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The worst thing to happen was our string of 80 degree days we experienced earlier this month. It has left us wanting more. To be fair, we’ve been 10-15º colder than normal since, and you have a right to be a bit grumpy. The normal high this time of year is in the 60’s and it’s been a good 10 days since we’ve approached the 60º temperature. Recent rains have washed away the grim and the only snow that is left is piled in parking lots. The grass is starting to green and trees have been slowly budding. Garden note: I planted my vegetable seeds indoors about two weeks ago and they’re coming along fine.

Four Seasons

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Sports Briefs

Baseball

Mounds View won its first three games — over White Bear Lake 4-1, Woodbury 5-4 and Stillwater 8-1 — before losing twice, to East Ridge 7-3 and Roseville Area 4-1. Against White Bear Lake, Andrew Simon pitched five strong innings, allowing one run, and freshman Andrew Gette closed with two shutout frames, striking out the side in the seventh. Tanner Hoemann delivered a two-run double and Chris Then squeeze-bunted a run home. Against Stillwater, Drew Rogers pitched the distance, allowing just four hits, and Hoemann belted a three-run homer. Freshman Jack Glancy hit a solo homer and Ryan Counihan knocked in two runs.

BOYS LACROSSE

Mounds View opened the season with three wins — over Providence Academy 12-7, Holy Family Catholic 15-3, and Park 6-5 — before losing to Roseville 9-4 on Saturday. In the three wins, Caden Ayshford tallied 11 of the 33 goals. Trent Habisch had five goals and eight assists, and Benjamin Morris four goals and two assists. Goalie Tommy Asch posted a .559 save percentage.

Boys Track

Mounds View placed third among ten Suburban East Conference teams in a relays meet April 12 at White Bear Lake’s new indoor field house. The top five teams were Stillwater with 117, White Bear Lake 106, Mounds View 95, Woodbury 74 and Roseville 61. Events were conducted in regular fashion with each team’s four entrants added up. Elliott McArthur won the 1600 run (4:21.78). Abiola Bakare tied for first in the high jump (6-0). Placing second were Ethan Zhao in 100 dash (11.54) and 200 dash (23.39), Nick Schulte in the 800 (2:07.63), Jack Ohmann in 110 hurdles (16.55), and Dieudonnee Reponse in 300 hurdles (43.39). Thunor Berthiaume tied for third in pole vault (12-6).

Girls Lacrosse

Mounds View edged Moorhead 10-9 in its season opener April 15, powered by Maddie Tinkle with five goals and goalie Julia Gillespie with nine saves, then lost to Park 15-5 and Roseville 10-7 last week. Tinkle has tallied seven goals, Avee Anderson five, and Ellie Westerman and Brigitte Otto four each. Ground ball leaders are Gabbie Bullert with seven and Anderson with five. The main face-off player is Westerman, who has won 11 draws.

Softball

Mounds View, limited to two games so far due to weather postponements, had a 1-1 record through last week. The Mustangs lost to Irondale 10-4 and defeated Woodbury 14-9.

Girls Track

Mounds View placed third of eight teams in a Roseville meet April 18. Top four teams were Roseville 119, Stillwater 117.5, Mounds View 111, and Forest Lake 76.5. The Mustangs went 1-2-3 in the 3200 with Taylor Isabel (11:32), Emily Mehta (11:42) and Linnea Ousdigian (11:51). Kyra Marshall won 100 hurdles (16.59) and placed third in the 300 (49.99). Julia Dahl won the triple jump (353). Allyson Tyvoll tied for second in high jump (4-10), Ellia Nyholm was fourth in the 1600 (5:54) and Natalie Grimm fifth in shot put (29-4). The Mustangs won the 4x800. Mounds View hosted an unscored eight-team meet April 18. Placing first were Ella Roeber, 400 (1:03.21), Lauren Kath, 800 (2:20.36), Isabel, 1600 (5:07.73) and the 4x200 (1:49.11). Placing second were Cami Tran, 200 (27.92), Ousdigian, 3200 (11:12), Dahl, triple jump (34-0) and Grimm, shot put (30-5).

