Esko Volleyball Beats Hibbing In 5 Games

Down 8-13, Esko ran off 7 straight points to win the 5th and final game in a 3 games to 2 Section 7AA Semi-final volleyball win over Hibbing, in Grand Rapids, November 2, 2011. It looked early, like Esko was going to beat Hibbing in 3 straight games, when they went up 2 games to 0. The Eskomos had to work in the first game, down 11-17 at one point. They outscored Hibbing 14-6 to finish the game 25-23, including runs from 11-17 to 14-17 and 14-18 to 20-18.

Esko trailed only at 2-3 in the second game, and their largest lead of the game was 9-4, winning this one 25-21.

The third game was back and forth, though Esko was down 4-9 they battled back and tied the match at every point but 20's and 22's from 16's to 26's but dropped the final two points to 26-28.

In the fourth game, Hibbing built a lead, from 8-8 to 12-20 before Esko made their move, closing the sore to 21-22, and only losing the game 23-25.

Game five, as mentioned, saw Esko come back from 8-13 down, led by Stephanie Bandelin hitting, and an Amanda Bisel kill that rolled nearly half the length along the tape on top of the net before dropping to the floor on the Hibbing side, that gave Esko match point 14-13. With the 15-13 final game win, Esko faces Mora in the 7AA volleyball final at Duluth Denfeld, November 5, 2011.

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Concordia Stops UMD’s Volleyball Winning Streak

The Bulldogs dropped a volleyball match at Romano Gymnasium 3 games to 0 to Concordia, just 10 days after beating them in 5 games in St. Paul.

A record crowd of 2,441 people showed up for the match between the #1 ranked Bulldogs and #4 ranked Golden Bears. The game scores were 25-19, 25-17, 25-17 all in favor of Concordia.

 

UMD Men’s Hockey Thumps Bemidji 6-2

UMD fell behind Friday night, 2-0 on goals by Bemidji's Brad Hunt and Jordan George just 1:05 apart at 6:21 and 7:26. Wade Bergman got UMD back into the game 55 seconds later, at 8:21, when he skated in from the blue line to punch in a rebound after a flurry of attempts including a JT Brown shot point blank. Jack Connolly also got an assist on Bergman's first goal of the year. UMD used it's timeout at 12:34 of the second period, likely needing a quick breather after the Bergman goal then an unsuccessful powerplay. The quick break worked, as JT Brown scored at 13:24, putting a Chris Casto rebound into an open Bemidji net with goaltender Andrew Walsh trying to dive back to his net, to no avail.

Keegan Flaherty stuffed a rebound of his own shot past Walsh, at 8:15 of the second period, from Dan DeLisle, to give UMD a 3-2 lead, his 3rd goal of the season after 0 goals his first two Bulldog seasons. Casto then scored his first Bulldog goal, from Caleb Herbert and Justin Crandall at 9:32 of the period.

With the Bulldogs on cruise control in the third period, Brady Lamb scored at 7:11 from Travis Oleksuk and Jack Connolly, and Connolly scored his second of the season, from Bergman at 11:07 for the final 6-2 tally.

Kenny Reiter held his ground after the two Bemidji goals, stopping 15 of 17 total shots while Walsh stopped 34 of 40 Bulldog shots in the loss.

Cloquet Volleyball Drops 5 Game Thriller to Hermantown

The Lumberjacks and Hawks played what was for the most part, a completely even 5 game volleyball match in Hermantown, October 18, 2011. The 'Jacks dropped the 5 game match 3 to 2 but had a great shot to win the fifth game.

Cloquet took the first point of game one and didn't look back that game, with leads of 6-1, 12-3, and 17-7. Hermantown battled back to get within 22-17 but the 'Jacks finished game one with a 25-18 win.

Game two started close, with a 6-6 score, but that quickly became 6-19 with Hermantown going on a big run to take control of the second game, and winning that 25-13.

Cloquet took the third game 25-20, starting with a 2-1 lead, that because a 5-6 deficit, but a run to 10-6 built enough lead that they held on throughout, with Hermantown cutting it to 16-13 and 17-14 but not getting closer than those three points.

Hermantown won game four with an identical 25-20 score to Cloquet's game three win, though Cloquet took a 15-14 lead midway through the game, the Hawks outscored them 11-5 from that point. The fifth game was just as tight, with both teams exchanging points, with the game tied at 10's, 11's, 12's, 13's, 14's and 15's and 16's. The 'Jacks lead 14-13 but weren't able to win that match point. They battled back from 14-15 and 15-16 to tie at 16's but dropped the final 2 points to finish down 16-18.

 

More Updates, Since September 15

Since the last blog update, just a few of the area events I’ve photographed include:

The Duluth Clydesdales opened their 2011-12 home schedule, dropped a 6-2 game to Fort Frances on September 25.

 

AA Moose Lake/Willow River football won a highly publicized high school football game over AAAA Duluth Denfeld at Public School’s Stadium September 23rd.

FDLTCC Thunder football defeated Itasca CC 16-9 in Barnum September 24th.

Finally, A Blog Update

With the busy fall season happening, I haven’t gotten around to posting a blog update of games shot, but here comes one!

This past week I cleaned up the front page of viewthroughmylens.net be creating a separate high schools page with links to the Cloquet, Barnum, Carlton, Esko, and Duluth Northern Stars pages rather than having 5 separate links on the front page of the website.  Now you click the high schools link and choose which school you want to look for pictures of.

I shot a bunch of CEC Lumberjacks boys soccer early in their season and a couple Cloquet girls soccer, including their rivalry matchup 2-1 loss at Esko/Carlton.

Esko Football lost to Braham 48-26

Shot a bunch of early season Cloquet, Carlton, and Esko volleyball matches.

