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I imagine Esch will be at Minnetonka for the rest of his coaching career. Not sure how long that will be. He was 29 when he took over at Mankato West, so must be 47 or 48 now. I don't think he will be one of those guys that coaches into his 60's.

So Nelson may be the only coach to do it with two different schools in MN. His successor at Minnetonka could join him on that list Friday night.

Curious to know how many coaches have led multiple programs to a state championship? That list can't be very long. Only one I know off the top of my head is Dave Nelson (Blaine and Minnetonka).

Championship week! My champs in bold. 9-Man: Hills Beaver Creek vs. Fertile-Beltrami 1A: Minneota vs. Springfield 2A: Jackson County Central vs. Staples Motley 3A: Dassel-Cokato vs. Stewartville 4A: Totino Grace vs. Becker 5A: Alexandria vs. Elk River 6A: Minnetonka vs. Maple Grove

Becker beats Marshall 28-7.

That's a really good deal considering it's $16 a ticket to get into a game.

$10 for each game, correct?

It's really a shame you have to pay to watch these semi final games. A lot of good matchups in all classes with the new seeding format. Prep45 channel streams semi finals for state basketball and hockey. They even stream state hockey quarterfinal games. Not sure why they can't do the same for...

Semi Final Picks 9 Man: Mountain Iron Buhl over Hills Beaver Creek Fertile-Beltrami over LeRoy-Ostrander 1A: Mahnomen/Waubon over Springfield Minneota over Parkers Prairie 2A: Kimball over JCC Chatfield over Staples-Motley 3A: Dassel-Cokato over Pequot Lakes Stewartville over Albany 4A...

Man that's too bad. I really think JCC would have won it all

I don't know how Mankato doesn't have a turf field. The fact that JWP with an enrollment of 211 has one and East or West doesn't is pretty bad. Almost every other school in the Big 9 has had a turf field for 10 plus years it seems like.

My predictions for tonight in 6A and 5A: 6A Lakeville North over Champlin Park Lakeville South over Anoka Minnetonka over Mayo Blaine over Forest Lake Edina over Eagan Maple Grove over EP Shakopee over STMA Prior Lake over Mounds View 5A Owatonna over Rochester JM Mankato East over...

The better team won Saturday. East was without their top WR in the jug game. First drive of the game East went 80 yards on 5 passing plays. They just had better skill position players this year than West did. Hope they can knock off Chanhassen and get to the state tournament for the first time...

I'm predicting a Maple Grove-Minnetonka Prep Bowl.

Big game in Mankato tonight. West has won 18 straight Jug games, but this is the best team East has had in 20 years. Records get thrown out the window when this game kicks off, but I fully expect East to end the streak tonight. It's the 25th anniversary of Mankato West's first state championship...

Jeff Jones #1? (Sigh) Also, didn't realize how highly recruited Carter Coughlin was. Looks like he is #3 behind Koi.

He reminds me of a more athletic Maxx Williams. I think he will play TE at the next level too. Looks like a man amongst boys playing 2A. Would be a huge get for PJ but he's gonna have a lot of competition. Heading into his junior season he had 8 Power 5 offers. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa. Iowa...

Will be at Wilson Field tonight in Blue Earth to check out maybe the best player in the state in Roman Voss of Jackson County Central. Gonna be an ugly game but I want to see this kid play.

Curious to know what the Minnetonka community/parents think of Coach Esch and the way he runs the football program. I know Dave Nelson was pretty beloved. Not that the program was in a bad spot, but I thought they had a couple tough seasons before Esch took over.

I believe Kare 11 is streaming the Edina-Minnetonka game tonight on their YouTube channel.