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Falcon football team built on size, experience O-A/BC-IG football coach Larry Allen is pointing to size and experience as the strength of his club this season.

The Falcons return 15 letter winners from last year’s 3-6 team. Twelve of the letter winners are seniors. The Falcons finished the 2016 season by winning three of their last four games by an average of 31 points per game.

Their only loss in the final month of the season was to AHSTW by a score of 17-12. AHSTW finished second in the district with a 6-1 record and were 8-2 overall.

The veteran players include seniors Ryan Bumann (RB/LB, 6-1, 178), Chase Devitt (RB/LB, 5-10, 190), Ross Schwade (E/LB, 5-11, 161), Isaac Endrulat (E/LB, 6-2, 187), Ryan Hill (OL/DL, 6-0, 302), Michael Streed (OL/DL, 5-9, 176), Ryder Meek (OL/ DL, 6-3, 248), Derek Sharkey (OL/ LB, 6-2, 230), Blake Anderson (OL/ DL, 6-3 197), Tyler Anderson (OL/DL, 6-3, 221) and Ryan Kolpin (E/DB, 6-4, 155) and juniors Kaden Ladwig (QB/ DB, 6-0, 163), Ethan Mortensen (E/ LB, 5-8, 148), Devin Behrendsen (OL/ LB, 6-2, 186) and Quintin Cranston (RB/LB).

Devitt, who led the team in rushing with 1,042 yards on 222 carries, and Endrulat, the leading tackler with 63.5 tackles, both earned second team all-district honors in 2016. Bumann and Tyler Anderson were honorable mention.

“The strength of our team is our experience and our size; we have some big linemen,” noted coach Allen. “We don’t return all of our players from last year, but we do return a lot of kids who saw valuable playing time.

“Having those returning linemen will take some pressure off of quarterback Kaden Ladwig and running back Chase Devitt. Last year we weren’t able to run the ball as well as I would have liked, which forced us to pass the ball more often. Hopefully, we can run the ball more effectively this year and won’t have to throw the ball as much.”

In 2016, Ladwig was thrown into the role of starting quarterback in the first quarter of the first game of the season after senior Cole Veltri’s season ended due to an injury. Ladwig threw for 1,042 yards on 97 of 182 passes. He threw 16 interceptions and 10 touchdowns.

“The silver lining to Veltri’s injury is, now Ladwig has a year of experience under his belt and the learning curve won’t be as big for him,” noted Allen.

“Hopefully, we can run the ball more effectively and that will take the pressure off of having to throw the ball.

We’ll still throw the ball, but we would like to throw it when we want to and not because we have to. Anytime you get into a third and long situation the defense is going to come after you. We need to limit the tough situations we put ourselves in.”

In order to improve on last year’s record, Allen said his club has to play more consistent on both sides of the ball.

“We did some really good things at times last year, but we weren’t consistent doing those things for an entire game; especially in the first half of the season,” noted Allen. “We need to

start the season better this year. Even though we have a lot of returning kids; we do have some holes to fill. How quickly those kids adapt will go a long way in determining the amount of success we have early in the season.”

Allen added another key to success will be how “sound” the team plays defensively. “We want to force our opponents away from their strengths and force them into long third down situations. If we can limit the damage they do on first down that will be huge.”

While the letter winners are the core of the team, Allen said some sophomores might see varsity playing time.

“We have several sophomores that will see the field in different situations,” said Allen. “We’re trying to use more personnel groups on the field this year instead of just 11 kids all the time. We’re excited about our experienced kids, but we do have some younger kids that will play here and

there.”

This season marks the second of a two-year district alignment. LoganMagnolia won the district in 2016 with a 7-0 mark. AHSTW was second with a 6-1 record. The Falcons placed fifth with a 3-4 record.

“The top two teams are Logan-Magnolia and AHSTW,” said Allen. “Missouri Valley will also be good and I-KM-Manning will be in the mix. It will be a four to five team race. It will also be a case of anybody can knock off anybody else on any given Friday. We hope to be a factor, but we will need to get off to a better start in district play than we did last season.”

Allen noted he is optimistic the team can get off to a good start based on how well the team has performed in preseason preparations.

