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Trapshoot teams open 2022 season

ALGONA—The Algona and Bishop Garrigan High School trapshooting teams opened the 2022 season on Saturday, April 2 by hosting a home meet at the Izaak Walton League.

The season opener drew a total of seven schools and clubs, including the Emmet County Clay Busters, the Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire Bulls Eyes, the Humboldt Wildcats, the Pocahontas Shooting Club and Sibley-Ocheyedan.

With the snow gone, racing can’t be far away

ALGONA—With the last piles of snow gone and temperatures slowly rising, Thursday night dirt racing at the Kossuth County Speedway cannot be far away.

The plan right now is for a test and tune evening on Thursday, April 28 for the drivers that would like to test their cars with the 2022 season opener slated for Thursday, May 5.

WB-M place third in season opener

BRITT—The West Bend-Mallard Wolverine boys’ track team won a pair of events and placed third in the team standings with 104 points at the Bob Sanger Relays on Monday, April 4.

The purple-and-gold won a pair of events as Collin Montag took the 800-meter run in 2:08.59 along with the 4 x 800-meter relay quartet of Joe Mader, Lucas Fehr, Landon Montag and Collin Montag with a time of 9:10.17.

Wolverine girls win four events at Britt

BRITT—The West Bend-Mallard Wolverine girls’ track squad had an impressive season opener on Monday, April 4 at the Bob Sanger Relays.

The purple-and-gold won four events during the evening and scored a total of 82 team points to finish in fourth place in the team standings.

The individual winners for the Wolverines were Kierstin Montag in the 800-meter run in 2:40.25 and Shaylee Wise in the 400-meter hurdles with a clocking of 1:18.55.

Defending state champs win opener

LIVERMORE—The two-time defending Class 1A state champion Bishop Garrigan Golden Bear girls’ golf squad opened the 2022 season with a pair of wins on Monday, April 4 at Spring Valley Golf Course. 

The black-and-gold had a team total of 186 as the Humboldt Wildcats were second with a score of 203 and the Spencer Tigers were third with a 217.

Golden Bear boys drop season opener

HUMBOLDT—The Bishop Garrigan Golden Bear boys’ golf team dropped their season opener on Monday, April 4 in a non-conference match played at the Humboldt Country Club.

Spencer won the meet with a nice team score of 154 as Humboldt was next with a team total of 169 and the black-and-gold was third with a score of 191.

Andrew Hough of Spencer was the meet medalist with an even par 36 while teammate Trever Cooke took home the runner-up medal with his nine-hole score of 38.

Student Spotlight

 

Danyal Fothgergill

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Fothergill stepped into the North Union lineup and put together a good season. The sophomore was second on the team in both assists with 41 and steals with 30. He scored 134 points in 21 games for an average of 6.38 points per contest on 50 of 138 overall field goal shooting. Danyal hit six of 42 treys, made 28 of 61 free throws, pulled down 77 boards and blocked one shot.

Lily Henderson

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SOUVENIR EDITION CELEBRATES THE GOLDEN BEARS GIRLS STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP.

The 36-page special section is in the March 24 Kossuth County Advance. Copies are on newsstands or available at the Algona Publishing Company office at 14 E. Nebraska St. in Algona. If you want a single copy mailed first class to you, call 515-295-3535 - the price is $6 including the postage, and additional copies after that are $1.50 each.

Youth, talent dominate all-KCA team

By Greg Grabianowski

Sports Editor

 

KOSSUTH COUNTY—The 25th edition of the Kossuth County Advance Girls All-Area Basketball Team is highlighted by youth and talent. Eight of the 13 named to the two squads will back in 2022-2023 for their teams.

Nielsen wins high jump at BV Elite Meet

 

By Greg Grabianowski

Sports Editor

 

STORM LAKE—North Union senior Sam Nielsen won the high jump while one Warrior teammate along with two Bishop Garrigan athletes earned silver medals on Saturday, March 19 at the Buena Vista Elite Girls’ Track Meet.

Nielsen glided over the bar at a wining height of 5’ 3” to take the high jump as teammate Olivia Merrill was the runner-up in the shot put with a best toss of 33’ 5”.

Area boys earn silver medals at Storm Lake

 

 

By Greg Grabianowski

Sports Editor

 

STORM LAKE—Two area boys’ track squad earned silver runner-up medals in three different events at the Buena Vista Elite High School Track meet held on Saturday, March 19.

Bulldogs win 4x8 at Humboldt Indoor Meet

 

By Greg Grabianowski

Sports Editor

 

HUMBOLDT—A quartet of four Algona freshmen teamed up to win the 4 x 800-meter relay to highlight the performances of the red-and-black girls’ track team on Friday, March 18 at the Nielsen Family High School Track Meet.

The Bulldog foursome of Malyn Davis, Kaitlyn Burns, Lauren McLaughlin and Andi Jensen won the 4 x 800-meter relay with their winning clocking of 11:46.97.

Goche, Montag, Manske all-area again

By Greg Grabianowski

Sports Editor

 

KOSSUTH COUNTY—Garrett Goche of Algona and Collin Montag of West Bend-Mallard both return to the 25th annual Kossuth County Advance boys basketball first team while Algona’s Tyler Manske moves up from the second unit to the first team this year.

The talented trio is joined by Andrew Fogarty of Bishop Garrigan along with North Union teammates Kyan Jones and Lofstrom.

Knapp competes at IATC meet in Ames

 

AMES—Algona junior Moriah Knapp competed at the IATC Class 3A Girls State Indoor Meet on Thursday, March 10, in both the 3,000 and 1,500-meter runs.

Knapp finished in third place overall in the 3,000-meter run with her time of 11:09.85 and took fourth in the 1,500-meter run in 5:06.17.

Moriah’s two top five placings gave Algona a total of 11 points to finish in 15th place in the meet won by ADM with a team score of 67 points.

 

AHS boys win Humboldt Indoor

 

 

HUMBOLDT—Algona won three events and took second in five more as the team won the nine-team Nielsen Family High School Boys Indoor Track Meet on Friday, March 11, with a team score of 116.5 points.

Finishing first for the red-and-black were Alex Manske in the high jump with a leap of 5’ 8”, Ryan Stundahl in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:10.90 and the 4 x 200-meter relay crew of Lamorn Ulfers, Carlos Gomez, Levi Clegg and Ashton Moreno in 1:42.21.

WB-M girls earn two 4th place fishes at state indoor meet

 

 

AMES—The West Bend-Mallard Wolverine girls track squad took a total of eight girls to compete in nine different events at the IATC Class 1A Indoor State Meet held on Thursday, March 10.

The purple-and-gold had a pair of fourth place showings, one eighth place and a ninth place as they scored sixth points to place 20th in the team standings.

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