2022 Fall Sports Preview INSIDE: Previews of fall sports teams at Newton, Lynnville-Sully, Baxter, PCM and Colfax-Mingo
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“We always need some state experience to help mo tivate others to want to reach this goal,” Patterson said. Last year’s Aquagirls won their fifth Little Hawkeye Conference title in six years. Lillie Ray won the 50 freestyle and NCMP was victorious in the 400 freestyle relay and 200 medley relay, which featured Ruggles in both and Peyton Ray in one. The Aquagirls were second to Decorah in the NCC meet. NCMP claimed wins in the 200 freestyle relay with Lillie Ray and the 400 freestyle relay with the Ray sisters and Rug gles, who won the individual NCC title in the 100 back stroke.
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gest tenured coach in the Newton district, will have a pair of outstanding upper classmen leading the way. She also brings back a handful of others who logged significant time in varsity events last fall. Headlining the roster will be seniors Lillie Ray and Maylei Ruggles. Ray was a state qualifier in the 50-yard freestyle last sea son, while Ruggles was an in dividual state qualifier in the 100Raybutterfly.alsowas featured on all three state qualifying relays and Ruggles was part of two of them.Theyboth swam on the 200 medley and 400 freestyle relay teams, which qualified for the state meet and set new school records.Sophomore Peyton Ray was part of the school-record swimming 400 freestyle relay team, too.
Troy Hyde/Newton News NCMP senior Lillie Ray is back for the Aquagirls this fall after swim ming on four events at the state meet last season.
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Troy Hyde/Newton News Newton junior Cody Klein, right, is a returning first team all-district running back and he likely will have the ball in his hands a lot in 2022.
The next step for Newton’s program and third-year head coach Andy Swedenhjelm is to return to the playoffs. “In the grand scheme of things being a playoff team is a goal. However, we wor ry about things one week at a time,” Swedenhjelm said. “I believe this team is capable of big things. However, I want our players to continue focus ing on the things in front of them they have complete con trol over, like their attitudes andTeneffort.”ofthe 15 Cardinals who earned all-district recogni tion last season were seniors. The returning all-district players include senior Alex Thomason and juniors Cody Klein, Nate Lampe and Blake Schilling.Klein was on the top all-district squad, while the other three were honorable mention picks.
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The Cardinals were 5-4 last year and took steps forward from the previous season. If more improvements are to happen, special teams and points per game allowed in district play will have to get better.The Cardinals averaged only 14 yards per kickoff re turn and four yards per punt return last year. The punter and kicker will be new, too.
The biggest question marks on offense could be at wide receiver and offensive line. Those units will have plenty of newJuniorfaces.Curtis Payne is ex pected to start at the Z, and Mattes will start at the X with Lampe rotating in. Snaps at the slot position will be taken by Thomason, senior Jake Ingle and sopho more Christian Ergenbright. The tight ends are senior Turner Williams and junior BenWilliamsBreuer. hauled in 13 catches for 198 yards and a TD last Thereyear.are plenty of open competitions along the of fensive line. The early leaders to start were Schilling at cen ter, juniors Mitch Thayer and Drew Boothe at the tackles and senior Noah Tibben and junior Thomas Stadelmann at theSeniorguards.Carter Ham also is a possibility at guard. Tibben could get moved to tackle, too.
While Klein is the project ed starter at running back, sophomore Reilly Trease and senior Clayton Wickliffe also are expected to get carries. Junior Eli Stewart, who rushed for 66 yards and a score last fall, suffered a pre season injury and is likely out for the year.
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Schilling and junior Wy att Weter are expected to start along the defensive line, but there are some battles in camp,Swedenhjelmtoo. said junior Tyler Anderson, senior Zan der Ponce and sophomores Colton Brady and Derek Wer mager are the others battling for the two open starting spots.Weter finished with 9.5 tackles and one fumble re covery last season in a backup role.“They have done well this summer and at the Simpson camp,” Swedenhjelm said. “Some of our offensive line guys could see some spot time there,“Wyatttoo. (Weter) is a stud and a nightmare to go against in practice. He has a fantastic motor and plays with great ef fort and energy.”
Newton’s football team got off to a hot start last year but couldn’t quite solve the teams in Class 4A District 4. A 4-0 start to the season was followed up by a 1-4 fin ish and the Cardinals just missed out on the postseason playing in a league that fielded three playoff squads.
