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White Bear Lake had four all-conference players and five all-section after a 21-6 season in which they repeated as Section 4AAAA champion and placed fourth in the state tournament. The Bears were 14-4 in the Suburban East. Senior pitcher Chloe Barber was a Star-Tribune all-metro first-team pick. Chloe and her sister, junior catcher Heidi Barber, were coaches association all-staters. Getting all-SEC honors were the Barbers, senior shortstop Annika Olsen and senior third baseman Autumn Lund. Those four and Emma Larson,

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junior outfielder, made allsection. Chloe Barber pitched 165 innings with a 19-6 record, 267 strikeouts (leading the metro area) and a 0.93 earnedrun-average. She hit .360 with nine homers and 29 RBI’s. Her final career totals included 45 wins, 726 strikeouts, 34 home runs, 81 hits and a .401 batting average. Heidi Barber batted .558 (43-for-77, 10 doubles, three homers, one triple) with a .624 on-base-percentage, .817 slugging percentage and 22 RBI’s. Olsen hit .379 (seven doubles, two homers, one triple) and led with 25 runs. Larson batted .406 with 10 RBI’s. Lund hit .279 with four homers and 16 RBI’s. All-conference honorable mentions went to Larson, Maddy Belisle and Abby Taylor.

GIRLS LACROSSE

White Bear Lake’s junior-led lacrosse team that posted an 11-4 record had five players on the all-Suburban East team: attackers Jaeda Jensen and Georgia Kodytek, midfielder Beverly Peterson, and defenders Quinn Denne and Bella Kuyava, all juniors. The Bear coaches were honored by Section 4, Colleen Cameron as coach of the year and Kassie Bartness as assistant of the year. Peterson, Jensen and Denne were all-section first team, while Kodytek, Kuyava,

Season awards have been announced for the Mahtomedi lacrosse team that finished 12-6 overall, 3-2 in conference, beat Stillwater for the Section 4 championship and went 0-2 at state. Senior goalie Tommy Peer, who stopped 67 percent of shots on goal, allowing just 5.12 goals per game, was named team MVP. Owen Tacheny, senior face-off specialist with an 80 percent success rate, was named second-team All-Metro (StarTribune) and second-team Coaches All-State. Making all-conference were junior midfielder Eric Granec, senior midfielder Nolan Dimitri, and junior defender Drew Marchant. Named all-section were Peer, Tacheny, senior midfielder Isaac Wendorff, and senior defender Jack Roehrich. All-conference honorable mentions went to junior mid Eric Buttke, sophomore mid Oskar Magnusson, and sophomore defender Connor Gray. Roehrich got all-state honorable mention. Scoring leaders were Wendorff (39 goals, eight assists, 47 points), Buttke (27-15-42), Dimitri (27-11-38), Magnusson (20-23-43), and Landon Kruse (11-16-27). Ground ball leaders were Tacheny with 83, Roehrich 60, and Magnusson 43.

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McKenna Cunnington, who finished her career with a school record 143 goals, is one of three Mahtomedi players named to the all-Metro East team. The Zephyrs were 9-6 overall and 4-2 in the conference. Named all-MEC were Cunnington, senior midfielder; Evi Cegielski, junior midfielder; and Addie Demars, sophomore goalie. Cunnington and Demars were also all-section first team and Cegielski second team. Getting MEC honorable mentions were junior Reagan Schrankler (defense) and sophomores Kimmy Ryan (defense) and Annie Tanner (midfield). Cunnington had 63 goals and junior goalie Mesa McElmury were second team. SEC honorable mentions were McElmury, midfielder Zoe Timmons and attacker Julie Hendrickson, all juniors. Peterson and McElmury were team MVP’s. The Bears were 6-3 in the conference. Peterson led with 48 goals and made nine assists, for 57 points. She also led with 80 ground balls. Jensen had the most total points (37-25-62) and 32 ground balls. Kodytek was third in points (32-17-49). Olivia Simpkins had 16 goals, Hendrickson 13 and Timmons 12. McElmury had a .446 save percentage and 8.00 goalsagainst-average.

BOYS LACROSSE

Mario Bailey headed the list of honors for the Bears, who were 9-6 overall and 7-2 in the Suburban East for third place. Bailey, senior midfielder, was named to the Star-Tribune’s All-Metro first team, all-conference and all-section, after notching 38 goals and 25 assists for 63 points. He has committed to Rockhurst University. Also named all-SEC were junior attacker Devin Mueller, junior midfielder Preston West, and senior long-stick midfielder Dylan Christopherson. Other all-section honorees were Mueller, Christopherson, and senior defender Logan and 25 assists for 88 points, followed by Cegielski (49-11-60), freshman Brooklyn Kragness (16-13-29) and sophomore Reese Saenger (17-8-25).

