GOWRIE—West Bend-Mallard went on the road on Thursday, Oct. 10 in Twin Lakes Conference volleyball action, but fell to the Southeast Valley Jaguars in four sets.

The Wolverines won the opening game by the score of 25-16 before the Jaguars roared back to take the next three sets by the scores of 19-25, 9-25 and 15-25.

Allie Fehr led the purple-and-gold in kills with 11 closely followed by Claire Gerber with 10 and Addie Montag added six more.

ARMSTRONG—In their final Top of Iowa Conference volleyball match of the season, the North Union Warriors fell in three straight sets to Belmond-Klemme on their home court on Thursday, Oct. 10.

The visitors rallied from an early deficit in the opening game to earn a hard-fought 25-21 victory. Belmond-Klemme then took the next two sets by the scores of 25-14 and 25-15.

FOREST CITY—Both the Bishop Garrigan and North Union boys cross-country teams competed at the Forest City Invitational held on Monday, Oct. 14 at the Bear Creek Golf Course, but neither had enough runners for a team score.

North Union’s Aiden Bauer was the top place winner in 35^th place overall with a clocking of 19:35.3 as teammate Landon Manwarren ended up in 47^th place in 20:50.6.

By Greg Grabianowski, Sports Editor

DES MOINES—The post-season regional volleyball pairings for the four area volleyball squads were released last week by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union as they now know the teams that stand in their way for a state tournament trip.

Bishop Garrigan, North Union and West Bend-Mallard were all assigned to Class 1A Region 3 and will be the first area teams to be in action for the area squads on Monday, Oct. 21.

ARMSTRONG—Trailing 2-1 in games, the North Union Warrior volleyball squad rallied to win the final two sets and the match over the Garner-Hayfield/Ventura Cardinals in a Top of Iowa Conference match on Tuesday, Oct. 8.

The Cardinals took the opening game by the score of 13-25 before the home team fought back to win the second set by the count of 25-22.

JOHNSTON—The Algona swim team had just one competitor at the Johnston Invitational held on Saturday, Oct. 12 at the Summit Middle School in Johnston.

Reese Taylor of the red-and-black competed against 14 other young ladies in the one-meter diving event and after all 11 dives were completed, she ended up in third place overall with her total score of 386.95.

ALGONA—With their Top of Iowa Conference schedule completed, the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears’ volleyball squad took on Newell-Fonda on Thursday, Oct. 10 in a non-conference match won by the Mustangs in three games.

The visitors prevailed in a tight opening set by the score of 25-22 before taking the second game 25-15 and ended the match with a 25-16 victory in game number three.

BUFFALO CENTER—Both the North Union and West Bend-Mallard volleyball squads competed at the North Iowa tournament on Saturday, Oct. 12.

The purple-and-gold went 2-2 during the day in the five-team tournament as the Warriors were winless on the day and North Iowa won their own tourney with a perfect 4-0 mark.

WEST BEND—Having big nights from both Austin Schmidt and Cole Fehr, the West Bend-Mallard Wolverines football team rolled to a 69-26 homecoming victory over the North Iowa Bison on Friday, Oct. 4.

Each of the Wolverines rushed for 100 yards on the evening as Fehr scored four touchdowns and Schmidt also reached the end zone on four different occasions.

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.