Jake Przytarski

4 days ago | duluthnewstribune.com | Jake Przytarski

DULUTH — As a three-sport standout at New Richmond High School, the spring season was strictly reserved for the baseball diamond at the start of Brock Unger's career with the Tigers. It wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic during his sophomore year that plans changed for the 2022 grad, as his focus narrowed on his top two sports: football and hockey. “Once COVID happened I quit baseball, because I wanted to get better at football and hockey,” Unger explained.

5 days ago | duluthnewstribune.com | Jake Przytarski

DULUTH — School records have fallen like dominoes for Two Harbors senior Trinity Giddings in her final season with the Agates track and field team. The Matt Kero Memorial Invitational meet at Walt Hunting Stadium/Marv Heikkinen Field was the latest example, as Giddings broke her own record mark of 57.11 seconds in the 400-meter dash, set in 2023, with a time of 56.91 for one of two first-place finishes on Friday.

6 days ago | duluthnewstribune.com | Jake Przytarski

DULUTH — The Duluth Wolfpack boys lacrosse program figured to have large shoes to fill this season after graduating offensive dynamos Hayden Clore and Gabriel Polacsek, who combined for 82 goals and nearly half of the team's offense a season ago. Who would step up to help fill the massive scoring void remained one of the bigger question marks entering this season. Through nine games, junior Tommy Hillman has taken the torch and run with it.

1 week ago | pinejournal.com | Jake Przytarski

CLOQUET — Fourth and fifth graders across the Cloquet School District put their literary knowledge to the test at the eighth-annual Battle of the Books competition at Churchill Elementary School. Teams of four to five students were challenged with answering book-specific questions relating to characters and plots in a quiz bowl-style competition on Tuesday, May 6. All of the questions came from the 12 books they’ve been reading since October.

1 week ago | duluthnewstribune.com | Jake Przytarski

DULUTH — Duluth East catcher Amity Sjerven stepped into the batter’s box looking to provide a spark for the Greyhounds against Mahtomedi pitcher Malia Erickson on Saturday. After going hitless in four straight plate appearances on the weekend, the senior captain turned on the very first pitch and belted a frozen rope into center field, setting off a two-run frame and drawing even with the Zephyrs. More importantly, the timely hit breathed new life into the bench.