Tennis

Five members of Mahtomedi’s Metro East Conference and Section 4A champion tennis team were named all-conference. They are juniors Sam Rathmanner, Jack Allaben and Aidan Wald, and sophomores Zach Burge and Brandon Pham. Honorable mentions went to junior Max Hendrickson and sophomore Luke Roettger. Rathmanner, who placed third in the state in singles, was named team MVP. Allaben got the Zephyr Leadership Award. The Zephyrs were 8-0 in conference and 20-7 overall after two 4-3 losses at state. Allaben and Pham played 2-3 singles in the regular lineup and were state runners-up in doubles.

Baseball

Mahtomedi baseball had four allconference players, three all-state tournament picks, three state allstar participants, and one all-stater following a 19-7 state runner-up season.

Seth Nelson, senior pitcher/ infielder, made the coaches’ all-state team and was team Most Outstanding Player. Nelson hit .429 with six homers and 35 RBI’s. He posted a 5-2 pitching record (1.84 ERA, 38 strikeouts, 38 innings). Named Class 3A all-tourney were Nelson, sophomore pitcher/center fielder Ethan Felling, and senior outfielder Jacob Johnson. All-Metro East players were Nelson, Johnson (.349, 22 runs, 16 RBI’s), senior catcher Sam Garry (.384, 3 homers, 17 RBI’s), and Felling (.349, 3 homers, 22 runs, 16 RBI’s, 5-2 record, 1.88 ERA, 59 strikeouts, 37.3 innings).

Garry, Nelson and Johnson played in the all-star games, where Garry was runner-up in the Cambria Home

Baltzer. Conference honorable mentions went to seniors Bryce Johnson, Evan Vickstrom and Baltzer, and sophomores Finn Karni and Ben Lockwood. Other top scorers were Mueller (3519-54), Vickstrom (20-30-50), Lockwood (19-17-36) and West (19-16-35). Ground ball leaders were Bailey with 55, Karni 37, Christopherson 35, Mueller 29 and Griffin Ziccardi 26. Harrison Adams, goalie, had a .568 save percentage and 6.80 goals-against. Bailey’s career totals were 76 goals and 47 assists. Mueller has 69 goals and 80 assists with a year left.

BEAR TENNIS

White Bear Lake had five all-conference players after posting a 4-5 conference record and 7-8 overall. They are seniors Derrick Thomas, Travis Domschot, and Brock Moor, and sophomores Will Fleming and Andrew Kolenich. Named team MVP was Kolenich. Honorable mentions went to senior Grady Gallatin and sophomore Colton Knutson.

BASEBALL

White Bear Lake’s Kaden Johnson and Aiden Welch were named to the allSuburban East Conference team after the Bears posted a 13-11 record including 10-8 in conference and 2-2 in the

section. Johnson, senior left-fielder, was named team MVP, after hitting .440 with 33 hits, including three homers, a triple and nine doubles, also leading with 32 runsbatted-in and 24 runs. Welch, a senior pitcher and infielder, got his third all-SEC honor (two in baseball, one in hockey). Getting honorable mentions were seniors Jack Setterlund and Kyle Gibson and sophomore Blake Eckerle. Also hitting over .300 were Kevin Zollinger (.391 with 25 hits and 13 RBI’s), Eckerle (.333 with 24 hits and 19 runs), Tyler Allshouse (.324 with 12 hits) and Gibson (.310 with 22 hits). Evan Newlander stole six bases and Johnson five. The main pitchers were Noah Jacka with 45.7 innings, 55 strikeouts, a 3-3 record and 3.30 ERA; Welch with 35.3 innings, 40 strikeouts, a 3-3 record and 4.30 ERA; and Roman Lachenmeyer with 22 innings, 16 strikeouts, a 3-1 record and 1.34 ERA.

GIRLS HOCKEY

Madelyn Lee, a sophomoreto-be forward on the White Bear Lake hockey team, is one of 43 players in Minnesota in the 15-year-old group selected for the National Player Development Camp. The camp will be held July 10-15 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

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Schmidtz (.364), Will Harris (.361), Ben Hyde (.349), Jack Erickson (.289, 18 runs) and Charlie Barre (.279, 18 RBI’s, 15 runs). Team awards went to Strecker (top rookie), Johnson (most improved), Nelson (offensive player), Garry (defensive player, best teammate), and Barre (Zephyr award).