Category: Sports

Featured Photo: December 7, 2011

Augsburg center Cory Polta puts up a shot over Concordia-Moorhead's Aaron Lindahl during a game between the Auggies and the Cobbers on December 3, 2011 in Minneapolis. Polta had a career high 27 points in the contest, earning M.I.A.C Men's Basketball Player of the Week for his efforts. (Caleb Williams/d3photography.com)

Featured Photo: December 6, 2011

Augsburg goalie Brianna Schulz was powerless to stop No. 7 Gustavus's potent offense including this goal by Mollie Carroll (left) in the third period of a NCAA Div. III women's hockey between Augsburg vs. Gustavus Adolphus. Gustavus won the contest 9-0, including 4 goals scored by forward Allie Schwab (not shown). (Caleb Williams/d3photography.com)

Be­low is a pho­to from this week­end. Un­like the last blog, this is wom­en’s ice hock­ey be­tween Augs­burg and Gus­tavus. The game was a score-fest, with Gus­tavus notch­ing a 9–0 win.

First football of the season

Macalester quarterback Clark Bledsoe hands off to T. Joe Loiselle during a game between the Scots and the Grinnell Pioneers on September 3, 2011 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Grinnell defeated Macalester 31-6. T. Loiselle gained 48 yards on the day.

I kicked off the 2011-12 col­lege sports sea­son on Sep­tem­ber 3 at Macalester Col­lege in St. Paul, Min­neso­ta where the Grin­nell Pi­o­neers came to vis­it the Scots. It was an over­cast day and rain passed just north, but it stayed nice­ly dry on this stretch of Snelling Av­enue. You may be ask­ing why these are… Con­tin­ue read­ing First foot­ball of the season