“We throw out the word potential with these kids,” said Allen. “On paper (continued on page 4)

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O-A/BC-IG football letter winners: Fifteen players who earned letters last season playing football for O-A/BC-IG are back for the 2017 campaign. The letter winners are, front from left, Ethan Mortensen, Chase Devitt, Isaac Endrulat and Michael Streed. Second row from left, Ryan Hill, Kaden Ladwig, Quintin Cranston, Blake Anderson and Ryan Bumann. Back row from left, Devin Behrendsen, Ryder Meek, Tyler Anderson, Derek Sharkey and Ryan Kolpin. Ross Schwade also lettered in 2016.

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It will all come down to how well we jell together and if we stay away from injury.

“Every team loses kids (to graduation). The teams that do the best job of replacing those kids will have the most success. A big key is how the returning players can get themselves motivated.

A big key for us is to get our returning kids to take on a leadership role.

“I’m excited about this group of kids. They are a positive group and a very close-knit group of kids. They just need to be more vocal. We don’t always communicate well at the line of scrimmage. It can’t be a secret who

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you are going to block.”

Allen said with 47 kids out for football it will allow the squad to play junior varsity and junior varsity reserve games.

“We are close to a point where we don’t have to play many sophomores (on varsity), which is good. If a kid is good enough to play varsity as a sophomore that is great, but if he has to play, that is a different situation.”

The rest of the Falcon roster includes: Senior—Austin Newquist.

Juniors—Austin Lindner, Dakota Powell and Jacob Cowlham.

Sophomores—Jake Nieman, Carson Godbersen, Isaac Newquist, Nick

Sholty, Tallon Johnson, William Grote, Ty Harrison, Sam Devitt, Tevin Harms, Austin Wunschel, Gavin Parks, Izaiah Ironshell, Lee Fredericks, Jarrett Hewitt and Nathan Benner.

Freshmen—Trust Wells, Cameron Sharkey, Kolton Knop, Cooper DeJean, Mason Knop, Christopher Mace, Zach Dunker, Hunter Brenner, Caden Wareham, Alex Clark, Peyton Harris and Geo Ehrig.

The team’s assistant coaches are Travis Chizek, Tony Napierala and Jason DeJean.

The Falcons opened the 2017 season last Saturday with a non-district game against Westwood at Olsen Stadium on the Morningside College campus in

Sioux City. The Falcons will host rival Ridge View this Friday at 7 p.m. in Ida Grove.

O-A/BC-IG football Aug. 26 Westwood 7 p.m. at Olsen Stadium in Sioux City Sept. 1 Ridge View 8 at IKM-Manning 15 Tri-Center (Neola) 22 at Logan-Magnolia 29 at Missouri Valley Oct. 6 AHSTW (Avoca) (homecoming) 13 Adair-Casey-GCenter (at Guthrie Center) 20 Treynor •Games start at 7 p.m •Home games are in Ida Grove.

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O-A/BC-IG football team: The O-A/BC-IG football team includes, front from left, Mason Knop, Caden Wareham, Izaiah Ironshell, Jake Nieman, Trust Wells, Dakota Powell, Lee Fredericks, Hunter Brenner and Zach Dunker. Second row from left, Devin Behrendsen, Nick Sholty, Ty Harrison, assistant coaches Travis Chizek and Tony Napierala, head coach Larry Allen, assistant coach Jason DeJean, Sam Devitt, Austin Wunschel and Patrick Brodersen. Third row from left, Michael Streed, Ethan Mortensen, Chase Devitt, Cooper DeJean, Nathan Benner, Carson Godbersen, Tevin Harms, Peyton Harris and Gavin Parks. Fourth row from left, Jarrett Hewitt, Ryan Hill, Isaac Newquist, Kaden Ladwig, Quintin Cranston, Ryan Bumann, William Grote, Jacob Cowlham and Geo Ehrig. Back row from left, Austin Lindner, Cameron Sharkey, Derek Sharkey, Ryder Meek, Austin Newquist, Ryan Kolpin, Tyler Anderson, Blake Anderson, and Isaac Endrulat. Ross Schwade is also a member of the team.

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O-A/BC-IG cross-country teams feature veteran runners The 2017 version of the O-A/BC-IG boys’ and girls’ cross-country teams have a leg up on where they were last year at this time in that both teams have more experienced runners returning.

