Author: Steve Mulholland

The 12th of January seems like a long time ago. Holy Family came to Eden Prairie Community Center for a Thursday night matchup with the Eagles and defeated the home team 3-2. The Fire followed that victory by rolling off 11 straight wins. That streak has ended. In the boys Section 2AA quarterfinal game at Victoria Recreation Center on Friday, a game delayed and rescheduled several times due to the recent winter storm, the fifth-seeded Eagles took care of business, delivering a resounding 4-1 victory over fourth-seeded Holy Family. The win advances Eden Prairie to the Section 2AA semifinals against…

Third-ranked Wayzata had won 17 straight games until they faced Eden Prairie last Thursday in a Lake Conference boys basketball showdown. The Eagles shocked the high-powered Trojans on their own court with a 92-86 victory. Three nights prior to their upset win over Wayzata, the Eagles trounced St. Michael-Albertville 86-68 on the hardwood at Eden Prairie High School. Eden Prairie’s two-game win streak – along with the pending winter storm – set the stage for the Eagles on Tuesday, as they made the trek east to Woodbury to take on sixth-ranked East Ridge. The non-conference matchup would further test their…

Editor’s note: Due to the winter storm, some events have been postponed or moved from the original schedule to a new day and time. Monday, Feb. 20 No events are scheduled. Tuesday, Feb. 21 The sports week kicks off with basketball. The Eden Prairie varsity boys team, coming off their 92-86 win over third-ranked Wayzata, travels to sixth-ranked East Ridge for a game originally scheduled on Dec. 22. Tip-off for the Eagles and the Raptors is set for 7 p.m. The Eagles boys 9A, 9B and JV teams will also travel to East Ridge for games with the Raptors. The…

It’s about 36 miles from Eden Prairie High School to Buffalo, Minnesota. On a sunny afternoon this past Saturday, the Eden Prairie boys hockey team loaded the bus and made the journey north and west. They arrived to find a packed parking lot and capacity crowd at the Buffalo Civic Center for their regular season curtain closing with the Bison, a team they had defeated 3-2 on Jan. 26 in Eden Prairie. Buffalo is also a team that found a way to shutout sixth-ranked Wayzata at the end of January, and followed that with a 4-3 win over No. 5…

Eden Prairie High School was the site for the team tournament in the 6AAA wrestling sectionals on Friday. The fourth-ranked Eagles won their first two brackets against Minneapolis Southwest and Shakopee, respectively, before falling to second-ranked Waconia 34-29 in the finals. In the section finals against Waconia, Eden Prairie had victories from seventh grader Anthony Heim in the 106-pound class, sophomore Zytavius Williams at 120 pounds; senior Jafari Vanier at 145; junior Terae Dunn at 152; senior Jacory Bates at 170; junior Will Diana at 182; and junior Will Sather in the 285-pound class. The Eagles blanked Southwest 84-0 in…

The clock was nearing the eight-minute mark of the first period before a packed house at Pagel Activity Center in Minnetonka on Thursday night. With the score tied at one and Eden Prairie on the power play, defensemen Dylan Vornwald and Tate Bloch worked to get the puck to forward Mason Moe in the Eagles’ defensive zone. It was then that Moe recognized an opportunity. “I just picked it up from one of our defensemen,” he recalled. “I just saw open ice so I just took it.” The freshman raced up the ice, weaving around Minnetonka defenders to make his…

Cheering and clapping could be heard from inside the home locker room of the Eden Prairie boys basketball team Monday night, after their 86-68 win over St. Michael-Albertville. The win breaks a six-game losing streak for the Eagles, dating back to their 73-57 road loss to the same STMA team on Jan 20. Monday’s victory over the Knights – their first since defeating Prior Lake on Jan. 18 – comes on the heels of the Eagles’ narrow 81-80 loss to fifth-ranked Buffalo on Friday. After running the gauntlet of top-ten teams with No. 6 Minnetonka, No. 8 Hopkins and the…

Monday, Feb. 13 The week begins with the seventh-ranked Eden Prairie Eagles girls basketball team, coming off their 83-40 win over Buffalo on senior night Friday, traveling to Saint Michael-Albertville to take on the Knights. It’s the first of three games for the Eagles this week. The action starts at 7 p.m. The Eagles girls 9A, 10 and JV teams will join the varsity, with games at Saint Michael-Albertville. The Eden Prairie boys basketball team, looking to rebound from their narrow 81-80 loss to Buffalo on Friday, will host Saint Michael-Albertville on Monday in the main gym at Eden Prairie…

By 9:25 p.m. on Saturday, Rink 1 at Eden Prairie Community Center was empty with the exception of Ryan and Nick Koering. The two brothers sat on the Eagles bench, looking out on the darkened arena after the Eagles’ loss to sixth-ranked Wayzata. Ryan, the Eagles’ captain and only senior, had just played in his final game on the rink where he learned to skate at the age of three. “It’s my 18th birthday today,” he said. “I started skating here 15 years ago.” Both the Koerings grew up on the ice at EPCC, but with a two-year age difference…

The season has ended for the Eden Prairie girls hockey team. But it didn’t go quietly. Before it found its place in the webpages of prep hockey sites, the Eagles raced and chased, bumped and battled, grinding their way through an extended, hard-fought contest – which included two overtime periods to settle a 1-1 deadlock – in the section 2AA quarterfinal game at Dakotah Ice Center. After 71 minutes of hockey, the Eagles bowed out to Prior Lake at 12:03 into the second overtime, when a shot from Lakers forward Ava Guillemette found its way past Eagles junior goaltender Tegan…