Cloquet Football

FDLTCC Thunder football starts the season 1-2, Volleyball drops home opener

With so much going on I may have missed some updates, so check the bottom of viewthroughmylens.net for the scrolling updates!

New Website/Photo Updates

 

It’s been a month since I last posted an update, but in that time I’ve been shooting a ton of Cloquet Youth Baseball/Softball Association games, some Minnesota Blast (U16) and Dynamite (U14) softball games, and some of three Duluth Huskies baseball games.

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Shot everything from instructional league kids, to Juniors age baseball, to the above mentioned U14 and U16 softball teams. 

Duluth Huskies Index

So far this season I’ve shot 3 Huskies games, one Vs Mankato and two vs Thunder Bay.

Chris Manship

Kevin Kuntz

Tyler Palmer

Dylan Thomas

Cloquet Softball Wins Playoff Opener

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The Lumberjacks dispatched Crosby-Ironton 12-0 in 55 minutes at Braun Park to open the 7AA playoffs, May 24, 2011. Denise Rodd threw a 5 inning no-hitter in the Cloquet victory.

Cloquet first baseman Alyssa Michaelson

Center fielder Kayla Masessa

Heritage Center Hosted Pro Wrestling Benefit for Homelessness

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"Wrestling Gone Wild" put on a show with the Twins Ports Action Coalition at Heritage Center, May 21, 2011 as a benefit to help end homelessness in the Duluth area.  Attendance for the event didn’t reach 100 people, for whatever reasons. 

Ann Brookstone scores.. well, actually Mystik Sexton scores by sliding Ann into the net

Mystik with her championship belt

Wrestling legend Wild Bill Irwin

Gary Littlewolf

Dalyce Gustafson Hits for the Cycle in Lumberjacks’ Victory in Proctor

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The Lumberjacks' softball team, behind a Dalyce Gustafson cycle, trounced Proctor 18-1 in Proctor May 17, 2011. Gustafson hit a double her first at bat, a triple her second at bat, grounded out to short her third, homered to left her fourth at bat, and finished the cycle with a sharp single to third.

Gustafson swings for the fences

Coach Ron Tondryk sends Shania Paulson home from third

Kayla Masessa slides in safe at the plate ahead of the throw

Carlton Softball Beats Barnum, Remains Undefeated

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On the strength of a Megan Nelson 2-run bomb over the center-field fence, the Carlton Bulldogs defended their home field with a 5-2 win May 16, 2011. Carlton had a 2-0 lead after three inning, scoring once in the second and once in the third inning. Barnum tied the game in the top of the 4th, then Nelson gave Carlton the lead for good in the bottom of the 5th inning, and added an insurance run in the 6th.

Megan Nelson’s home run swing

Megan Bodin pitches for Carlton

Silver Bay Softball Beats Albrook 18-11

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Albrook and Silver Bay battled not only each other, but cold spring weather, May 13, 2011 at Braun Park in Cloquet.

Albrook had a 2-0 lead after the first inning, and 4-0 lead after the second inning. Silver Bay scored 5 runs in the third, 2 in the fourth, and 5 in the fifth, and 2 in the sixth inning. Albrook kept from being 10-run ruled by scoring 1 run in the bottom of the 6th. Silver Bay got 4 runs in the 7th, then Albrook scored 6, managing to chase Mariners' pitcher Nikki Babbitt, by putting together a string of hits in the bottom of the 7th.

While Babbitt got the pitching win, Taylor Guzzo finished the 7th inning pitching for Silver Bay, while Albrook's Kendra Dallhman went the distance for the Falcons.

Albrook Catcher Alyssa Johnson slides safely into third

Silver Bay’s Nikki Babbit steals second

Silver Bay shortstop Taylor Guzzo guns a runner

Cloquet Baseball Beats Hibbing in Extra Inning

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The Lumberjacks defeated Hibbing 3-2 in 8 innings, May 11, 2011 in Cloquet. Adam Hanson picked up the pitching win in relief of starter Taylor Blundell. Freshman Justin Ketola's hit to deep short plated Cole Johnson with the winning run in the bottom of the 8th inning.

Taylor Blundell throws a pitch against Hibbing

Cole Johnson slides into third ahead of the throw, advancing the game winning run to third on a past ball.

Cloquet Softball Wins Two

Thanks to recent weather issues, the Lumberjacks played two games on May 10th.. first in Superior, and then in Hermantown. 

The Lumberjack softball team started the front end of the doubleheader with a 17-4 win over the Superior Spartans, in Superior, May 10, 2011. Freshman pitcher Chandler Beaupre started and went 6 innings for the win.

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Lumberjack shortstop Dalyce Gustafson

Outfielder Makenzie Korby

The Lumberjacks finished the May 10th  softball doubleheader with a 5-4 victory over the Hermantown Hawks in Hermantown. Denise Rodd got the 7 inning win, with her defense turning three big doubleplays behind her, including a game ending 6-4-3 doubleplay.  Hermantown pitcher Katie Thun went the distance as well, in the loss.

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Cloquet catcher Lizz Jezierski tags out a Hermantown player at the plate early in the game.

Cloquet second baseman Kelly Carlson turns a doubleplay to finish the game

Barnum Softball Beats Cromwell 10-9

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Cromwell got timely hitting the entire game, and pitcher Lily Kemi kept Barnum hitters off balance with changeups much of the game, but Barnum rallied to tie the game twice, and scored the winning run in the bottom of the 7th when an errant throw on a bunt went into right field scoring Karianna Duesler all the way from first base.

Barnum’s Emily Thomsen drives a ball to the outfield

Cromwell’s Haley Shelton hits against Barnum

Cromwell’s Lisa Peterson