With two wins last week, the New Prague Trojan boys soccer team has established a new school mark for wins in the season. New Prague has a 6-8-1 record going into their season finale at Holy Family Catholic at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4. The previous high was four wins, in each of the two previous seasons.
The Trojans defeated Rockford 6-1, Hutchinson 5-1 and lost to Orono 3-1 in Wright County Conference action. The Trojans have a 2-3-1 record in the Wright County Conference going into their finale.

The New Prague Trojan girls tennis team will travel to Marshall Tuesday, Oct. 2, to open the Section 2AA team tennis tournament. 
New Prague received the No. 5 seed in the South Subsection and will face No. 4 Marshall. The winner will travel to Hutchinson Thursday, Oct. 4, to take on the No. 1 seed Hutchinson Tigers. 
Full brackets for Section 2AA tennis (Tuesday matches)
 
North Subsection
8-Chanhassen at 1-Minnetonka
5-Shakopee at 4-Orono
6-Mound Westonka at 3-Eden Prairie
7-Chaska at 2-Prior Lake
 
South Subsection

The New Prague Trojan swim and dive team won two meets last week, defeating Tri- City United and Litchfield.
The squad will travel to Dassel-Cokato on Thursday, Sept. 27, and then compete in the St. Peter Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 29. On Thursday, Oct. 4, New Prague travels to Waconia.
Trojans 105, Titans 90 New Prague traveled to their former home pool in Montgomery to take on the fledgeling Tri-City United team on Tuesday, Sept. 18. Using mostly JV swimmers, the Trojans defeated the host Titans 105-90.

The New Prague Trojan girls cross country team had a strong showing at the Milaca Mega-Meet Saturday, Sept. 22, at Stone’s Throw GC in Milaca.
The meet, billed as one of the largest high school cross country meets in the US, saw the Trojans finish 13th of 25 teams in the large-school division.
Wayzata won the meet with 34 points and had three runners finish in the top six and five runners finishing in the top 13. Eden Prairie was second at 74 with Andover third at 75. New Prague had 383 points, behind Moorhead’s 353 and just ahead of Woodbury with 384.

New Prague High School’s Homecoming Week is underway, with the bulk of activities scheduled for Friday, Sept. 28.
Festivities began on Sunday, Sept. 23, with the annual Powder Puff Football game. The flag football game between teams of senior and junior girls was won by the senior class, 35-0.
Each day of the week was dedicated to different dressup theme days. Students were to take part in floatbuilding for the parade on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at the bus garage.

The New Prague Trojan football team lost a Big Southeast Red Division game to Northfield Friday, Sept. 21. The score was 49-13. 
Each team scored on their opening drive, but then Northfield scored 21 unanswered points to lead 28-7 at the half. The Raiders upped the lead to 42-7 before Nathan Osborne scored from 70 yards out. 
Parker Johnson had the Trojans' first touchdown on a 1-yard run, 
New Prague (1-3) will host Mankato West (No. 3, Class AAAAA) in the Trojans' Homecoming game Friday, Sept. 28. Gametime is 7 p.m.

Because of the weather, the New Prague High School soccer games against Rockford scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 20, have been postponed. The games will be played Wednesday, Sept. 26, at Rockford. Boys will play at 5 p.m. and girls at 7 p.m. 

The Trojan tennis meet at Hutchinson was moved from Hutchinson High School to the Hutchinson Fairgrounds indoor courts.

The New Prague Trojan girls tennis team was swept 7- 0 Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the Trojan home courts.
“Even though it does not reflect in the score, I think we stepped out and competed hard against a very good team,” New Prague Coach Luke Swedberg said. “Orono has experience and talent. They are coached really well. We were able to force a couple of third sets at different positions.”
In singles, all four Trojans lost in straight sets. They were Kianna Howard, Jenna Larson, Libby Hummel and Victoria Bisek.
Two of the three doubles matches went to....

The New Prague Trojan girls cross country team placed fourth out of 12 teams at the Hutchinson Invitational meet, held Thursday, Sept. 13, at Lake Marion Park in Hutchinson. Willmar won the meet with 44 points, followed by Marshall (71), Waseca (77) and New Prague (126). Prior Lake was fifth at 134.

Winona scored less than 30 seconds into the start of the game, scored again on their next possession, then after recovering a fumble on the kick return, scored again on their way to building a 40-0 lead against New Prague Friday, Sept. 14. 
However, the Trojans rallied and nearly pulled off a comeback attempt. They scored four times, including one on the final play of the first half, falling to the Winhawks 40-30. 
Parker Johnson threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, Mitchell Callahan had the other score, on a 90-yard run from scrimmage. 

The New Prague Trojan football team fell to 1-1 with a 35-21 loss to Rochester Century Friday, Set. 7, at Trojan Stadium in New Prague.
The teams traded touchdowns early. Century scored in the first quarter on a 1 yard run, then Parker Johnson scored early in the second from 3 yards out to make it a 7-6 game after a failed twopoint conversion.
Century scored on a 16- yard pass later in the second, then added a score early in the third on a 6-yard run to make it 21-6.

New Prague Trojan volleyball defeated former Missota Conference and current Section 2AAA nemesis Shakopee, then went 2-3 to take 15th place in the Southwest Minnesota Challenge tournament in Marshall last week.
The Trojans, 6-4 on the young season, were scheduled to host Mankato East Tuesday, Sept. 11. They will travel to Mankato West Thursday, Sept. 13, and host Belle Plaine Monday, Sept. 17. The Trojans host Hutchinson Thursday, Sept. 20, to open their Wright County Conference schedule.

The New Prague Trojan boys soccer team won one of three games last week. That included a pair of close losses to Mound Westonka and Rochester Mayo and a rainsoaked win over Mayer Lutheran.
New Prague (3-4, 0-1 WCC) was scheduled to host Jordan on Tuesday, Sept. 11, in a makeup game. They will play at Waconia on Thursday, Sept. 13, at 5 p.m. and at St. Louis Park on Saturday, Sept. 15, at 11 a.m. The Trojans are at Rockford on Thursday, Sept. 20, at 5 p.m.

New Prague midfielder Henry Newton tries to get between a pair of Jordan defenders during the Trojans’ 3-0 win over the Hubmen Tuesday, Sept. 11. The team has seen its fortunes improve this season. Midway through the schedule, the team has a 4-4 record and has already matched the school record for wins in a season. The team plays again today (Thursday, Sept. 13) at Waconia. Their next home game is Monday, Sept. 24, against Delano at 7 p.m.

The New Prague Trojan girls cross country team opened its 2018 season at the St. Olaf Showcase Thursday, Aug. 30, in Northfield, and had a strong showing. The Trojans placed 13th of 33 squads at the meet, which included several nationallyranked teams.

Three Dakota-Rice-Scott League teams qualified for the final weekend of the Class C Minnesota Amateur Baseball Tournament, with New Prague and Faribault losing in the third round on Saturday, and New Market advancing to the quarterfinals before losing in 14 innings on Sunday.
Two DRS players, Matt Lane of Faribault and Nate Rost of New Market, were named to the All-Tournament team.