Posted: 1/22/03

Ranger recap

Nordic ski
ï The Forest Lake boys and girls Nordic ski teams each competed in a race at Troll Hollow last week.

The boys team, which finished fourth in the meet, was led by Lorin Skoglund, followed by Ben Fick, Peter Bailey, Ted Steiner and Jordan Koch, who all scored for the Rangers.

In the girls classical race, Laura Edlund and Sarah Wright finished 1-2, respectively to help lead the Rangers to beat-out Stillwater and Roseville in a highly-competitive meet.

Also recently, some of Forest Lakeís top Nordic skiers competed in Grand Rapids at a Junior National Qualifying race. Members of the team which have already qualified for Junior Nations ñÝwhich will take place in March in Alaska ñ are Wright, Edlund, Anderson and Fick.

Wrestling
ï The sixth-ranked Forest Lake wrestling team continued its domination of the Suburban East Conference on Thursday, Jan. 16, with a decisive victory over Roseville.

Eric Morris won his match at 103 pounds by the score of 5-2 while Clayton Harrison won a 10-0 decision at 119.

At 125, Jordan Kolbow took an 18-6 victory for the Rangers while Jake Menk pinned his opponent at 130.

At 135, John Denney recorded a pine just 45 seconds into the match while Brandon Girtz scored a 24-12 win over his opponent at 140. Josh Determan won his match 27-9 at 145 pounds while Jim House took a 24-15 win at 145.

Jason Waidzulis won his match at 189 in double overtime for the Rangers while Alex Behling won 13-6 at 215 and Brandon Engel won by pin at 275.

Gymnastics
ï Stillwater defeated the Forest Lake gymnastics team 138.375-127.35 on Thursday, Jan. 16.
The Rangersí Bri Hubbard led Forest Lake by placing in a pair of events. Hubbard took third place on both vault ñÝwith a score of 9.075 ñ and beam with a score of 8.25. Forest Lakeís Rachel Turry took second on beam with an 8.4.

In the junior varsity portion of the meet, Stillwater downed the Rangers 126.2-117.6.
Tasha Tyler was third on both the vault (8.4) and beam (7.7) for the Rangers.

Girls basketball
ï Forest Lakeís five-game winning streak in girls basketball came to an end on Friday night against Stillwater.

Prior to the loss against the Ponies, the Forest Lake girls basketball team (10-5) got its winning streak to five games by taking a 51-40 victory over Roseville.

Lindsey Anderson led the Rangers in their win over the Raiders by scoring 23 points. Renee Frericks added 13 for the Rangers while Mary Sobiech had eight. Jenny Kling added six points and Christie Brink had one.

Girls hockey
ï The Forest Lake girls hockey team dropped to 3-17 on the season with a 4-0 defeat at the hands of Roseville on Saturday at Maroon and Gold Arena. The Raiders scored a pair of goals in the final two minutes of the first period to break open a scoreless game. Roseville finished the game with 29 shots on goal compared to nine for the Rangers. Kelsie Bakken had 25 saves in net for the Rangers.

Tuesday is senior appreciation night and jersey night for the Forest Lake girls hockey team. Any FLHA player wearing their jersey gets into the game free.

Also, Monday, Feb. 3 is the Red Line Club meeting at 7 p.m. at Forest Lake Senior High room 642.

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