Both Arrow teams are set to hit the road for first-round Class AA playoff matches on Tuesday
TEA — Watertown High School's boys and girls soccer teams wrapped up the regular season by splitting matches against Class A Tea Area on Saturday.
The Arrow boys (7-4-3) posted a 3-2 win over Tea Area. The Arrow girls (3-10-1) fell 3-0 to the top-rated Class A Titans.
Tommy Foley scored two goals, including the game winner on a 30-yard free kick to the top left corner. He also had the game-winning field goal on Friday night in Watertown's high school football win over Aberdeen Central.
Skyler Stanton added the other goal on a corner kick. Foley has seven goals and Stanton six this season. Goalkeeper Owen Muller made five saves.
"We played a solid game. We had a lot of good chances," Watertown boys head coach Jesse Hauck said. "We will need to finish a couple more of those, but we still did a good job of possessing, finding runners and getting good chances. We also played solid defense against a very fast top end."
Watertown's girls finished with 11 shots, four on goal. Aspen Reynolds had three shots on goal, and goalkeeper Madison Enstad recorded nine saves.
Watertown's boys are the ninth seed for the state Class AA playoffs and will visit eighth-seeded Aberdeen Central (8-4-0) at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday in a first-round match. The 15th-seeded Arrow girls visit second-seeded Harrisburg (13-1-0). The Arrow teams are looking to avenge 3-0 (boys) and 9-0 (girls) regular-season losses in the playoffs.
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Border Battle Cross Country
GRAND FORKS — Ashlynn Batchelor of Milbank and Clark-Willow Lake's girls won Class A titles in the Border Battle Cross Country meet on Saturday.
Batchelor won the girls' 5,000-meter run in 18 minutes and 59.2 seconds, followed by Kamryn Nesheim of Clark-Willow Lake (19:49.9). Kennadee Wagner of Warner was fourth (20:53) an Cadence Bochek eighth (20:33.44) out of 181 runners.
Keaton Olson of Kindred (N.D.) won the 223-runners boys' race in 15:50.5. Kaleb Foltz of Tri-State was eighth
Bowman County edged Kindred for the team title.
Complete results are available at www.athletic.net.
Border Battle Results: https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/217310/info
Canby-Minneota Cross Country
The Lancers competed In the Yellow Medicine East Invite on Thursday at Granite Falls and the Willmar Invite on Saturday.
Canby-Minneota swept the team and individual titles in the YME Meet.
Braelyn Merritt won the girls' 5,000-meter run in 19 minutes and 54 seconds. Teammates Claire Stoks (second, 20:21), Mya Pesek (third, 20:34), Ava Danielson (seventh, 22:17) and Jordyn Jostock (eighth, 22:23) added top-10 finishes.
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Zach Ourada (17:03) won the boys division. Kolton Duis was fourth (17:39), Blake Giese fifth (17:42) and Tallen Merritt ninth (18:21).
At Willmar, Merritt took 11th (20:53), Stoks 21st (21:22) and Pesek 25th (21:25) in the girls division and Ourada 13th (18:23), Giese 18th (18:32) and Duis 26th (18:56) in the boys division.
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