WEST BEND—West Bend-Mallard stepped outside eight-man district play with a convincing 63-8 drubbing on Friday, Oct. 15, over River Valley. Seven different players scored at least once including all three seniors on the Wolverine roster.
The contest started on a good note for the home team as on the third place from scrimmage the Wolverines’ Jaxon Zaugg tackled Cole Thomas in the end zone for a safety.
 
See the Oct. 21 Advance for the full story.
 

NORTHWOOD—Northwood-Kensett erupted for 29 first quarter points and never looked back on Friday, Oct. 15, in a 53-14 eight-man district football victory over the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears.
 
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EAGLE GROVE—Senior Quinn Swift won the title to highlight the performances of the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears boys and girls cross-country teams on Tuesday, Oct. 5.
Swift’s winning time on Tuesday was 18:07. The black-and-gold finished in second place overall in Class B in the meet with a team score of 51 points.
 
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EAGLE GROVE—Ryan Stundahl finished in fourth place overall on Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Class A at the Dick Bell Invitational to highlight the performances of the Algona Bulldog boys cross-country team.
 
See the Oct. 14 Advance for full results on the team's fourth place finish.

EAGLE GROVE—Algona junior Moriah Knapp cruised to another first place finish on Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Class A at the Dick Bell Invitational. The Bulldogs finished fourth.
 
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FOREST CITY—Jacey Welbig of North Union finished third overall of the 71 runners competing to highlight the performances of the North Union and Bishop Garrigan girls squads here Monday, Oct. 11. Abbie Capesius led BGHS in 11th place.
 
Get the full results in the Oct. 14 Advance.

FAIRMONT—The North Union Warrior boys cross-country team placed eighth overall with 220 points on Thursday, Oct. 7, at the I-90 Invitational.
The top place winner for the green-black-and-silver in 27th place overall was Nick Schiltz.
 
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LAKE CITY—Freshman Lexi Welter ran a season best time to highlight the performances of the West Bend-Mallard Wolverine boys and girls cross-country squads at the South Central Calhoun Invitational on Tuesday, Oct. 5.
 
Get the full account of WBM's cross-country meets for the boys and girls in the Oct. 14 Advance. 

HUMBOLDT—In North Central Conference volleyball action on Thursday, Oct. 7, No. 14 Humboldt toppled the Algona Bulldogs in three hard-fought sets.
The purple-and-gold took the opening game by the tally of 25-19 before winning the second set by the score of 25-21. The Wildcats ended the match with a 25-18 victory in game number three.
 
See the Oct. 14 Advance for details. 

GARNER—It took five grueling sets to determine a winner in Tuesday, Oct. 5, Top of Iowa Conference volleyball match between the North Union Warriors and the Garner-Hayfield/Ventura Cardinals as the visitors won the match.

WEST BEND—The West Bend-Mallard Wolverines earned their second Twin Lakes Conference volleyball match victory on Thursday, Oct. 7, over the Southeast Valley Jaguars in three straight sets.
The purple-and-gold won the opening game by the score of 25-22 and took the second set 25-19, and the third, 25-16.
 
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ARMSTRONG—North Union led 20-15 in the third period but Alta-Aurelia scored the final 21 points of the game to rally for a 36-20 non-district football victory on Friday, Oct. 8.
 
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LAKE PARK—West Bend-Mallard led 6-0 at the conclusion of the first quarter on Friday, Oct. 8, but Harris-Lake Park scored the next 41 points and went on to a 41-18 victory over the purple-and-gold in eight-man district football.
 
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NEVADA—Nevada used three takeaways to score 21 points and went on to a 28-14 Class 3A district football victory on Friday, Oct. 8, over the Algona Bulldogs.
The red-and-black was also hurt by the yellow flag as they were penalized 12 times for 68 yards. The contest was to stay in the lead in the district standings.
 
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   ALGONA—Mason City topped the Algona swim team 94-67 on Thursday, Oct. 7, at the Algona Family YMCA in the team’s second home meet of the season. The red-and-black won five events and was the runner-up in four more during the meet.