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Article: ON PREPS; high schools: baseball state tournament; CLASS 3A FINAL: COON RAPIDS 6, BLOOMINGTON JEFFERSON 1; Everything, from nowhere; Coon Rapids, as the No. 9 seed, was well off the radar in Class 3A, but that blip on the screen is the Cardinals flying high after an unexpected state championship.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 14, 2008
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Byline: JOHN MILLEA; STAFF WRITER
Kevin Garnett will win an NBA title and the U.S. Open on the same day. Ron Paul will be elected president with Oprah as his running mate. On Father's Day, I will engage my teenage daughter in a deep discussion of the Jonas Brothers and take my wife to see "Sex And The City." Again. In other words, anything can happen. Case in point: the Coon Rapids High School baseball team. Or as we call the Cardinals after Friday's Class 3A title game at Midway Stadium in St. Paul: state champs.
Never give up. That's the lesson we learned from Coon Rapids, which rolled to a 6-1 victory over Bloomington Jefferson.
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