturday. Cambridge-Isanti 56, Elk River 21 106 – Tommy Guy. CI,dec Garrett Caldon 9-8 113 – Cole Moening, ER, dec Monty [...]