Sports Briefs – Feb. 9, 2017

Local police honored before Lakers game
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Sgt. Jake Ayers, Sgt. Mark Richert, Detective Nancy Carlson and officers Pat Ferguson, Trevor Johnson, Sean Lafferty, Troy Meyer, Megan Olstad, Nathan Olstad and Maryrose Warke of the Forest Lake Police Department are honored on the ice as part of Law Enforcement Night at the Forest Lake Lakers game on Feb. 3. Carlson also performed the ceremonial puck drop. Through a silent auction the Lakers and their fans helped raise more than $1,000 for the Minnesota Law Enforcement Memorial Association. The Lakers lost the game to the Dells Ducks 4-1, but they got their revenge a day later, beating the same opposition 3-2. The Lakers are 20-15-5 on the season and will play at home against the Chicago Cougars on Feb. 17 and 18, with both games beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Dance team falls short of state
The Forest Lake dance team competed in the Section 4AAA

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NLA girls chase promotion to upper division

North Lakes center Maggie Thiele is averaging a double-double with 10.2 points and 10.4 rebounds per game.
The North Lakes Academy girls basketball team beat a short-handed co-op of St. Paul Prep and High School for the Recording Arts 51-36 on Feb. 3 to bring their regular season record to 9-11.
As she normally does, junior center Maggie Thiele achieved a double-double, leading the Huskies with 20 points and 15 rebounds. Sophomore guard Katelyn Ozment scored 15 points, and senior guard Isabel Thompson put in eight. Freshman forwards Annika Johnson and Alena Miller each collected seven rebounds; junior forward Emma Tiedeman pulled down six and Ozment five. Ozment and Thompson led the Huskies in assists with five each.broadstreet.zone(48036);
St. Paul Prep dressed only five players, forcing the starters to play the entire game. Predictably, a close early matchup tilted slowly but surely in favor of the Huskies, who had 17 players to choose

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