“We started 2016 with little running experience,” noted coach Bob Saunders.

“This year there is a lot coming back from last year so the kids are far beyond where they were last year at this time.

“Conditioning wise you always want to be farther along than where you are, but so far we are looking pretty good.

At this point we don’t have any major injuries or over use injuries.

“We have a great bunch of kids. They are working hard and having fun; you can’t ask anymore than that from high school athletes.”

Saunders said at this point of the season the teams haven’t set many goals.

“Right now we are looking at what we can do in the irst couple of meets,” said Saunders. “We’re looking at how we will attack the course, how to run hills, how to run downhill and how to run each runners tempo through the center part of the run.

“All of our early season meets are practice. You can’t have a better practice than an actual meet. We are trying to peak at the end of the season and not in the irst three weeks of the season.”

Girls The girls’ team returns seven letter winners from 2016, including four runners who are two-year letter winners.

The veteran runners are senior Madison Lansink and juniors Madison Schiernbeck, Brooklyn Hoffman and Alyssa Mason. Schiernbeck is a two time state quali ier, placing sixth as a freshman and 31st as a sophomore. Mason placed 84th at last year’s state meet. Both runners were also all-conference performers in 2016.

The other letter winners are juniors Kelsey Dausel, Sarah Cotton and Kirsten Dausel. Junior Kim Renze lettered as team manager.

The rest of the roster includes junior Sydney Durbin, sophomores Stephanie Rigby and Cora Hansen and freshmen Anna Winterrowd and Ashly Gunderson (manager). Kurt Brown serves as assistant coach for both the girls and boys teams.

“It is so hard to tell early in the season who the top runners will be, but I really like the depth of our girls’ team,” noted Saunders. “We have a lot of experience. Hopefully, it means something for them.

“Schiernbeck looks better than she did last year. Hopefully, she’ll be back in the same form she had as a freshman.

At this point she has been running really well. She has very good split times in her training sessions.

“Mason is also running very strong.

Winterrowd has run some practices (she also plays volleyball) with us and has looked good.”

Saunders added many of the crosscountry girls were part of the spring track conference championship team.

“It means something to know that you can win. It gives the girls self con idence.”

Saunders listed Kingsley-Pierson/ Woodbury Central and Maple ValleyAnthon-Oto as two of the top teams in the conference this season.

“If our girls can be in the top three it will mean we were pretty successful,” said Saunders. “The conference meet will be tough. We will have to really improve and be healthy when the end of

the year rolls around.”

Boys The boys’ team returns four letter winners from last year’s Western Valley Conference championship team. Last year’s league title was the ifth straight conference crown for the Falcons and the eighth in the last nine years.

“Our boys run well at the conference meet,” said Saunders. “Maybe it is due to that tradition. They don’t want to break the chain. You never know what will happen at the conference meet. It will help this season to be at home (Ida Grove golf course) for the conference meet.”

Saunders added Kingsley-Pierson/ Woodbury Central will have a “very good” team this season. He said there will also be some other teams that will step up to challenge for the league title.

The Falcons’ hopes of chalking up another WVC championship will come from the returning letter winners. The veteran runners are senior Ty Warnke,

juniors Dylan Hemer and Kade Hare and sophomore Darian Hannel. Hemer and Hare are two-year letter winners.

Hemer, Hare and Warnke all earned all-conference honors in 2016 by placing among the top 15 runners at the WVC meet.

“Our letter winners are leading the pack, but we’re still looking for a couple more kids to step up and ill out the varsity team,” noted Saunders. “Ethan Young and Evan Veltri and a number of others are running with the letter winners. We also have a number of young kids who are out for the irst time who are looking good.”

The non-letter winners on the team include junior Ethan Young, sophomores Jace Krayenhagen, Leighton Barnum, Evan Veltri, Garrett Leed, Eli Gebel and Phillip Brooks and freshmen Eric Sibenaller, Caleb Reitz and Truman Clark.

Saunders pointed out that his boys (continued on page 6)

Photo by: Mike Thornhill

O-A/BC-IG cross-country letter winners: The O-A/BC-IG cross-country teams will have the services of several letter winners this season. The veteran runners are, front from left, Ty Warnke, Dylan Hemer, Kade Hare and Darian Hannel. Back row from left, Madison Lansink, Madison Schiernbeck, Brooklyn Hoffman, Alyssa Mason, Kim Renze (manager), Kelsey Dausel, Sarah Cotton and Kirsten Dausel.

