Former Hermantown Coach Sentenced for Providing Alcohol to Minors

The Duluth News Tribune has reported that former Hermantown High School Assistant Golf Coach Kyle Gordon Ernst, 26, received a stay of imposition of sentence after pleading guilty to serving alcohol to minors.

The incident occurred in Shakopee after the Hermantown High School team missed finishing first place by just one stroke in a golf tournament in June of this year. A Kwik Trip surveillance video showed Ernst buying $62 worth of alcohol, which included two cases of beer and a 12-pack of hard lemonade.

Patch reported that Shakopee police arrested Ernst at the Country Inn and Suites hotel, where they found that Ernst and some members of the Hermantown boys and girls golf teams had been drinking alcohol.

An earlier report cited Ernst as telling police that "he wanted the team to have a 'good time.'" 

His sentence includes a fine of $400 and ten days in Scott County jail with credit given for one day served. According to the Tribune, "His gross misdemeanor crime will be reduced to a misdemeanor if he follows the conditions of his two-year probation."

Ernst was fired from his position as assistant coach after he was charged in the incident.

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