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MONDAY - MAY 12,  2008

PIRATE SOFTBALL HOSTS BEMIDJI 

The Crookston Pirate Softball team hosts Bemidji in the first of five games this week, the final week of the regular season.  The game is on KROX Radio and is being played at the Donnie Lauf Memorial/Crookston American Legion Field.

PIRATE BOYS TENNIS HOSTING TRF IN A DUAL

The Crookston Pirate Boys Tennis team hosts Thief River Falls in a big Section 8A dual at the CHS courts today.  The match started at 4:30 p.m.

PIRATE GIRLS GOLFERS AT THE EAST GRAND FORKS QUAD

The Crookston Pirate Girls golf team is at the East Grand Forks Quadrangular along with Thief River Falls and Warren-Alvarado-Oslo.  The quad started at 4:00 p.m.

SATURDAY - MAY 10, 2008

PIRATE BOY'S GOLF IN SHORTENED DAY TWO OF FARGO NORTH INVITATIONAL

The Crookston Pirate boy's golf team finished the Fargo North (N.D.) two day Invitational Meet at Edgewood Golf Course with a 479 two-day total, after shooting 161 on the weather-shortened second day. Today's results were based on nine holes, although some competitors went beyond nine before wind chills of 26 degrees and snow showers caused organizers to shorten today's round of play. Pirate Seth Heppner tied for sixth overall, adding 39 to yesterday's 74, for 113, to lead Crookston to an eighth place team finish, one better than where they were at the end of Friday's play. Fergus Falls won the Tournament with 452, on a tie-breaker with Moorhead; Fargo South took third with 454. Fergus was led by Medalist Mike Tuel, who shot 104, followed by Moorhead's Nick Olsgaurd with 107, and Shanley's Pat Thomas with 110. There were ties at 111 for fourth individual, and at 113 for sixth (including Crookston's Seth Heppner).

According to Pirate Coach Steve Koefed, it was a tough day weather-wise, but the Pirates rose above it for a good finish. He went on to say that it was "nice to see Seth (Heppner) finish in the top ten again. He reached that level a few times by this point in last year's season, and it's good to see him back on that track."

FRIDAY - MAY 9, 2008

RED LAKE COUNTY USE BIG INNINGS IN AN 18-8 WIN OVER CROOKSTON

Red Lake County had two six runs innings, including six in the bottom of the sixth that ended the game, as the Rebels defeated the visiting Crookston Pirates 18-8 in a game called because of the 10 run rule. 
Crookston scored first when Brady Langlois walked, stole second and scored on Isaac Edlund's single and Ben Curran scored when Matt Grove drew a bases loaded walk.  Red Lake County answered with two runs in the first on a Corey Cardinal double that brought both runs in.
Crookston regained the lead in the second when Langlois led off with another single and scored on an Ethan Hulst single.
Red Lake County would get the bats going in the last three innings, scoring four in the third to take a 6-3 lead when Cardinal had another rbi double, while Pat Johanneck and Luke Olsen had rbi's. The Rebels scored six more in the fourth inning on five straight hits, including a Corey Schmitz double and in fact, Red Lake County was leading 12-3 and had the potential to push to a 10 run lead, but stranded a runner at second.  The Pirates were not just thinking of playing a full game, but they started a nice rally with two runs in the fifth, when Chris Follette singled, Edlund walked and Matt Grove doubled in Follette, while Edlund scored on a wild pitch. Crookston added three more, as Langlois with his third hit, a double and scored on a error, Ethan Hulst drove a run in with a bases loaded walk and Edlund had an rbi single to pull Crookston within 12-8 and runners on second and third, but Steve Morinville, Red Lake County pitcher struck out two to get out of the inning. "We stranded a lot of runners today and couldn't get the real big hit when we needed it," said Crookston head coach Brian Follette, "but that has been the story of our season really." Red Lake County banged out 14 hits in the game, nine off the Pirate starter, Dillon Nelson, getting his first varsity start. "I thought Dillon pitched very well," said Follette, "but we struggled with the strike zone and didn't adjust to how it was being called." Red Lake County played a lot of baseball today, as this was their second game, as the Rebels had beaten Norman County East 9-1 just preceding the Crookston game. "I thought we seen the ball well tonight," said Red Lake County head coach, Chris Nelson, "We are starting to come around a bit at the plate, which is good at this time of year."
Crookston is now 3-7 on the year and have lost five in a row.  Crookston will be at Warroad on Tuesday.
Red Lake County with the pair of the wins improves to 9-3.

