As the Hopkins Royals Football team prepares to travel to Waconia this Friday night, they come in with some momentum from the previous week, beating a very solid Apple Valley Eagles team 21-0 to kick off their season.
After going 1-7 in the regular season and then eventually losing in the first round of sections to St. Michael-Albertville, the Hopkins High School football team got a major boost to the coaching staff.
The AFC and NFC championship has finally wrapped up, the final teams remaining are the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots. With the Super Bowl looming, two Royal Page sports reporters give their opinion on who will win.
It is two days later now, and I am still in shock over what happened in the closing seconds of the best playoff game I have ever witnessed.
The Minnesota Vikings, with 10 seconds left, made US Bank Stadium roar in happiness when Case Keenum, quarterback, connected with Stefon Diggs, wide receiver, for a 61-yard game winning touchdown to defeat the New Orleans Saints.
The Minnesota Vikings are continuously showing the league why they are one of the best teams in the NFL and it’s time they get some recognition for it.
Nearing the final stretch of the NFL season, two Royal Page reporters give their thoughts on who are the best and the worst in the league. These are the Week 11 NFL Power Rankings.
On Nov. 9, the Royals girls swim and dive team competed in the preliminaries of the MSHSL Section 5AA meet at the Plymouth Lifetime Fitness, qualifying 11 swimmers for the section finals meet.
Student sections roaring, tensions flowing, as the Royals are looking to not let history eliminate them, as they did last year. The Lakers are 20-12 with a 6-5 conference record.
The 23-3 Benilde-St. Margaret’s Red Knights took on the 23-7 Royals in a single elimination match at the Robbinsdale Cooper high school on Sat., November 4. The outcome of the match determined who got sent home, and who gets to go to the Xcel Energy Center for the state tournament.