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. . . cross-country (continued from page 5) have been running well as a pack in practice, but it is too early in the season to know who the top runners are going to be.

“Usually, by the end of the season things are pretty different depending on who is in shape and who stays healthy,” said Saunders.

“In past years we’ve had one or two kids who were outstanding in our boys’ group and a solid core behind them. At this point in time we don’t have any one or two kids who standout; a kid who will inish in the top ive of a meet.”

O-A/BC-IG CCT Aug. 26 at Glenwood Sept. 9 at Ridge View 16 at Carroll Kuemper 25 at Alta-Aurelia Oct. 3 at So. Cal. (Lake City) 9 O-A/BC-IG meet 14 WVC meet (IG) 19 State qualifying (TBA) 28 State meet (at Fort Dodge)

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O-A/BC-IG cross-country team: The O-A/BC-IG cross-country team includes, front from left, Ty Warnke, Dylan Hemer, Ethan Young, Kade Hare, Jace Krayenhagen, Leighton Barnum and Evan Veltri. Second row from left, Stephanie Rigby, Darian Hannel, Eli Gebel, Philip Brooks, Eric Sibenaller, Caleb Reitz and Truman Clark. Third row from left, Madison Lansink, Madison Schiernbeck, Brooklyn Hoffman, Alyssa Mason, Kim Renze (manager), Kelsey Dausel and Sarah Cotton. Back row from left, Ashly Gunderson (manager), Cora Hansen, Sydney Durbin and Kirsten Dausel. Garrett Leed, Stephanie Rigby and Anna Winterrowd are also members of the team. The team is coached by Bob Saunders (head coach) and Kurt Brown (assistant coach).

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Falcon volleyball coach looking for improvement O-A/BC-IG’s volleyball team is looking to improve from its 6-21 record in 2016.

Coach Holly Nuetzman believes that is an achievable goal.

“I think this team has a lot of potential to make some noise and surprise people,” noted Nuetzman. “To have success, the new comers will need to be able to play in unison with those who have experience.

The girls will also need to develop more con idence in their abilities and I would like to see us be more aggressive in conference play.”

The coach noted the strength of this year’s club is the number of returning players who have varsity experience. Nuetzman added the team has great leadership and depth in several positions.

The team returns eight players who lettered in 2016. Seven of those players have starting line-up experience.

The letter winners are (* indicates returning starter) seniors Abbi Ullrich*, Bailey Ullrich*, Calli Wareham*, Jordyn Fredericks* and Beth Rehse* and sophomores Halle Hemer, Kylee Weber* and Sarah Petersen*. Rehse and Petersen were honorable mention all-conference in 2016.

Petersen, who was named the team’s MVP last season, led the 2016 team in serve ef iciency (.981) and assists (219) and second in ace serves (29). Rehse was the leading blocker with 52 stops and secPhoto by: Mike Thornhill ond in kills with 124. Bailey Ullrich was the leader in digs with 161.

O-A/BC-IG volleyball letter winners: The O-A/BC-IG volleyball team letter winners include, front from left, Abbi Ullrich, Bailey Nuetzman also listed senior Jatelyn Jes- Ullrich, Calli Wareham and Jordyn Fredericks and back from left, Sarah Petersen, Halle Hemer, Bethany Rehse and Kylee Weber. sen and sophomores Abigail Bender and Liz Zobel as players she expects to contrib- the conference. She added a goal for her Cranston, Carli Ullrich, Kylee Dausel, Lau9 at West Mon. Tour. ute to the varsity team. The varsity roster club this year is to move up in the confer- ren Lansink, Jayden Thomson, JoAnna 12 R. Valley/R. View also includes senior Sadie Railsback, ju- ence standings. “I think that we have the Matthies, Dallas McKibbin, Jersey Bender, (at Schaller) nior Ellie Dotzler and sophomores Ryder potential to be in the top half of the confer- Lillian Hoffman, Mia Mortensen, Graci Net14 Kingsley-Pierson Cranston and Corin Bower. ence this year; we just need to play up to tles and Megan Brummer.