     Isaac Edlund gets his second rbi single of the night on this swing

Dillon Nelson started the game for the Pirates vs RLC

Pitching                                IP    H      R     ER     BB     K
Dillon Nelson-Crox            3.1    9      12       8        6       1
Matt Grove-Crox               2.1    5       6        4        3       3
Steve Morinville-RLC       6.0   10      8        7        4      11


Steve Morinville pitched a complete game to pick up the win for Red Lake County

For Crookston
Brady Langlois  3-4,  3 runs, double, 2 stolen bases
Noah Prudhomme  2-4
Isaac Edlund   2-3, 2 rbi
Ethan Hulst  1-3, 2 rbi

For Red Lake County
Corey Cardinal  2-2, 2 doubles, 3 rbi
Corey Schmitz  2-4, 3 rbi
Luke Olsen   3-4,  double, 3 rbi


Ethan Hulst swings at the ball as the Rebel catcher and umpire look on


BRITTANY JAHN THROWS A ONE HIT SHUTOUT TO LEAD PIRATES TO 6-0 WIN

Crookston senior pitching workhorse, Brittany Jahn tossed a masterpiece, allowing just one hit and no runs as the Pirates defeated the visiting Ada-Borup Cougars 6-0 at the Donnie Lauf/Crookston American Legion Softball Field.  The Pirates scored in each of the first three innings, but Jahn only needed the one run her teammates scored in the first inning, when Marlee Wheelhouse singled, stole second and scored on Jennifer Meyer's double. The Pirates scored twice in the second inning when Erika Wheelhouse singles, stole second and scored on a Heidi Steinbrink single and scored on a Sydney Epema ground out.  The Pirates broke open the game with another two runs in the third inning as the Pirate cleanup hitter Meyer blasted a drive that hit the top of the fence and went over for an out of the park home run, which was followed a Wheelhouse single, stolen base and another Steinbrink rbi single to make it a 5-0 game.  The Pirates added another run in the sixth inning when Marlee Wheelhouse singled again, stole another base and scored on an Epema triple.
Jahn faced only 24 batters in the game, while her teammates gave her the support at the plate with 13 hits and also in the field, committing only one error. "Brittany pitched a great game today," said Crookston head coach Chad Hitchen, "She threw strikes and we made the plays behind her. We scored runs early which is good, but we are going to score runs, as we are a pretty good hitting team, and if we play defense like this we will be in most games we play in."  The Pirates won both their games this week and have improved their record to 8-5 on the season.  The Pirates will host Bemidji on Monday.
 

Pirate birthday girl, Erika Wheelhouse, takes a big cut
 

  Brittany Jahn pitched a one hitter for the Pirates

Pitching                          IP    H      R     ER     BB     K
Brittany Jahn-Crox      7.0    1       0        0        2       3

Naomi Fagerlund makes the play at first base, with catcher Marlee Wheelhouse backing up

For Crookston
Jennifer Meyer -  3-4, double, home run, 2 rbi
Heidi Steinbrink-  2-3,  2 rbi
Sydney Epema  -   2-4, triple
Marlee Wheelhouse - 2-4, 2 stolen bases

For Ada-Borup
Alicia Dahlsad  had the lone Cougar hit

CROOKSTON BOY'S TENNIS DROP TWO MORE AT BEMIDJI TRI-ANGULAR

The Crookston boy's tennis team, who won their first five duals of the season and were ranked seventh in the state, lost twice at the Bemidji Tri-Angular by identical scores, 5-2 to Grand Rapids and Bemidji and have now lost four duals in a row, all by 5-2 scores.  The Pirates top player, Jake Thompson won at number one singles against Grand Rapids, but the Pirates lost all seven other singles matches, and in their last four duals, the Pirates are 1-15 in singles play.  Crookston will finish up their regular season next week with a makeup dual with Thief River Falls in Crookston on Monday and then host a Tri-Angular on Tuesday with East Grand Forks and Park Rapids.
 

