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.

IOWA FALLS—The Algona Bulldogs’ volleyball squad went on the road on Thursday, Sept. 26 in North Central Conference action and defeated the Iowa Falls-Cadets in three straight sets.

The red-and-black won the opening set 25-23 before winning a marathon 33-31 contest in game number two. The Bulldogs ended the match with a 25-14 victory in the third set.

ARMSTRONG—North Union entertained both Bishop Garrigan and West Bend-Mallard on Monday, Sept. 30 in a non-conference volleyball triangular matchup.

The night started with the host school taking on Bishop Garrigan as the black-and-gold prevailed by the scores of 21-14 and 21-11.

ALGONA—The Algona swim team hosted the Spencer Tigers in their second home meet of the 2024 season on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at the Algona Family YMCA, falling by the final score of 117-61.

The red-and-black won three events as Brooke Ludwig took the 200-yard freestyle in 2:20.64, Ella Welp won the 100-yard freestyle race with her time of 56.65 and Reese Taylor won the one-meter diving event with her six-dive total of 299.20. Both Taylor and Welp set new school records in their events.

ALGONA—Top-ranked Bishop Garrigan found a new way to come up with a district win on Friday, Sept. 27 as the black-and-gold earned a victory via a forfeit.

Rockford did not have enough healthy bodies to field a team so the Golden Bears were given a 17-0 victory to improve to 5-0 on the season and 4-0 in eight-man District No. 2 play.

CLARION—Stepping outside of North Central Conference volleyball play, the Algona Bulldogs earned a pair of non-conference victories on Tuesday, Sept. 24.

The red-and-black topped Clarion-Goldfield/Dows by the score of 25-17 and 25-16 and defeated Pocahontas Area by the final score of 25-16 and 25-14 to improve to 10-7 in overall matches this fall.

ARMSTRONG—North Union took one game, but Lake Mills was too strong as the Bulldogs defeated the green-black-and-silver in four sets in a Top of Iowa Conference volleyball match held on Tuesday, Sept. 24.

The visitors took the first two sets by the scores of 9-25 and 15-25 before the Warriors won game number three by the score of 25-23. But, the Bulldogs ended the match with a 9-25 victory in the fourth set.

PERRY—Winning a pair of events highlighted the performances of the Algona swim team on Thursday, Sept. 26 in a triangular held at the McCreary Community Building in Perry.

The Fort Dodge Dodgers were the winner of the meet with a total of 96 points as Perry was the runner-up with 89 and Algona took third place with 61 team points.

ALGONA—Playing some of their best volleyball of the season, the young Bishop Garrigan Golden Bear squad went 2-4 in matches and 6-9 in games at the Bishop Garrigan tournament played on Saturday, Sept. 28.

The black-and-gold defeated West Hancock 21-10 and 21-15 before falling to Top of Iowa Conference for Garner-Hayfield/Ventura 17-21, 21-12 and 14-16.

WEST BEND—Trailing 2-0 in sets, Newell-Fonda rallied to win the next three games to take a Twin Lakes Conference volleyball match in five games over the West Bend-Mallard Wolverines on Thursday, Sept. 26.

The home team started fast by taking the first two games by the scores of 26-24 and 25-20. But, the Mustangs roared back taking the next three sets by the scores of 13-25, 13-25 and 10-15.

BUFFALO CENTER—Bishop Garrigan almost pulled a huge Top of Iowa Conference upset on Tuesday, Sept. 24 as they fell to the North Iowa Lady Bison volleyball squad in five hard played games.

The black-and-gold came into the contest with one match victory on the season, but pushed the 12-3 Lady Bison to the brink before succumbing in game number five.

By Greg Grabianowski, Sports Editor

ALGONA—Third-ranked Algona scored the first three times they touched the football and never looked back in a 35-0 shutout homecoming game victory over the Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley Nighthawks on Friday, Sept. 20.

After three early scores, the red-and-black defense took over as they scored twice on pick six interceptions and limited the visiting Nighthawks to just 79 total yards on the evening.

By Greg Grabianowski, Sports Editor

ALGONA—It seems whenever the North Union Warriors and Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears’ squads meet, there is always a lot of entertaining volleyball.

The two teams met again on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in a Top of Iowa Conference match and it was more of the same as the green-black-and-silver won in four hard-fought sets.

By Greg Grabianowski, Sports Editor

PERRY—For the second time during the fall of 2024, the Algona swim team earned a victory as the red-and-black defeated the Perry Bluejays by a final score of 86-81.

The Bulldogs won just two events during the evening, but the depth was the difference as they tallied 10 runner-up finishes along with eight third-place showings.

By Greg Grabianowski, Sports Editor

ALGONA—For the first time in history, both of the Algona high school football teams are ranked first in the state in their respective class by both Radio Iowa and the Associated Press as each squad are a perfect 4-0 on the year.