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In order to better last year’s record, Nu- the standard that we are capable of.”

Assistant coaches are Jami Boege and 19 at MV-A-O etzman pointed to a couple of areas that The rest of the roster includes: Amber Winther.

23 at WVC Tour. her girls need to improve upon. “We are Juniors—Ellie Diersen, Bailey Cobb and O-A/BC-IG volleyball (at Correctionville) focusing heavily on our passing through- Ashley Lindner.

Aug. 22 Alta-Aurelia 25 at WVC Tour. Final out the irst weeks of practice. We are also Sophomores—Shianne Brotherson, 29 at Lawton-Bronson (at Moville) looking to be more diverse to be more un- Kaitlyn Riessen, Hannah Roeder, Josie Sept. 2 Ridge View Classic Oct. 3 Siouxland Christian predictable to our opponents.”

Wulf, Mallory Neville, Macy Nicholson and (at Schaller) 10 at West Monona Nuetzman pointed to Ridge View and Autumn Schreiber.

5 at Woodbury Central 12 Westwood Westwood as two of the better teams in Freshmen—Anna Winterrowd, Ryder 7 at Storm Lake 17 Reg. Tour. (TBA)

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O-A/BC-IG volleyball team: The O-A/BC-IG volleyball team roster includes, front from left, Abbi Ullrich, Bailey Ullrich, Abigail Bender, Calli Wareham, Jordyn Fredericks, Ellie Dotzler, Liz Zobel, Sarah Petersen, Ryder Cranston and Halle Hemer. Second row from left, Sadie Railsback, Jatelyn Jessen, Bethany Rehse, Kylee Weber, Corin Bower, Shianne Brotherson, Elle Schroeder, Kaitlynn Riessen, Ellie Diersen and Carly Murphy. Third row from left, head coach Holly Nuetzman, Morgan Godbersen, Ashley Lindner, Anna Winterrowd, Bailey Cobb, Hannah Roeder, Carli Ullrich, Kylee Dausel, Lauren Lansink, Jayden Thomson and JoAnna Matthies.

Back row from left, assistant coach Amber Winther, assistant coach Jami Boege, Dallas McKibbin, Jersey Bender, Lillian Hoffman, Josie Wulf, Mallory Neville, Mia Mortensen, Macy Nicholson, Graci Nettles, Autumn Schreiber and Megan Brummer.

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Raptor football team builds around linemen Ridge View’s football team will unSenior Trent Moeller (5’7” 172)— lays at state and was part of the fourth McGuire, Logan Cuthrell and Evan dergo some changes this season. The He was a part time starter at offensive place 4x400.

Cockerham who are all competing for Raptors have a new, but familiar coach guard last season. Moeller is fighting Other letter winners are: starting spots in the defensive backin Dale Tokheim. With a new man in for a guard spot this season with sevSenior Colin Cuthrell (6’2” 238)— field and as at tight end or wingback. charge there will be changes on of- eral other players and will see time “Looks good and is fighting for a startThree sophomores are going to give fense and defense. there this year. He is also fighting for ing spot on both sides of the ball,” said Ridge View some depth and are lookCoach Tokheim is entering his first some playing time as linebacker.

Tokheim. ing to fill in for some spot duty and on season as Ridge View’s head football Junior Ezra Miller (6’7” 310)—MillJunior Karlo Weldon (5’10” 262)— special teams. Dylan Wood is working coach, but has 15 years of head coach- er is the only returning starter who is “Weldon found some time last year on in the offensive and defensive backing football experience under his belt playing the same position as last year, the defensive line and is in a battle for fields. Jared Vohs and Chance Hansen at Schaller-Crestland. offensive tackle and defensive line. He the starting center job and the defen- are “looking good” on the defensive Tokheim noted one of the concerns was first team all-district and has ver- sive line,” said Tokheim. and offensive lines. for this year’s club, which is coming off bally committed to the University of Junior Austin Degen (6’0” 160)— The rest of the roster includes: a 5-4 season in 2016, is how quickly Iowa.

“Degen is one of about six upperclassJuniors—Austin Ehrp and Brant the players learn the new system.

“Miller will be our anchor and leader men fighting to play tight end. He is Price.

