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Mustangs are state soccer champs, rally to beat Rosemount 3-2
Mel Boehland: Football, travel among his passions BY ABE WINTER CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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Mounds View players rush together to celebrate their state championship after beating Rosemount 3-2. BY BRUCE STRAND SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR
The final hurdle between Mounds View and a state soccer championship was an unlikely one. The Mustangs faced a Rosemount team that ended the regular season 4-6-3, then turned into a giant-killer. Rosemount was on the verge of springing one
last upset, leading 2-0 in the Class 3A fi nals Saturday, before Sam Hoyt and the Mustangs stormed back. Mounds View overtook the Irish 3-2, with Hoyt, their Mr. Soccer finalist, scoring in the 38th and 55th minutes to catch up, and Henry Elias delivering the game-winner in the 74th minute. at U.S. Bank Stadium.
“This is one for the ages if we can pull it off and come back,” coach Joe Warren told his team at halftime. Which the Mustangs did. “I’m not surprised by anything they’ve done all year, but I’m still impressed every time." Mounds View finished 16-5 and captured their school’s second state title, 44 years after the fi rst one in 1977.
It was Mounds View’s 16th state trip and sixth time in the finals. They beat Stillwater 2-1 and Rochester Mayo 2-0 to reach the finals. Joseph Swallen, senior captain and midfielder, was aware of the ancient history but more concerned with the recent: “We know it’s
To say football was Mel Boehland’s passion would be an understatement. “It was a huge passion,” said Pat Boehland, widow of the man who died Oct. 7 of COVID-19 complications. Mel Boehland was born in 1943 in Bertha, Minnesota, the fi rst of three sons to a farm family. After starring in football and basketball at BerthaHewitt High School, he was recruited to play football at the University of North Dakota (UND). Listed at 6-foot-3 and weighing 250 pounds, Boehland lettered three years with the former Fighting Sioux (now the Fighting Hawks). Following his collegiate playing days and graduation from UND, he joined teammate Dave Osborn in signing with the Minnesota Vikings in 1965. Osborn, as you might remember, went on to a productive playing career as a running back after being selected in the draft. Boehland, a Shoreview resident, became a longtime friend of his teammates, including Pete Porinsh. “As a small kid from Williston (N.D.), when I saw Mel at football practice, he
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Mounds View grad named tobacco-free youth advocate of the year A decision during her sophomore year to join the Volunteer Club at Mounds View High School has paid off for Grace Plowman. “I started volunteering for youth tobacco prevention because when I was in the Volunteer Club at Mounds View, Katie Engman, (program director of policy and compliance at the Association for Nonsmokers-Minnesota (ANSR),
came in one day and was looking for volunteers to do tobacco compliance checks, so I volunteered and it took off from there,” Plowman said. “I realized it was an equity issue, where tobacco companies target communities of color and teenagers, and that’s why I decided to keep going because I found that really interesting.” CONTRIBUTED
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