Month: January 2024

The University of Minnesota Crookston Golden Eagle Women’s Basketball team won their third game in a row with a 63-57 win over the Wayne State Wildcats. 

FIRST QUARTER –
The Golden Eagles would get off to a good start as Janie Tormanen (Soph Menagha, MN) would get the game’s first bucket while Nicole Hernandez (R-Jr. Oak Creek, WI) added two free throws to give UMC an early 4-0 lead. Wayne State would respond with an 11-4 run to take the lead at 11-8. UMC closed the first quarter with a 7-2 run as Tormanen would get a lay-up, and Hope Dudycha (R-Fresh Austin, MN) drained a three and two free throws to give UMC a 15-13 lead after the first.

SECOND QUARTER –
The two sides would trade baskets to open up the second quarter as Rayna Klejeski (Fresh Barnum, MN) and Dudycha each got a lay-up to make it 19-17, UMC. UMC’s next five points would come from the free throw stripe as Dudycha, Klejeski, and Emma Miller (Soph Albertville, MN) gave UMC a 24-21 lead. The Wildcats would tie the game with a three, but Miller would respond with a short jumper right before the end of the half to give UMC a halftime lead of 26-24. 

THIRD QUARTER –
Wayne State would tie the game up at 26 early in the quarter before Tormanen and Riley Jenkins (R-Fresh Galesburg, IL) each got baskets to give the Golden Eagles a 30-26 lead. Klejeski and Miller would get two more baskets later in the quarter to give UMC a 38-34 lead. Wayne State answered with a free throw and a three to tie the game at 38 apiece. Natalie Mikrot (Soph Willow River, MN) and Miller hit threes to give UMC a 44-40 lead late in the third. Wayne State would knock down a three to make it a one-point game. Dudycha added a late free throw with 25 seconds left in the quarter to give UMC a 45-43 lead after the third.

FOURTH QUARTER –
In the fourth, Hernandez started by drawing contact on her lay-up and hit the free throw to complete the three-point play. Wayne State hit a lay-up before Hernandez knocked down a three to give UMC a 51-45 lead. The Wildcats would get a three of their own, but Miller would counter with another three to give UMC a 54-48 lead with eight minutes left. Dudycha would get a lay-up, and Wayne State would get a jumper to fall to make it 56-54 with just under six minutes left. The two sides wouldn’t score until under a minute to go when the Wildcats hit a free throw to cut the UMC lead to one. Miller would hit her second three of the quarter to give UMC a 59-55 lead with 35 seconds left. Wayne State would get a lay-up with 15 seconds left to make it 59-57, with UMC still in the lead. The Wildcats fouled Hernandez, and she hit both free throws to give UMC a 61-57 lead with 11 seconds left. Jenkins would hit two more free throws with two seconds to go as UMC would hold on for a 63-57 win.

UMC improves to 8-5 on the season and will travel to Augustana tomorrow. Wayne State is now 4-7 on the season and will host MSU Moorhead tomorrow.  

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Final
Minnesota Crookston	15	11	19	18	63
Wayne State	13	11	19	14	57

 

For UMC	Points	Rebounds	Assists/Steals
Emma Miller	18	6	1
Hope Dudycha	12	2	5/1
Nicole Hernandez	12	12	3/1
Janie Tormanen	8	3	2
Rayna Klejeski	6	8	0/1
Riley Jenkins	4	11	0/0
Natalie Mikrot Lily Orazem	3 0	1 3	0/0 0/0

 

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The University of Minnesota Crookston Golden Eagle Men’s Basketball team traveled to Wayne State to take on the Wildcats in a conference matchup and fell 62-53.

FIRST HALF-
UMC fell behind early, 11-3, but Reid Grant (Jr. Johnson, IA) would make two lay-ups, a jump shot, and a free throw to pull the Golden Eagles within two of Wayne State at 13-11, about five minutes into the first half. Peter Fuchs Jr. (R-Fresh Wausau, WI) and Ben Hovers (Jr. Grand Forks, ND) would each get a lay-up to keep UMC within three before Wayne State found their rhythm from beyond the arc. The Wildcat’s lead would climb to 31-21, but UMC’s Blaize Sagna (Jr. London, England) answered with a three of his own, and Grant added a lay-up to cut the Wayne State lead down to 31-26 with two and a half minutes left in the half. The Wildcats would build their lead back up to double digits before Jordan Mitchell (R-Jr. Columbus, OH) knocked down a pair of free throws before the end of the half. Wayne State would hold a 36-28 lead at halftime. 

