ALGONA—In a non-conference baseball contest that featured 32 runs and 20 hits, the Algona Bulldogs baseball team out-slugged the Emmetsburg E-Hawks 21-11 in six innings a wild game.

Each squad scored once in the first inning before a marathon second frame saw the visitors plate four runs only to see the red-and-black score a total of nine tallies in the bottom of the stanza to take a 10-5 advantage.

EMMETSBURG—For the second straight evening, the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears baseball team did not allow a run.

The black-and-gold blanked the Emmetsburg E-Hawks 13-0 in five innings on Tuesday, May 23 in a non-conference contest.

The Golden Bears scored six times in the top of the first inning before two more in the second and single run in the third stanza. The visitors also plated three runs in the fourth frame and one in the fifth inning.

LAKE MILLS—Bishop Garrigan erupted for 13 first-inning runs and cruised to a 20-0, four-inning Top of Iowa Conference baseball victory on Thursday, May 25 over the Lake Mills Bulldogs.

The black-and-gold scored three runs in both the second and fourth innings and added a single run in the top of third frame to end the contest early.

ALGONA—Webster City plated nine runs in their final two at bats to take a 17-6 North Central Conference baseball victory on Friday, May 26 over the Algona Bulldogs.

The home team scored first in the contest with a run in the bottom of the first stanza before the purple-and-white tallied three times in the second, but the Bulldogs battled back with two runs in the bottom of the third frame to dead-lock the game at 3-3.

By Greg Grabianowski

Sports Editor

DES MOINES—In her four-year high school career on the basketball court, Bishop Garrigan’s Audi Crooks set tons of records.

On Thursday at the Class 1A state track meet at Drake Stadium, it was her turn in track and field as Crooks became the first Class 1A girl to ever win three consecutive state titles in the shot put.

By Greg Grabianowski

Sports Editor

DES MOINES—Closing out a fabulous high school career with two of his best performances, Bryer Prochniak earned a pair of medals at the Class 1A boys’ state track meet last week on the beautiful blue oval.

Bryer started out Saturday with a great run in the 100-meter dash by breaking the Class 1A state record with his time of 10.73.

By Greg Grabianowski

Sports Editor

ALGONA HIGH—Taking full advantage of seven Algona errors, the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears took the cross-town baseball game by the score of 9-3 in the Game played at Bulldog Park on Friday, May 19.

The visitors broke a 3-3 deadlock in the top of the fifth inning with four unearned runs and added two more in the seventh frame for the victory.

DES MOINES—Earning medals in two different events, the North Union Warrior girls’ track squad scored six points to finish in 40th place in the team standings at the Class 1A state track meet last weekend.

Senior Shelby Fraker finished in sixth place in the Saturday’s 100-meter dash with a time of 12.92. Shelby qualified for the finals by placing seventh in the prelims in 13.08.

DES MOINES—Senior Moriah Knapp placed sixth in the 3,000-meter run to highlight the performances of the Algona Bulldog girls’ track squad at the Class 3A state track meet this past weekend.

Knapp crossed the finish line on Thursday with a clocking of 10:49.75 as Ballard’s Paitlyn Noe won the event with a new state record time of 9:38.82.

DES MOINES—A pair of West Bend-Mallard Wolverine girls’ track members earned medals last week at the Class 1A state track meet held inside Drake Stadium.

Tyra Schupbach ended up in sixth place overall in the 3,000-meter run on Thursday with her clocking of 11:06.88 for the purple-and-gold.

ALGONA—Abbie Capesius had three hits, including a pair of triples and Darius Goche struck out 12 batters to lead the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears softball squad to a 5-2 Top of Iowa Conference victory over Belmond-Klemme on Monday, May 22.

The black-and-gold scored one run in the first inning, plated two more in both the third and fifth frames in the league win as the visitors plated single runs in the first and seventh innings.

ALGONA—Seniors Lily Elsbecker and Lillian Etherington each rapped out a pair of hits on Monday, May 22 to lead the Algona Bulldogs softball squad to 5-2 season-opening non-conference victory over Pocahontas Area.

The red-and-black pushed across three runs in the both the first and sixth innings along with a pair of tallies in the third and fourth frames in the win.

STORM LAKE—Algona junior Abby Brooks placed fifth overall to qualify for the Class 3A girls’ state golf tournament from the regional tournament played at the Lake Creek Golf Course on Wednesday, May 17.

Abby will now play on Thursday, May 25 and Friday, May 26 at the Pheasant Ridge Golf Course in Cedar Falls in the Class 3A state tournament.

SPENCER—Senior right-hander Austin Steenhoek twirled a two-hit gem to lead the Algona Bulldogs on Thursday, May 18 to a 5-1 non-conference baseball victory over the Spencer Tigers.

Steenhoek tossed all seven frames to get the win, needing only 74 pitches to earn the victory. The tall right-hander allowed just one earned run on two hits while fanning nine, walked two and hit a batter.

By Greg Grabianowski

Sports Editor

ALGONA—Oliver Monson was the only repeat winner on night number two at the Kossuth County Speedway on Thursday, May 18.

The car count was light on night number two as only 57 cars were at the track, with the hobby stock class having the highest car count at 18.