The competition at line backer early in the season in cluded Mattes, senior Carson Satterfield, junior Nate Mil burn and sophomore Damian Smith.The secondary includes re turning starters Lampe and Thomason as well as Mattes, Ingle and juniors Jackson Nichols, Hunter Teague and Bryen“TheyHernandez.allwillget some ro tation time as we go,” Sweden hjelm said. “We are still trying to figure out exactly where we want those guys at, but we have lots of good options.”
“I feel really good about the guys we have here,” Swe denhjelm said. “We had some seniors graduate, but this is where you trust in the devel opment program you have in place. These guys have been lifting relentlessly the past year together and have great chemistry and work ethic.”
Klein led the district in rushing and finished with 804 rushing yards and six rushing touchdowns in all. He aver aged 5.7 yards per carry and had 14 catches for 111 yards and one “Codyscore.Klein is a stud. I’m excited to see what steps he can make this year,” Sweden hjelm said. “Not many soph omores led their district in rushing. He’s looking faster and more explosive so far.” Schilling was third on the team in tackles last year with 28 and he finished with five tackles for loss and two sacks. Lampe and Thomason both will play key roles in the de fensive secondary. Last year, Lampe had 19.5 tackles and two picks and Thomason tal lied 16 “Cody,tackles.Blake and Nate were impressive last year,” Sweden hjelm said. “Getting all-dis trict recognition as a sopho more is no small feat. You can see their confidence soaring right now and they have been doing a fantastic job.” The Cardinals will have a new starting quarterback. Se nior Brody Bauer won the job in the Bauerpreseason.wasthe backup QB two seasons ago but moved to wide receiver last fall and fin ished with 11 catches for 242 yards and three scores. He also threw for 54 yards and oneJuniorTD. Caleb Mattes was the primary backup QB last season and he passed for 27 yards, rushed for 39 yards and a score and hauled in one pass for 63 Mattesyards.will be the varsity backup QB but will move to receiver in 2022. “I’m extremely confident in our QBs. Brody is savvy and makes good decisions,” Swedenhjelm said. “Caleb is a fantastic leader and the defi nition of a gamer. He does a great job of competing and leading those around him.”
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Last year’s run to the state meet for Newton’s boys cross country team was historic. Three seniors from that var sity team which placed 12th at the Class 3A state meet are gone. This year’s squad features a few familiar faces and plenty of “newbies,” but head coach Steve Weeks hopes the momen tum from last fall carries into 2022.“Iwould say the momentum has carried on — and the guys are not fooled as they acknowl edge the difficulties that lay be fore them,” Weeks said. “They already understand the team will look different and the point production is going to look dif ferent.
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The three seniors are Kate Muckler, Jessie Hutchinson and Aryssa Hinderberger. The oth er returning varsity runners are sophomores Hadley Kruse and BellaTheWinther.Cardinals were fifth in the Little Hawkeye Conference meet last season. Muckler fin ished 22nd in that race. Kruse’s 29th-place finish in the state qualifying meet headlined the returners and she ran a ca reer-best time in that race.
“Kate has been looking great during summer runs,” Tip ton said. “I know she doesn’t want to take this last season for granted. Hadley is a meet per former. She has looked good this summer and we’ll see how that translates once meets get going. Bella’s keeping right in theTiptonmix.”
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Newton’s girls cross country team enters the 2022 season with the exact same number of runners as it had last fall. Unfortunately for the Cardi nals, only three varsity runners are back and the lone 2021 state qualifier is now running in col lege.But head coach Rachelle Tipton feels like she can get five solid scorers by the end of the season.“We always have a goal to finish in the top half of meets. And the three seniors all have time barriers that can be sur passed,” Tipton “Unfortunately,said.we will not be able to have a team score for JV again, but I’m excited to see what the four can do.”
“The focus (for the new run ners) has been to build confi dence, push them to keep add ing distance and to team bond,” Tipton said. “I want the return ing varsity runners to not get complacent and keep pushing their comfort zones.”
Newton senior Kate Muck ler is back this fall and ex pected to run at the front of the Cardinals’ varsity lineup.
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“Regardless, they are hungry and driven to discover what role they can play in getting us back to state.”