Tennis

Mounds View has won its first two matches, over Stillwater 4-3 on April 13 and Forest Lake 7-0 on April 18, while three others (Edina, Minnetonka, and White Bear Lake) were postponed. Against Stillwater, Soren Swenson, eighth-grader at 1-singles, beat Carter Magistad 6-2, 6-0; Parker Bryntesen beat Brady Penning 6-1, 6-2 at No. 2; Nolan Jones/Sidharth Sharma beat Logan Livinghouse/Dustin Junca 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 at 1-doubles; and Christian Forbes/Andrew Hermes topped Nate Dreyfus/Griffin Stone 6-1, 6-7, 6-1 at 3-doubles. Losing close two-setters were Anders Swenson, Bryan Huis and Michael Wang/Max Daigle. Against Forest Lake, Huie pulled out a 4-6, 7-5, 1412 win at 3-singles. Winning in straight sets were Soren Swenson, Bryntesen, Aaron Raheja, Jones/ Sharma, Wang/Anders Swenson, and Forbes/ Hermes.

Sports Writer Bruce Strand can be reached by emailing news@presspubs.com or calling 651-407-1200.

Boys Track

4 p.m. Tuesday, May 2 — Central, Cambridge-Isanti, Stillwater, Woodbury at Mounds View High School

3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 9 — TBD, Mounds View High School

Girls Track

3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 25 — Invitational, Hopkins High School

5:30 p.m. Friday, April 28 — Away at Hamline University

Tuesday, May 9 — True Team Section, Mounds View High School

Baseball

4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 — at Park High School

4:30 p.m. Friday, April 28 — Irondale

4:30 p.m. Monday, May 1 — White Bear Lake

4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 3 — at Woodbury

4:30 p.m. Friday, May 5 — Stillwater

4:30 p.m. Monday, May 8 — at East Ridge

Softball

4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 — White Bear Lake, Rice Creek Park

4:30 p.m. Friday, April 28 — at Roseville

2 p.m. Saturday, April 29 — Irondale, Rice Creek Park

4:30 p.m. Monday, May 1 — Park, Rice Creek Park

4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 3 — Forest Lake, Rice Creek Park

4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 4 — at Park

4:30 p.m. Friday, May 5 — at Woodbury

7 p.m. Monday, May 8 — at Forest Lake

4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 9 — East Ride, Rice Creek Park

Tennis

4 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 — at Edina

3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 27 — Woodbury

8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 29 — Invitational

3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 2 — at Roseville Area

3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 3 — White Bear Lake

3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 4 — Cretin-Durham Hall

9 a.m. Saturday, May 6 — Multiple teams, Rochester Outdoor Tennis Center

3:30 Tuesday, May 9 — at Park

Girls Lacrosse

7 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 — at White Bear Lake

7 p.m. Friday, April 28 — at Irondale

7 p.m. Wednesday, May 3 — at Forest Lake

7 p.m. Friday, May 5 — East Ridge

12 p.m. Saturday, May 6 — at St. Croix Preparatory Academy Boys Lacrosse

7 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 — White Bear Lake

7 p.m. Friday, April 28 — Irondale

7 p.m. Wednesday, May 3 — Forest Lake

7 p.m. Monday, May 8 — Minnehaha Academy Girls Golf

12 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 — Invitational, Keller Golf Course in St. Paul

2 p.m. Thursday, April 27 — Conference meet, Les Bolstad Golf Course

10:30 a.m. Monday, May 1 — Conference meet, Oneka Ridge

Taylor Isabel, starting her final season as a standout distance runner for Mounds View, opened with three first-place finishes. She won the 3200 with 11:10 in a home invitational and in 11:32 in a meet at Roseville, then won the 1600 in 5:07.73 in another home meet. The six-year varsity veteran, holds Mustang records in the 1600, 3200 and 5000 meter distances, and made all-state in cross country the last two years. She has committed to the Minnesota Gophers.

Ramsey County Sheriff Reports

The Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office reported the selected incidents in Shoreview:

• A Brooklyn Park man, 53, was mailed a citation for domestic assault after he punched his girlfriend three times in the head while they were in the area of I-694 and Rice Street at 1:32 a.m. March 26. The victim flagged down a Columbia Heights squad for a ride home to New Brighton. Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office deputies took the report and issued a Keep Our Kops Safe (KOPS) alert for the suspect.

• A resident of an apartment complex in the 4100 block of Lexington Avenue N. reported a package stolen from the common mailroom March 27.

• A sick raccoon was reported at 4:55 p.m. March 27 in the area of Lilac Lane and Hodgson Road for being in the middle of the road and not moving. After a short while, the raccoon retreated to the nearby storm drain. Deputies advised the complainant that the raccoon was “probably just out of its spring break.”

• Residents in the 5600 block of Dunlap Avenue at 7:49 p.m. March 27 reported an intoxicated adult male for attempting to enter their home, insisting that it was his home. To complicate matters, or maybe to illuminate them, the male said he didn’t know where he was. When deputies were dispatched out to the scene of disorderly conduct, they conducted a breath test on the lost man, who presented a 0.338 breath alcohol content. Then they transported the man to the Ramsey County Detox center, where he was admitted without issue.