“We don’t have a lot of kids who on both lines. He has great size and also fighting for some playing time as a Sophomore—Jacob Constancio. have played major minutes at the var- strength to go along with his good foot defensive back and a linebacker,” said Freshmen—Caleb Kistenmacher, sity level and the ones we do probably work,” noted Tokheim.

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Logan Blum, Beau Blackmore, Gary played a different position than last Junior Jake Kliegl (6’ 1” 210)—Kliegl Tokheim also listed several other top Baughn, Colton Dutler, Nick Cedeno, year,” said Tokheim. “We are learning started on the offensive line last year, prospects who might be called upon to Ben Spina, Brecken Conover, Aaron a new offense and defense. Ridge View but will move to fullback this year and play for the varsity. They include of- Weir and Kole Winkel. ran a spread offense for the last several return as a starter at linebacker. Kliegl fensive and defensive linemen senior Tokheim’s assistant coaches are years and now we are running a wing-T. was third on the team in tackles with Jacob Kai (5’ 11” 207) and juniors An- Justin Kinney, Brian Bode and Caleb I think this offense fits well with our 54.5. He also ran on a couple of sprint drew Brockman (6’ 2” 294), Nick Gisch Christiansen. Team managers are Taypersonnel, but they just don’t have the relays at state last season.

(6’3” 245) and Matt Brosamle (6’2” lor Major and Michael Zobel. experience of running this offense.

Junior Jake Tokheim (6’ 3” 165)— 284).

“I think our team strengths are “We will try to run the ball to set up Tokheim was a part time starter at deThree seniors are competing for our size, strength, and speed,” noted the pass. We will run a variety of for- fensive back last year. He will probably some playing time at tight end and Tokheim. “If you look at our line posmations, but our base formation will be the starting quarterback and will linebacker—seniors Lance Else (5’ 11” sibilities we could be very big across be double tight end wing-T. compete for some playing time as a de- 158), Ben Nuckles (5’9” 192) and Cam the front five offensively. The big guys “Defensively, we will be an aggres- fensive back. Tokheim is another four Steffen (5’9” 171). move very well and are very good athsive team with good team speed. Coach sport athlete and all-conference in two Three juniors are in the mix on of- letes; there is more than just size. (continued on page 11) Brian Bode will be the defensive co- sports. He was also on two sprint re- fense and defense. They are Kevin ordinator and he will run a couple of defensive fronts, but they are based on sound gap responsibility.”

The Raptors will build around their nine returning letter winners from last season. Six of those players are returning starters.

The returning starters and Tokheim’s comments on those players are: Senior Jake Mitchell (5’ 9” 163)— Started as a slot receiver last year. He had 21 catches for 283 yards and was first team all-district. He was also a starting defensive back. “Mitchell is probably moving to linebacker on defense this year and will be our halfback on offense in the wing-T. He is a multisport athlete who ran and led off three sprint relays at state last year,” said Tokheim.

Senior Jaxon Franken (5’10” 170)— Was a part time starter at defensive back and slot receiver in 2016. He will probably start at wingback and defensive back this season. Franken is a four Photo by: Kyle Wiebers sport athlete who was all-conference in both basketball and baseball and led Ridge View football letter winners: Ridge View’s returning football letter winners are, front row from left, Trent Moeller, both teams in offense (batting average Ezra Miller, Jake Kliegl, Colin Cuthrell and Jaxon Franken. Second row from left, Karlo Weldon, Jacob Tokheim, Jake Mitchell and points per game). and Austin Degen.

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(continued from page 10) “Our backfield could be the three Jake’s who all have great speed and were on several state track sprint relays. Jake Mitchell is pound for pound one of the strongest players on our team. Jake Kliegl is going to be a force at fullback and linebacker.

“I also think we have some good depth at the varsity level. We have several good linemen and we have skill players who are very versatile and could fill in at a couple of positions.”

In addition to learning a new offense and defense, Tokheim said staying

healthy will play a big part in how successful his club is this season.

“Staying healthy is always important in class A football,” noted Tokheim. “The other thing is how quickly the guys learn the new offense and defense.

“Our offensive line will be the key to our success. If they can learn the blocking schemes and nuances of the offense, communicate and work together I think their size and strength will dominate the line of scrimmage.”

