Senior outfielder Trevor Bormann of the Algona Bulldogs was selected to the Iowa Print Sports Writers Association’s Class 3A all-state baseball squad last weekend.
For more on this story, please see the August 9th issue of the Kossuth County Advance

After completing a great senior softball campaign, Algona’s second baseman Emma Hjelle was rewarded with the highest honor as she was selected to the Class 3A first-team all-state squad by the Iowa Softball Coaches Association recently.
For more on this story, please see the August 9th issue of the Kossuth County Advance

After a nice turnout last year in its inaugural appearance, the second annual “Hunting with Heroes Salute to Veterans Night” was a huge success on Thursday, July 26 at the Kossuth County Speedway in Algona.

Caitlin Thilges of Bishop Garrigan was one of 40 players regardless of class named to the Academic All-State squad by the Iowa Softball Coaches Association last week during the state tournament.
Check out the July 26th issue of the Kossuth County Advance for pictures and highlights of the the All-Area Softball Squad.

Going 5-1 in a three-day tournament, the Algona A’s baseball squad won the USSSA Division 1A State Championship played in Cedar Rapids on July 7-9.
The squad was made up of 11 players in Tate Woodward, Myles Sanchez, Carlos Gomez, Logan Lentz, Lamorn Ulfers, Harrison Waltz, Reid Louwagie, Jensen Eischen. Austin Steenhoek, Tate Slagle and Daniel Kemna and were coached by Gilbert Sanchez and Chas Slagle.

ALGONA – Hunting with Heroes and the Kossuth County Speedway will host their second annual Salute to Veterans race on Thursday, July 26.

Humboldt advanced to the Class 3A state softball tournament for the second straight year with a hard-fought 8-4 victory over a stubborn Algona Bulldog squad at Humboldt on Monday, July 9.
The Wildcats had defeated the red-and-black 4-0 in Algona on June 6 and won by the score of 5-0 in Humboldt on June 27, but this one was much closer.
 
For more on this story, please see the July 12th issue of the Kossuth County Advance

Humboldt scored twice in both then fourth and fifth innings to rally from a 2-1 deficit in a contest played at Humboldt on Thursday, July 5 and went on to a 5-4 non-conference baseball victory over the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears.
The visitors scored first in the contest in the top of the first inning as Brad Capesius led off the game with a walk. He moved up 90 feet on a sacrifice by Luke Bormann and cruised home easily as Drake Buscherfeld ripped a long double.
 

Throughout the years, the trademarks of a very successful Newell-Fonda Mustang softball program are playing small ball with the bunt and swiping bases.
The blue-and-white used those staples of their program early before ripping three extra base hits to blow the game open in the seventh inning in a Class 1A regional final softball contest.
 
For more on this story, please see the July 12th issue of the Kossuth County Advance

A season-high of 110 cars signed in at the Kossuth County Speedway on Thursday, June 28 boasted by 31 cars with the Dynotech Dyometer Legend Cars Racing for a Cause.
Also there were 16 sport mods at the oval battling for the Wyffels Hybrid $1,000 to win feature along with 16 stock cars and 15 hobby stock cars.
 
For more on this story, please see the July 5th issue of the Kossuth County Advance

Collin Sexton had three singles to help lead the Algona Bulldogs baseball squad to a 7-2 North Central Conference victory over the Iowa Falls-Alden Cadets.
The home team plated two runs in the bottom of the second, tallied once in the third, pushed across three more in the fifth frame and one run in the sixth as the Cadets scored single runs in both the second and fourth frames.
 
For more on this story, please see the July 5th issue of the Kossuth County Advance

At tournament time, seniors are expected to be the leaders of a team as Gigi Byrkeland and Caitlin Thilges provided that spark for the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears in an 8-1 Class 1A regional opening softball contest played in Algona on Monday, July 2.
Both seniors blasted two-run homers as the black-and-gold advanced to the next round of the tournament and took on Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire on Tuesday at Emmetsburg.
 

Algona took advantage of four big errors by St. Edmond to score six runs in a key 6-1 North Central Conference softball victory over the 11th ranked (Class 1A) Gaels.
Earlier in the year on June 4 at Fort Dodge, the green-and-white topped the Bulldogs 11-1 in five innings in a game that saw the red-and-black commit five errors.
 
For more on this story, please see the June 28th issue of the Kossuth County Advance

Good teams find ways to win close games and the North Union Warriors softball team was on the right end of four more of those contests over the weekend at the Spencer Softball tournament.
On Friday, the fifth-rated (Class 1A) green-black-and-silver used a five-run fourth inning to defeat Estherville-Lincoln Central by the score of 5-4 before topping West Sioux, the 10th ranked squad in Class 2A by the score of 6-5.
 

North Iowa tried everything to stay even with the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears by using six different pitchers in the game, but the black-and-gold plated seven runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to pull out an 8-1 Top of Iowa Conference baseball victory.
The home team scored first in the contest in the bottom of the first inning when Luke Bormann laced a one-out single. Bormann stole second and cruised home on an RBI single off the bat of Drake Buscherfeld.