By Greg Grabianowski, Sports Editor

ALGONA—A very impressive showing on both sides of the football propelled top-ranked Algona to a 28-7 Class 3A district victory over the fifth-rated Clear Lake Lions on Friday, Oct. 4 at Bulldog Stadium in front of a large, vocal crowd.

By Greg Grabianowski

Sports Editor

SHEFFIELD—Led by a pair of players rushing for over 100 yards on the night, the North Union Warriors’ football team earned their first victory of the season on Friday, Oct. 4 with a 42-13 win over the West Fork Warriors.

Both running back Draven Keeler and quarterback Greyson Colegrove went over the century mark rushing. Keeler ran for three scores as Colegrove ran for two touchdowns and threw for another.

By Greg Grabianowski, Sports Editor

ALGONA—It took five grueling sets to determine a winner on Thursday, Oct. 3 in a North Central Conference volleyball match between the Algona Bulldogs and the St. Edmond Gaels as the green-and-white won in five hard-fought games.

CORRECTIONVILLE—Top-ranked Bishop Garrigan overcame a very sluggish first period before rolling to a 71-20, eight-man non-district football win over Siouxland Christian on Friday, Oct. 4.

The black-and-gold started slow as they led just 14-12 after the first 12 minutes of action, but found their stride after that by responding with 51 unanswered points for the victory.

LAKE MILLS—North Union’s Alexis Cummins ran a season best time of 20:59.3 to place first at the Lake Mills Invitational held at the Rice Lake Golf Course on Monday, Oct. 7 to highlight the performances of the Warrior cross-country teams.

Alyssa Welbig crossed the finish line in 11^th place overall in 23:24.2 closely followed by Jacey Welbig in 12^th with her clocking of 23:28.1 and Jennifer Carranza ended up in 24^th place in 25:47.8.

POCAHONTAS—West Bend-Mallard junior cross-country runner, Tyra Schupbach, ran her career-best on Saturday, Oct. 4 at the Pocahontas Area Invitational to highlight the performances of the purple-and-gold cross-country teams.

ALGONA—Forest City remained in second place in the Top of Iowa Conference volleyball standings on Tuesday, Oct. 1 with a league victory in three straight games over the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears.

The Indians took the opening set by the score of 21-12 before winning the second game 21-15 and ended the match with a 21-12 victory in the third game.

WEST BEND—Alta-Aurelia rallied by winning the final three sets to defeat the West Bend-Mallard Wolverines in five games in a Twin Lakes Conference volleyball match played on Thursday, Oct. 3.

The purple-and-gold fell to 13-5 in overall matches with the loss and are 35-22 in games played this season. The Wolverines are 4-4 in Twin Lakes Conference matches and 17-17 in conference games while the Warriors improved to 6-7 overall and 4-4 in the league.

EAGLE GROVE—North Union went on the road in Top of Iowa Conference volleyball play on Tuesday, Oct. 1, traveling to Eagle Grove as the Eagles picked up the league victory in five sets.

The home team won the first two games by the scores of 25-21 and 25-12 before the green-black-and-silver came back to take the next two games by the scores of 25-13 and 25-12. The purple-and-white then won the final set by the count of 15-10.

By Greg Grabianowski, Sports Editor

LAKE PARK—Senior Austin Schmidt had a huge night to help lead the West Bend-Mallard Wolverine football team to a 51-12 eight-man victory on Friday, Sept. 27 over the Harris-Lake Park Wolves to spoil the their homecoming festivities.

By Greg Grabianowski, Sports Editor

ALGONA—West Bend-Mallard’s Tyra Schupbach cruised to the individual title to highlight the performances of four area girls cross-country squads at the River Road Golf Club on Monday, Sept. 30 at the annual Algona Invitational.

Schupbach led the whole way to top the 99 young ladies running the course as she stopped the watches at 19:31.30, 28 seconds ahead of the runner-up from Clear Lake.

CHARLES CITY—Senior quarterback Alex Manske tossed a school record five touchdown passes, all in the first half, to lead No. 1 ranked Algona to a 53-25 Class 3A district opening win over Charles City on Friday, Sept. 27.

The future Iowa State Cyclone completed eight of nine passes on the evening for 210 yards and the five scores to lead his team to the victory. The red-and-black exploded for 40 points in the second quarter for the second time this season.

By Greg Grabianowski, Sports Editor

ALGONA—Gavin Weber of Algona placed sixth overall in a loaded field of 110 runners to highlight the performances of the four area boys cross-country teams on Monday, Sept. 30 at the Algona Invitational held at the River Road Golf Club.

GRAETTINGER—West Bend-Mallard improved to 11-3 overall on the year in matches on Tuesday, Sept. 24 with a Twin Lakes Conference volleyball win over the Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire Titans in three straight sets.

The purple-and-gold took the opening game by the score of 25-11 before winning game number two 25-9 and ended the match with a 25-11 victory in the third set.

LAKE MILLS—Lake Mills exploded for 20 third quarter points to break a 7-7 halftime dead-lock and went onto a 34-14 district football victory over the North Union Warriors on Friday, Sept. 27.

The visitors took the opening kickoff and marched 66 yards in six plays to take an early lead on a 35-yard touchdown run by Greyson Colegrove.