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current.mnsun.com Looking AHEAD State swimming Class A and AA boys swimmers and divers will take over the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Cen- ter this week for the an- nual state meet Feb. 28 to March 1. Diving prelims begin Thursday followed by swim prelims on Fri- day. Finals for swim and dive take place on Sat- urday. Class A begins at noon each day and Class AA at 6 p.m. A free webcast is available at prepspotlight.tv. State wrestling High School wrestling invades the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul start- ing Thursday with the team tournament begin- ning at 9 a.m. Champion- ships for all three classes begin at 7 p.m. Thursday. Individual wrestling be- gins Friday at 9 a.m. with fi nals in all classes set for 7 p.m. Saturday. A free webcast is available at prepspotlight.tv. Girls basketball Holy Angels received the No. 1 seed in Section 3-3A and opened play against No. 8 St. Paul Harding on Wednesday. No. 4 Richfi eld hosts No. 5 St. Paul Highland Park on Wednesday. Semifi - nals are set for Saturday, March 2 at 1 p.m. with the fi nals to be played at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 7. Bloomington • Richfield Kennedy received the No. 5 seed in Section 6-4A and traveled to No. 4 St. Louis Park on Wednesday. The winner faces the winner of No. 1 Hopkins/No. 8 Wash- burn at noon on Satur- day. The fi nal is at the better seed on Thursday, March 7. Jefferson received the No. 8 seed in Section 2-4A and visited No. 1 Eden Prairie on Thurs- day. The winner faces the winner of No. 5 Prior Lake at No. 4 Edina at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 2 at the better seed. The fi - nal will be Friday, March 8 at the better seed at 7 p.m. Hockey Section fi nals abound this week with the major- ity of games on Feb. 27 and the fi nal few played on Feb. 28. The state boys hockey tourna- ment begins Wednesday, March 6, with four Class A games starting at 11 a.m. and the last game scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Class AA follows on Thursday, March 7 with games from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Semifi nals will be played Friday with the Class A games at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. followed by the Class AA games at 6 and 8 p.m. The Class A champi- onship is at noon on Sat- urday, March 9, followed by the Class AA champi- onship at 7 p.m. All consolation round games will be played at 3M Arena at Mariucci. Class A third place is at 9 a.m. Saturday and Class AA third place at 4 p.m. Saturday. SEE THE DIFFERENCE No More Iron Stains or Scale Buildup Up to 75% More Salt Efﬁcient FEEL THE DIFFERENCE Softer, Smoother Skin Brighter Colors & Longer-Lasting Clothes Haferman WATER CONDITIONING, INC. Local, Family-Owned, Authorized, Independent Kinetico Dealer Private School SPORTS Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019 Page 19 Schweitzer, Will Thomp- son and Tristan Sarsland. Carson Limesand made 20 saves in BSM’s goal. Blake skaters ease Red Knights oust past Raiders 5-1 Stars from tourney The Blake School’s boys hockey team rocked Cretin-Derham Hall 5-1 in the fi rst round of the Section 6AA Tourna- ment on Blake’s Hopkins Campus. The Bears entered the playoffs as the fourth seed and Cretin-Derham Hall was seeded fi fth. Aksel Reid starred in goal for Blake, stopping 27 of 28 shots on net. Tristan Broz led the Bears with two goals, while teammates Joe Miller, Lachen Reid and Blake Weyerhaeuser Catholic rivals Benilde- St. Margaret’s and Holy Angels hooked up in the opening round of the Sec- tion 6AA Boys Hockey Tournament Feb. 21 at St. Louis Park Rec Center. With two goals from junior forward Charlie Warnert, BSM won 7-1. Six different players had goals for the second- seeded Red Knights. In addition to Warnert’s goals, BSM had scores from Cooper Gay, Charlie Bischel, Nate scored one each. Perfection for HFC goaltender Huber Goalie Bailey Huber of Holy Family Catholic was a wall in front of the net in the Fire’s 1-0 Sec- tion 2AA Tournament win over Prior Lake Feb. 21. HFC’s boys hockey for- tunes rode with the hot goalie, who stopped all 31 of Prior Lake’s shots on goal. One of those shots was a penalty shot late in the contest. Ben Reddan scored the only goal of the contest at 11:32 of the third period. Blomberg’s big game inspires Providence Logan Blomberg of the Providence Academy THE 952.894.4040 DIFFERENCE Grace IV stars for Blake in hoops loss Robert Grace IV did his part, but didn’t have enough support in the Blake School boys bas- ketball team’s 69-47 loss to Orono Feb. 19. Grace fi red in 21 points, while the only other Bear to reach double fi gures was Gabe Ganz with 10 points. 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