Sports

After next school year, the decades-old rivalry between Irondale and Mounds View high schools returns to intra-conference stakes. 

On a picturesque day at St. Anthony Village High School’s Palm Field, the weather finally delivered summer heat like a rusty pitcher, and the only clouds in the blue sky were fluffy, and the varsity baseball team beat St. Paul Como Park 10-0.

Photos courtesy of Kathleen Hennessy • Madison Head, who is in her third year as a Tartan High School varsity softball starter, hit four out-of-the-park home runs for the Titans in a softball doubleheader April 30.

Lightning, a cheerleading squad out of Oakdale, won the Recreation Level Three Division All Star Cheer Competition National Championship, which was held recently in Indianapolis, Indiana.

“Two weeks ago, it was a blizzard,” said New Brighton Mayor Val Johnson the evening of May 1 as she walked toward the backstop at Freedom Park in New Brighton to throw the ceremonial first pitch for a city-run men’s softball league.

With 15 Seniors on the roster and nine returning senior starters, St. Anthony Village High School baseball team members were hoping to get off to a good start this spring, and they certainly have.

Former players pushed back against claim.

The Roseville Area School District has completed its investigation into an allegation of racism that came out of a girls high school basketball banquet last month.

After finding its new home at the East Side’s Eastview Recreation Center last spring, St. Paul Urban Tennis hired a new executive director, Song Thao, at the beginning of April, according to an April 2 press release.

St. Thomas Academy has hired Dan O’Brien as the Cadets’ head football coach and program head.

Days after the close of the Roseville Area High School girls basketball team’s most successful season in a decade, the mother of a team member is accusing players and coaches of racism following the team’s March 26 banquet.