Click on the blog title to view pictures from the first day of the Wood City Classic tournament. The link for the second day is at the bottom of the page!
Teams in the 2009 Cloquet Wood City Basketball Tournament included St. Paul Humboldt's boys AND girls teams, East Central girls, Ashland girls, Duluth Central Boys, Blake School boys, and of course both the Cloquet Lumberjack boys and girls teams. This page is pictures from the first day of action.
A few players stood out from the rest.. including The Blake School's Kebu Johnson, who is only a freshman but plays much bigger than that.
Also St. Paul Humboldt (Section 1A St. Paul city-league team) sisters Angelina (Junior) and Annessa (senior) Hicks, who've played in the tournament together before have picked up their games each time they come to the Wood City Tournament.
Annessa Hicks playing defense against Cloquet
Tim Defoe starred for the Cloquet boys as they won and lost one game each, while Annabel Morrisroe did the same for the Cloquet girls
Defoe shooting a 3
Morrisroe with one of many baskets in the tournament
Hostgator emailed and already had my domain re-setup and the website is already back up and running with everything in the right place. By the end of the coming weekend, I'll have pictures added from Cloquet boys hockey's win over Park/Cottage Grove in the Duluth Denfeld hockey tournament and pictures from both boys and girls basketball games in the annual Cloquet Wood City Classic tournament. After that, everything should be back to normal with updates each night I shoot something.
I am making some server adjustments on my website and while Hostgator changes them, pages will be offline, but everything should be back up and back to normal by Thursday!
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The Lumberjack girls basketball team hosted the Hermantown Hawks, Tuesday, December 23, 2009. The teams were tied at 30 at halftime, and with 7:17 left in the second half, Hermantown was up 45-42 when they went on a 17-4 run to buzzer to win 62-46. Annabel Morrisroe and Brianna Henagin each had 15 pts for Cloquet.
Cloquet's Kialee Kutter
Brianna Henagin shooting a jumper
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The Northern Stars and Mirage skated two scoreless periods at the Hertiage Center. Mirage 8th grader Reilly Fawcett scored in the 4th minute of the third period to put PHM up 1-0. Duluth's Frankie Bergman tied the game in the middle of the period, but PHM's Abby Fox answered 21 seconds later to finish the scoring at 2-1 for the Mirage victory.
Northern Stars Goaltender Paige Turner gets a faceoff
Fawcett scoring from her knees
Mirage goaltender Anja Morris finishes strong in the 2-1 victory
Click the blog title to view pictures from the 9th grade, JV, and Varsity games against Proctor!
The Lumberjacks 9th/C team, the JV team, and Varsity all defeated their Proctor Rails counterparts on Friday, December 18. RaRa Jones got the varsity off to a huge lead in the first half and they never looked back, winning by 54 points. I shot one half each of 9th grade and JV, and then the entire varsity game.
RaRa Jones
Chad Calcaterra with a 1st half dunk
Andy Wappes
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Chad Calcaterra scored 42 points to lead the Lumberjacks to a 67-52 win over the Virignia Blue Devils December 15, 2009. The game was relatively close until midway through the second half when Calcaterra put on a show with three dunks and numerous other baskets at close range.
RaRa Jones had 11 points as well
I had a request this week for this seasons FDLTCC Thunder basketball photos, and I will finally get to soome games, January 4th against Gogebic and January 6th against Northland. I should also get to the January 15th, 16th, (Maybe the road games on the 20th) and 23rd unless something changes between now and then.
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December 10, 2009. Sarah Gustafson stopped an amazing 46 of 47 shots, diving all over the ice at times, while Courtney Esse scored a hat-trick to lead the Lumberjacks to a 4-1 win over the Mirage in the rematch of the 08-09 7AA Finals and first of two regular season matchups between CEC and PHM this season. The Lumberjacks only needed 11 total shots to score their 4 goals.
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The Jacks dominated the Proctor Rails, picking up their second win in a row.
Lumberjacks lived around the Proctor net, including Jack McFarlane (#7) who had a hat-trick.
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I only shot the first half, but the Cloquet boys basketball team lost to Grand Rapids in what was a rematch of the Section 7AAA finals last season
RaRa Jones goes up for a jumper.
