SPORTS FEEVER by Chris Fee of KROX Radio – chrisjfee@yahoo.com
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The 2024 Division II Northwest North and South Sub-state American Legion Baseball tournament will begin with play-in games on Thursday and the first-round games on Friday.
THE NORTHWEST NORTH SUBSTATE TOURNEY
North Seeds-
1. Red Lake Falls
2. Warroad
3. Roseau
4. Middle River
5. Stephen-Argyle
South Seeds-
1. Fosston
2. Ada
3. Crookston
4. Fertile
5. Win-E-Mac
PLAY-IN GAMES (Thursday at higher seed at 6:00 PM)
#5 Stephen-Argyle vs #4 Middle River at Argyle
#5 Win-E-Mac at #4 Fertile
FIRST ROUND (Friday, July 19 at Ada)
11:00 AM – #2S – Ada vs #3N Warroad
1:30 PM – #1N Red Lake Falls vs Fertile/Win-E-Mac winner (On KROX Radio)
4:00 PM – Losers of first two games – Loser Out
6:30 PM – Winners of first two games
SATURDAY, JULY 20 at Ada –
11:00 AM – #1S Fosston vs Middle River/Stephen-Argyle winner (On KROX if Stephen-Argyle)
1:30 PM – #2N Roseau vs #3S Crookston (On KROX Radio)
4:00 PM – Losers of the first two games – Loser out
6:30 PM – Winners of first two games
SUNDAY, JULY 21 at Ada –
9:00 AM – Loser out game
11:30 AM – Loser out game
2:00 PM – 3rd Place (both teams advance)
4:30 PM – Championship (both teams advance)
THE NORTHWEST SOUTH SUBSTATE TOURNEY
West Seeds-
1. DGF
2. Barnesville
3. Pelican Rapids
4. Frazee
East Seeds-
1. Wadena
2. New York Mills
3. Twin Valley
4. Hawley
FIRST ROUND (Friday, July 19 at Barnesville)
10:00 AM – DGF vs Hawley (Game 1)
12:30 PM – New York Mills vs Pelican Rapids (Game 2)
3:00 PM – Wadena vs Frazee (Game 3)
5:30 PM – Barnesville vs Twin Valley (Game 4)
SATURDAY, JULY 20 at Barnesville –
10:00 AM – Game 1 loser vs Game 2 loser (Game 5) loser out
12:30 PM – Game 3 loser vs Game 4 loser (Game 6) loser out
3:00 PM – Winner Game 1 vs Winner Game 2 (Game 7)
5:30 PM – Winner Game 3 vs Winner Game 4 (Game 8)
SUNDAY, JULY 21 at Barnesville –
10:00 AM – Winner Game 6 vs Loser Game 7 (Game 9) Loser out game
12:30 PM – Winner Game 5 vs Loser Game 8 (Game 10) Loser out game
2:00 PM – 3rd Place (both teams advance)
4:30 PM – Championship (both teams advance)
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The CCHA announced Tuesday morning that the Augustana hockey program will become full members for the 2024-25 season following a vote from the CCHA Board of Directors. This change will bring the CCHA to nine teams and comes a year early as the Vikings were slated to join as full members in the 2025-26 season.
Augustana will now be able to compete for the MacNaughton Cup and are eligible to participate in the CCHA Mason Cup Playoffs. The Vikings will also become eligible for weekly, monthly and year-end honors going forward. With the addition of Augustana, the CCHA will keep its eight-team playoff format and positions will be set based on points per game. Augustana finished last season with 1.63 points per game and would have finished tied for third place in the CCHA.
A full-fledged schedule awaits Augustana in 2025-26. The Vikings will play a total of 16 CCHA games in the 2024-25 season while the rest of the league will play a normal 26-game schedule.
The CCHA is made up of Bemidji State, Bowling Green, Ferris State, Lake Superior State, Michigan Tech, Minnesota State Mankato, and Northern Michigan. State Thomas will be leaving the conference to the NCHA, which sped up the process for Augustana to join the conference.
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The Crookston High School Summer Weight Room will be open at the following times for CHS student-athletes.
(Grade Levels are based on the grade you will be in next school year)
6:30 am – 8:00 am (Monday – Friday) – Grades 10th-12th
8:00 am – 9:30 am (Monday – Friday) – Grades 10th- 12th
10:00 am – 11:00 am (Monday, Tuesday & Thursday) – Grades 7th- 9th
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JOKES
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How are former Crookston Pirates athletes doing in college or elsewhere?
****LET ME KNOW OF OTHERS TO ADD TO THE LIST. Email me at chrisjfee@yahoo.com
Emilee Tate is a freshman playing Softball at Northland Community and Technical College.