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Newton 2022 Varsity Girls Cross Country Schedule
Aug. 25 — Marshalltown, 4:30 p.m. Aug. 30 — Williamsburg, 4:30 p.m. Sept. 6 — Grinnell, 5:15 p.m. Sept. 8 — Colfax-Mingo, 5:15 p.m. Sept. 13 — Oskaloosa, 4:30 p.m. Sept. 20 — Cardinal Invitational, 5:15 p.m. Sept. 23 — University of Minnesota, TBD Sept. 27 — Knoxville, 5:15 p.m. Oct. 1 — Wartburg College, TBD Oct. 6 — Fort Dodge, 4:30 p.m. Oct. 10 — LHC meet at DCG, 5 p.m. Oct. 19 — State qualifier at TBD, 4 p.m. Home meet in bold
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expects her two freshmen — Paxton Panada and Abigail Preston — to push for varsity spots. The other top candidates are Hutchinson, sophomore Carol Sander and junior Cameron Sharp. “Our freshmen look to earn varsity spots,” Tipton said. “Paxton came to every summer run and got more and more comfortable with the distances being run. He has the drive to compete. Abigail has jumped right in and shows a lot of po tential.“Ithink there could be some competition for the other spots throughout the year.”
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The largest roles on this year’s squad will be given to ju nior Landon Menninga and se nior Leo Friedman. Right now, those are the only two returners from last year’s state team who Weeks knows will be available. Senior Collin Buchli is out but dealt with serious knee is sues last fall and Weeks isn’t ex actly sure what he will be able to provide.Menninga would have been an individual qualifier last season had the Cardinals not clinched their first state berth at the 5K Menningadistance.placed ninth in the state qualifier and was 21st at the Little Hawkeye Confer ence meet. He ended up 67th in the state meet after settling into the Cardinals’ No. 3 runner midway through the season. Friedman finished 35th at the LHC meet and was 37th in the state qualifier in 2021. Bu chli placed 54th and 66th, re spectively.“Landon finished last year’s state qualifier in a position where he would have gone as an individual so it’s a forgone conclusion that he should be in a position to return this year as an individual, if not the whole team,” Weeks said. “The expec tation is a return to state. We stated this last year that this isn’t a one-and-done thing. We are going to ride the momen tum.”
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The Cardinals’ roster as a whole has a plethora of runners who are new to cross country. The goals and expectations for the newbies are different from the established runners.
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Ahn, an outside hitter who earned honorable mention all-conference recognition last season, led the Cardinals and ranked seventh in the LHC with 247 kills last fall. She also registered a teamhigh 205 digs and finished with 13 blocks and 28 aces.
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Last year’s 7-25 squad gradu ated just two seniors. This year’s varsity roster has three seniors but just two saw varsity action in 2021.The Cardinals began last sea son 4-0 but couldn’t find the win column in a tough Little Hawk eyeNewtonConference.finished on a bit of a positive note though, winning a Class 4A regional match over Des Moines Hoover. “It obviously didn’t hurt mo mentum to win (that regional match) yet I believe we all have higher aspirations for this sea son as a whole,” Woollums said. “Valuable lessons can be learned through adversity when the ath letes pull together, learn from their experiences and are willing to put in work during the season and in the offseason. This team has done just that.”
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“I can’t stress how valuable the last season of court experi ence was for this team,” Wool lums“Wesaid.knew going in that the season was going to be challeng ing, but for the long term of the program it would be worth it.”
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Newton junior outside hitter Kadance Ahn is back this season after earning all-conference recognition last fall.
Ahn’s 3.3 kills per set ranked sixth in the conference and her 2.7 digs per set ranked eighth. “It’s great to have a kid you can rely on to make a play when it’s needed,” Woollums said about“WeAhn.relied so heavily on Kadance last year that opposing teams knew they could focus in on defending her. I believe with the experience gained last sea son, we will be able to take some of the load off her.”
Newton junior Kadance Ahn was the only player on last year’s Cardinal volleyball team with any varsity experience. The youth movement on the court showed in the overall re cord, but second-year head coach Heidi Woollums hopes a full year of experience for Ahn’s supporting cast will lead to more wins this fall.
