New Prague High School’s girls tennis team had two tough meets last week. The Trojans lost to Benilde-St. Margaret’s, 2-5, Tuesday, Sept. 15, and then lost to Orono, 2-5, Thursday, Sept. 17.
For the Benilde-St. Margaret meet, NPHS head coach Jamie Schoenbauer said, “Tori Erickson won at No. 1 singles, and No. 3 doubles, Claire Erickson and Kate Gilles won.”
Against Orono, Schoenbauer said, Lily Bible won at No. 1 singles, and the doubles team of Claire Erickson and Kate Gilles won again.
After tournament wins over Minneapolis Washburn, Burnsville and Edina, the New Prague High School volleyball team is looking to build momentum heading into the final four weeks of the season.
Saturday, Sept. 19, the Trojans topped Washburn, 2-0, Burnsville, 2-1, and Edina 2-1. New Prague returns to the court tonight, Sept. 24, 7 p.m., at Waconia. Wednesday, Sept. 30, 7 p.m., NP will face the Jaguars at Bloomington Jefferson before a rematch with Edina, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 7 p.m., at Edina.
Due to weather forcasted for tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 18, the Trojan football game has moved from Friday night to TONIGHT, Thursday, Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Rochester.
After weeks of hard work and commitment their goal of playing with a team-first purpose, the New Prague High School girls’ soccer team earned its first win of the season Monday evening.
The NP girls will face Farmington Tuesday, Sept. 8, 7 p.m., at Trojan Stadium. Thursday, Sept. 10, 5 p.m., NPHS welcomes Chaska to Trojan Stadium followed by Saturday’s Sept. 12, noon, match at New Ulm High School’s Eagles Stadium.
When New Prague High School’s football team takes the field tonight, Thursday, Sept. 3, 7 p.m. at Trojan Stadium, opening the season with a strong showing will be important.
The Trojans open the season against Hastings, a team they fell to a year ago, 20-17. NP will host St. Francis Sept. 11, 7 p.m. New Prague is looking to open its season with strong showings en route to a solid season and a favorable seeding for post-season play.
When New Prague’s girls’ swimming and diving team takes to the pool Tuesday, Sept. 8, 6 p.m., at the New Prague Aquatic Center against St. Peter, the most important part of the dual meet won’t be the final score, bur rather the progress the team makes toward athletes being their best for the most important meets.
NP will face Brew crew tomorrow night
For much of Saturday’s Class C state tournament game against New York Mills, the Millers rotated pitchers each time New Prague completed a cycle through its lineup. It’s a strategy that almost worked as the Orioles rallied from a 1-0 deficit to claim a 4-1 win before an orange-clad crowd at Memorial Park in New Prague.
Union Hill opened its state tournament run with the nearperfect blend of pitching, defense and offense in a 10-2 win over Princeton. It’s exactly what the Bulldogs wanted.
“We hit the heck out of the ball, played good defense and had good pitching,” said Union Hill coach Dusty Steinhoff. T
he Bulldogs finished with 14 hits, five for extra bases. Six players drove in runs, including Joe Becker and Nate Lee with two RBI each and Tomas Lee with three RBI.
New Prague starting pitcher Gavin Bergman blasted a three-run home run and held New Your Mills to one run through 7-plus innings as the New Prague Orioles topped the Millers, 4-1, Saturday at Memorial Park in New Prague.
NP's win in the opening round of the Minnesota Baseball Association's Class C state tournament advances the Orioles to face the winner of Glencoe-Howard Lake game Friday, Aug. 28, 7:30 p.m., at Memorial Park.
Seeding games set the brackets for state tournament
After a summer of amateur baseball, five area teams have advanced to the Minnesota Baseball Association’s state tournaments beginning this weekend in New Prague, Shakopee, Jordan and Chaska.
In Class A, Elko and St. Patrick qualified for the state tournament. Union Hill and Webster made the Class B state field while New Prague is the lone area team in the Class C state tournament. See the special congratulations page for scheduling information in this week’s edition of The New Prague Times.
Union Hill pounded out 14 hits and used a pair of big innings to defeat Princeton, 10-2, in the opening round of the Minnesota Baseball Association's Class B state tournament Friday night, Aug. 21, at Memorial Park in New Prague.
The Bulldogs never trailed in the contest. They opened with three runs in the second inning, added solo runs in the third and fifth innings before taking a 9-0 lead with four runs in in the seventh. UH finished off its scoring with one run in the eighth frame.
UPDATE: In District 3B, Saturday, Aug. 15, noon, at Webster Community Park, Union Hill and Le Sueur will play for the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds to state.
Le Sueur won a state berth with a 12-4 win over Lonsdale Thursday evening, Aug. 13. Union Hill defeated Eagle Lake, 15-5, Thursday.
Webster and Jordan will play for District 3B's No. 1 and No. 2 seeds Saturday, Aug. 15, 3 p.m., at Webster Community Park.
Jordan won a state berth with a win over and Webster beat Union Hill to make the state field.
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Area baseball teams in the Dakota-Rice-Scott League are off to solid starts in bids for the Minnesota Baseball Association’s state tournament beginning Aug. 21 in New Prague, Chaska, Jordan and Shakopee.
In Class A, Section 1 Sunday, Aug. 2, Elko defeated Hastings. New Market outslugged Dundas and Faribault topped Rochester.
Veseli's Kyle Carlberg collected three hits in four at-bats, as Warriors defeated Gaylord, 10-2, Tuesday, Aug. 4, at Walsh Field.
Veseli hurler Nate Picka pitched the complete game allowing four hits while striking out eight Islanders.
The win advances the Warriors to a playoff series against New Prague beginning Sunday, Aug. 9, 2 p.m., at Memorial Park.
Montgomery beat Shakopee for series sweep
New Prague’s town baseball team is in an enviable position, having earned the top seed in its region for post-season play in hopes of winning a berth to play in the state tournament at home.
The Orioles won two of four games in the past week. Securing the favorable seed for the playoffs afford the O’s the opportunity to rest pitchers and give other players a break as needed in the final week of the season.
Elko 9, New Prague 0
Details of the Express’s win Monday, July 20, were not available when the newspaper went to press.
After a tough loss to Le Sueur back on June 28, the Union Hill Bulldogs are on a roll, winners of their last five games.
The Bulldogs have rolled off big wins in the past two weeks. Union Hill defeated Lonsdale, 8-3, June 28. They topped Jordan, 6-5, Tuesday, July 7, and thumped Norwood, 10-0, in an exhibition game, Wednesday, July 8. Union Hill pounded Shakopee, 19-6, Friday, July 10, and thumped New Prague, 13-3, Sunday, June 12, at Don Giesen Field.
Union Hill 13, New Prague 3
