When Battaglia stepped down from the basketball head coaching job after 20 years, former players and coaches praised his ability to craft relationships, which built a winning program.| Cloquet Pine Journal
Esko’s Sam Haugen will play baseball next spring at Minnesota State Mankato, but his first true love as a child was basketball. He is the Pine Journal Boys Basketball Player of the Year.| Cloquet Pine Journal
When an ankle injury threatened Isabella Anderson’s senior season, she persisted, adapted her game and led the Cardinals to the state tournament. She is the Pine Journal Player of the Year.| Cloquet Pine Journal
Kailee Olson, the 34-year-old Duluth East girls basketball assistant coach and granddaughter of Bob McDonald, was recently diagnosed with colon cancer following genetic testing for her unborn baby.| Duluth News Tribune
Your local prep sports news, game results, high school highlights, and more from Cloquet, Minnesota.| Cloquet Pine Journal
Jamey Malcomb has a been high school sports reporter for the Duluth News Tribune since October 2021. He spent the previous six years covering news and sports for the Lake County News-Chronicle in Two Harbors and the Cloquet Pine Journal. He graduated from the George Washington University in 1999…| Cloquet Pine Journal