Ridge View posted a 4-3 district mark in 2016, which placed the team third in the inal standings. Tokheim is looking

for a competitive district race in 2017.

“I think we will be able to compete for the top two spots in the district,” said Tokheim. “Algona Garrigan will reload.

H-M-S was 4-3 in the district in 2016 and it is the second year of the new head coach; I think they will improve.

“South O’Brien will ight for the top couple of spots with a nice nucleus back. M-M-C-RU has a big group of returning starters and they will make big strides as a team as most of the bugs in sharing have been worked out.”

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All games start at 7 p.m.

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Ridge View football team: The 2017 Ridge View football team includes, front from left, Michael Zobel (manager), Lance Else, Trent Moeller, Cam Steffens, Ben Nuckolls, Jake Mitchell, Colin Cuthrell, Jakob Kai and Jaxon Franken. Second row from left, Karlo Weldon, Jacob Tokheim, Logan Cuthrell, Ezra Miller, Jake Kliegl, Evan Cockerham, Matthew Brosamle, Austin Degen, Andrew Brockman, Kevin McGuire and Nick Gisch. Third row from left, Austin Ehrp, Jacob Constancio, Chance Hansen, assistant coach Caleb Christiansen, head coach Dale Tokheim, assistant coach Brian Bode, assistant coach Justin Kinney, Dylan Wood, Brant Price and Taylor Major (manager). Fourth row from left, Beau Blackmore, Brecken Conover, Nic Cedeno, Ben Spina, Colton Dutler, Logan Blum, Caleb Kistenmacher, Gary Baughn and Kole Winkel. Jared Vohs and Aaron Weir are also members of the team.

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Raptor cross-country coach optimistic about new season Ridge View cross-country coach Katie Tesch is optimistic about the new season.

Tesch’s outlook is based on the return of several veteran girls and an increase in the number of boys who are running this season.

“Our runners are really hard workers and great competitors,” said Tesch. “We would like to see our girls place in the top three teams in the Western Valley Conference (WVC) and make their way to the state meet.

“We are looking forward to our boys being more competitive as a team, something we’ve struggled with because of our low numbers in the past. We also would like to continue our streak of WVC place winners and possibly placing in the top three as a team.

“As we train, we’ll really have to focus on keeping everyone healthy and avoid shin splints. Each day is an opportunity to get better.”

Tesch’s assistant coach is Emily Stracke.

Girls Girls who earned letters last season include seniors Sierra Deck and Macy Wunschel, juniors Jill Galvin, Abbi Hanson and Rachel Kenny and sophomore Katlyn Wiese.

Wiese and Kenny both earned all-conference honors last season by placing among the top 15 runners at the conference meet.

Wiese placed fourth and Kenny inished 11th. In addition, Wiese quali ied for the 2016 class 1A state meet where she placed 37th.

Other runners who will be counted on this season are sophomore Hanna Blackmore and freshmen Maria Mendoza and Paige Padavich.

“This year we are excited to have lots of experience on our girls team,” noted Tesch.

“These girls have been running together for a few seasons and inished ifth at the state qualifying meet and second in the WVC meet last year. Along with our veterans, we have some new runners joining us who will help us reach our goal of getting to the state meet. Blackmore, Mendoza and Padavich are great runners and will de initely give our team some more depth.”

Boys Ridge View returns four boys who lettered in 2016. The runners are seniors Andres Carbajal and Andrew Snyder and sophomores Jaden Droegmiller and Connor Pickhinke.

Carbajal missed earning all-conference by three places in 2016. He ran 18th at the conference meet. The top 15 earn allconference. None of Ridge View’s runners quali ied for the 2016 state meet.

The squad also includes seniors Kevin Herrera and Jon Madsen, sophomores Alex Movall and Grant Schmidt and freshmen Jesse Coleman, Jack Henderson and Ben Todd.

“We are excited to add more boys to our roster this year,” said Tesch. “Carbajal and Snyder will lead our team. They’ve been with our program for four years and are great leaders for our squad.

“We have seven newcomers this year, including Coleman, Henderson and Todd who were all middle school Western Valley Conference place winners last year. We hope that they continue to be competitive at the longer distance and help our high

school boys have more success this season.”

