Month: July 2020

Seth Brossard of Kenyon-Wanamingo has committed to wrestling for Rochester Community and Technical College next season.

Brossard is a two-time state placewinner. He won the Class A 152-pound title this season. He placed third at 132 pounds as a sophomore.

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Brossard is projected to wrestle at 165 pounds for the Yellowjackets.

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Seth Brossard, Kenyon-Wanamingo
2019 MN HS State Tournament 1A 12th 152 1st 48-0
2018 MN HS State Tournament 1A 11th 145 DNP 35-3
2017 MN HS State Tournament 1A 10th 132 3rd 38-9
2016 MN/USA Wrestling State Folk Cadet 132 1st
2016 MN HS State Tournament 1A 9th 120 DNP 36-12

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MINNEAPOLIS — Dozens of buildings along Lake Street in Minneapolis were broken into, looted, and burned late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. Authorities struggled to contain the riots, which began after protests over the death of George Floyd.

According to Minneapolis police, one person was fatally shot at Bloomington Avenue and Lake Street just after 9 p.m.

The Lake Street Target store was completely ransacked, and an Auto Zone location was burned down. The Cub Foods at Lake Street and Hiawatha Avenue were looted.

Smaller businesses, such as Minnehaha Lake Wine & Spirits, were also looted, reports the Star Tribune.

So many buildings were burning that smoke plumes became visible on weather radars, MPR Weather reported.

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Several reporters were eventually pulled from the scenes for their safety.

Later into the night, a large building on Lake Street and 26th Avenue South erupted in flames.

Vandals also made their way into Uptown. FOX 9’s Paul Blume reported the Hennepin Lake Liquor was broken into and looted.

Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey both pleaded for peace:

Metro Transit said Thursday its Blue Line will be shutdown indefinitely.

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The scale of the damage caused overnight will likely take weeks to assess.

By Brian Jerzak

The last two years, two of the state of Minnesota’s most decorated young wrestlers have flown under the radar. They are known to wrestling insiders, but unless you have paid close attention to some of the coverage they have gotten on The Guillotine website, the general wrestling public might not know about a pair of sisters who are making noise in the wrestling world. The Tuttle girls from North St. Paul have been making noise both locally and nationally, and they don’t appear to be stopping any time soon.

Included in Faith and Amor Tuttle’s accomplishments in the last two years are two Fargo All-American finishes apiece and two-straight girls’ high school state championships apiece. This season both also placed at the Women’s Folkstyle Nationals.

Amor, who is currently a sophomore, caught the wrestling bug first.

“I started in 6th grade,” Amor said. “I was just looking for an activity, and my dad said why don’t you come to wrestling practice and try it out? I got a couple of practices in, and I thought it was kind of cool. I just continued to keep going.”

Faith is a senior and started in with the sport a few years later.

“My brothers started wrestling when they were little – when we moved to North St. Paul,” Faith told The Guillotine.

The youngest Tuttle brother is Cito, who is a youth wrestling state placewinner. Faith and Amor’s other brother, Antony, advanced to State in 2019 by taking second in the 160 4AAA bracket as a freshman for Stillwater.

“I would always go with them to their tournaments,” Faith continued. “I started wrestling when I was a sophomore.”

Amor’s influence on her older sister helped get Faith deeper into the sport of wrestling.

“There were girls’ only practices on Sundays that my sister went to,” Faith said. “It was through the Minnesota women’s national team. Amor told me to come to some of them. I started that at the same time as practicing with the high school team.”

The sisters became frequent practice partners.

“Amor needed a partner, and my dad thought I could be her partner,” Faith said.

It didn’t take long for the sisters to realize they enjoyed wrestling.

“I like that it was an individual thing,” Amor said. “Wrestling was the first time I had been to a sport that was individually based. It is something I can push myself to be the best I can be, and I don’t need to rely on anyone else.”

“Wrestling was different from all the other sports I had done,” Faith explained. “It is just you and your opponent. I liked that it was all yourself.”

The middle school season was not enough for Amor. She couldn’t get enough wrestling and soon she was wrestling freestyle.

“I was having so much fun that I didn’t want it to stop when the middle school season was over. My dad told me about the freestyle programs I could go to.”

Soon after, both sisters were competing in both folkstyle and freestyle. Each sister has developed a different set of skills that work for them.

“I didn’t know much when I started,” Faith admitted. “I knew some of the moves – I watched my brothers – but I had never done any of the moves. It was hard at first, but I got the hang of it. I am pretty good at pushing into people, and the basics are the first moves I want to use.”

“Speed is my strength,” Amor said. “I like to use leg attacks. I would watch tournaments and had seen some higher-level wrestlers use leg attacks and have success finishing the takedown, so I started practicing that.”

Two seasons ago, Faith’s junior year and Amor’s freshman year, both won their wrestle-offs and were in the starting lineup for North St. Paul’s varsity team. Both wrestlers saw significant improvements from year one to year two.

“I did better (in the high school season) this year than last year,” Faith – who posted double-digit victories during her senior season – explained. “This year I had a plan when I stepped on the mat.”

“This year went a lot better than my freshman year,” continued Amor. “This year I focused on preparing myself for guys – knowing they are going to be stronger. I wanted to crisp up my technique. Last year I had five varsity wins. This year I think I had twenty.”

