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Married@SiebertField said:
Thank you for posting. On the way to winning the 1962 state basketball tournament, St. Louis Park played Danube and Bob Bruggers in the semi-finals. Danube was the sentimental favorite of the field and the Williams Arena crowd—the Edgerton of the ‘62 tourney. Bruggers scores 36 points but uncharacteristically misses a number of free throws. The Orioles win a close game. The drama and romance of the one class tournament…
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Crazy story. Tiny Danube v St Louis Park! I was a youngun when in 1963 I saw Marshall beat Cloquet in the State Championship. Never wll forget Meissner missing the medium jumpshot as time expired. Heartbreaker. One class! Packed Arena! Passions running wild!
 

Eastside Forever said:
Crazy story. Tiny Danube v St Louis Park! I was a youngun when in 1963 I saw Marshall beat Cloquet in the State Championship. Never wll forget Meissner missing the medium jumpshot as time expired. Heartbreaker. One class! Packed Arena! Passions running wild!
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Must have been something special: southwest vs. northeast—thrilling. The Lake Conference had quite the run. St. Louis Park was the one-off champion roughly half way between the Butsy Maetzold (sp?) Hopkins teams and the Edina three-peat. The section with some of the Minneapolis schools was a mini state tournament every year. Lloyd Holm was the ‘62 SLP coach—he won state Championships previously at Red Wing and Duluth Denfeld, IIRC. Augie Schmidt succeeded him and coached SLP to three consecutive state tournaments in the Jim Petersen (78-80) years. Augie played in the state tournament for Willmar and for good measure coached the undefeated ‘73 SLP soccer team to the mythical state championship.
 

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Ben Utecht, 2001 Second Team All Big Ten, 2003 First Team All Big Ten
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Ernie Wheelwright, 2004 All Big Ten Honorable Mention
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Drew Wolitarsky, 2016 Third Team All Big Ten
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Demetrius Douglas, 2018 All Big Ten Honorable Mention
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