As far as the 2017 conference race is concerned, Tesch listed O-A/BC-IG and WC-K-P as the top boys’ teams while WC-K-P, O-A/ BC-IG and MV-A-O are her choices for the girls’ teams to beat.

The Raptors opened the season Thursday, Aug. 24 at Southeast Valley (Gowrie).

The annual Tim Thomas Classic is slated for Saturday, Sept. 9 on the Holstein golf course.

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Ridge View cross-country letter winners: Ridge View cross-country letter winners from last season are, front from left, Andrew Snyder, Sierra Deck, Macy Wunschel and Andrés Carbajal. Second row from left, Rachel Kenny, Jill Galvin and Abi Hansen. Third row from left, Katlyn Wiese and Jaden Droegmiller.

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Raptor volleyball team has lofty goals for 2017 Ridge View volleyball coach Monica Bloyer says her club has high expectations for the upcoming season.

“We have an expectation of ourselves of winning the Western Valley Conference title and to be conference tournament champs. Our goal is to win as many games as possible to get a good draw in regional match ups and to qualify for state,” said Bloyer.

The coach added her team has the ability to live up to those goals.

“The strength of our team is we have loads of coordinated, athletic kids with great speed and agility,” said Bloyer. “We have tough servers, aggressive hitters and quick defenders.

“The girls have a high work ethic all around in the classroom, during practice and in the weight room and they have a competitive drive to win.”

Ridge View posted a 19-13 match record in 2016. Bloyer said in order to improve on last season’s record her club will need to make good offensive decisions in playing the ball, be consistent in passing, serve receive and hitting and to have con idence in themselves.

“We need to play together as a team and support each other, have a positive Photo by: Kyle Wiebers attitude and give a daily effort,” said Bloy- Ridge View volleyball letter winners: Ridge View’s volleyball team will look to its four returning letter winners for leadership er. “These factors have been outstanding during the 2017 season. The letter winners are, from left, Gracie Chance, Paige Todd, Madeline Else and Beth Pickhinke. so far, but needs to continue throughout the season.”

Richard and Kennedy Mason. Helping de- Albers, Kenzee Wunschel, Hanna Black5 Lawton-Bronson Leading the team this season are four fensively, will be senior Lexi Phillips and more, Kate Kofmehl, Hannah Rosemeyer, 9 at So. Cent. Cal. Tour. players who earned letters in 2016. They juniors Kinzey Dutler and Beth Meyer.

Jordan Grothe and Cassie Allen. (at Rockwell City) are seniors Beth Pickhinke (OH) and Paige Ridge View placed second in the conFreshmen—Bailey Graff, Autumn Hen12 OABCIG/R. Valley Todd (OH) and juniors Madeline Else (S) ference race with a 7-2 mark in 2017. As kel, Hannah Grieme, Anya Kistenmacher, (at Schaller) and Gracie Chance (MH). Chance earned far as this year’s conference is concerned, Mabel Brockman, Jadyn Schmidt, Neva 14 MV-A-O honorable mention all-conference status Bloyer said several teams look to be con- Villarreal and Mikayla Kolpin.

19 Westwood last season. tenders for the top spot.

Lynn Wunschel is the team’s assistant 23 WVC Tour (Schaller) Chance recorded 108 kills, 66 blocks “Kingsley-Pierson and Westwood coach.

25 WVC Tour inal and 110 digs in 2016. She also had a .915 should be very competitive again this Ridge View opened the season Tuesday, (at Correctionville) serve ef iciency and had 27 ace serves. year, along with Lawton-Bronson and Aug. 22 against South Central Calhoun 28 Storm Lake Todd tallied 139 kills while Pickhinke had West Monona. If we play to our potential County. The annual Ridge View tourna- Oct. 5 at West Monona 108 kills. Else contributed 294 set assists every match, we should inish at the top,” ment is set for this Saturday, Sept. 2 at 9 10 at Woodbury Cent. and 40 blocks. said Bloyer. a.m. in Schaller.

12 at Siouxland Christian Other players Bloyer expects to conThe rest of the Ridge View roster inRV volleyball 14 at Heelan Tour. tribute to the varsity front row effort in- cludes: Aug. 22 So. Cent. Cal. 17 Reg. Tour. (TBA) clude seniors Cloe Droegmiller, Erin JohnJunior—Emerson Else.

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