CROOKSTON GIRL'S SECOND, PIRATE BOY'S FIFTH AMONG 10 TEAMS IN THE PONY INVITATIONAL

The Crookston Pirate girl's had two first place finishes by Kellee Koenig in the two mile and Danielle Larson in the 100 hurdles, along with four second's and even though they closed the gap, the still finished second to East Grand Forks in the Warren-Alvarado-Oslo meet in Warren.  The Crookston Boy's finished in fifth place, just three points behind Warroad, as the Roseau Rams were impressive in winning the boy's division handily. Crookston had two first place finishes by the Portillo twins, Mariano in the mile, while Javier won the two mile.  There were 10 teams competing.  Both the the Crookston boy's and girl's teams have two meets left in their regular season, including one next week on Thursday at Ada.
 

          Chris Plante (left) and Mark Bittner (center) in the 110 meter hurdles
                          (Picture by Dave Emanuel of Wildfire Photography)

Taylor Broekemeier in the 100 dash  Dan Mykleseth hands off to Mariano Portillo   Kellee Koenig in the 3200
                                                    (Pictures by Dave Emanuel of Wildfire Photography)

Leann Wagner (left), Danielle Larson (2nd from left) and Keelee Emanuel (3rd from right) all run and place in the 100 hurdles
                                            (Picture by Dave Emanuel of Wildfire Photography)
 

CROOKSTON PIRATE BOY'S GOLF IN TWO DAY FARGO NORTH INVITATIONAL

The Crookston Pirate boy's golf team finished the first day of the Fargo North (N.D.) two day Invitational Meet at Edgewood Golf Course with a 318 scored led by a couple freshmen with under eighty scores, as Seth Heppner had 38-36 for a 74 and Kolton Walker had a 36-41 for a 77. Crookston was one of the first teams to finish their rounds and Pirate head coach Steve Kofoed said they will be waiting around for about an hour to see where they are in the first day standings, which will dictate what time they will tee off tomorrow.  "We golfed pretty well today and it was the first time we were under 320 this season, so it was a decent day for us.  The course is green and the greens were pretty good and breaking the way they were suppose to, which is unlike some of the courses we have been playing lately."

CROOKSTON YOUTH PARTICIPATE IN RUN, PITCH AND HIT COMPETITION

Crookston Youth, ages 7-14 participated in the Major League Baseball, Aquafina Pitch, Hit and Run Competition hosted by the Crookston Park and Rec department at the Jim Karn Field in Crookston.  The kids that finished 1st place in the All Around, Hitting, Running and Pitching in each age group advance to the Sectional Competition in Blackduck on Saturday, May 24.  The top four scores, statewide, will advance to the Team Championships at the Metrodome with the winner at that competition possibly advancing to the National Finals in New York City during the Major League All Star Game at Yankee Stadium.

The winners from each age group are listed and pictured below.

                All the winners show their ribbons after the competition

13/14 Years Old
Overall winner - Kaylee Derosier (She won all three events)

11/12 Years Old
Overall Winner - Parker Epema
2nd place - Ryan Porter
3rd place - Aaron Hollcraft

Hitting winner - Parker Epema
Pitching winner - Joey Koenig
Running winner - Carly Welter

9/10 Years Old
Overall Winner - Leah Trostad
2nd place - Ian Johnson
3rd place - Ian Cournia

Hitting winner - Leah Trostad
Pitching winner - Ian Johnson and Tyler Conklin
Running winner - Leah Trostad

7/8 Years Old
Overall Winner - Ben Trostad
2nd place - Blake Fee
3rd place - Tanner Reinhart

Hitting winner - Blake Fee
Pitching winner - Jonathon Olson
Running Winner - Ben Trostad

Crookston Parks and Recreation Director
Scott Kleven announces the winners

THURSDAY - MAY 8,  2008

PIRATE GIRLS GOLFERS FINISH SECOND AFTER TIE BREAKER AT ROSEAU

The Crookston Pirate Girls Golf team finished in second place out of seven teams at the Roseau Invitational.  The Pirates had tied East Grand Forks for first place, the top four girls from each team shooting a 362, but after the tie breaker East Grand Forks was awarded first place and Crookston second.  The tie breaker was the fifth players score and East Grand Forks had the advantage.  Monica Wold was the top Pirate shooting an 87 good for third place individually while Emily Hallie of Roseau had the top score shooting an 82.
The Pirates Lindsay Morgan, who called in the scores, said "The course was good but the greens were hard and fast.  Monica and Lauren were happy with their scores but the rest of us weren't very happy with our scores."  
The Pirates will be at the East Grand Forks Quad on Monday. 

