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Last year, the Forest Lake baseball team finished 20-6, extending its streak of winning seasons to 10, winning a share of the Suburban East Conference trophy and coming within a game of advancing to the state tournament.
Now-graduated pitcher and outfielder Matt Wallner won the Minnesota Mr. Baseball Award as the state’s top player. The successful year even extended to the Rangers’ home ground, Schumacher Field, which was named the state’s best baseball venue last fall. broadstreet.zone(48036);
“We get a lot of support from the youth programs and we have a great tradition that goes way back,” head coach Tal Gravelle said.
Though Wallner is now excelling as a freshman on the Southern Mississippi team, those players who remain from last year’s squad will expect similar success in 2017.
“We have a veteran group: 14 seniors and eight returning letter-winners,” Gravelle said. “We also have plenty of newer guys

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CORRECTED: The print edition of this story omitted hurdler Chloe Foster from the list of returning Rangers who qualified for the state meet last season.
In 2016 the Rangers qualified a large contingent of athletes to the Class AA state track and field championships: The girls finished eighth while the boys placed 18th.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Remy Brisbois
However, most of the Rangers who contributed to those totals were seniors, including Division I signees Emma Benner and Pat Kasl.
Of 13 combined qualifiers, only four have not graduated: senior sprinter and jumper Remy Brisbois, junior pole vaulter and sprinter Jenna Parent, sophomore sprinter Madeline Dolby and hurdler Chloe Foster.
The Rangers return many athletes who came close to advancement. Sophomore pole vaulter Sofia Dodge has been clearing the same heights as Parent this year. Eighth-grader Amelea Hauer is a middle distance phenom who has already beaten one of the girls who blocked her path to state in the

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Each of the last two years, the Forest Lake girls golf team has won both the Suburban East Conference and Section 7AAA championships. At the Class AAA state championships, the Rangers finished sixth as a team in 2015 and moved up to second in 2016, with only Edina ahead of them.
Photo courtesy of TLC Digital ImagesThe Rangers lost three of their state players from last year, but return a strong group that will be favored to make a third trip to the championship.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“My top three are returning,” head coach Andrea Brischke said. “We’re extremely excited about the year.”
From the state team, seniors Maddy Messin and Hannah Kohls are back, as is junior Maija Tanberg, the reigning SEC champion.
The 2016 junior varsity team dominated its opposition, providing Brischke with plenty of options for filling the varsity openings.
Early favorites to contend for varsity places include senior Emily Edstrom, senior Anna Schmidke, sophomore

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