The Ranger alpine ski teams kicked off their season on Friday, Dec. 21 at the Wild Mountain Invitational. With 28 boys teams and 25 girls teams competing, this is the second biggest high school ski race in Minnesota.

 
WILD BEGINNING: Senior co-captain Brett Stolberg laid down two solid runs to place 35th of 168 boys in the season’s first contest.   

Boys basketball team pancake breakfast at Applebee's, Jan. 19

The Forest Lake High School boys basketball team will host a pancake breakfast fundraiser at the Forest Lake Applebee’s on Saturday, Jan. 19, from 8 – 10 a.m. The cost $5 per ticket. Tickets will be available at the door, or at the home game against Woodbury on Tuesday, Jan. 15, or from any player, or contact Rich Lentsch at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Follow Forest Lake Boys basketball at www.flrangerhoops.com.

Photo by Todd Proulx

Forest Lake’s Derek Harrison cruises in for a wrist shot that would land in the right corner for a goal, in the boys hockey team’s 7-2 win over Como Park in the Lake Area Holiday Hockey Tournament. The Rangers would wind up in second place, after falling to Mounds View, 3-2, in overtime of the championship game.

Photo by Rick Orndorf
The Forest Lake girls hockey team came in sixth place in the Red Division at the Schwan Cup Tournament last weekend. Goalie Kim Fredrick and teammates like Ashley Grell (25) lost to Minnetonka and Silver Bay, but beat Orono by the score of 4-2.

Three days after Forest Lake lost to the defending state champion and No. 1 ranked Stillwater Ponies,  the girls hockey team hosted Cretin-Derham Hall on Dec. 18, with a strong notion of ending its five-game winless streak.

Girls finish in 3rd place

There was a Nordic ski meet last week in the Suburban East Conference, which means the Forest Lake boys added yet another victory to its ever-growing win total. 

SOMETHING'S FAMILIAR: Paired with Ryan Wright at the Suburban East Conference Sprint Relays, Ben Brodin (right), finished in first place, with a combined time of 18:13. 

New season shows promise of young, athletic squad

Just for the heck of it, imagine the boys basketball team maintains its very early season pace of being undefeated at home and picking up splits on the road. It’s only four games into the schedule, but that pattern would give Forest Lake an 18-5 record. 

(Photo by Todd Proulx)
MONEY BALL: Now in his third year of playing varsity, senior Ryan Brown’s late free throws against Coon Rapids helped secure the Forest Lake victory.