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The Section 7AA boys basketball semi-finals took place at Romano Gym on the campus of Minnesota-Duluth, March 17, 2010. Braham used a strong second half to pull away from Deer River, while Rush City beat Virginia in a great game in front of a lively crowd from both towns.
The Lumberjacks battled tough behind a strong defensive effort, and had a halftime lead, but ultimately fell to Grand Rapids 62-56 in the Section 7AAA Finals at Duluth East, March 16, 2010.
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The #2 seed Lumberjacks used a strong second half to defeat the #7 seeded Wildcats and move on to the section semi-finals.
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Just like the 2009 Section final, Duluth East dominated Elk River, this time winning 5-1 at the DECC, March 4, 2010. The Elks only managed 3 second period shots as the Greyhounds stormed the net the whole period.
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The Virginia Blue Devils defeated the Hibbing Blue Jackets 3-0 to win the Section 7A championship, March 3, 2010. Casey Myhre earned the shutout in net for Virginia, while Jordan Krebsbach, Keith Hendrickson, and Trey Carlson scored the Blue Devil goals.
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The Lumberjacks led the whole way, but missed free throws in the last few minutes cut their lead to 2 points and let Hermantown's Rachael Hoium to hit a 3 point basket with 3 seconds left to give Hermantown the 1 point win and knock the Lumberjacks out of the playoffs.
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The Lumberjack girls basketball team's strong team effort defeated the Duluth East Greyhounds 59-50 in Cloquet, February 23, 2010. Annabel Morrisroe scored 28 points to lead the Jacks, who moved the ball well on offense to keep the Greyhounds off balance on defense.
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For Senior Night, the Lumberjacks faced Providence Academy of Plymouth, MN for the first ever, February 25, 2010. The first half was close, but Providence Academy pulled away in the second half of the game.
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For the second time in a month, the Thunder won a close game against Itasca Community College. The difference from the double overtime game in January was, the Thunder came from behind twice and won the game 68-67 in regulation. The Thunder were down 11-0 in the first 3:23 and 15-3 after the first 8 minutes, before going on a 16-7 run over the next 5 minutes. Down by only 1 at halftime the second half was back and forth with the Thunder having a 51-48 lead with 9:22 left, then down 63-56 with only 3:33 remaining in the game. A 12-4 Thunder run capped by a Curtis Houle 3 with 20 seconds left gave the Thunder their 68-67 win. Itasca's Jared Sutherland had one final shot at the game winner but had the ball stolen by the Thunder's Justin Roberts to seal the victory at the Lester Jack Briggs Cultural Center Gymnasium.
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The Lumberjacks lost to the Duluth East Greyhounds 4-3 at the CARC February 9, 2010. Duluth East got off to a 2-0 first period lead on goals by Kenny Mellin and Nate Repensky. The Lumberjacks answered in the second period on goals by Jack McFarlane and Adam Hanson. Dom Toninato scored twice in the third period, to give Duluth East a 4-2 lead. With 1:08 left in the third period, and goaltender John Scheuer pulled, the Lumberjacks put immense pressure on Duluth East goaltender Josh Jeanetta, and Cloquet's Mark Savage buried the puck to make the score 4-3. Duluth East tried to let Cloquet tie the game, icing the puck and allowing Scheuer to be pulled again, but the Jacks couldn't get the tying goal as time ran out. Scheuer finished with 29 saves on 33 shots while Jeanetta stopped 23 of 26 shots for the win.
Corbin Morse
Adam Hanson
Jack McFarlane
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The Lumberjacks got a 51 save performance from goaltender John Scheuer, and an overtime goal from Mark Savage to defeat the Hermantown Hawks 3-2 at the Cloquet Area Recreation Center. Connor Hady opened the scoring for Hermantown, and was answered by a Jack McFarlane powerplay goal. Tony Wilcox gave the Jacks a 2-1 lead, which was then answered by the Hawks Cody Christopherson. Tyler Ampe stopped 23 of 26 Cloquet shots in the loss.
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On Senior night, the Lumberjacks defeated the Hibbing/Chisholm Bluejackets 1-0 at the CARC February 1, 2010. Courtney Esse scored the Cloquet goal on a backhand in the first period, for the only goal of the game. Sarah Gustafson got the shutout win for the Lumberjacks, and Dory Johnson for the Bluejackets took the loss, despite stopping 37 of 38 shots she faced.
They played a great overall game but the Lumberjacks lost 2-1 to a tough Andover team at the CARC, January 30, 2010. Cal Decowski scored in the first period for Andover, and Nick Michaud scored in the second period for Cloquet. Taylor Portner scored the game winning goal for Andover with 19 seconds left in the third period.