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The secondary includes Noun Harder, Maston and Rea, who was an all-district honorable mention selection. Noun Harder registered 28.5 tackles and Rea collected 20 tackles and snatched four interceptions.Theother Hawks battling for time on defense are junior safety/outside linebacker Kee gan DeWitt, senior defensive back Kale Ehresman and fresh man lineman Dawson James. DeWitt finished with 20 tack les last “Ouryear.defense has clicked since Day 1,” Parkinson said. “We have mostly everyone back. It’s been hard for our second-team offense to get muchMastondone.”is the team’s punt er and Sieck will handle the kicking duties. L-S likely will start the sea son in the top five of Class A. “We want to go 1-0 ev ery week, but we appreciate the respect,” Parkinson said. “They’ve worked hard. They deserve the respect. We still have to prove ourselves. “We came out of nowhere last year. Now everyone will expect it. Ever since I’ve known this group, they’ve wanted to be awesome in footballParkinson’sthough.”coaching staff includes assistant coaches Brad Bowlin, Chad Squires, Cale Van Wyk, Ken Gross, Leigh Hornbuckle, Nathan Russell and Evan Squires.
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The other offensive skill position guys are junior tail back C.J. Nikkel and senior wide receivers Bryce Richards and“WeRea.have a lot of return ing skill guys so that’s a
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Last year’s season did not end the way Lynnville-Sully’s football team had hoped. The Hawks were eliminat ed from the Class A playoffs in the final seconds by North Tama. They hope to use that devastating second-round loss as motivation to go even further this season. And with a bus load full of returning starters, L-S has a district championship and potential trip to the UNIDome on its mind. “We used that loss as mo tivation,” L-S head football coach Mike Parkinson said. “Every year we take on a new identity and there are new challenges. The goal obviously is to go beyond what we did lastTheyear.”Hawks welcome back six players who earned all-dis trict honors last fall. The headliner is Class A District 6 Offensive MVP Corder Noun Harder, who rushed for 1,350 yards and 15 touchdowns last year. He averaged 10 yards per carry, hauled in six catches for 58 yards and had both a kickoff return and punt return TD. Noun Harder’s rushing yards ranked eighth in Class A, the 10 yards per carry was third and the 15 TDs ranked tied for ninth. His 215 punt return yards ranked fifth. He was a third team all-state tailback. “He has tre mendous poten tial and we are glad to have him back,” Parkin son said. “He is stronger, bigger and faster than he was last year.”
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The Hawks were 8-2 last year and finished 6-0 in Class A District 6. The roster in cludes 10 seniors and 37 total players.Parkinson said Maston, Sieck and Montgomery are still getting evaluated for the quarterback position.
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The Hawks’ defense brings back 10 of the top 11 tacklers.
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Thespots.Hawks’ offense ran the ball 87 percent of the time last fall. Parkinson, who calls the offensive plays, said he takes what the defense gives him.
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“I think we have the capa bility to throw the ball,” Par kinson said. “It leaned run last year, but we have the person nel to throw it.”
Lynnville-Sully junior Corder Noun Harder rushed for 1,350 yards and 15 touchdowns last year to earn all-state recogni tion in Class A. He also was the Class A District 6 Offensive MVP.
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The Hawks’ 1-2 punch in the forbacktrictfirstbetter.duotoAndKyleincludesbackfieldseniorSquires.accordingParkinson,thehasgottenSquireswasateamall-disrunningwhorushed808yardsand 13 TDs last season. He averaged 7.5 yards perSquirescarry. was named a third team all-state linebacker as well.The Hawks’ ranked sixth in Class A with 2,772 rushing yards last year and their 7.4 yards per carry ranked third. Parkinson said the coach ing staff is working to find the best 11 guys to put on the field on both sides of the ball. That’s why senior Conner Maston is taking preseason reps at wide receiver after spending last year at quarter back. The other two options at QB are junior Lucas Sieck and sophomore Lannon Mont gomery.Maston threw for 338 yards and four TDs and rushed for 233 yards and four scores last year.He returns as the team’s starting free safety, too. Mas ton was a first team all-district and third team all-state defen sive back in 2021 after rank ing third on the team with 46 tackles and registering four interceptions.Theother all-district re turners are seniors Matthias Torres, Lane Fisk and Caleb Rea. Maston was a second team punter in the district.
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The defensive line features Torres, Jansen and Fogle. Torres, who was a first team all-district utility player, fin ished with 33 tackles last year. The linebackers are led by Squires and Fisk, who was a first team all-district player at theSquiresposition.led the defense with 69 tackles and two fum bleFiskrecoveries.added59.5 tackles and two picks.
The two outside linebackers are expected to be Richards and Nikkel. Richards finished with 26 tackles in 2021 and Nikkel tallied 15.5 tackles.
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“We had five of the six girls on the floor see significant varsity minutes for the first time ever last year,” L-S head volleyball coach Kyra Smith said.“We already have the rotations figured out and we are familiar with the people around us — that should help us significantly this year.”
