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.

NORTHWOOD—Senior running back Trayton Cink found the end zone on six different occasions to lead top-ranked Bishop Garrigan to a  74-6 rout of the Northwood-Kensett Vikings on Friday, Sept. 20.

Cink’s big night saw the senior rush 15 times for 191 yards and scored on runs of 40, 22, 17, 25, 17, 28 and five yards in the district road victory.

HUMBOLDT—Placing all seven runners in the top 40, the Algona Bulldog boys’ cross-country team finished in second place with 67 points at the Humboldt Invitational held on Monday, Sept. 23 to highlight the performances of the four area squads.

Bishop Garrigan, North Union and West Bend-Mallard also competed, but did not have enough runners for a team score in the 17-team meet.

ALGONA—Playing in front of a nice crowd during homecoming week, the Algona Bulldogs’ volleyball squad earned their first North Central Conference victory on Thursday, Sept. 19 over the Clear Lake Lions.

The home team took the opening set 25-22 and raced out to a 14-0 advantage to begin the second game before cruising to 25-18 win.

GRAETTINGER—West Bend-Mallard won four of five matches at the Graettinger volleyball tournament played on Saturday, Sept. 21.

The purple-and-gold defeated Harris-Lake Park 20-22, 21-12 and 15-11, Sioux Central by the scores of 21-13 and 21-7 and Pocahontas Area 21-17 and 21-19.

The Wolverines also topped North Union 21-14 and 21-18 in a battle of two area teams and their only loss of the day came to the Emmetsburg E-Hawks by the score of 16-21 and 17-21.

WEST BEND—Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire erupted for 32 points in the second quarter and went onto a 62-12, eight-man district football victory over the West Bend-Mallard Wolverines on Friday, Sept. 20.

G-T/R-A broke open a tight 8-0 contest after the first 12 minutes by scoring four touchdowns and conversions to take a 40-6 advantage to the locker room at intermission.

STORM LAKE—Running without their top runner, Gavin Weber, out with an illness, the Algona Bulldog boys’ cross-country team finished in sixth place with 160 points at the Storm Lake Invitational held on Tuesday, Sept. 17.

Ryley Riggert was the top place winner for the red-and-black in 27^th place in 19:04.83, two places ahead of teammate Brooks Morgan in 29^th place with his clocking of 19:13.27.

HUMBOLDT—Tyra Schupbach of West Bend-Mallard crossed the finish line first followed by Julia Swift of Bishop Garrigan as the runner-up to highlight the performances of the four area girls’ cross-country squads at the Humboldt Invitational on Monday, Sept. 23.

Schupbach cruised to another individual win as the second-ranked runner in Class 1A won the event with a time of 20:07.0 as Swift took second place with a clocking of 20:59.9.

WEST BEND—West Bend-Mallard split a key Twin Lakes Conference volleyball triangular on Thursday, Sept. 19 against South Central Calhoun and Emmetsburg.

The purple-and-gold fell to 6-2 overall and 3-2 in conference matches while South Central Calhoun is 18-6 and 4-1 and Emmetsburg now has records of 8-2 and 6-1.

The Wolverines opened the evening with a hard-fought 16-25, 25-14, 16-25, 25-21 and 15-13 victory over South Central Calhoun.

STORM LAKE—Battling some sickness running though the team, a short-handed Algona Bulldog girls’ cross-country squad competed at the Storm Lake Invitational held at the Sunrise Point Golf Course on Tuesday, Sept. 17.

The red-and-black took 10^th place in the team standings with a team score of 251 points as Bishop Heelan won the team title with 52 points.