ALGONA—Senior all-state pitcher Kameryn Etherington fanned a dozen batters and her Algona teammates pounded out 14 hits in a 9-2 victory in a cross-town battle played on Tuesday, July 7, at Bishop Garrigan.
The Bulldog senior allowed just four hits to the sixth-ranked Golden Bears (Class 1A) while issuing a pair of bases on balls while in the chalked circle.

BANCROFT—For the second time this week, the North Union Warriors baseball team was on the short end of a close contest against one of the top squads in the Top of the Iowa Conference as they fell on Friday, July 3, to the Garner-Hayfield/Ventura Cardinals by the score of 3-1.
 
Read more about North Union baseball in the July 9 edition of the Kossuth County Advance.

POCAHONTAS—West Bend-Mallard plated five runs in the top of the first inning but the Pocahontas Indians answered with the final nine runs of the game to earn a 9-5 non-conference baseball win over the purple-and-gold on Tuesday, June 30.
Hunter Buhs led the Wolverine offense with a double that knocked in a pair of RBI while teammates Cole Thilges, Nolan Blair and Kody Elbert each added a single. Sam Fehr, Nolan Ford, Elbert, Blair and Thilges all scored once in the loss.
 

SWEA CITY—Cassie Beadle and Vanessa Von Bank each had three hits to lead 14th-ranked North Union to a 7-4 non-conference softball victory on Thursday, July 2, over the St. Edmond Gaels.
Vanessa Von Bank had two singles and a double while teammates Beadle added three singles and Olivia Von Bank contributed a single and a double.
 
Read more about this softball game and the others for the week in the July 9 edition of the Kossuth County Advance.

ALGONA—A veteran driver with a ton of feature wins and teenager with the biggest win of his life highlighted night number five of the Midwest Madness Tour held on Wednesday, July 1 at the Kossuth County Speedway.
Seasoned veteran Kelly Shryock won the $1,000 first place money in the stock car division while 16-year-old Jayden Larson of Mankato, Minn., won the $1,000 modified feature, holding off Travis Hatcher, Jeremy Mills and Shryock for the biggest victory of his young career.

Algona third baseman Alyssa Hentges fires the softball to first base for an out in North Central Conference softball action last week. Photo by Greg Grabianowski.
ALGONA—Senior all-state pitcher Kameryn Etherington was sharp in the chalked circle, and the sixth-ranked Algona Bulldogs needed everything she had to a hard-fought, 2-1 North Central Conference softball victory on Monday, June 29, over the Clear Lake Lions.
Read more in the July 2 Advance.

Andrew Hamilton of Algona rounds third base and heads for home with a run in the Bulldogs’ close loss to Storm Lake on Tuesday evening. Photo by Greg Grabianowski.
FORT DODGE—Algona opened the 2020 North Central Conference baseball schedule with a 12-4 league victory on Wednesday, June 24, over the St. Edmond Gaels.
Read more in the July 2 Advance.

Second baseman Braden Pierce of North Union holds the tag on Bishop Garrigan’s Garrett Heying on a steal attempt as the two players look to the umpire for the call. Greg Grabianowski photo.

Emma Fogarty slides safely into second base with a stolen base in the first inning of the fourth-ranked Golden Bears’ 5-2 Top of Iowa Conference softball win over North Union on Friday night. Warriors shortstop Olivia Von Bank awaits the throw from catcher Kaylee Tirevold. Greg Grabianowski photo.

Tori Fogarty tags out a baserunner for the West Bend- Mallard Wolverines softball squad that earned its first two victories of the year last week. Photo by Greg Grabianowski.

West Bend-Mallard’s Nolan Blair tosses the baseball to first base for an out in Twin Lakes Conference baseball play in Gilmore City last week. Greg Grabianowski photo.

McCain Jennings (white car) edges Derek Green (No. 32) in heat number two of the stock car class in the closest race of the night at the Algona track last week.
ALGONA—Jared Boumeester of Waseca, Minn., led the final 19 laps to collect $1,000 by taking first place in the Wyffels Hybrids Sport Mods Special at the Kossuth County Speedway in the featured event of the evening on Thursday, June 25.

ALGONA—Kameryn Etherington allowed just one hit and added four hits at the plate, including a two-run home run, to power ninth-ranked Algona (Class 3A) to a 9-0 nonconference win over the Webster City Lynx, rated No. 15 in Class 4A Friday, June 19.
The Bulldog senior right-hander gave up just a two-out single in the fourth inning while blanking the Lynx for the second time this week. She fanned 10 batters and did not issue a walk.
Get all the details in the June 25 Advance.

MASON CITY—Fifth-ranked Bishop Garrigan picked up a pair of victories on Saturday, June 20, at the Mason City Newman Tournament. The black-and-gold toppled Hudson 13-5 in the opener and defeated Madrid by the score of 7-1 in its second contest of the day.
In the opener, Aubree Altman earned the win in the chalked circle by tossing six strong frames. She allowed five runs, three earned, on eight hits without a strikeout and issued one base on balls.

WEST BEND—Trailing 7-6 in the top of the sixth inning, G-T/R-A plated three runs and added two big insurance runs in the top of the seventh frame to earn an 11-8 victory over the West Bend-Mallard Wolverines Wednesday, June 17.
Anna Ackerman led the Wolverines at the plate with a single and a home run, and Kayla Hoskins laced a double.
Read more in the June 25 Kossuth County Advance.