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The Lumberjack girls basketball team had a 13-8 lead in the first half, before Esko turned up the pressure; went on a 21-0 run; and never looked back, winning 65-37 in Esko, December 7, 2009.
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The Lumberjacks and Northern Stars renewed their rivalry by settling nothing at all, with a 3-3 overtime tie. The Jacks came back from a 3-1 deficit in the third period, with goals by Jessie Ryan and Courtney Esse (shorthanded game tying goal.) Nikki Logergren opened the scoring for Duluth in the first period, and Callie Halverson tied the game in the second period buring a 1 timer during a 5 on 3 powerplay. Halverson's goal was answered with goals by Rosie Nelson, and Frankie Bergman to build the 3-1 lead after 2 periods. Cloquet's Melissa Clark had a shot to win the game at the very end of ovetime, burying the puck as the clock ticked to 0:00 but the goal was waved off by the referee saying time ran out, thus ending the game in the 3-3 tie.
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Cloquet (CEC) and GRG (Rapids/Greenway) skated to a tie 3-3 tonight (December 1, 2009).. 1-1 after 1 period, 3-1 CEC after 2 periods and 3-3 after GRG ties the game with 6:59 left in the third. The Lumberjacks killed off a 5 on 3 powerplay in OT, on two tripping penalties 30 seconds apart, then of course the Lightning went shorthanded but the Lumberjack spent some of their powerplay in their own zone.
Sarah Gustafson came up HUGE in net for the Jacks the end of the third period and overtime, stopping 2 breakaways and then doing the splits across the crease to stop a great scoring chance on the 5 on 3. A Molly Illikainen goal was sandwiched by two Dana Gallop goals for the Lightning, while CEC got goals by Jessie Ryan, Savannah Hanson, and Melissa Clark.
UMD Bulldog recruit Dana Gallop (#7 black) faces off against Lumberjack Jessie Ryan
Lumberjack captain Courtney Esse
Sarah Gustafson stopping one of her 28 saves
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The Lumberjack boys held their own against a tough Virignia Blue Devils team through 2 and 1/2 periods being down only 1-0 and putting a lot of shots on the Virginia net. Two defensive lapses allowed Virginia to put the game away, scoring two goals in the final 7 minutes of the third period.
The 09-10 LSC Jamboree took place at the Duluth Heritage Sports Center November 23, 2009. Click the blog title to view all the photos from the event.
The #1 ranked Stillwater Ponies, class AA State Champions for 08-09 rolled through the Duluth Heritage Sports Center and Cloquet Area Recreational Center (CARC) this past weekend, beating the Duluth Northern Stars 5-0, and CEC Lumberjacks 5-1. While the Northern Stars game was pretty lopsided, the CEC game wasn't decided until Stillwater turned their game way up in the third period, extending a 2-1 two period lead to the 5-1 victory over the 'Jacks.
Stillwater's Amanda Cartony scored 3 goals between the two games
Janessa Philipczyk scored a goal each night
Goaltender Marah Sobczak (making this save) allowed just one goal in two games
More pictures from the CEC game, with the CEC bias of course.
More from the Duluth game, a little of both from that game.
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The CEC Girls opened their 09-10 season at Forest Lake, November 17, 2009 with a 5-0 victory over the Rangers. Jessie Ryan and Melissa Clark each scored twice, with Savannah Hanson scoring as well. Courtney Esse picked up 3 assists, while Carley Esse and Kara Cresap had an assist each. Sarah Gustafson earned the shutout for the Lumberjacks.
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Esko defeated Hermantown soundly 3-0, despite Hermantown beating them twice during the season (once in a tournament), while Hibbing defeated Cloquet 3-0 section 7AA volleyball semi-final matches in Grand Rapids, November 4, 2009. Both sets of photos are on that page, just scroll below to find the Cloquet/Hibbing match.
Esko's (#10) Kayla Handevidt, Hermantown's (#5) Jessica Muehlbauer
Esko's (#4) Lydia Pelletier and (#18) Danielle Salo
Hermantown's (#7) Samantha Kallberg, Esko's (#1) Keely Deadrick and Handevidt
Cloquet's (#9) Emily Fossen "rejeted" by Hibbing (#10) Kate Lange
Cloquet's Libero (#6) Kierra Johnson diving to save a serve