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Last year’s roster lost two seniors, including a multi-year starter at libero. But the top three kill produc ers are back. So is the setter. Five returners reached dou ble-digits in kills. Smith said several players are competing for the vacated libero spot with juniors Morgan Jones and Carsyn McFarland leading the way. “Aliya (James) was an outstanding libero, and we will miss her hustle and leadership,” Smith said. “Right now, we have many girls looking at that back-row spot.”
The top three kill producers last season were senior Abby Squires and juniors Aubree Arthur and AlexyThatConover.triois back and will be joined on the front row by juniors Paige James, Natalie Roberts and MajestaSquiresVos.had a team-best 103 kills in 2021 and added 64 digs. Arthur tallied 101 kills and 44 digs and Conover ranked third on the squad with 99 kills, 185 digs and 25 aces. Conover was a 91 percent server.
Lynnville-Sully’s volleyball team entered last season with an almost entirely new starting lineup and the overall record reflected the inexpe rience.With a plethora of players back from that 6-26 squad, the Hawks ex pect to be more competitive in 2022.
Aug. 27 — Grinnell tournament, 9 a.m. Aug. 30 — Baxter, 7 p.m. Sept. 8 — Iowa Valley, 7 p.m. Sept. 10 — GMG tournament, 9 a.m. Sept. 12 — Colfax-Mingo, 7 p.m. Sept. 15 — HLV, 7 p.m. Sept. 17 — N. Mahaska tournament, 9 a.m. Sept. 19 — Montezuma, 7 p.m. Sept. 22 — BGM, 7 p.m. Sept. 24 — N. Tama tournament, 9 a.m. Sept. 26 — N. Mahaska, 7 p.m. Oct. 1 — Newton tournament, 8:30 a.m. Oct. 3 — Sigourney, 7 p.m. Oct. 6 — Keota, 7 p.m. Oct. 10 — SICL Pool Play at TBD, 5 p.m. Oct. 13 — SICL Bracket Play at TBD, 5 p.m. Home matches in bold
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“We also cannot be giving the other team freebies.” Smith’s high school coach ing staff includes varsity as sistant and JV coach Amber Van Ryswyk and volunteer as sistant coach Shelby Van Der Wilt.
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Lynnville-Sully senior Greenlee Smock, right, will try to win her fourth South Iowa Cedar League championship and advance to her fourth state meet this fall for the Hawks.
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Roberts registered 13 kills, 132 digs and a team-best 40 aces last year, while James added 26 kills, 29 digs and 13 aces.Junior
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Elise Alberts is back as the team’s starting setter. Alberts led the Hawks with 273 assists and chipped in nine kills, 158 digs and 17 aces.Alberts’ serving percentage wasSenior95. Jordan Spooner also is back. She finished with 14 assists, 118 digs and 18 aces. Her serve percentage was 93.5.“Our team is excited about the sport and that keeps them wanting to learn more and to work hard,” Smith said. “We want to keep that momentum going into this year.”
Lynnville-Sully 2022 Varsity Cross Country Schedule Aug. 30 — Williamsburg, 4:30 p.m. Sept. 3 — Pella, 9:30 a.m. Sept. 6 — Grinnell, 4:15 p.m. Sept. 12 — Pleasantville, 5 p.m. Sept. 15 — Home invitational, 4:30 p.m. Sept. 20 — EBF, 4:30 p.m. Sept. 27 — Williamsburg, 4:30 p.m. Oct. 3 — North Polk, 5 p.m. Oct. 11 — SICL meet at Sigourney, 4:30 p.m. Oct. 20 — State qualifier at TBD, 4 p.m. Home meet in bold
Smock took second at the state qualifier and then placed 13th at state to earn her third state medal in Fort Dodge. Norrish was one spot off a state berth, finishing 11th in the state Seniorqualifier.Kendra Fikse (14th), sophomore Corrina Rozendaal (25th) and junior Brooke Conover (28th) all placed in the top 30 last year at the conference meet. The only newcomer to the girls’ squad is freshman Laura Fikse.The L-S girls have placed second in the conference for several straight years. So many times that Arkema lost count.“It would be great to get over the hump and take that top spot,” Arkema said. “We return five girls from last sea son. Greenlee is three-time conference champ and will certainly be after No. 4. We will need those two at the top, certainly, but a confer ence team title will take all our girls running well.
