The first few minutes of each half spelled doom for the New Prague Trojans as they lost to Rochester Mayo 67-27 Friday evening, Oct. 12. at Trojan Stadium.
The Spartans scored three plays into the game on a 70-yard run, then after a New Prague fake punt was intercepted, the Spartans scored on a 5-yard run and then on a 75-yard run to take a 20-0 lead before the game was six minutes old.
The Trojans battled back and scored twice, but Mayo continued to put up points and led 40-13 at the half.
The New Prague Trojan girls tennis team made the long trip to Marshall for their first round match in the Section 2AA team tournament Tuesday, Oct. 4. The host Tigers, seeded No. 4, handed No. 5 seed New Prague a 6-1 defeat. New Prague’s only point came at No. 1 singles, where Jenna Larson won her match 6-4, 6-3.
The other three singles matches went to Marshall, with Libby Hummel forcing a third-set tiebreaker. Kianna Howard at No. 2 singles and Tess Girard at No. 4 singles both lost in straight sets.
The New Prague Trojan girls swim and dive team dropped a pair of Wright County Conference meets recently, and also competed in the St. Peter Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 29. The Trojans will host Delano Thursday, Oct. 11, for their final dual meet of the season.
Chargers 99, Trojans 86 New Prague’s Payten Scheffer and Ella Lund went 1-2 in the 500-yard freestyle in their meet at Dassel-Cokato Thursday, Sept. 27. Bailey Newman claimed first place in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:09.1 and Sarah Helvick placed first in the 100 breaststroke in 1:19.46.
With a five-set win over Waconia Tuesday, Oct. 9, the New Prague Trojan volleyball team has clinched at least a share of the Wright County Conference East championship.
The Trojans (15-7, 4-0 WCC East) will win the title outright with a win over Holy Family Catholic on Tuesday, Oct. 16. That is the final regular season home match for the Trojans, and will be played at New Prague Middle School due to floor maintenance scheduled to be done at the high school next week. Before that match, the Trojans compete in the Eastview Tournament Friday and Saturday, Oct. 12 and 13.
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.