CROOKSTON BOY'S TENNIS FALL TWICE AT THIEF RIVER FALLS TOURNAMENT

The Crookston Pirates finally got a match in against Moorhead, as the Pirates had three previous dual matches postponed with the Spuds, but they met the Spuds in the first round of the Thief River Falls Dual Tournament, but Moorhead, one of the top Class AA teams in Northern Minnesota won the match 5-2, to send the Pirates into the third place match up with the East Grand Forks Green Wave. "Moorhead is the real thing," said Crookston head coach Mike Geffre, "we played them pretty much straight up and it was a fun match and certainly a very competitive match, which was good.  We were competitive in about four of the matches, with Brandon (Lyczewski) losing a tie-breaker at fourth singles and we lose a 14-12 tie-breaker at third doubles. "
The Pirates had the tables reversed on them today as East Grand Forks, who lost to the Pirates 5-2 in East Grand Forks on Monday, completely did an about face today in a 5-2 Green Wave victory.  East Grand Forks swept all four singles and won a singles and doubles match in a tie-breaker, in fact Crookston lost all their singles matches on the day. "We tried some different people in different spots in this match," said Geffre, "We played some different kids in different spots, as we wanted to see what some combinations could do for later down the road, with the playoffs only a couple weeks  away.  East Grand Forks were pretty happy after the win, and we told the kids to remember that and hopefully will be good motivation later for us."
Thief River Falls won their own Tournament, beating East Grand Forks 4-3 and then defeated Moorhead also 4-3 in the championship.
The Pirates travel to Bemidji for a Tri-Angular with the Lumberjacks and Grand Rapids.  The Pirates will close out their regular season next week, with a makeup dual on Monday with Thief River Falls, hosting Park Rapids and East Grand Forks in a Tri-Angular on Tuesday and might have a makeup with Moorhead on Wednesday.
 

UMC'S JAKE POEHLER NAMED NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR IN NORTHERN SUN CONFERENCE BASEBALL

The University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) freshman, Jake Poehler (Coon Rapids), who led UMC in batting average (.396), doubles, triples, home runs and rbi's was named to the Northern Sun Conference (NSIC) second team All-Conference team and also was named Co-Newcomer of the Year in the NSIC along with Adam Bidroski of Wayne State.

FOR THE NSIC ALL CONFERENCE TEAM AND AWARD WINNERS, CLICK HERE


 

WEDNESDAY - MAY 7,  2008

PIRATE BOYS GOLF FINISH 12TH AT FERGUS FALLS INVITE

The Crookston Pirate Boys Golf team traveled to the Fergus Falls Invite after it was postponed twice and finished 12th out of 15 teams at the Pebble Lake Course in Fergus Falls.  Fergus Falls won the invite shooting a 296, averaging a score of 74 (two over par), while the Pirates shot a 339.  Seth Heppner was the top Pirate shooting a 79 and another Freshman, Kolton Walker shot an 85.  Crookston High School Dean of Students, John Tufte, took the Pirates to the meet and said, "It was a great day to play golf, for the most part I think the guys are a little disappointed with what they shot.  It was a little bit different golf course than they're use to, the greens were hard and fast."  
The Pirates will at the Fargo North Invite on Friday and Saturday at Edgewood Golf Course in Fargo. 

BUSHO SHOOTS 73, SANDERS AN 80 AND ROSS HAS A 76 ON FINAL DAY OF REGIONALS

The University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) Golden Eagles Steven Busho ended his college career in fine fashion, as he had a round of 73 and moved up to finish 23^rd in the NCAA Central Super Regional in Findlay, Ohio.  Busho (Sr-Blooming Prairie) had rounds of 82, 76 and 73 and finished 15 over par and 15 strokes behind the three day medalist Aaron Lisenbee of Missouri Western, who advances to the NCAA Meet.  Busho teammate, Jake Sanders (Fresh-Crookston) had an 80 on the final day and finished 26^th overall. Sanders had rounds of 76, 76, 80 and finished 16 over par.
FOR THE CENTRAL REGIONAL FINAL STATS, CLICK HERE

