Brian Larsen The Cook County High School football team opened its season at home on Friday, August 31, and lost 66-14 to Mountain Iron-Buhl (MIB) last year’s 9-Player State Champions. Rohan Rude, who is listed as a running back, outside linebacker and middle linebacker, was named Offensive Player of the Game for the Vikings.
Duluth East boys’ and girls’ cross country teams dominated the North Shore Storm Invite competition held Thursday, August 31, on a perfect day for running. In addition to Duluth East and Cook County/Two Harbors, teams came from Cloquet, Moose Lake/Willow River/Barnum, Carlton/Wrenshall, and South Ridge.
Viking Head Football Coach Steven Anderson welcomed 25 kids to Viking football practice this fall. Assistant coaches alongside Anderson are Theo Rex, Mike Theisman.
North Superior Ski and Run Club (NSSRC) announces that is has received $10,000 from the Legacy Trails Program, administered by American Trails, for the Pincushion Trails Rehabilitation Project, Cook County, Minnesota. In addition, NSSRC has received $12,500 from the Department of Iron Range Resource and Rehabilitation for the rehabilitation project and purchase of a new flail mower.
Last week the CCHS gym was filled with girls’ grades 7th -12 pushing hard in conditioning drills and working diligently on setting, receiving, bumping and serving volleyballs, skills needed to compete in the always competitive Polar League. Enthusiasm was high as the kids practiced under the watchful eye of Coach Zimmer.
Brian Larsen Lutsen mountain biker Will Surbaugh, 21, had another great race at the Stages Cycling Leadville Trail race held in Colorado on August 12. Will bettered his time set two years ago and equaled his 37th place, crossing the line of this rugged course in 6:52:47.
Always a fun event, a fair number of local golfers traveled to Silver Bay last weekend to compete in the two-day 64th annual Men’s Invitational held on the Silver Bay Golf Course. Cook County News-Herald columnist Steve Aldrich won the Super Sr.
It didn’t take Katie Peck long to start for the Mesabi Range volleyball team and make her presence felt on the court. Playing in the first game of the season, Peck finished with 17 kills and a pair of blocks in a game against St.
This year’s five-mile Fisherman’s Picnic trail race held on the Pincushion Mountain trail system was truly five miles, not 4.77 miles as the old racecourse proved to be. That said, the hilly race, as always, was challenging, and place, not time, was the goal of most competitors. Anton and Brienne Moody were the new race directors who changed the course. Anton said he wanted the five-mile race to be, well, five miles. Good enough. Below are the results, but you will note that Chris Hegg wasn’t entered. Chris, 71? an age group wunderkind is recouping from a hamstring injury suffered while cross country skiing. He said he would be back next year.
“Thisisaonce-in-a-generation investment in our community and the future of Nordic skiing on the trails at Pincushion,” said Chris O’Brien, President of the North Superior Ski and Run Club (NSSRC) and one of the eight Pincushion Groomer Capital Campaign volunteers working to raise the funds needed for a new Pisten Bully groomer for Pincushion. “The current groomer is 35 years old. It has served us for many decades, but it is failing, breaking down frequently and struggling to climb and groom the hilly terrain at Pincushion.”