Lynnville-Sully senior Greenlee Smock is a threetime state qualifier and South Iowa Cedar League champi on for the Hawk girls’ cross countryFellowteam.seniors James Gru ver and Zach Morningstar are back for the boys’ team after both qualified for the state meet in 2021. The top of the rosters for both the L-S boys and girls are in good hands. The depth of both squads is not where Hawk head coach Darin Arkema wants it to be though. “I wish we had more depth for both groups certainly,” Arkema said. “Overall, I’m proud of the work that was done through the summer by our 12 runners. They took some ownership of that.”
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“Fundamentals and pass ing the ball,” Smith said about what needs improvement. “We have got to pass the ball well so we can set things up on our side.
Gruver was the confer ence runner-up in the boys’ 5K at the SICL meet last year and Morningstar also earned all-conference honors with a sixth-place finish. They were fourth and 10th, respectively, at districts. The other male return er is senior Evan Fikse. The newcomers are sophomore Hendrick Lowry and fresh men Will Conover and Ethan Dunsbergen.Lowrywas a football play er last fall but ran plenty of 800s and the 1,600-meter run during last spring’s track and fieldSmock’sseason.quest to become a four-time SICL champion and state meet medalist comes af ter she put in a tremendous amount of work this summer. “She has dialed in her focus to have her best cross country season yet,” Arkema said. “I look forward to challenging her to be her best, seeing her challenge herself and lead our team this Gruverseason.”finished 30th in the boys’ 1A 5K race at the state meet.Morningstar was 89th in his first state run.
Smith identified a few things from last year’s squad that need to be better before matches start this fall.
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Gruver ran more this sum mer than any previous sum mer before and Morningstar’s rise to the state meet was made possible by the work he put in during last year’s off season. He continued to log miles this summer with the hopes of a return trip to state.
The Hawks sent three run ners to the state meet last year for the first time since 2013. The girls’ team placed sec ond in the SICL meet and were fourth at a Class 1A state qualifier last year. The boys did not have enough runners for a team score. The Hawks start 2022 with enough runners to grab a team score on both sides.
“Six runners gives us enough to score as a team but not a lot of depth or room for an injury or illness. I would love to have more to fill out the roster, but I be lieve the returners are more equipped to start this season than in the last few.”
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Smock was joined on the all-conference team by soph omore Olivia Norrish, who was fourth at the SICL meet last year as a freshman.
“James and Zach will cer tainly both have their sights set on a return trip to state in their senior season,” Arkema said. “I hope both of them are hungry and not satisfied with accomplishments of past sea sons but rather determined to go out with great senior years and more Arkema’ssuccess.”staffincludes his wife and assistant coach Anna Arkema and volunteer assis tant coach Cori Schnell.
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The 2022 version of the Bolts expects to be as good or better than that squad, and long-time head coach Rob Lu ther thinks this year’s group has something his first 8-man squad didn’t have. “I loved that first team. They had heart and grit and were a hard-nosed team,” said Luther, who begins his 26th season at Baxter. “They had three, four or five great players. This year’s team has more than just five guys. It’s a deeper squad with a lot of game-changing players.”
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At the top of the roster is a strong group of seniors, led by all-stater Cody Damman. Damman begins his third year as the team’s starting quarterback, and he was a third team all-state defensive back last season. The roster also features se niors Trice Clapper, Jake Tra vis, Cael Shepley and Devan Fredregill, who all earned all-district honors last fall.
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Baxter soared into 8-man football with an 8-1 record and set new state standards along the way, too.
Juniors Treyton Travis and Aiden McFadden were hon orable mention all-district se lections.Damman, Shepley and Clapper are the team’s cap tains.“We feel really good that we’re pretty explosive and have a lot of guys who can play in space,” Luther said. “They understand the 8-man game.“The defense will be better than it was last year. They are hungry.”Baxter was 7-2 and 5-1 in 8-man District 7 last season.
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Damman, who was the district’s defensive MVP a season ago, threw for 1,300 yards and 23 touchdowns, rushed for 727 yards and 13 TDs and had 40.5 tackles on defense.Damman completed 69 percent of his passes, threw just six picks and averaged 6.6 yards per carry. He added a pick and a fumble recovery on defense.“That’s huge when you get a guy back who’s done it,” Lu ther said. “He’s also one of the smartest kids and one of the hardest workers. I would think he’s in the running for one of the best 8-man QBs in theClapperstate.” was a first team all-district lineman last sea son and will play both ways again this fall. Defensively, he had 28 tackles, two sacks and seven tackles for loss.
