Roseville Area Sports

Roseville Area High School sophomore Michelle Schlossmacher-Smith qualified for last week's state swimming and diving meet with the highest section diving score.

The Roseville Area High School volleyball team closed out its fourth consecutive trip to the Class AAA state tournament with a match for third place against Champlin Park on Nov. 14.

A quick glance back at the results of last year's games involving the Roseville Area High School girls hockey team shows the Raiders on the winning end of a number of blowouts.

In the state tournament for the second straight year, the Concordia Academy volleyball team did this year what it couldn't last season. The Beacons won their first-round match and put themselves in a prime position to play for the state title.

There's plenty of motivation for a team heading into the first round of a state tournament but for the Roseville Area High School volleyball team, the opponent on the other side of the net provided another reason for wanting to be successful.

After beating the same opponent in the previous three section finals, the Roseville Area High School volleyball team saw a different squad on the other side of the net in the Section 4AAA championship match last week.

Concordia Academy senior Seguy Hanson has had a solid season for the Beacons' boys cross country team and that season has been extended one additional week. Hanson gets one more race thanks to his performance last week in the section meet.

Since 2001, the Roseville Area High School girls cross country team has not missed the state meet in consecutive years. The Raiders kept that streak intact by qualifying for this weekend's state meet.

The volleyball teams from Roseville Area High School and Concordia Academy began this week needing two victories to secure section titles and berths in next week's state tournament.

The first runners across the finish line for Roseville Area High School at last week's Suburban East Conference cross country championships were seniors.