At the Northwest Super Regional that was held in Petaluma, California, the St. Cloud State Huskies competed as a team and a member is Travis Ross (Soph-Crookston).  The Huskies finished fifth as a team, while Ross shot a 76 and finished five over par for the three day meet and finished in 7^th place, two strokes behind the three day medalist. Ross had rounds of 73,73 and 76.
FOR THE NW REGIONAL FINAL STATS, CLICK HERE

 

TUESDAY -  MAY 6, 2008

EGF GIRL'S WIN, EGF BOY'S EDGED IN LAST RACE IN SECTION 8AA TRUE TEAM TRACK MEET

FOR ALL THE BOY'S RESULTS, CLICK HERE

FOR ALL THE GIRL'S RESULTS, CLICK HERE

East Grand Forks was the host of the Section 8AA True Team Boy's and Girl's Track Meet that was held at the UMC/CHS track as the Greenwave won the girls side and finished second on the boys side as they were edged by Perham by a half of a point while the both the Pirate boys and girls teams finished sixth.  There were nine girl's and eight boy's teams competing.  The True team meet only allows two members from each team compete in an event while each participant receives points no matter where they finish. 
On the boys side it came down to the last race, the 4x400.  East Grand Forks was leading by two and a half points, so all Perham had to do was beat East Grand Forks, no matter what place and they would go to state, Perham did beat EGF (by one and a half seconds) in an exciting finish to the day.  On the girls side there was no suspense as East Grand Forks rolled to a Section True Team Championship, beating Detroit Lakes by 93 points.
The Crookston Pirates top individual finish was the boys 4 x 800 relay team who finished second behind a very good Perham relay team.  Marianno Portillo had two third place finishes in the 400 and the 3200 and was also a member of the second place 4 x 800 relay.  Pirate Boys track coach Wayne Folkers was happy with his teams performance, "Looking at times we were very close to were we have been running all year.  I thought the kids competed to the best of their ability.  We went up against some very good teams."  Folkers added, "I thought Matt Wavra did well today placing in three events for us today, Mike Schoeneberger in the hurdles and Mariano Portillo, those three did very well for us today."
The top Pirate girls were Shelby Folkers in the discus and Danielle Larson in the 100, both with third place finishes.  Pirate Girls coach Dave Barnum said he was pleased with some of the performances, "We had some girls that really competed and we had some that just participated today.  I was pleased with Danielle Larson in the hurdles and the 100, Kellee Koenig, who doubled up in the 1600 and the 3200 and Tori Rhode in her races."  Barnum added, "East Grand Forks won as expected, but I was a little surprised by the margin and they had the right girls in the right spots and did very well."
The champions will advance to the State True Team Meet next week in the Twin Cities.
The Pirates will be at the Warren-Alvarado-Oslo meet on Friday.

Leann Wagner leaps over a hurdle as Hannah Draxten of Fergus Falls gets ready to jump
Draxten will play basketball at Iowa next year (Picture by Dave Emanuel of Wildfire Photography)
 

Dan Mykleseth in the 4x800 relay Shelby Folkers in the shot put
       (Pictures by Dave Emanuel of Wildfire Photography)

            Matt Wavra (second from the right) in the 100 meter dash
                (Picture by Dave Emanuel of Wildfire Photography)

FOR THE COMPLETE BOYS RESULTS CLICK HERE

FOR THE COMPLETE GIRLS RESULTS CLICK HERE



WEST MARSHALL GIRL'S AND ROSEAU BOY'S WIN SECTION 8A TRUE TEAM MEET IN BEMIDJI

The West Marshall (Warren-Alvarado-Oslo/Stephen-Argyle) girl's won the Section 8A True Team Track Meet at Bemidji State by 33 points over Roseau.  It was just the opposite in the boy's side, as Roseau won the meet by 21 points over West Marshall.
FOR ALL THE RESULTS OF THE SECTION 8A TRUE TEAM MEET, CLICK HERE



CROOKSTON BOY'S TENNIS RAINED OUT AT MOORHEAD

The Crookston Pirate boy's tennis team made the trip to Moorhead, and everybody was in their first sets when the rains came. "We had been on the courts for just a little while," said Crookston head coach Mike Geffre, "when the rains started and it was quite a system that moved in and then it started to thunder and when the lightning came, we cleared the courts. We waited for about a half an hour and it didn't quit, so we called it."
This is the third time the Pirates and Moorhead have had a scheduled match and have been unable to get it in. "Hopefully we will see them on Thursday in the Thief River Falls Tournament," said Geffre, "Their coach will talk to his athletic director and if they can, we hope to schedule a dual with Moorhead next Wednesday."
 