Halle Bruggeman is a freshman on the University of Wisconsin-Stout Women’s Tennis team.
Grace Fischer is a freshman on the Concordia College (Moorhead) Women’s Golf team.
Ethan Boll is a Freshman on the University of North Dakota Football team.
Breanna Kressin is a Sophomore on the Hockey Cheer Team for THE University of Minnesota Golden Gopher Hockey team.
Emma Osborn is a Sophomore playing basketball at Northland Technical and Community College in Thief River Falls.
Jacey Larson is a Sophomore playing hockey at Dakota College at Bottineau.
Aleah Bienek is a Sophomore playing hockey at Trine University in Indiana.
Elise Tangquist is the Head Girls Golf Coach at Horace High School in Fargo, ND..
Kaleb Thingelstad is a junior playing golf at Kansas Wesleyan.
Joslynn Leach is a sophomore playing golf at Concordia College in Moorhead. The Cobbers wrapped up the Fall season.
Brady Butt is a Junior playing football at the University of Jamestown.
Ty Hamre is playing football at Bemidji State University.
Aleece Durbin is a Junior on the University of North Dakota Womens Track and Field team.
Elizabeth Erdman is a coach for the Moorhead Red Dragon swim team.
Crookston School District Coaches
Emilee Tate is the Pirate 7th grade volleyball coach.
Todd Miner is a Pirate Football assistant coach.
Ben Parkin is the head Pirate Baseball Coach.
Jeremy Lubinski is a Pirate 8th Grade Football coach.
Amy Boll is the head Pirate Girls Track head coach
Sarah Reese is the Pirate Head Girls Soccer coach
Marley Melbye is the Head Girls Swimming coach and assistant girls golf coach
Jeff Perreault is the Pirate Girls Golf head coach
Connor Morgan is the Pirate Boys Hockey assistant coach
Sam Melbye is the Pirate Boys J.V. Hockey coach
Chris Dufault is a youth wrestling Coach
Non-Crookston High School coaching/Admin/etc
Tim Desrosier is an Assistant Coach for Warren-Alvarado-Oslo Pony Boys Basketball
Pat Wolfe is the head wrestling coach for Fosston/Bagley.
Austin Sommerfeld is an Assistant Athletic Director for Strategic Communication at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth.
Collin Reynolds is the head baseball coach for the University of Colorado Buffalo Club Baseball team.
Trent Stahlecker is a School Security Specialist & he works for the Brevard Public Schools, Florida.
Cody Weiland is an assistant wrestling coach at Proctor/Hermantown.
Josh Edlund is the head football coach and phy ed teacher at Flandreau, South Dakota.
Allison Lindsey Axness is Assistant Varsity Volleyball Coach at Champlin Park
Jeff Olson is the Head Wrestling Coach and Head Baseball coach at Delano.
Jake Olson is an Assistant Football Coach and Head Boys Tennis coach at Delano.
Katy (Westrom) Horgen is the Head Boys Tennis coach at Monticello High School.
Matt Harris is an Assistant Principal/Athletic Director at Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Marty Bratrud is the Superintendent and High School Principal at Westhope High School.
Gordie Haug is an assistant football coach at the University of Wyoming.
Mike Hastings is the Wisconsin Badgers Men’s head Hockey coach.
Mike Biermaier is the Athletic Director at Grand Forks Schools.
Stephanie (Lindsay) Perreault works with the North Dakota State stats crew for Bison football, volleyball, and basketball in the winter. Stephanie’s husband, Ryan, is the assistant director for Bison media relations.
Jason Bushie is the hockey athletic trainer at Colorado College.
Chris Myrold is the Director and Fitness at Mission Ranch and Fitness in Camel, California.
Kyle Buchmeier is a Tennis Pro at the Reed-Sweatt Family Tennis Center in Minneapolis
Ben Andringa is serving our country in the Army and is now a Ranger.
Jarrett Butenhoff is serving our country with the U.S. Navy.
Joshua Butenhoff is serving our country on a Submarine with the Pacific Fleet with the US Navy.
Peter Cournia is a 2002 Crookston High School Graduate and a grad of West Point and currently serving in the U.S. Army.
Erik Ellingson is serving our country with the U.S. Air Force at Minot.
Philip Kujawa class of 2004, from Crookston High School. He is an Army recruiter in Rochester.
Rob Sobolik is the General Manager of the Fargodome
That’s it for this week. Thanks for the comments, and if you have anything to add or share, please e-mail chrisjfee@yahoo.com or call. Thanks for reading and listening to KROX RADIO and kroxam.com.
