Boys Soccer - Rochester Mayo 5, New Prague 0
Girls Soccer - Owatonna 2, New Prague 1
Volleyball - New Prague 3, Waconia 2
Girls Swim/Dive - St. Peter 97, New Prague 84
Cross Country - Jordan Invitational
New Prague boys - 2nd of 12 teams
New Prague girls - 1st of 11 teams

For the first time since making the jump to Class AA, the New Prague Trojan boys and girls soccer teams both avoided the No. 8 seed for the Section 1AA playoffs. 
 
The girls team was seeded No. 6 in the eight-team section tournament. New Prague (6-8-2) will play at No. 3 seed Owatonna (9-6-1) at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9. 
 
The boys team (6-9-1) received the No. 7 seed and will face No. 2 seed Rochester Mayo (12-3-1) at 7 p.m. at Mayo. The Trojans have lost to the Spartans three consecutive times by 1-0 scores in the past two years. 
 

The New Prague Trojans had no answer for running back Aaron Limberg as the Rochester John Marshall Rockets defeated the Trojans 35-14 Friday, October 5th at Rochester. Limbers carried 19 times for 375 yards. The Trojans trailed 16-14 at halftime, with both New Prague scores coming on long passes from Parker Johnson. New Prague (1-5) will face Rochester Mayo at home Friday, Oct 12.

The New Prague Trojan girls cross country team had a strong showing Tuesday, Sept. 25, at the New Prague Invitational. The team placed second of six teams, with three runners finishing in the top six.
Lakeville South won the meet with 31 points while the Trojans were second at 48. Red Wing was third at 49, followed by Le Sueur-Henderson (97), Norwood-Young America (157) and Tri-City United (162). Cannon Falls and Sibley East did not field full squads.

The New Prague Trojan girls soccer team went 1-1-1 last week, tieing Rockford 1- 1, defeating Hutchinson 4-0 and losing to Orono by the same 4-0 score.
New Prague was scheduled to host Jordan in a makeup game Tuesday, Oct. 2. The girls will conclude their season on the road Thursday, Oct. 4, when they play at Holy Family Catholic at 5 p.m.

With two wins last week, the New Prague Trojan boys soccer team has established a new school mark for wins in the season. New Prague has a 6-8-1 record going into their season finale at Holy Family Catholic at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4. The previous high was four wins, in each of the two previous seasons.
The Trojans defeated Rockford 6-1, Hutchinson 5-1 and lost to Orono 3-1 in Wright County Conference action. The Trojans have a 2-3-1 record in the Wright County Conference going into their finale.

The New Prague Trojan girls tennis team will travel to Marshall Tuesday, Oct. 2, to open the Section 2AA team tennis tournament. 
New Prague received the No. 5 seed in the South Subsection and will face No. 4 Marshall. The winner will travel to Hutchinson Thursday, Oct. 4, to take on the No. 1 seed Hutchinson Tigers. 
Full brackets for Section 2AA tennis (Tuesday matches)
 
North Subsection
8-Chanhassen at 1-Minnetonka
5-Shakopee at 4-Orono
6-Mound Westonka at 3-Eden Prairie
7-Chaska at 2-Prior Lake
 
South Subsection

The New Prague Trojan swim and dive team won two meets last week, defeating Tri- City United and Litchfield.
The squad will travel to Dassel-Cokato on Thursday, Sept. 27, and then compete in the St. Peter Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 29. On Thursday, Oct. 4, New Prague travels to Waconia.
Trojans 105, Titans 90 New Prague traveled to their former home pool in Montgomery to take on the fledgeling Tri-City United team on Tuesday, Sept. 18. Using mostly JV swimmers, the Trojans defeated the host Titans 105-90.

The New Prague Trojan girls cross country team had a strong showing at the Milaca Mega-Meet Saturday, Sept. 22, at Stone’s Throw GC in Milaca.
The meet, billed as one of the largest high school cross country meets in the US, saw the Trojans finish 13th of 25 teams in the large-school division.
Wayzata won the meet with 34 points and had three runners finish in the top six and five runners finishing in the top 13. Eden Prairie was second at 74 with Andover third at 75. New Prague had 383 points, behind Moorhead’s 353 and just ahead of Woodbury with 384.

New Prague High School’s Homecoming Week is underway, with the bulk of activities scheduled for Friday, Sept. 28.
Festivities began on Sunday, Sept. 23, with the annual Powder Puff Football game. The flag football game between teams of senior and junior girls was won by the senior class, 35-0.
Each day of the week was dedicated to different dressup theme days. Students were to take part in floatbuilding for the parade on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at the bus garage.

The New Prague Trojan football team lost a Big Southeast Red Division game to Northfield Friday, Sept. 21. The score was 49-13. 
Each team scored on their opening drive, but then Northfield scored 21 unanswered points to lead 28-7 at the half. The Raiders upped the lead to 42-7 before Nathan Osborne scored from 70 yards out. 
Parker Johnson had the Trojans' first touchdown on a 1-yard run, 
New Prague (1-3) will host Mankato West (No. 3, Class AAAAA) in the Trojans' Homecoming game Friday, Sept. 28. Gametime is 7 p.m.

Because of the weather, the New Prague High School soccer games against Rockford scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 20, have been postponed. The games will be played Wednesday, Sept. 26, at Rockford. Boys will play at 5 p.m. and girls at 7 p.m. 

The Trojan tennis meet at Hutchinson was moved from Hutchinson High School to the Hutchinson Fairgrounds indoor courts.

The New Prague Trojan girls tennis team was swept 7- 0 Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the Trojan home courts.
“Even though it does not reflect in the score, I think we stepped out and competed hard against a very good team,” New Prague Coach Luke Swedberg said. “Orono has experience and talent. They are coached really well. We were able to force a couple of third sets at different positions.”
In singles, all four Trojans lost in straight sets. They were Kianna Howard, Jenna Larson, Libby Hummel and Victoria Bisek.
Two of the three doubles matches went to....

The New Prague Trojan girls cross country team placed fourth out of 12 teams at the Hutchinson Invitational meet, held Thursday, Sept. 13, at Lake Marion Park in Hutchinson. Willmar won the meet with 44 points, followed by Marshall (71), Waseca (77) and New Prague (126). Prior Lake was fifth at 134.

Winona scored less than 30 seconds into the start of the game, scored again on their next possession, then after recovering a fumble on the kick return, scored again on their way to building a 40-0 lead against New Prague Friday, Sept. 14. 
However, the Trojans rallied and nearly pulled off a comeback attempt. They scored four times, including one on the final play of the first half, falling to the Winhawks 40-30. 
Parker Johnson threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, Mitchell Callahan had the other score, on a 90-yard run from scrimmage. 

The New Prague Trojan football team fell to 1-1 with a 35-21 loss to Rochester Century Friday, Set. 7, at Trojan Stadium in New Prague.
The teams traded touchdowns early. Century scored in the first quarter on a 1 yard run, then Parker Johnson scored early in the second from 3 yards out to make it a 7-6 game after a failed twopoint conversion.
Century scored on a 16- yard pass later in the second, then added a score early in the third on a 6-yard run to make it 21-6.