Photos by James Stitt/Waconia Patriot
Forest Lake alumnus has been a fixture in Waconia dugout for 22 years
On June 19, Target Field in Minneapolis hosted four state baseball championship games in succession, one for each of the MSHSL’s class divisions. The attention of the Forest Lake community was naturally fixed upon the Class AAAA game beginning at 7 p.m. The memory of that evening will be bittersweet for the people of Forest Lake, after the Rangers were beaten 5-1 by Eden Prairie and were marked in the record book as the state runner-up.broadstreet.zone(48036);
One Forest Lake alumnus will remember June 19 as a very happy day, however. In the hours before the Rangers took the field, 1985 graduate Mark Grundhofer led his Waconia squad to a 6-1 victory over Hibbing to claim the Class AAA championship.
In his Forest Lake days, Grundhofer was active all three seasons. He recalls playing football under head