Is there anything she can't do?
Hopkins' Hayley Nybo, a 2010 All-Metro softball first-team catcher, sang the national anthem before the Royals' home opener against Wayzata last Wednesday.
"I've always told her she has a beautiful voice and should sing the anthem," Hopkins coach Anne Campbell said. "We raise the flag on the hill behind our school before the first game. With Hayley singing, it was a very moving experience."
Nybo then got the Royals off to a fast start on the field. She led off the bottom of the first inning by knocking a home run over the left field fence on the first pitch she saw.
"She hasn't been getting a lot to hit," Campbell said. "She had been swinging at pitches that were outside and popping them up. So I moved her to leadoff. She crushed that one."
Nybo finished the game 2-for-4. She has helped the Royals start the season 3-0 heading into this week. Hopkins is scheduled to play Edina and Prior Lake this week.
Smooth sailorsMinnetonka's high school sailing team qualified for the Mallory National High School Sailing Championships in Austin, Texas, after its second-place finish in a qualifying race in Chicago last weekend. After a pair of protests in the 20-boat regatta hosted by Columbia Yacht Club on Lake Michigan, Minnetonka edged Lake Forest (Ill.) High School by a point to capture the second qualifying spot. Loyola Academy of Wilmette, Ill., won the event.
Minnetonka's sailors are: Ben Garber, Jon Ricks, Maddie Loonsbrock, Robby Allen, Addy Ferguson, Laurel Brown, Colin Voight and Nick Price. Former Olympic coach Gordy Bowers heads the team.
