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'Jacks win conference title
The Lumberjacks boys team continued its march toward tennis domination Tuesday, and captured the Lake Superior Conference championship as a result. The Lumberjacks shut out Hermantown 7-0 at...
Lumberjack boys continue mastery on the links
The Lumberjacks boys golf team dominated play at their home meet last week, with the team coming in 34 points ahead of the next-closest team and Sam Baker winning the individual play. The...
Girl golfers get it in gear
The Cloquet-Esko-Carlton girls golf team has not participated in many meets this spring but they are growing into the game, now that the weather is cooperating. Last week the Lady ’Jacks competed...
Lumberjacks peaking for playoffs
The Cloquet boys baseball team made the two-hour trip to Princeton Friday night and promptly handed the Tigers a 5-3 loss as the ‘Jacks picked up their fifth win on the season. “The boys have been...
The ticker
Softball Friday, May 10 Cloquet-17 Princeton-3 The Lumberjacks scored five runs in the third, sixth and seventh innings to cruise to the road win in Princeton. The ‘Jacks bashed out 15 hits, including a three-run home run by Kiana Bender and three...
Cross country coach chosen
The Cloquet school board on Monday approved hiring high school business and technology teacher Chandra Allen as the next head coach of the cross-country teams this fall. Allen has been teaching in the district since 2013 and has coaching experience...
Wrens, Bulldogs battle for Polar League small-school championship
The Carlton varsity boys baseball team secured the championship of the Polar League small-school division by picking up a 7-5 win over Wrenshall at Chub Lake Park Tuesday afternoon. It was a tough...
Hot Eskomos team trounces the Bombers
The Esko Eskomos boys baseball team improved to 9-2 on the season Tuesday afternoon after defeating the Barnum Bombers by a score of 17-2 in a Polar League conference matchup. Esko scored 17 runs on...
Cloquet's relay day isn't a normal track day
Friday's "Cloquet Relays" track meet featured plenty of the usual track and field events, but with a twist. Pole vaulters raced around the track with their poles. Shot put and discus throwers made...
Baseball roundup
Thursday, May 2 Carlton-6 Silver Bay-0 Ryan Gray’s pitching was dominant plus the Bulldogs got plenty of hits in securing the win in a game played in Cloquet. Gray gave up just three hits in seven innings of work and struck out eight to pick up...
Softball roundup
Thursday, May 2 Barnum-13 Rush City-12 The Bombers won a wild game at home with three different players bashing out three hits. Molly Agurkis had three hits, two of which were doubles, and she added an RBI. Mendota Castonguay had three hits: includin...
Wrens compete in varsity softball for the first time in a decade
It has been 10 years since the Wrenshall Wrens fielded a high school softball team. A year ago the Wrens played a junior varsity schedule to help dip their toes in the water. This year they made the t...
Tenth-ranked Cloquet triumphs in section rematch
In a rematch of the Section 7AAA championship last year, the No. 10-ranked Cloquet girls varsity softball team exacted a small bit of revenge over North Branch Friday afternoon when the 'Jacks...
'Jacks best ML-WR, lose to Marshall
Early in April it looked like Mother Nature was going to provide the kind of spring we have not seen for a while, where Northland sports teams could play a full and normal schedule. As we all know,...
Golf team starts fast
The Cloquet boys golf team finally got to play in its first meet of the season last weekend and played very well - with a top-three individual finisher and a fourth-place team finish - despite a lack...
Carlton dominates diamond
At six wins and zero losses, the Carlton softball team is steaming through the season, at least as often as the weather allows. The Bulldogs beat Cromwell-Wright 16-1 Tuesday, a game that ended in...
Baseball roundup
THURSDAY, APRIL 25 BARNUM-12 (6-innings) TWO HARBORS- 1 The Bombers rode the strong pitching of Isaac Golen who pitched three innings and did not give up a hit. Max Salzer was stellar at the plate with a 2-for-4 effort and an RBI. Conner Buell added...
Softball roundup
TUESDAY, APRIL 30 Esko-7 Moose Lake-Willow River-4 The Eskomos rallied from a 4-2 deficit in picking up the road win on Tuesday. Esko scored a single run in the top of the fifth and then, trailing 4-3 entering the seventh inning, the Eskomos put up f...
Retiree dartball league wraps up season
September through April, a group of regional male retirees get together at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Cloquet on Friday mornings to try their hand at dartball. Players ranging in age from their l...
Cloquet softball team sees mixed results
It’s been a feast-or-famine type of week for the Lumberjacks softball team. Averaging more than 10 runs per game, the team faced a scoring famine when beaten by Hermantown 6-0 last Friday, then...
Weather cooperates for Esko track meet
Fittingly named, the Esko Vortex track meet was held April 16 at the Esko Sports Center. Many of the local schools participated in one of their first outdoor meets of the year and there were plenty...
Cloquet Country Club opens soon for 96th season
For many area residents, the traditional media hype over the opening of Gordy's Hi-Hat restaurant on Highway 33 is a true and welcome sign of spring (especially since it typically opens the first day...
Softball / Baseball RoundUps
SOFTBALL Softball summaries for Tuesday, April 23 CARLTON-8 McGREGOR-5 Brynne Mickle pitched the Bulldogs to the win as Carlton stayed undefeated. Abby Mickle smacked out three hits with a double and a home run while Brynne Mickle added two hits...
CEC tennis team busy making up for lost time
The Cloquet-Esko-Carlton boys tennis team dropped an early season match with Duluth East Tuesday afternoon 7-0 at Cloquet High School. The Greyhounds, a dominant local power on the tennis circuit, pro...
Cloquet softball off to a strong start among weather woes
The Cloquet girls softball team had to rely on their next-door neighbors, the Eskomos, to finally get a game outside. After recent snow and rain made their home field unusable, the Lumberjacks and...
