Homecoming 2022

The Alexandria football team (1-4) capped off homecoming week in front of a packed crowd at AAHS on Sept. 30 by playing a close game against Brainerd in a game that the Warriors won in the closing minutes by a 15-14 final. Alexandria led 14-0 early in the fourth quarter. Junior running back Andrew Flaten had a touchdown run, and sophomore kicker Daniel Jackson added two field goals of 25 and 52 yards. His 52-yarder tied him for the third longest field goal ever made in Minnesota State High School League history. The Warriors rallied over the final seven minutes of the game. Senior quarterback Marcello Getty threw two touchdown passes, and Brainerd added an Alexandria safety to secure the 1-point win to improve to 4-2 on the season.

▲Travis Gulbrandson / Alexandria Echo Press Tai Auran and Brynn Kosters, seniors at Alexandria Area High School, were chosen as this year’s homecoming king and queen. The coronation ceremony took place Monday, Sept.

at the Performing Arts Center at the school.

▲Eric Morken / Alexandria Echo Press Alexandria senior defensive end Isaiah Brown grabs Brainerd’s Eli Hoelz to make a tackle on Sept. 30, 2022. Brown had two solo and six assisted tackles to help the Cardinals on defense.

▲Celeste Edenloff / Alexandria Echo Press Alexandria High School junior and senior girls played powder puff football on Sunday, Sept. 25.

▲ Lowell Anderson / Alexandria Echo Press Children try to collect candy as football players go by on a trailer during the homecoming parade in Downtown Alexandria on Friday, Sept. 30.

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Alexandria Area High School senior boys played in games of powder puff volleyball to kick off homecoming week. The games took place on Sunday, Sept. 25.

▲ Lowell Anderson / Alexandria Echo Press Members of the girl’s soccer team sing and dance as they go down Broadway in Alexandria in the homecoming parade on Friday, Sept. 30.

▲Mark Ripley / Select Digital Memories Homecoming King Tai Auran and Homecoming Queen Brynn Kosters, middle, are surrounded by the 2022 homecoming court. Auran and Kosters were named king and queen during the coronation ceremony Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. The full homecoming court includes, back from left, Gavin Klimek, Avery Sinning, Chance Boyer, Abigail Nelson, Gage Feeken, Riley Richards, Tai Auran, Brynn Kosters, Kya Burkey, Triston Jenniges, Dasha Shyroka, Owen Kuehl, Malorie Raether, Daniel Jackson, Brooklyn Paffrath, Camden Kosters

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▲ Travis Gulbrandson / Alexandria Echo Press Dasha Shyroka from Poltava, a city in the central region of Ukraine, is a foreign exchange student who was part of the homecoming court at Alexandria Area High School. She walked with Owen Kuehl.

seniors.

▲ Eric Morken / Alexandria Echo Press Alexandria junior defensive end Sawyer Rumohr gets up after making a tackle against Brainerd on Sept. 30, 2022. Rumohr had eight tackles (five solo, three assisted) as he helped Alexandria’s defense limit the Warriors for much of the game before falling just short in a 15-14 final.

▲ Celeste Edenloff / Alexandria Echo Press A group of Alexandria Area High School juniors celebrated a win at the powder puff football game that took place Sunday, Sept. 25 as part of the homecoming festivities.

▲ Celeste Edenloff / Alexandria Echo Press It was a battle at the net during the powder puff volleyball games at Alexandria Area High School on Sunday, Sept. 25. Senior boys played the game as a kickoff to homecoming week.

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The Brandon-Evansville football team (3-2) celebrated its homecoming by winning a nailbiter in the fourth quarter against Ortonville (2-3) on Friday night. The Chargers jumped out to a 30-14 lead and then held off an Ortonville rally in the final quarter to win 30-28. Ryland Yeats ran for two touchdowns and three 2-point conversions. Micah Fuller added 99 yards rushing and a passing touchdown to Stephen Hamilton.

Logan Haburn led the Brandon-Evansville defense with 10.5 tackles as the Chargers now look for their fourth straight win when they go to Rothsay (2-3) on Oct. 7 for a 7 p.m. kickoff.

B-E’s Logan Haburn (18) rushed for 48 yards and a touchdown in the team’s 30-28 win over Ortonville on Sept. 30, 2022.

Photos by Lowell Anderson Alexandria Echo Press

B-E's Solomon Wales (7) attempts to catch a contested pass during the team's 30-28 win over Ortonville on Sept. 30, 2022.

B-E’s Landon Sullivan dives to make a tackle on Ortonville’s Isaac Brown in a game on Sept. 30, 2022.

B-E’s Logan Haburn runs the ball in the end zone for the team’s first touchdown of the game against Ortonville on Sept. 30, 2022.

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Helberg, Tyler Baumgartner, Ian Adolphsen, Tyson Hagadon, McCarter Kirksey, Braen Blaisdell, Andrew Imdike, Clayton Niehaus; middle row, from left: Taylor Dirkes, Roxy Sweetwater, Eva Moore, Maddie Collins, Kiley Kranz, Larissa Hoffarth, Lauren Anderson, Greta Faber; front row,

left, Abby Ludwig and Hudson Soderholm.

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Members of the Osakis football team ride on a trailer during the home coming parade on Friday, Sept. 30.

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Osakis students watch with excitement as the first units of the homecoming parade come toward them on Friday, Sept. 30.

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Seniors compete against eighth-graders in a tug of war contest during the pep fest at the Osakis High School on Friday, Sept. 30.

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The Osakis football team (4-1) finished off homecoming week on a good note with a 45-0 victory over the Parkers Prairie Panthers (1-4) on Friday.

Silverstreaks scored on their first possession of the game with homecoming king Tyson Hagedon scoring on a short run. With 28 points scored in the second quarter, Osakis led 35-0 at halftime and scored 10

second half. The Silverstreaks scored five rushing

one passing touchdown in the win.

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