• A dispute over mail and mailing addresses was reported March 28 in the 1600 block of Oakwood Drive.

• A tow truck driver on March 28 reported finding license plates that didn’t match the vehicle they were repossessing in the 1500 block of Park Street. When deputies contacted the registered owner of the vehicle, they were told the plates had not been stolen. The vehicle’s owner stated that the plates had been provided by the Department of Motor Vehicles and that he still owned the old plates. The plates in question were seized and placed into property for safekeeping.

• Deputies were dispatched out to the scene of a domestic in the 1600 block of Knight Street March 28, during which a struggle over viewing a phone without permission led to a female hitting a male in the face. Both sides in the dispute corroborated this narrative, but the victim didn’t want any enforcement action taken.

• A Scandia woman reported the rear passenger window of her vehicle smashed open sometime overnight March 28-29 while it was parked in a driveway in the 5900 block of Prairie Ridge Drive. A work bag was stolen and its contents recovered in the 8100 block of Eastwood Road by Mounds View Police on March 29 and returned.

• Custom Stainless Steel in the 600 block of County Road E on March 29 reported numerous fraudulent checks written against its bank account and cashed — or attempted to be cashed — at locations across the country. An incident report was needed to conduct the bank investigation.

• A Shoreview man was issued a trespass notice for disorderly conduct at the Shoreview Speedway station in the 5900 block of Rice Creek Parkway March 29.

• Residents in the 3500 block of Rice Street were cited March 30 for animal at large violation and failure to restrain their animal, following a series of complaints over the winter about their dogs jumping their yard fence to go into the neighbor’s yard along Rustic Place.

• A resident in the 3200 block of West Owasso Blvd. on March 30 reported ongoing issues with coyotes from Valley Park trying to attack his dogs. Deputies referred the complainant to the animal control officer, who provided strategies along with the latest coyote bulletin.

• A resident in the 5900 block of Dellwood Avenue reported a diamond bracelet stolen March 30, possibly by workers or prospective buyers inside the house while it was on the market. The victim’s insurance company has been notified.

• A Shoreview man, 37, was arrested for fifthdegree assault, fifth-degree domestic assault and disorderly conduct March 30 in the 5700 block of Donegal Drive. The case has been forwarded to the city attorney for review.

• A resident in the 5400 block of Lake Avenue reported sending money via a bank app to the wrong phone number March 31, but the person at that number denied receiving the money. The complainant was left to wait for the 10-day delay process of bank fraud investigation.

Ramsey County Sheriff Briefs

Carrying without a permit

A St. Paul man, 34, faces up to one year imprisonment and/or maximum fine of $3,000 if convicted of gross misdemeanor possession of a firearm without a permit, following an April 11 incident in the 3500 block of Rice Street in which Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call about a suspicious man sitting in his vehicle in a parking lot for more than 45 minutes.

When deputies arrived on scene at 8:50 a.m., they observed the male still seated behind the wheel. Upon contact, they observed a pipe with a white crystalline substance in the door panel next to the suspect. After they removed the suspect from the vehicle, deputies noticed a loaded .22 caliber revolver in his waistband.

The subject did not have a permit to carry, and was transported to the law enforcement center.

Many years left to keep violating the same restraining order

Charges have been filed against a Shoreview man, 47, for violating a harassment restraining order (HRO) that was taken out in 2018 and wasn’t set to expire until after he reached the age of 92 in 2068. That is 45 years in the future.

And yet, he is said to have knowingly violated the HRO within 10 years of violating the same HRO a previous time.

At 9:09 a.m. April 14, a Shoreview man in the 1300 block of Rice Creek Trail reported his neighbor for violating the HRO he had taken out against him back in 2018. The HRO prohibits the defendant from having any contact whatsoever with the complainant.

It has not been disclosed what the defendant did during this latest prohibited contact, but the most recent incident occurred in June 2020, when the complainant and his girlfriend were cooking dinner on their deck as the defendant drove down the street. The suspect stopped his vehicle in the middle of the road, got out and said something similar to, “Come and get me p----!”

In April 2018, the subject was convicted of misdemeanor violating an HRO and sentenced; in October 2018, he was convicted of the same offence and sentenced; and in February 2019, he was convicted of the same offense and sentenced. All judgments were rendered in Ramsey County District Court.

The charges the defendant currently faces have been bumped up to felony status, not just a misdemeanor. Now he faces a maximum imprisonment term of five years and/or a maximum $10,000 fine for felony harassment and violating a restraining order.

Loretta Harding