Eden Prairie and Chaska each scored a pair of volleyball victories at the Apple Valley Eagle Invitational on Friday.

But it wasn’t easy.

The Eagles got past Belle Plaine 25-18, 26-24 in the first round, and squeaked past Bethlehem Academy of Faribault 25-23, 20-25, 15-13.

The Hawks opened the tournament with a 25-21, 25-15 win over Hibbing.

The win set the Hawks up with a match against Lakeville North.

There’s going to be a new No. 1 ranked boys soccer team this week and that team is going to be named Eden Prairie. Saturday, the No. 2 ranked Eden Prairie High School boys soccer team defeated No. 1 ranked Apple Valley by a score of 5-1.

The two teams traded first-half goals before Eden Prairie blew the game wide open with four goals in the second half.

The story behind Friday's football game between Eden Prairie and Lakeville North was not only Taylor Grant's shoulder injury, but Head Coach Mike Grant's reaction.
The elder Grant, after all, had to keep one eye on the game and the other on his son, if that's at all possible. Imagine having your son leave the field in an ambulance and not being able to be by his side.
The younger Grant's status for next week/the rest of the season is uncertain, the elder Grant's status as a football coach isn't.

In a game that lasted just a little longer than two hours (much of the fourth quarter was running time), the Eden Prairie High School football team defeated Chaska 45-0 in its home opener.

The Eagles defeated the Hawks in all phases of the game. They outrushed them 265-87, outpassed them 94-47, and ran nearly twice as many plays (60-35).

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (September 4, 2008) - For the 19th consecutive year, the number of student participants in high school athletics increased in 2007-08, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).

38-14 victory over Bloomington Jefferson runs win streak to 29
By Daniel Huss
Mike Grant has never lost a season opener as head coach of the Eden Prairie High School football team.
Counting Thursday’s 38-14 over Bloomington Jefferson, his win streak stands at 17.
“I’m relatively happy with what happened,” he said, of Thursday’s victory. “We really didn’t know what to expect and that goes for Jefferson too.”
For starters, the Jaguars were bigger, and better, than Grant had anticipated.

Saturday, the Eden Prairie High School volleyball team won its Eagles Invitational.

En route to a title, Eden Prairie defeated Litchfield (2-0), Perham (2-0), Mayer Lutheran (2-0), and Alexandria (2-0).

Thursday, Eden Prairie defeated Cretin-Derham Hall 3-1.