CROOKSTON SOFTBALL DEFEAT GRAND FORKS CENTRAL 13-7

The Crookston Pirate girl's softball team likes to play North Dakota teams, as they won their third straight game, all against North Dakota teams, including a 13-7 win over Grand Forks Central in a contest at the Donnie Lauf Memorial/American Legion Softball field in Crookston.
After Grand Forks Central scored two unearned runs to start the game, the Pirates answered with four runs, starting the inning with Sydney Epema reaching on an error, then singles by Marlee Wheelhouse and Jennifer Meyer, with Meyer's single scoring Epema.  Pirate pitcher, Brittany Jahn helped her own cause knocking in a run with a double and Heidi Steinbrink also had an rbi single.  Crookston sent nine players to plate again in the second inning that plated five more runs with back to back doubles by Marlee Wheelhouse and Meyer, then Ashley Jahn and Steinbrink had rbi singles and Danielle Persson brought home two runs with a single. "It was a good start for us," said Crookston had coach Chad Hitchen, "We had nine batters in the first two innings and scored runs in every inning but the sixth, which is good for the girls confidence and keeps the momentum going."
Crookston not only had 14 hits in the game, but also took advantage of eight Grand Forks Central errors and the Pirates were aggressive on the bases with 10 stolen bases in the game. "The wind was certainly a factor today as it was blowing out to left field and caused some problems for both teams," said Hitchen, "but we made the plays when we had to." Crookston is now 7-5 on the year and will host Ada-Borup on Friday.
JV -  Crookston won  13-3


Erika Wheelhouse slides into second base safely (Picture by Kim Persson)

Marlee Wheelhouse gets a basehit on this swing (By Kim Persson)

Pitching                          IP     H    R   ER    BB     K
Brittany Jahn-Crox      7.0     4     7     2        1       3

For Crookston
Marlee Wheelhouse   3-5, 4 runs, 3 stolen bases
Jennifer Meyer   2-3, double, 2 rbi
Ashley Jahn   2-4, 2 rbi, 3 stolen bases
Heidi Steinbrink   2-3,  3 rbi
Sydney Epema    double
Brittany Jahn    double, 2 rbi

ERICKSON LEADS ROSEAU TO A 4-1 WIN OVER CROOKSTON

T. J. Erickson had half of Roseau's hits, a double, but it was his two run homer in the sixth inning that salted a 4-1 Roseau win over the visiting Crookston Pirates. Roseau had taken a 1-0 lead with a run in the second inning, but the Pirates tied the game with a run in the fourth inning, when Ethan Hulst was hit by a pitch, stole second, stole third and scored on a Roseau error on a Matt Grove grounder.  Roseau regained the lead with a run in the fifth inning, but it was the sixth inning, when Roseau got a runner on by an error and then Erickson blasted a two run shot over the 340 foot sign in left center field. "The ball really carried here tonight," said Crookston head coach Brian Follette, "but he really hit it."  The Pirates were only able to scratch out three singles in the game and didn't have much luck according to Follette, "We couldn't get a break in the game. Brady Langlois hit three shots right on the nose, but right at them. Brady did get on base on a walk and Ben Curran hit a line shot that the second baseman made a nice play and turned it into a double play. Chris (Follette) hit a ball hard that looked like it might roll to the gap, but hit the lip of the outfield and bounced to the second baseman, who threw him out, and I thought what do we have to do here. It certainly wasn't going our way."
Chris Follette pitched a solid game for the Pirates, who lost 16-3 to Roseau a week ago in Crookston. "We played a much better game today," said coach Follette, "Chris pitched well and had good command of his pitches and the defense played well behind him. Actually the pitch that Erickson hit for the home run was not that bad a pitch and he went down after it and put it out."
Crookston is now 3-6 on the year and will be at Red Lake Falls on Friday night at 6:30 PM to play the Red Lake County Eagles.

