DES MOINES—Amaury Thomas was the top place winner for the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bear boys’ track team at the Class 1A state track meet in Des Moines on May 22-24.

Thomas finished in 11th place overall in the discus with a best throw of 148’ 8” while the black-and-gold’s 4 x 800-meter relay unit of Thadd Kollasch, C.J. McGregor, Carter McGregor and Andrew Lichter was 14th in 8:36.30.

DES MOINES—Freshman Madelyn Tigges placed ninth in the 400-meter dash to highlight the performances of the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bear girls’ track squad at the Class 1A state track meet held at the Drake Stadium on May 22-24.

The black-and-gold freshman crossed the finish line in 1:00.20 to take ninth in the 400-meter dash while the Golden Bear sprint medley relay unit of Emmi Bartolo, Ava Roethler, Zoe Montag and Tigges ended up in 10th place overall with a time of 1:53.65.

PRIMGHAR—North Union sophomore Alexis Cummins competed in the Class 1A regional final golf tournament on Wednesday, May 21 at the Primghar Golf Course against 47 other golfers.

Cummins finished the day in ninth place overall for the green-black-and-silver with her 18-hole total of 95.

MASON CITY—Bishop Garrigan’s Gabby Buscher punched her ticket to the state golf meet with a runner-up finish at the Class 1A regional final played on Wednesday, May 21 at the Highland Park Golf Course.

Buscher had an 18-hole total of 83 that was topped only by Lake Mills’ Reagn Ham’s first place total of 80 as the black-and-gold freshman advanced to the state tournament on May 29-30 at the American Legion Golf Course in Marshalltown.

SPENCER—Tate Slagle struck out 17 batters and both Aiden Ulrich and Slagle belted home runs to lead fifth-ranked Algona to an 8-1 non-conference baseball over the Spencer Tigers on Thursday, May 22.

The first-team all-state selection and Iowa Hawkeye commit was in total control all seven innings as the right-hander allowed just three hits; walked one and fanned 17 Tigers.

NORTHWOOD—North Union belted a pair of solo home runs but that was their only offense as the green-black-and-silver lost 14-2 in five innings in the 2025 season opener played on Thursday, May 22.

Caden Walders and Max Merrill blasted solo home runs in the first and fourth innings for the only Warrior runs with Greyson Colegrove adding a single in the season opener.

ALGONA—The Algona and Bishop Garrigan High School trap-shoot teams hosed a multi-school meet at the Izaak Walton League on Saturday, May 21.

The Humboldt High School squad had the best score of the day with 224 as Algona High was second with 214 and another Algona High School team was third with a score of 209.

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Drew Henderson of North Union qualified for the Class 1A state golf tournament in Waterloo with his 18-hole total of 79 at Monday’s district meet at LeMars.

By Greg Grabianowski, Sports Editor

SIOUX CENTER—Making the best of a long road trip, the Algona Bulldog girls track squad made a strong showing at the Class 3A regional track meet held on Thursday, May 15 as the red-and-black finished third in the team standings with 98 points.

During the eight-team meet, the Bulldogs qualified 10 young ladies in nine different events for this week’s Class 3A state track meet held at the Drake Stadium in Des Moines.

JEWELL—Hanna Merron was the individual winner, and the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bear girls golf squad won the team title in the first round of the Class 1A regional tournament played at the Jewell Golf & Golf Country Club on Friday, May 16.

The black-and-gold had the low team total of the day with a 391 of the eight teams at the meet to claim the regional title on Friday and advanced to the regional on Wednesday at the Highland Park Golf Course in Mason City.

By Greg Grabianowski, Sports Editor

LEMARS—North Union’s Drew Henderson punched his ticket to the Class 1A state golf tournament for the second consecutive season by placing fifth at the district tourney played on Monday, May 19 at the Willow Creek Golf Course in LeMars.

NORTHWOOD—A trio of Bishop Garrigan events qualified for this week’s Class 1A state meet from the district meet held on Thursday, May 15.

The black-and-gold finished in the fifth place in the team standings with 77 points as West Hancock topped the 12-team field for the district title with a total of 120.83 points.

The Golden Bears will take eight young men to Des Moines to compete in the Class 1A state meet inside Drake Stadium in those three different events.

SIOUX CENTER—Winning by a whopping total of 41.5 points, the Algona Bulldog boys track team cruised to the Class 3A district title in the state-qualifying meet held on Thursday, May 15.

The red-and-black literally ran away with the team title with 152.5 points as MOC/Floyd Valley was a distant second place in the eight-team field with a team score of 111 points.

ALGONA—In their final tune-up before the Class 3A regional tournament in Carroll, the Algona Bulldog girls golf squad dropped a tight non-conference match to the Spencer Tigers 200-213 at the River Road Golf Club on Thursday, May 15.

Morgan Irvine of Spencer had the low nine-hole total of the day with her score of 48 as Algona’s Gabby Venteicher earned the runner-up medal with her nine-hole total of 48.