Roseville Area Sports

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.

After suffering through a one-win season a year ago, the Roseville Area High School football team has almost nowhere to go but up. Head coach Chris Simdorn and his players enter the 2016 with optimism and it’s based on more than that.

The Roseville Area High School volleyball team has qualified for the past four state tournaments despite losing some key players to graduation each year. This season is no different for the Raiders.

Despite the loss of five seniors, four of whom were starters, the Concordia Academy volleyball team doesn’t consider the upcoming campaign a rebuilding season. In fact, a trip to the Xcel Energy Center remains goal No. 1.

Bruce Hashimoto enters his first season as the head coach of the Roseville Area High School girls tennis team with an inexperienced group of players. The Raiders graduated a large group of seniors off of the 2015 team.

Wins have not come in bunches for the Concordia Academy boys soccer team in recent years but 2016 could be time for that to change. The Beacons return a solid crop of players and some new additions should also contribute.

Replacing the athletes who graduated the previous spring is always crucial for teams to have repeated success.

The calendar might still say August but autumn is on the minds of plenty of people this week, especially anyone associated with high school sports.

Canon and Bo Pieper began their hockey careers in the Roseville Area Youth Hockey Association as mites and have rarely been far apart hockey-wise. That will change this fall, however.