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Wayzata skaters split in section hockey playoff contests
Trojans fi nish
15-10-2 overall
By JOHN SHERMAN
[email protected]
It was a hard loss on Satur-
day for the Wayzata High boys
hockey team.
Benilde-St. Margaret’s elimi-
nated the Trojans from the Sec-
tion 6AA playoffs 3-2, ending
Wayzata’s 15-10-2 season.
“The ebb and fl ow of the
game started out a little bit
rocky, and that was in our fa-
vor,” Wayzata head coach Pat
O’Leary said.
It is no secret by now that the
Trojans play a defensive style
that forces opponents to the
outside. Wayzata loves to take
the body, loves to block shots,
but the Trojans can also score
goals.
BSM took an early 1-0 lead
in Saturday’s matchup at the
Bloomington Ice Garden.
Jackson Bisson found the back
of the net with assists from Ian
Bahr and Charlie Warnert.
Wayzata bounced back lat-
er in the fi rst period, taking
a 2-1 lead. Defenseman Mi-
chael North scored from Kyle
Mortenson and Per Waage, and
then Jack Kimlinger scored
from Luc Monney and Tommy
Bergsland.
Blake Mesenburg’s goal tied
the scored 2-2 in the second pe-
riod, when he converted assists
from Jonah Mortenson and
James Callahan.
Both teams had chances in
the third period, but the only
one that paid off was Cooper
Gay’s goal for BSM. He was as-
sisted by Mortenson and Sea-
mus Foley.
O’Leary pulled goalie Danny
Fraga in favor of an extra at-
tacker with 1:14 left in the third
period, but despite Trojan pres-
sure, the Red Knights were able
to hold on for the one-goal win.
The loss to Benilde-St. Mar-
garet’s followed Wayzata’s 5-1
victory over Armstrong/Coo-
per in the opening round of the
section playoffs.
“We had played them earlier
in the season, and we knew they
were going to play really physi-
cal,” O’Leary noted. “Their
goalie made some big saves ear-
ly to keep them in the game. But
we stuck to our game plan and
used our depth. Five-on-fi ve,
we felt we had the advantage.”
That showed in the second
and third periods. Monney
and Jack Seamans each scored
a pair of Trojan goals. Waage
added another. Assists came
from Colin Peters and Ben Lu-
edtke with two each and Kim-
(PHOTO BY MARK TROCKMAN - TROCKSTOCK.COM)
Wayzata goaltender Danny Fraga is in perfect position to make this save during a 5-1 boys hockey playoff win over the Arm-
strong/Cooper Wings Feb. 21 at Plymouth Ice Center.
linger, Bergsland and Drew
Goetz with one each.
Wayzata goalie Danny Fraga
earned the victory with 21 stops
on 22 Wings’ shots.
Looking back on some of the
highlights of the season, two
games that stood our for the
Trojans were matching 2-2 ties
against defending state Class
AA champion Minnetonka.
The Trojans had quality goal-
tending throughout the season
with Fraga and Trevor Wong,
while Monney and senior cap-
tain Joel Matthews led the of-
fense. Both were among the top
10 scorers in the Lake Confer-
ence, as was the senior captain
on defense, Bergsland.
“Our seniors left it all on the
ice,” O’Leary said. “They did
a great job of representing the
Wayzata program.”
Falcons earn medals in Section 5AA swimming meet
By ANTHONY IOZZO
[email protected]
Armstrong High’s boys swimming
team took home medals in all three relays
and in three individual events Feb.21-
Feb. 23 in the 5AA section meet at the
Minnetonka Aquatics Center.
The Falcons fi nished fi fth out of eight
teams with a 196. Wayzata won the meet
with a 665, and Spring Lake Park was
second with a 333.
Seniors Teddy Eggen and Beck Petrie
and juniors Ethan Kunze and Matthew
Johnson took fi fth in the 200-yard medley
relay in 1 minute, 50.09 seconds.
Junior Dustin O’Brien, eighth-grader
Justin Rowles, Kunze and Johnson also
reached the podium with a sixth-place
fi nish in the 200 free relay in 1:38.63.
Rowles earned his second medal with
an eighth-place fi nish in 100 backstroke
in 1:01.36, and Kunze earned another
medal in the 100 breaststroke with an
eighth-place fi nish in 1:06.61.
Eighth-grader Kaden Starczynski also
medaled, taking eighth in the 500 free-
style in 5:22.9.
Sophomore Jason Zhou, eighth-grader
Abba Mayanja, Rowles and O’Brien me-
daled in the 400 free relay with a seventh-
place fi nish in 3:37.92.
Eighth-grader Will Francis fi nished
ninth in the diving competition with a
275.15. Senior Josh Henkel (258.35),
eighth-grader Ben Scholtz (252.55) and
(SUN SAILOR STAFF PHOTO BY ANTHONY IOZZO)
Robbinsdale Armstrong senior Teddy Eggen races in the 400-yard freestyle relay Feb. 21 in the 5AA swimming preliminaries at the Minnetonka Aquatics
Center. Eggen ended up bringing home medal in the 200 medley relay.
freshman Graham Stepan (168.65) took
11th, 12th and 16th, respectively.
Zhou (1:54.9) was 10th in the 200
free. Eighth-grader Nathaniel Nelson
(2:14.38), Petrie (2:14.46) and junior
Nathan Karnick (2:18.16) fi nished 19th-
21st.
Kunze added a 10th-place fi nish in the
100 butterfl y in 59.15. Zhou (59.58), Ma-
yanja (1:02.49) and Petrie (1:07.64) took
12th, 13th and 17th, respectively.
O’Brien (23.53) and Johnson (23.81)
fi nished 12th and 13th in the 50 free.
Rowles (25.38) fi nished 16th, and senior
Tommy McMullen (25.66) took 17th.
O’Brien also took 12th in the 100 free
in 53.13. Johnson added a 15th-place fi n-
ish in 54.68. Eggen (56.13) and McMul-
len (57.47) took 17th and 19th.
Starczynski (1:03.26) and Eggen
(1:03.36) took 11th and 12th in the 100
backstroke, and freshman Zachary Line-
baugh fi nished 15th in 1:07.86.
Mayanja was 11th in the 100 breast-
stroke in 1:09.91, and freshman Henry
Kujak took 16th in 1:13.02. Nelson add-
ed a 25th place in 1:21.21.
Kujak (2:19.54) also fi nished 13th in the
200 IM. Eighth-grader Nikos Mandrav-
elis took 17th in the 500 free in 5:51.66.