Totino-Grace Football Opts Up Again—This Time to Class 6A

Fridley-based high school team is first in state to move up two classes, St. Paul Pioneer Press reports.

Totino-Grace High School football keeps climbing classes in Minnesota State High School League competition.  Now the team from the Fridley-based Catholic school will move to the top class in the state: Class 6A, home of the 32 most elite programs, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Wednesday.  In December 2010, Coach Jeff Ferguson told Fridley Patch the team was thinking about opting-up to Class 5A on the heels of another Class 4A state championship. Then in March 2011 the team made the move to Class 5A. In the fall, Totino-Grace made it as far as the state semi-finals, falling to Eden Prairie.  The 2012 season in Class 5A was a different story, with the Eagles claiming their seventh state title over the last decade by trouncing Owatonna…

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REPLAY: Totino-Grace Takes on Owatonna for 5A Football Title

Hear audio rebroadcast here from the Metrodome via Minnesota Sports Broadcast Network.

Relive live play-by-play audio here as the Totino-Grace High School football team made another trek from Fridley to Mall of America Field at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome to tangle with Owatonna for the Minnesota Class 5A football championship. The game was played on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012, starting at 4 p.m. Central. Through a partnership with the Minnesota Sports Broadcast Network (MSBN), Fridley Patch has been proud to bring you LIVE streaming broadcasts of local high school sports for the 2012–13 season. For more information on local high school sports broadcasts, visit MnSportsNetwork.com.

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Totino-Grace Football Falls To Skippers 28-0

The loss is the Eagles' first home regular season defeat since 2005, a span of 22 games