Although the girls have won two girls’ state folkstyle titles and have done well in folkstyle nationally, where the girls have especially excelled is in freestyle.

“The offseason wrestling is much more involved than the high school season,” Faith – who in freestyle at Fargo two years ago took fifth and this year took sixth – said. “The Fargo tournament is the hardest tournament I have ever been in. It was a very different competition.”

“My first year at Fargo I was just out there just competing,” Amor – who placed eighth in 2017 – said. “With it being my first time in a big-time freestyle tournament I wasn’t expecting to place. Maybe I will get a win here or there, but I came out aggressive in my matches and dominated.”

“I was more prepared this year,” Amor – who took fifth place in 2018 – continued. “I knew the girls at the tournament are serious, and everyone wants a spot on the podium. Shortly after the folkstyle season ended, I started training freestyle because I was hoping to make the podium again in Fargo.”

Both sisters acknowledge how much their sibling has helped her career.

“We help each other a lot,” said Faith – who also trains in jiu-jitsu. “We can tell each other what we should be working on. We push each other during live wrestling.”

“My sister and I love wrestling,” Amor added. “I don’t know what we would do without it. When we are training together, sometimes we critique each other – what would this girl do if I had you in this position? What would she do if I had her in this scenario? We would troubleshoot ourselves.”

Neither Tuttle girl is interested in having their wrestling career end any time soon. Faith has committed to the recently announced Augsburg Women’s Wrestling Program.

“I am going to try to take wrestling as far as I can take it,” Faith – who is ranked fifth nationally at 180 pounds in the latest National Girls High School Rankings – explained. “I hope to keep going to tournaments even after college.”

Amor, who is ranked 16th nationally at 122 pounds, echoed her sister’s sentiment.

“I would like to wrestle in college. Even if it isn’t a high level of wrestling, I just want to continue wrestling and learning about wrestling.”

Wanting to continue to wrestle . . . spoken like a pair of wrestlers who won’t be under the radar in the local or national wrestling world anymore.

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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump took a victory lap over the coronavirus and his political foes in a Friday morning news conference after a surprising Labor Department report that showed businesses added 2.5 million jobs to their payrolls in May as they began rehiring laid-off workers.

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The unemployment rate was a still high 13.3 percent, on par with joblessness during the Great Depression, but Trump said the gains indicate the worst of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic disruption it caused is over and governors of states still under lockdown orders should lift them.

“I don’t know why they continue to lock down,” he said.”You do social distancing and you wear masks if you want,” Trump said, but added that states need to reopen.

Economists had predicted businesses would shed another 8 million jobs before recovery would begin, but Trump said the report “shows that what we’ve been doing is right.”

“This is outstanding what’s happened today,” he said.

Trump pitched himself as the commander of a “rocket ship” economic rebound and said it’s a persuasive reason for his re-election in November.

“I’m telling you next year, unless something happens or the wrong people get in here, this will turn around,” Trump said.

How long the rebound will last is yet unanswered, though. While some evidence has shown the job-market meltdown had bottomed out and the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits down for nine straight weeks, consumers will need to return to their pre-outbreak spending habits for hiring to continue at a solid pace.

Even with the surprising gain in May, it may take months for all those who lost work in April and March to find jobs. Some economists forecast the rate could remain in double-digits through the November elections and into next year.

It’s also not yet known how many jobs were permanently lost to the pandemic, whether reopenings in the state will create a second wave of coronavirus deaths or the effects George Floyd protests around the country are having on businesses. Business closures related to vandalism and looting occurring during some of the street demonstrations were not included in the May report, but could be reflected in June.

Some economists forecast double-digit unemployment through the November elections and into 2021, but Trump predicted the economy would be in “very good” shape by July and August and the fall would be “spectacular.”

“We’ll go back to having the greatest economy anywhere in the world,” he said.

But there is widening concern that Americans won’t share equally in the recovery — one of the salient points raised in demonstrations taking place across the country. The overall job cuts have widened economic disparities: While the unemployment rate for white Americans was 12.4 percent May, it was 17.6 percent for Hispanics and 16.8 percent for African-Americans.

A few businesses are reporting signs of progress even in hard-hit industries. American Airlines, for example, said this week that it will fly 55 percent of its U.S. routes in July, up from just 20 percent in May.

And the Cheesecake Factory said one-quarter of its nearly 300 restaurants have reopened, though with limited capacity. Sales are at nearly 75 percent of the levels reached a year ago, the company said.

Erica Groshen, a labor economist at Cornell University and a former commissioner of the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, said hiring could ramp up relatively quickly in the coming months and reduce unemployment to low double-digits by year’s end.

“Then my inclination is that it will be a long, slow slog,” she said.

Until most Americans are confident they can shop, travel, eat out and fully return to their other spending habits without fear of contracting the virus, the economy is likely to remain sluggish.

Gwyneth Duesbery, 22, returned this week to her job as a restaurant hostess in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as Bowdie’s Chop House prepares to reopen with tables 6 feet apart and seating capacity reduced to about one-quarter.

“I am concerned that it will expose me to potential diseases, and expose others, no matter the precautions that we take,” she said. “It’s kind of uncharted waters.”

Trump also defended his handling of the pandemic, saying that had he not acted to recommend closings more than 1 million Americans would have died. More than 108,000 people are confirmed to have lost their lives due to COVID-19, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.