SECOND HALF-
Wayne State would quickly build their biggest lead of the game at 14 early in the second half. UMC answered with a 7-0 run, with Mitchell getting a lay-up, Fuchs burying a three, and De’Antray Hughes adding a dunk to make it 44-37, Wayne State with just under 14 minutes to go. The Wildcats would use a pair of two-point field goals and a pair of three-pointers to build a 15-point lead. Sagna would get a three-point play while Grant added a two as UMC trimmed Wayne State’s lead back down to single digits. Sagna would get a three to fall and hit two free throws, and Grant sunk a three to cut Wayne State’s lead down to 57-53 with three and a half minutes left in regulation. The Wildcats would ice the game with two midrange jump shots with under two minutes to go and added a late free throw to get the win, 62-53. 

UMC drops to 4-9 on the season and will take on Augustana tomorrow afternoon. Wayne State improves to 9-6 on the season and will host undefeated, #2 MSU Moorhead tomorrow.

	1st	2nd	Final
Minnesota Crookston	28	25	53
Wayne State	36	26	62

 

For UMC	Points	Rebounds	Assists/Steals
Blaize Sagna	16	1	2/2
Reid Grant	16	2	6
Jordan Mitchell	8	6	2/3
Peter Fuchs Jr.	7	0	0
De’Antray Hughes	2	4	1/1
Mario Adams	2	0	0
Ben Hoverson	2	4	0
Aguek Deng	0	7	0
Myles Adams	0	1	0

 

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Former Crookston Pirate Football and Girls Basketball coach Eric Schmidt is currently the Special Teams and Defensive End coach for the University of Washington Husky Football team that will play Michigan in the NCAA National Championship Football game on Monday night in Houston.

KROX’s Chris Fee talked with him on Wednesday morning and recorded an interview talking about the game, coaching in Crookston, winning a National Championship as a player at the University of North Dakota, and taking the defensive coordinator position next year at San Diego State. 

CLICK HERE to listen to the interview.

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The Crookston PeeWee B team traveled to Virginia this past weekend for the PeeWee B2 Rock Ridge Battle by the Bridge Hockey Tournament.
Crookston opened up the tournament with a loss to Northfield (the eventual tourney champion), but the rest of the weekend had great results.
Crookston bounced back to beat Centennial 7-3, Rock Ridge Green 9-0, Hermantown 15-0, and Rock Ridge Black 6-2. Dane Peterson had two shutout games in goal for Crookston. With the 4-1 record, Crookston finished fifth place out of 17 teams.  

Members of the team are Asher Vigness, Blair Johnson, Brodie Meyer, Colton Gasper, Dane Peterson, Jacob Biermaier, Jameson Reese, Joseph Burnette, Keegan Lessard, Kegan Erickson, Maddox Hoerner, and Nolan Kuchan.
The team is coached by Pete Vigness, Joel Gasper, Jaden Isakson, and Joe Reese.

 

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The Crookston Pirate Girls Hockey team, ranked #8 in the Class A Girl’s Hockey polls, is 11-4-1 on the season and has been off for more than a week after losing a 4-3 game at Warroad to #3 ranked Warriors.
That record will be tested tonight in Northfield when they play the 15-0-0 Raiders, who are ranked #6 in the State Class AA polls!! Northfield is led by Ayla Puppe, a University of Minnesota recruit who has 37 goals and 27 assists in their 15 games!! The game will be played at the Northfield Arena at 7:15 PM, and it will be on KROX RADIO starting at 6:45 PM.

FIRST PERIOD

 

SECOND PERIOD

 
THIRD PERIOD

 

Scoring	1st	2nd	3rd	Final
Crookston
Northfield

 

1st Period

2nd Period

3rd Period

 

 

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The Crookston Pirate Boys and Girls Basketball teams will host Menagha in a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at the Crookston High School gymnasium and will also hold the Crookston Pirate Basketball History Day. 

There will be pictures of all the Pirate Basketball teams that date all the way back to the early 1900s. All Pirate Basketball alumni are invited to come out to the games and look at the team pictures, stats, and more that were put together by Robin Reitmeier. “We did it a few years back and have done it a few times,” said Pirate Boys Basketball Coach Greg Garmen. “Robin Reitmeier has put together all the decades of the Pirate Boys and Girls Teams and has pictures and names on most of them. She has them on display boards and puts them around the commons.”

Garmen said he will put out a packet of Boy’s Basketball records for people to look through.

The schedule at the high school is listed below –
11:30 a.m. – J.V. Boys game (Crookston vs Menagha)
1:00 p.m. – Varsity Girls game (Crookston vs Menagha)
2:30 p.m. – Varsity Boys game (Crookston vs Menagha)

 

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