Pitching                          IP     H    R   ER    BB     K
Chris Follette-Crox      6.0     4     4      3       2       5

For Crookston
Ethan Hulst - single, run
Ben Curran - single
Isaac Edlund - single



CROOKSTON GIRL'S GOLF FINISH SECOND AT THIEF RIVER FALLS INVITATIONAL

The Crookston Pirate girl's golf team enjoyed a sunny, fairly windless day and took second at the Thief River Falls Invitational, 20 strokes behind the number one ranked team in Class AA, the Detroit Lakes Lakers.  The Lakers had the top two scores in the meet and Crookston sophomore, Rachel Wold shot an 89 to lead the Pirates. "Rachel was excited breaking ninety for the first time this year, so that was good," said  Crookston head coach Jeff Perreault, "It was a beautiful day to play golf and the girls enjoyed being out not worrying about cold, wind or getting wet and the scores indicated that too." It was one of the better days for golfing for the Pirates, who were defeated by East Grand Forks yesterday by three strokes in the TRF Quad meet, but the Pirates were 14 strokes better then the Green Wave for 18 holes today. "We had nice scores from the whole team with four in the 90's which is good. We are starting to get an inkling of our tournament squad now and we only were able to take five players along today, and all of them played well today and I think it will be hard for someone to knock any of them out of the position they are golfing in right now."
Crookston continues a busy week on Thursday when they travel to Roseau
 

UMC'S JAKE SANDERS & STEVEN BUSHO BOTH SHOOT 76'S IN SECOND DAY OF SUPER REGIONAL

The University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) Golden Eagles Jake Sanders (Fresh-Crookston) and Steven Busho (Sr-Blooming Prairie) both shot four over par 76's today on the second day of the NCAA Central Super Regional in Findlay, Ohio.  Sanders is tied for 15th, 11 strokes behind the two day leader, Aaron Lisenbee of Missouri Western.  Busho moved up a couple spots and is tied for 30th, 17 strokes back of the leader. The final round will be on Wednesday and just one team and one individual advance to the NCAA Tournament. "They played all right, just had a few putts that didn't drop," said UMC head men's golf coach, Jason Tangquist, "Jake started off with a couple bogies, but then on the front nine he birdied three of the last four holes coming in. In the back nine there is just some tough holes out there and Jake had a couple shots he wishes he could have back. Steven played pretty solid all day and missed some opportunities with the putter, just lipping our a number of putts and if he would of had that going, I think he would have shot close to par."


Jake Sanders with coach Jason Tangquist eyeing down a putt in Findlay, Ohio

FOR ALL STATS OF THE CENTRAL REGIONAL, CLICK HERE


ROSS TIED FOR THIRD PLACE IN THE NORTHWEST SUPER REGIONAL

At the Northwest Super Regional being held at Petaluma, California, the St. Cloud State Huskies are competing as a team and a member is Travis Ross (Soph-Crookston).  The Huskies are still in fifth place after the second day, while Ross shot his second 73 in the meet, which is two over par and Ross is just three strokes back of the leader. The regional concludes on Wednesday.
FOR ALL THE STATS OF THE NORTHWEST REGIONAL, CLICK HERE



CROOKSTON GIRL'S JV GOLF HOSTS AT MINAKWA WON BY BEMIDJI JV

The Crookston Pirate girl's JV golf team hosting a seven team JV meet at Minakwa Golf Club in Crookston today. Bemidji won the meet, 11 strokes ahead of one of the East Grand Forks teams.  Crookston had two teams entered and the Crookston Blue were 3rd, while the Crookston Gold were 5th.

MONDAY - MAY 5, 2008

PERSSON AND BIERMAIER ATTEND HOBY BAKER NIGHT AT MINNESOTA TWINS GAME

Danielle Persson and Luke Biermaier, Crookston's representative for the High School Hoby Baker Award,  went to the Hoby Baker Banquet on Saturday (May 4th) at the Metrodome in Minneapolis.  The Hoby Baker finalists were served food before the presentation. Kevin Porter this years Hoby Baker Recipient from the University of Michigan was at the event to sign autographs and taking pictures.  The Hoby Baker finalists were then led out on the baseball field and introduced as a group before the Twins game against Detroit, then took in the game which the Twins won.  Danielle and Luke are pictured below.

