Prep athletes of the week: Girls' lacrosse scoring leader Grace Peterson makes up for lost season

GRACE PETERSON

Never one to sit back and follow, the midfielder found the lack of a high school lacrosse season in 2020 sparked an extra bit of motivation for her senior year.

A natural-born scorer — "I like to shoot," she says — Peterson is determined to make the most of her final year of high school lacrosse before she heads off to play at the U.S. Naval Academy next year.

She is the runaway girls' lacrosse scoring leader in Minnesota with 63 goals in eight games, 18 more than the next highest goal scorer. Her 79 total points is also tops in the state.

Peterson was exceptionally sharp last week, tallying eight goals in a loss to Eastview and notching back-to-back 10-goal games in victories over Delano/Rockford and Holy Family. The wins helped the White Hawks improve to 6-2 this season. Her second 10-goal game came despite a finger injury suffered the game before.

"I'm pretty proud of that," she said. "I still can't bend it."

Mound Westonka's Athena Award winner, Peterson said her main goal this season was to help the team achieve what it couldn't last year.

NOAH BUSH

The senior now leads the state in home runs after hitting one in three consecutive games, giving him eight this season. He went 6-for-9 overall in three victories, drove in 13 runs and improved his average to .533 for the season.

ALDEN KELLER

In a span of six days, the sophomore runner broke two school records. On April 29, Keller ran a school-record time of 9 minutes, 41.95 seconds in the 3,200 meters. On May 4 he added another by breaking a 30-year-old record with a 4:29.05 in the 1,600.

HALEY REECK

MAX SUTTER

The senior righthander continued his strong spring with two dominant outings. He went six innings, giving up four hits and one run, in an 8-1 victory at Edina. He also shut out Wayzata 2-0 on six hits, striking out 10, in a complete-game victory.

HANNAH TONG

Only a freshman, Tong picked up her first career shutout, throwing a one-hitter in a 10-0 victory over Irondale. She followed that by handing Class 4A, No. 1 Stillwater its first loss, holding the Ponies to one earned run in an 8-5 victory.

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JIM PAULSEN

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