Sports

LAUNCHING a shot for the Wolves against Hill City was Brock Latourell in a home playoff game Wednesday.

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FREE PIZZA from newfound friends during a traffic jam on the VCC baseball team’s trip to Florida.

WINNING ELY SQUIRT TEAM at the 2019 Erik Marwick Memorial Tournament in Virginia. Kneeling (l-r): Nico Lenci, Owen Marolt, Cazimiro Carlson, Sean Merriman, Hunter Halbakken, Evan Leeson. Standing: Ozzie Anderson, Sylvia Shock, Jayden Zemke, Tyler Forsberg, Brayden Akins, Jon Schlosser, Brady Eaton, Ryland Sandy, Stig Majerus. Absent from photo: Lewey Powell. Coaches: Justin Zemke, Bill Forsberg, Joe Majerus, & Head Coach Nicole Carlson.

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Paul McDonald and Provost Shawn Bina

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Ely’s Jayne Dusich holds numerous track and field records at Bemidji State University.
It took almost 30 years, and one of her former students, for one of those records to fall.
Last weekend, freshman Ryne Prigge of Ely not only won the 1,000-meter run at an indoor event in North Dakota, but she also shattered a school record set by Dusich in 1991.
Prigge, who was coached by Dusich in both cross country and track at Ely, won Saturday’s race in 3:00.57, breaking Dusich’s school-best mark when she was a standout for the Beavers in the early-1990s.
Last year’s Arrowhead Conference Female Athlete of the Year, Prigge was a standout in track, cross country and Nordic skiing at Ely and signed with Bemidji State, an NCAA Division II school, to compete in both track and cross country.
Dusich followed a similar path and earned spot in both the BSU and Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Hall of Fame.

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