All Saints Academy of St. Joseph preschool students (front row, left to right) Brady Then, Alma Karger-Gatzow, Otis Karger-Gatzow, Hazel Wittrock, Wylie Schmitz (middle) and others give “high fives” to Cathedral High School basketball coach Matt Meyer (right) and other basketball team players (back row, left to right) Patrick Tollefsrud, Michael Schaefer, Sam Schneider, Mitch Lochner, Andrew Weisser, William Kranz, Nicholas Schaefer, Keaton LeClaire and Mason Wolf, while All Saints Academy aide Tasha Walsh (left) observes, during a basketball team send-off at the school on March 22. The Cathedral High School basketball team includes many former All Saints Academy preschoolers including Schneider, Lochner, Wolf, Tollefsrud and Weisser. Cathedral beat Melrose High School to go on to compete at the Boys’ State High School Basketball tournament. They defeated New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva , 70-59, in overtime in the Class 2A quarterfinals March22, at the Williams Arena, but lost to Crosby-Ironton, 53-42, in the semifinals on March 24 at the Target Center. Annandale defeated Cathedral, 68-60, March 25 at the Gangelhoff Center on the Concordia-St. Paul campus for third place.