Danielle Persson and Luke Biermaier with the Hoby Baker award

Danielle and Luke pose with him Kevin Porter, this years Hoby Baker award winner.
                        (Both pictures submitted by Kim Persson)

CROOKSTON BOY'S TENNIS WIN 5-2 IN EAST GRAND FORKS

The Crookston Pirate boy's tennis team won all three doubles matches plus two singles to defeat the home standing East Grand Forks Green Wave in a dual match between the two Section 8A rivals. Even though the Pirates won all five of their matches in two sets, East Grand Forks did win a number of games (28). Crookston is now 6-0 on the season in duals and will be at Moorhead on Tuesday afternoon. "It was a good match, a Section 8 win," said Crookston head coach Mike Geffre, "it was also a beautiful day with no wind and we worked hard to pick up the win."
Both teams were without their number one players, as Jake Thompson of Crookston and Michael Lukkason were both not in the lineups because of illness. "Luke (Biermaier) had a nice win moving up to number one singles. Luke worked hard, but you always get a good effort from him. All the doubles had nice days too and Brandon (Lyczewski) had a nice win at four singles."
Crookston did default at number two singles, as the Pirates Carter Denison was suffering heat fatigue and defaulted the match after dropping a 6-4 first set.
Crookston will be at Moorhead on Tuesday for a dual at 4:30 PM. "Moorhead will be one of the tougher teams we will play this year," said Geffre, "they are pretty solid throughout their lineup."
JV -  Crookston won 4-2

         Alex Prudhomme with a forehand return           Josh Prudhomme returns a serve as Ryan (Red) Erickson looks on
 

    Josh Mercil looks on as Kevin Welter returns an EGF serve

CROOKSTON BOY'S GOLF FINISHED 10TH OF 19 TEAMS AT  BEMIDJI

In what might have been the best day this spring for many of the schools, the Moorhead Spuds really liked the Bemidji Town and Country Club course, as the Spuds edged Detroit Lakes by three strokes in a two team battle to win the Bemidji Invitational.  The "youthful" Crookston Pirates finished 10th of the 19 teams that were competing. "This is probably the first day you really wanted to go out and play a round with over 50 degrees, actually no wind and the sun shining, so come of the kids are coming home sunburned," said Crookston head coach Steve Kofoed, "Our whole team was comprised of six freshmen today and only Seth (Heppner) and Kolton (Walker) had played the Bemidji course before, so we didn't do to bad. The course didn't play too bad, although the greens were a little bumpy. They didn't get a chance to mow the course this morning and because of frost we started a half hour later then scheduled too. Some of the kids said they had 40 putts in a round and some of these kids are better then that."
This starts a busy week for the Pirates, as they will travel to Fergus Falls on Wednesday and then a meet at Fargo North on Friday and Saturday, sprinkled in with some JV meets during the week. "We will playing some nice courses this week and hopefully they are getting into better shape. This is a big week for us to get the kids some rounds and scores, as we have two JV meets and then the varsity ones too, so hopefully we get them in and hopefully get it rounded out to this is my eight guys who are ready to go."

JV -  Crookston boy's JV finished 2nd, 10 strokes behind Roseau in the Roseau JV boy's meet.  Josh Baldock had a 77 and Marcus Brekken had a 78 to lead Crookston

CROOKSTON GIRL'S GOLF EDGED BY EAST GRAND FORKS AT THIEF RIVER FALLS QUADRANGULAR

The Crookston Pirates had beaten East Grand Forks the last two times they have met by three strokes each time. The golf shoe was on the other foot this afternoon in Thief River Falls, as the Green Wave turned the tables and edged the Pirates by three strokes in the Thief River Falls Quadrangular. Both teams had two of the top four golfers, led by the Pirates Rachel Wold and the Green Wave's Leah Jenson with 42's for the nine hole quadrangular.
Kris Evje took the Pirate girl's to Thief River Falls, as Pirate head coach Jeff Perreault is with the 6th graders at Itasca State Park.
Crookston will return to Thief River Falls on Tuesday for the Prowler Invitational which is 18 holes.
 

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