PeeWees, Bantams to play in state hockey meets [/media-credit] The Sartell Peewee A’s were the South Region Tournament Champions earning a trip to the Minnesota State Peewee A Tournament to be held March 15-17 in Faribault, Minn. Sartell beat the St. Cloud Black team 4-0; Owatonna 4-0; and Luverne 3-0. Players include (front row, left to right): Maddux Hagy and Cole Bright; (middle row) Jason Sjogren, Eric Minnerath, Garrett Freeman, Trevor Dummer, Jack Hennemann, Cameron Cromwell and Dylan Michaud; and (back row) Johnny Kirchner, Luke Schmidt, Connor Kahltoff, Michael Ramseth, Nathan Warner and Luke Spanier.[/media-credit] Sartell Bantam A recently played in the VFW Regions at the MAC and won the championship. Team members are the following: (front row, left to right) Graham Lorsung, Dillion Blommer, Logan Brookins, Matt Partch, Alec Adelman and Cole Nelson; (back row) Matt Michaud, Keenen Lund, Tommy Pinkerton, Matt Moran, Jordan Roller, Isaac Dammen, John Schmidt, Will McCabe and Jared Freeman. Not pictured: Spencer Meier. They will play back-to-back state tournaments March 15 in Buffalo for Bantam A State Tournament and March 22 n the VFW State Tournament in White Bear Lake. This may be the first time in Sartell Youth Hockey Association HA history they have had a team at Bantam A level play back- to-back state tournaments. The championship game in VFW was a shutout over the St. Cloud Bantam AA team, 8-0. Coaches are John Swanson, head coach; Al Dedomonices, assistant coach; and Pete Weitz, lineup.
Taylor Welle, Sartell, has been accepted to and has chosen to attend the University of Minnesota, Morris. Welle, a 2013 graduate of Becker High School will attend Morris beginning fall 2013. He is the recipient of an achievement scholarship, which is based on academic accomplishments and is renewable up to four years.
Two Sartell students recently graduated from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul????
They are the following: Olayiwola Adetunji and Kevin Xie, Both received master’s degrees in healthcare.
Sartell Middle School Students compete in regional Math Masters challenge
[/media-credit] Sixth-graders (from left to right) Jacob Miller, Tina Chen, Elizabeth Ruder, Cindy Zhang and Patrick Stalboerger, all students at Sartell Middle School, participated March 8 in the regional Math Masters of Minnesota Challenge at Sauk Rapids Middle School. The team coach is Carly Larson. Five students competed individually and as teams on eight sets of mathematical problems in this competition. In the individual round Cindy Zhang placed first; Elizabeth Ruder second; and Tina Chen, Patrick Stalboerger and Jacob Miller placed third. Math Masters is designed to promote excellence in critical thinking skills and problem-solving abilities as well as provide recognition to students for academic effort and achievement.