Concordia Beacons

In a normal year, this would be week one of the regular season for high school football but 2015 is anything but normal. Thanks to a one-year shift in availability of the Prep Bowl venue, Minnesota high school football started two weeks early.

It has been five years since the Concordia Academy boys soccer team has finished the season with a winning record or won a playoff game. The Beacons are looking to do both of those things this season.

Week one of the high school football season is in the books even though the state fair hasn't started yet. With the adjusted schedule for prep football this season, games started a couple weeks earlier than normal.

The Concordia Academy football team embarks on a new era this week when it opens the 2015 season. The Beacons have a new head coach to go along with the new method of scheduling that the Minnesota State High School League introduced this year.

If it seems as though the football season starts earlier and earlier every year, this year you would be right. Because of stadium availability issues for the Prep Bowl, the 2015 high school football season starts two weeks earlier than normal.

The first official practice for the upcoming non-football fall high school sports seasons is fewer than two weeks away.

Baseball
All-conference
Kole Leistikow, sr.; Sam Root, sr.; Zach Morse, jr.

Honorable mention
Cole Schuessler, sr.; Andrew Erath, jr.

The high school track and field season culminated last weekend with the state meet at Hamline University in St. Paul. Both Roseville and Concordia Academy sent competitors to the meet and they turned in some noteworthy performances.

Heading into the section meet each year, the goal of the Roseville Area High School girls track and field team is to put as many athletes as possible in position to qualify for the state meet.

The Concordia Academy fastpitch softball team saw its season come to an end in the fourth round of the Section 4AA playoffs last week. The seventh-seeded Beacons lost 9-5 to fifth-seeded St. Paul Highland Park on May 19.