Roseville Area Sports

The home crowd didn’t have much to cheer during last year’s Roseville Area High School football season as the Raiders went 0-4 in home games. That has already changed in 2016 and there’s a good chance the Raiders could get on a roll at home.

Following a season-opening victory, the Roseville Area High School volleyball team lost four matches in a row. That’s not something that has happened to the Raiders much in recent seasons but it didn’t put them in panic-mode.

If it seems as though Concordia Academy’s football team hasn’t played a home game in a while, it’s not your imagination. The Beacons played their last two games away from home and do so again this week.

Scoring points was a problem for the Roseville Area High School football team in the first two weeks of the season. It won’t get any easier for the Raiders this week.

Former Roseville Area High School athletic standout Jena Root followed up her high school career by competing in college as a member of the University of St. Thomas women’s swimming and diving team.

Week three wasn’t kind to the Concordia Academy football team in 2015 and the Beacons are out to avoid that same fate this season. Concordia visits Minneapolis Henry on Sept.

The Roseville Area High School football team returns home this week for its third game of the season against Woodbury. The Royals won last year’s match-up by two touchdowns and figured to have a strong team in 2016.

After opening the season last week with home games, the football teams from Roseville Area High School and Concordia Academy are hitting the road in week two.

Second-year head coach James Cave felt coming into the season that his Roseville Area High School girls soccer team had a chance to improve this fall.

There’s no doubt that Concordia Academy would like to start out year two of district football the way it did year one. The Beacons opened 2015 with victories over Spectrum and Breck.