New Prague senior Ian Lillquist and junior Avery Hennen each had a chance to stand on the winner’s podium at the Class AA State Track and Field Championships held Saturday, June 19 at St. Michael-Albertville High School.
Both athletes also earned All-State honors after their field event performances.
Lillquist placed third in the Class AA triple jump, exceeding his qualifying distance by more than 18 inches. His opening jump of...
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St. Patrick won its 6th straight game Sunday, June 13, knocking off league-leading Union Hill, 4-1.
The Irish moved within one game of the Bulldogs with the victory. St. Patrick is 9-3, tied with Prior Lake for the second spot in the DRS Amateur Baseball League. Union Hill, winners of four of their last five, sits on top of the league with an 8-2 record.
Luke Tupy picked up the win for the Irish, pitching seven innings, allowing one earned run on five hits. He struck out 11 and walked one. Zach Seurer pitched the final two innings, striking out four.

Union Hill and St. Patrick are riding impressive win streaks as they start to make their way to the top of the DRS Amateur Baseball standings.
Union Hill has won six straight games and it 1/2 game behind Faribault with a 6-1 record. St. Patrick has won three straight games and improves to 6-3 overall, 1 1/2 games back of the Lakers.
Both Union Hill and St. Patrick were helped out when St. Benedict upset Faribault, 4-3 Friday, June 4.
Prior Lake holds down the third spot in the league with a 7-2 record.

With a break in the season between the conference and section meets, New Prague hosted a Last Chance Meet which was held Thursday, June 3.
The meet allows athletes to stay in shape and work on their talents before Friday’s Section Meet.
The boys and girls teams both finished in second place in this six team meet. Mankato West won both the boys and girls team titles.
Top performances for the New Prague girls were turned in by:

The New Prague boys track and field team collected points in almost every event in winning the Wright County Conference East Division Championship Tuesday, May 25.
The Trojans scored 139 points in defeating runner-up Hutchinson (108) and third place Waconia (100.5). Fourth through eighth were Jordan (86), Delano (83.5), Orono (79), Mound Westonka (58), and Holy Family Catholic (44).

The New Prague boys lacrosse team defeated Rochester Century, 10-9 in double overtime, in the opening round of the Section 1 Lacrosse Tournament.
With the win, the Trojans will travel to Lakeville North Wednesday, June 2 for a 5 p.m. game. North is the No. 1 seed and New Prague is the 8th seed in this quarterfinal game.
Rochester Century was coming in the game 0-13, however they lost three one point games and a few other close ones so the record could certainly be deceiving, according to Coach Paul Newton.

In a battle between two of the top teams in the DRS Amateur Baseball League, the New Prague Orioles edged St. Patrick, 4-3, in 11 innings Sunday, May 30.
This was one of 11 DRS games played Sunday and Monday.
Eric Wagner and Dan Shekta had two hits and each drove in a run during the 2nd inning to help the Orioles take a three run lead.
Nathan Sprouls started for New Prague and was dominant striking out nine batters, and giving up one earned run. Adam Schmitz pitched the final two innings for the win.

The New Prague girls lacrosse team split two matches last week.
They dropped an 18-2 contest May 17 to Orono but came back with an 18-5 win over Mound Westonka Thursday, May 20.
“Orono came out strong right from the start and got an early lead and kept it through the entire game. They had a few very fast players who got through our defense,” head coach Julie Bowers said. “We did a great job of controlling ground balls when they dropped them, but that wasn’t very often. Our girls played hard but just couldn’t get any offense going.”

New Prague was ready to come back and get a victory over South Suburban. They lost by one in a very close game the first time they played. Thursday, May 20 the Trojans rebounded and picked up a 20-9 win.
New Prague started out very strong. The first inning the Trojans held South Suburban to no runs with bases loaded and then got up and quickly scored five runs to take the lead 5-0. The second inning, they were able to score 1 run off of a couple errors in our defense.

And then there was one.
One month into the three month DRS Amateur Baseball League schedule, only one team remains undefeated…Faribault.
The Lakers defeated Shakopee, 4-0 Friday, May 21 and downed Montgomery, 6-2, Sunday, May 23 to improve to 5-0.
Right behind the Lakers in the standings are Prior Lake (4-1), New Prague (3-1), and Union Hill (2-1).

It was a clean sweep for the New Prague boys and girls track and field teams Tuesday, May 11 in their home Wright County Quadrangular.
The girls team finished with 115 points in defeating Waconia (85), Delano (40), and Holy Family Catholic (32).
The boys team results were almost identical, with the Trojans scoring 113 to win. Waconia (80), Delano (56), and Holy Family Catholic (22) finished 2nd through 4th.
The Lady Trojans earned six individual firsts, eight seconds, and six thirds. They also won a relay.

The New Prague girls golf team finished in the middle of the pack in a pair of nine hole matches at Creeks Bend in New Prague Wednesday, May 12.
Orono won both of the matches with low scores of 182 in match one and 163 in match two.
The Trojans scored 200 on the front nine in match 1, placing fifth among the eight Wright County Conference teams.
Hanna DeGross carded a 47 and Brynn Sticha a 48 to lead New Prague. The other varsity players included Raquel Ahrens (52), Avery Gullicksen (53), Macey Hager (56), and Brita Lillquist (61).

The Trojan boys lacrosse team finished up the week with a positive record to date. They are currently 5-4.
New Prague won the second matchup versus Southwest Christian on Saturday, May 15 in Chaska with a score of 14-5. They rolled over Holy Family on May 10th with a 13-1 win at home.

Prior Lake, Faribault, and New Market are each undefeated after the third weekend of the DRS Amateur Baseball Schedule.
Prior Lake picked up a pair of wins, downing Montgomery, 8-3, Friday, May 14 and edging Lonsdale, 3-2, Sunday, May 16.
The Faribault squad is 3-0 after defeating Elko, 13- 2, handing the Express their first loss.
New Prague, Lonsdale, St. Benedict, Union Hill, and Elko each have 2-1 records.
Here is a look at some of the contests from last weekend:

The 2021 edition of The Guillotine Academic All-State honorees features 30 first-team members, 30 second-team members, 30 third-team members, and 44 honorable mention wrestlers.
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The New Prague boys tennis team improved to 6-5 overall with four straight wins last week.
The Trojans defeated...
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