An incredible freshman year for West Bend-Mallard’s Rachel Fehr ended with three great performances at the Class 1A state track meet in Des Moines last weekend.
The talented young lady finished second in the 400-meter dash before anchoring the purple-and-gold’s sprint medley relay unit to third place finish and the 4x800-meter relay quartet to a seventh place finish as she earned three medals in her first time running in the beautiful blue oval.

It came down to the fifth score to determine a winner in the first round of the Class 1A regional golf tournament at the Spring Valley Golf Course on Monday, May 14.
After 18 holes of play, both Mason City Newman and Bishop Garrigan were deadlocked with identical scores of 430, but the black-and-gold were named the winner via the fifth score tiebreaker.
For more on this story, please see the May 17th issue of the Kossuth County Advance

It was a good night of performances for the Algona Bulldog boys’ track squad as the team qualified seven athletes in nine different events for the Class 3A state meet this weekend in Des Moines.
Eight of nine of the red-and-black’s qualifiers are ranked in the top 10 performances, giving the squad the potential for another great showing at the state meet.
For more on this story, please see the May 17th issue of the Kossuth County Advance

Bishop Garrigan advanced to state in six different events and finished in second place at the Class 1A regional track meet in Sioux Rapids on Thursday, May 10 with 117 points to highlight the performances of three area girls’ track teams at the meet.
The black-and-gold scored 117 team points as that was only topped by Central Lyon’s total of 123 points. The Golden Bears will send nine different girls in the six events this weekend in Des Moines.

A seventh place individual finish from Hallie Lovstad highlighted the performances of the Algona Bulldog girls’ golf squad at the North Central Conference tournament played at the Mason City Country Club on Monday, May 7.
The red-and-black finished fifth in the eight-team meet as a team with a score of 440 as Clear Lake was crowned the conference champion with their team total of 387.
For more on this story, please see the May 10th issue of the Kossuth County Advance

North Union won six different events and placed third overall with 97 points at the Top of Iowa Conference boys’ track meet held at Lake Mills on Monday, May 7. Bishop Garrigan finished in fifth place with 48 team points and won one event.
Riley Bauer won four events for the Warriors by taking the 400-meter dash in 50.83, the 800-meter run with a time of 2:00.08, the 1,600-meter run in 4:33.38 and the 3,200-meter run with a clocking of 9;55.59.

Bishop Garrigan sophomore Andrew Arndorfer sizzled around the Britt Country Club on Monday, May 7 with a three-under par score of 69 to win the individual title at the boys’ Top of Iowa Conference tournament.
Arndorfer shot a 33-36—69 on the par 72 course as the sophomore recorded an eagle on Hole No. 4, birdies on Holes No. 2, 5, 8, 10 and 13 to go along with eight pars during his day.

A conference championship by the shuttle hurdle relay highlighted the performances of the Algona Bulldog girls’ track squad in the North Central Conference track meet held on Monday, May 7 at Webster City.
The red-and-black finished in third place in the team race with 130 team points as Iowa Falls-Alden captured the conference title with 146 and Humboldt was the runner-up with a team total of 139 points.

Lexie Berte was the runner-up medalist to help lead the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bear girls’ golf team to a second place finish in the annual CYO Meet held at the Lakeside Golf Course in Des Moines on Wednesday, April 25.
For more on this story, please see the May 3rd issue of the Kossuth County Advance

Dominick Etherington highlighted four very good performances by the Algona Bulldog boys’ track team at the annual Drake Relays in Des Moines on April 26-28.
The Bulldog senior was the runner-up in the shot put on Friday with a toss of 59’ 7”, his second best throw of the season in the event won by Kingsley-Pierson/ Woodbury Central’s Nick Phelps with a throw of 65’ 3 ½”.
For more on this story, please see the May 3rd issue of the Kossuth County Advance

Riley Bauer placed fourth in the 800-meter run on Friday, April 27 at the Drake Relays in Des Moines. The Warrior senior was clocked in 1:58.47 as the race was won by Tyler Olson of Muscatine with a time of 1:56.55 as he qualified for the event with the fastest going in.
For more on this story, please see the May 3rd issue of the Kossuth County Advance

Despite some horrible weather conditions to get meets in this spring, the Algona area will still be well represented at the annual running of the Drake Relays with 11 area athletes competing in six different events during the three days of competition.
The Algona boys’ track squad leads the way by qualifying in four different events and is closely followed by the North Union boys in three races.

Algona won three relays and finished as the runner-up in the annual Wildcat Relays ran at Humboldt on Monday, April 23. The red-and-black totaled 132 points, 15 less than champion Humboldt accumulated during the evening.

Two track meets, two new school records. The 2018 track season is off to a great start for Algona’s Dominick Etherington as the senior shot putter rewrote the school record book for the second straight meet.

Bishop Garrigan won four events in their season opener for the girls’ track year at a meet ran at Garner on Thursday, April 12 as North Union also competed at the meet which no team scores were kept.
Other squads there included Garner-Hayfield/Ventura, North Iowa, Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire, West Fork, Clarion-Goldfield and Clear Lake.
For more on this story, see the April 19th issue of the Kossuth County Advance.