SPIRIT LAKE—Three area girls’ track squads competed on Friday, April 22 at a makeup edition of the Sheryl Maahs Co-Ed Relays.

Algona finished in third place with a team total of 59 points in the eight-team field as North Union ended up in sixth place with 47 points and Bishop Garrigan finished eighth with 16 team points.

By Greg Grabianowski

Sports Editor

ALGONA—A total of eight area athletes qualified for this week’s annual Drake Relays to be held inside Drake Stadium with the running events on the beautiful blue oval track.

FORT DODGE—Opening North Central Conference play at the road at the Lakeside Golf Course on Tuesday, April 19, the Algona Bulldog boys’ golf team dropped a league triangular meet.

St. Edmond won the meet narrowly edging out Iowa Falls-Alden by one stroke 188-189 while Algona finished in third place with a team total of 195.

IOWA FALLS—The Algona Bulldog girls’ golf squad won their 2022 North Central Conference opener on Tuesday, April 19 at the Meadow Hills Golf Club.

The red-and-black compiled a team total of 202 to win the league opener as Iowa Falls-Alden was second with a score of 211 and St. Edmond finished third with a 263.

Paige Danger of Iowa Falls-Alden was the medalist of the meet with a nine-hole score of 47 as the Bulldogs Abby Brooks was the runner-up medalist her total of 48.

SPENCER—On Thursday, April 21, the Algona Bulldog boys’ golf team played in the Spencer Invitational at the Spencer Country Club and placed 11th with a team total of 413.

Spencer won the team title with a score of 317 as the Tiger’s Andrew Hough won the medalist honor with an 18-hole total of 77 and teammate Kaden Miller earned the runner-up medal, also with a round of 77.

LAKE MILLS—Olivia Von Bank carded a nine-hole total of 45 to earn the medalist honor to highlight the performances of the North Union Warrior girls’ and boys’ golf teams at a Top of Iowa Conference triangular held at the Rice Lake Golf Club.

MANSON—Ryan Hoch earned the runner-up medalist to highlight the performances of the West Bend-Mallard Wolverines girls’ golf squad who played at the Manson Golf & Country Club on Monday, April 25 in a Twin Lakes Conference quadrangular meet.

Southeast Valley had the low team score of the day with a total of 235 as East Sac County was next with a 262 with Manson Northwest Webster finishing third with a score of 274 and West Bend-Mallard placed fourth with a total of 289.

GOWRIES—Houston Nielsen earned the runner-up medal for the West Bend-Mallard Wolverine boys’ golf team on Monday, April 25 in a Twin Lakes Conference quadrangular match held at the Gowrie Municipal Golf Course.

Southeast Valley won the league match with a team score of 181 followed by Manson Northwest Webster with a 199, one stroke ahead of West Bend-Mallard’s total of 200 and East Sac County did not have enough golfers for a team score.

WEST BEND—Senior Ryan Hoch was the girls’ medalist to highlight the performances of the West Bend-Mallard Wolverine girls’ and boys’ golf teams in a Twin Lakes Conference match on Thursday, April 21 at home.

Hoch’s nine-hole total of 59 was the low round of the day while purple-and-gold teammates Emma Weydert had an 82 with Brenda Falcon shooting an 88.

LIVERMORE—Both the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bear boys’ and girls’ golf squads hosted a Top of Iowa Conference meet on Thursday, April 21 at the Spring Valley Golf Course.

The black-and-gold girls remained perfect with a team total of 186 as Garner-Hayfield/Ventura was second with a score of 204 and Belmond-Klemme was third with a 280.

CLEAR LAKE—The Algona Bulldog boys’ golf team lost a North Central Conference triangular on Friday, April 22 played at the Clear Lake Golf Club.

The home team won the meet with a score of 165, four strokes better than second place Humboldt’s total of 169 and the Bulldogs finished in third place with a 207.

Clear Lake’s Easton DeVries was the medalist for the day with a score of 38 while teammate Eli Anderson earned the runner-up medal with a 39.

WAUKEE—The Algona Bulldog boys’ track team split their squad with some athletes running at the Waukee Invitational and the others at the Humboldt Relays on Thursday, April 21 and won a pair of events.

The red-and-black placed fifth at Waukee with 78.5 points and took ninth at Humboldt with 34 points. The wins came at Waukee in the 100-meter dash by Porter Reffer in the 100-meter dash in 11.52 and Ryan Stundahl in the 3,200-meter run with a clocking of 10:33.24.

NEWELL—Winning a pair of events, the West Bend-Mallard Wolverine boys’ track team finished in fourth place overall in a seven-team field at the Mustang Relays on Friday, April 22 with 69 points.

Collin Montag earned a gold medal in the 800-meter run with his winning time of 2:07.60 along with the 4 x 800-meter relay unit of Joe Mader, Lucas Fehr, Max Fehr and Collin Montag in 8:57.60.

NEWELL—Lexi Welter won the 3,000-meter run to highlight the performances of the West Bend-Mallard Wolverine girls’ track squad at the Mustang Relays on Friday, April 22.

Lexi’s winning time on Friday was 13:28.78 as the purple-and-gold ended up in seventh place overall in the eight-team field with a team total of 38 points.

By Greg Grabianowski

Sports Editor

ALGONA—The suspense is over where the top Class of 2023 girls’ basketball recruit in the state of Iowa will continue her career after graduation next spring.

Bishop Garrigan’s three-time first-team all-state Audi Crooks verbally committed to Iowa State University in an assembly in the Golden Bear gymnasium on Thursday, April 14 in front of her high school students and friends.