Eden Prairie High School

Saturday, the Eden Prairie High School girls hockey team ended its Holiday break with a Kaposia Classic Consolation Championship, beating Eastview by a score of 6-3.

In tournament play, Eden Prairie lost to Crookston and then beat Hutchinson and Eastview.

The win over Eastview, albeit in a consolation game, shows improvement. Earlier in the year, Eden Prairie lost to Eastview by a score of 2-1. The win also improved Eden Prairie’s overall record to 6-6.

Tuesday, Eden Prairie returns to Lake conference action with a home game against Apple Valley (7:30 p.m.).

For a while, the Eden Prairie High school boys basketball team had Cooper, the No. 3 ranked team in the state, just where it wanted it.

Problem is; the Eagles couldn’t hit what they were aiming at.

Saturday, during the Timberwolves/Gatorade Shootout, Eden Prairie fell to Cooper by a score of 57-50.

The stat of the game was Eden Prairie’s field goal percentage, a paltry 29 percent. “We had uncontested shots,” said Eden Prairie Head coach David Flom; “we just couldn’t hit them.”

With every seat in the Bloomington Ice Gardens taken, as well as every parking space in the parking lot, the now 10-0 Bloomington Jefferson Jaguars defeated the Eden Prairie High School boys hockey team on Saturday by a score of 2-1.

As a result, Jefferson is the team everyone, including Eden Prairie, is chasing in the race for a Lake Conference championship.

“Our margin of error just got really small,” said Eden Prairie Head Coach Lee Smith. “We have to keep winning until we get them (Jefferson) at our place later in the season.”

One day after falling to Crookston in the first round of the Kaposia Classic, the Eden Prairie High School girls hockey team rebounded to defeat Hutchinson by a score of 7-0.

Alicia Kruse led Eden Prairie with two goals. Allie LaCombe, Christina LaCombe, Askley Wolfe, Lauren McMahon, and Carly Piras scored lone goals.

Eden Prairie outshot Hutchinson 28-15.

Saturday, the Eagles face Eastview in the consolation championship game.

Thursday, the Eden Prairie High School girls hockey team fell to Crookston by a score of 5-3.

Eden Prairie continued to struggle on offense, generating only 12 shots on goal. Crookston, on the other hand, had 35 shots on goal.

Allie LaCombe led Eden Prairie with a pair of goals.

The loss dropped Eden Prairie’s overall record to 4-6.

Friday (today), they play Hutchinson.

All-Lake Conference awards

Fall, 2008

Athletes are seniors unless indicated

Football

All-Conference

Rosemount

All-Conference
Chase Vogler
Zach Vraa, jr.
Anthony Sicora
Max Busher, jr.
Garrett Glaus
Jack Pauly
Trenton Thompson

Honorable mention
Andrew Malicki
Sean Considine, jr.
Joey Broback
Tyler Sandoz, jr.
Karl Miranda
Ben Danielson, jr.

Burnsville

All-Conference
Yusef Hassan, jr.

Honorable mention

With a little less than six hours to spare, the Eden Prairie High School girls basketball team ended 2008 on a winning note, beating Osseo 54-48 in the third place game of the Dick’s Sporting Goods Classic.

Michelle Tobin led the Eagles with 18 points.

For Eden Prairie, the tournament was a success. Facing three top 10 teams, the Eagles finished with a 2-1 record. Eden Prairie opened the tournament by upsetting then No. 3 ranked St. Paul Central. After losing to No. 2 ranked Hopkins, Eden Prairie defeated No. 10 ranked Osseo.

One day after knocking off No. 3 ranked St. Paul Central, the Eden Prairie High School girls basketball team faced a tougher task, beating the No. 2 ranked Hopkins Royals.

Worse, they had to beat Hopkins and Hopkins.

It didn’t work as the Royals pressure defense forced the Eagles into committing way too many turnovers. What’s more, the Royals size advantage limited Eden Prairie to too many one-shot possessions.

That combination allowed Hopkins to beat Eden Prairie 70-49.

Eden Prairie had cut Hopkins’ lead to 10 points at halftime, but that’s as close as they’d get.

When a basketball team can start two forwards and a center that are 6-9 or taller, its best run your offense from the perimeter.

Tuesday, Eden Prairie tried to that against Henry Sibley in the Olive Garden Holiday Tournament (Bethel tournament) championship game.

It didn’t work.

Awakened from a tournament sleepwalk that had the Warriors playing close games against Minnehaha Academy and Maple Grove, Henry Sibley played up to its No. 2 ranking in beating Eden Prairie 64-43.

Eden Prairie Pom Squad members recently helped out with Operation Christmas Child, an organization that collects and distributes Christmas gifts for children in need.

Filling one standard shoe box for a child and sending it to a collection center is the first step. National Collection Week concluded Nov. 24, and more than 7.6 million gift-filled shoe boxes were processed at six regional collection centers.