The Chaska volleyball team reached the championship of the 14th annual Runestone Classic Tournament in Alexandria, only to be upset by the host team in a tiebreaker.

The Hawks cruised through pool play, topping Moorhead 25-11, 25-11; Renville County West 25-5, 25-17 and Perham 25-8, 25-16.

The host team then dug in against the Hawks, taking the first game 26-24. Chaska struck back 25-21 in the second game, but Alex took it home with a 15-10 tiebreaker victory.

The Section 2AA individual finals are set.

Chaska's Katie Mattson won two matches in the North subsection tournament on Saturday to earn a spot in Tuesday's singles finals.
Katie Mattson

A 10-year-old Oak Point Intermediate student collapsed Friday afternoon
while at run club at Oak Point. Joshua Damptey was then transported to
a hospital where he died.

According to an e-mail from the Eden Prairie School
District, Joshua was a fifth grade student and had previously attended
Eden Lake Elementary School. His brother attends Eagle Heights Spanish
Immersion School. Social workers and counselors will be available for
students on Monday.

Holy Family's boys soccer team came as close as a team could come without winning on Saturday.

The Fire battled Orono to a 2-2 tie after an overtime session on Saturday in the Section 6A quarterfinals.

The Spartans prevailed 3-2 in a shootout. William Dennehy scored both goals for Holy Family, with assists to Jason Karshnia and Bob Pohlen.

Fire goaltender Tyler Epping made 22 saves in the game as the Fire finished 11-7-2 on the season.

Holy Family's girls soccer team ended its season with a 5-1 loss to Waconia in the 6A quarterfinals.

Chaska's girls swim team took second place in the True Team Section 6-2A meet on Saturday at Edina.
The host team tallied 1,414 points, while the Hawks amassed 1,002. Minnetonka was third with 921 points.
Shakopee was fourth with 840.5, followed by Hopkins with 827, Minneapolis Southwest with 548, and Minneapolis South with 506.
Faribault (section 1), Lakeville North (2), Woodbury (3), Forest Lake (7) and Maple Grove (8) were champions of their respective sections.

It was a tough day for Chaska soccer teams on Saturday.
The Hawk boys soccer team came very close to upsetting No. 1 seed Eden Prairie in the playoffs, the girls' soccer team saw its season end to the top-rated team in the state.
Chaska had the underdog label going into the Section 2AA semifinals Saturday morning at Eden Prairie. But the fifth-seeded Hawks played the Eagles very tough a month ago, but played even tougher in the playoffs.

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There was little surprise that Eden Prairie swept the Lake Conference boys and girls team titles on Friday at Eagan High School.

And there was equally little surprise that Chaska's teams had high finshes as well.

The Hawk boys team took second place in the Lake Conference Championships. The Eagles had 39 points to easily outdistance the Hawks' total of 88.

Chaska senior Matt Babcock took seventh place in the race, covering the 5,000-meter course in 17 minues, 6.4 seconds.

Chaska's football team ran into Bloomington Jefferson at the wrong time.

The Jaguars shut out the Hawks in the second half to score a 37-14 Homecoming victory on Friday at Bloomington Stadium.

Chaska trailed 24-14 at the half, with a TD in each of the first two quarters.

Jefferson went 1-8 last season, and started the year 0-3. But the Jaguars turned it around to win their past four games.

The Jaguars are 4-3 on the season, while the Hawks slipped to 1-6 overall.

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