The Sartell Area Youth Basketball Association Seventh-grade Boys Team finished third in the Minnesota MYAS B2 State Tournament during the weekend of March 12-13. The team had a successful season, including first-place wins in the Sartell SAYBA Tournament Jan. 30-31, and in the Paul Bunyan Classic Tournament on Feb. 6-7 in Brainerd, Minn. Their record for the year was 23-6. The team was coached by Steve Hartwig and Curt Landowski. Team members include the following: (front row, left to right) Gus Gunderson, Zach Boelz, Blake Hartwig, Jack Greenlun and Jalen Winburn; and (back row) Coach Curt Landowski, Logan Landowski, Ben Hennen, Kristoff Kowalkowski, Brayden Lenzmeier, Scout Thorstensen and Coach Steve Hartwig,
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Ramanathan to compete
April 1 at state Geo Bee
Janagan Ramanathan of Sartell will compete with 100 other contestants, grades 4-8, April 1 in the Minnesota National Geographic Geography Bee at St. Cloud State University. Ramanathan is an eighth-grader at Sartell Middle School. The winner of the state bee will go on to compete May 23-25 at the national level in Washington, D.C. Last year’s champion, Karan Menon, a boy from New Jersey, was awarded a $50,000 college scholarship.
The defending champion at the state level is Shreyas Varathan of Shakopee Area Catholic School. Janagan’s brother, Gopi Ramanthan, was a two-time Minnesota State Geography Bee champion – in 2010 and again in 2012.
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Sartell Middle School team to go to state meet
The eighth-grade team from Sartell Middle School won the regional Academic Triathlon Meet at Kennedy Elementary recently and will be going to the state meet on April 16 in Woodbury. Team members are the following: (left to right) Alex Erickson-Murphy, Ayleigh Hammond, Sarah Ufearo, Jaden Nguyen, Sam Brant and Coach Nicole Maslowski.