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The Bolts started 6-0 and averaged 66 points per game in the wins but scored only 31 points per game in the losses. They registered three shut outs and held three other opponents to fewer than 25 points.The Bolts’ toughest compe tition for the district title will come from defending district champion Montezuma and BGM.“Right now, we are not talking about anything except winning the day,” Luther said. “It’s hard though. We think we should be pretty good. If we aren’t talking about winning the district title, it’s the wrong goal.”
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“They showed up wanting to work hard, camp was great and it’s been a great first two weeks,” Luther said. “We are not blocking and tackling a lot yet so we’ll see, but we had a good summer of five on five. Real football is different, but at least we have guys who can throw it, catch it and run it.”
McFadden is back as the team’s center on offense and he had 18 tackles, two sacks and four tackles for loss on defense.JakeTravis was a first team all-district player last year, too. He’ll return to the H-back role on offense and play out side linebacker on defense. Last year, he rushed for 292 yards and seven TDs, hauled in 22 catches for 363 yards and eight TDs and finished with 38 tackles, four sacks, six tackles for loss and one fum ble recovery on defense. Jake Travis averaged 13.9 yards per carry and 16.5 yards per catch in 2021. He also booted 29 of his 50 kickoffs forThetouchbacks.widereceivers are She pley and Treyton Travis. The final offensive line spot likely will come down to Fredregill and sophomores Carter Smith and Grant An deregg.Shepley was a second team all-district selection last sea son after hauling in 25 passes for 268 yards and three scores. Defensively, he finished with 35.5 tackles, four intercep tions and two defensive TDs. Treyton Travis hauled in 12 catches for 232 yards and five scores.Fredregill was a sec ond-team all-district selec tion on the defensive line. He registered 39.5 tackles, four sacks, 12 tackles for loss and one fumble recovery. The other defensive line man in the Bolts’ two-front look will be Clapper and Mc Fadden will rotate in.
Damman will play the hy brid linebacker role. The two outside linebackers are Jake Travis and Shepley. Junior Cody Samson is the front runner to play middle linebacker. Samson finished with 12 tackles and one sack in 2021.Treyton Travis, who had two interceptions last season, will be one of the starters at defensive back. He will be joined by junior Evan Mahoney, a transfer from Grinnell who has been impressive in fall camp. Mahoney also replaces the departed Rory Heer at run ning back. He was part of Grinnell’s 4x100 relay team at the state track meet last spring.“He showed up about (five) weeks ago, went to our five on five stuff, has fit in great and is a state track kid,” Luther said. “We don’t know what he’ll do on the football field, but up until now, he’s fit in great. He’s electric. He’s fast. And he makes a lot of plays.” Luther will remain the pri mary play caller on offense. His defensive coordinator is ZachTheHasselbrink.restofthe coaching staff includes Ryan Travis, Ryan Boley, Chad Maxwell, Braydon Aker and Joe McMi namen.
Luther admitted to having about six legitimate varsity players and having to hide two on his first few 8-man teams. He believes this year’s roster fields 16 players who are good enough to help a Bolts’ team expected to compete for a dis trict championship. The roster goes nearly 30 deep.
“Last season, we identified our weaknesses in serve re ceive and serving,” Boley said. “This year, we are focusing on that at the very beginning and expecting that to improve throughout the season.”
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“We have great depth in our returners and have lots of flexibility in what positions our girls can play,” Boley said. Headlee highlights the back row. She led the Bolts with 157 digs last fall. She also tallied 14 assists and 19 aces.
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There was no magic for mula for the Cardinals in the offseason and Weeks doesn’t give in-depth workouts. He just wants his guys to run and run some more. “If we want our pack on varsity to return to state it has to come down to them getting the miles in the offseason,” Weeks said. “I’m a firm believ er to leaving strict running plans for the season and in the offseason just keeping fit. Play other sports, bike, jog, play soccer — just do something.”
Newton 2022 Varsity Boys Cross Country Schedule Aug. 25 — Marshalltown, 5 p.m. Aug. 30 — Williamsburg, 5:15 p.m. Sept. 6 — Grinnell, 5:45 p.m. Sept. 8 — Colfax-Mingo, 5:45 p.m. Sept. 13 — Oskaloosa, 5:15 p.m. Sept. 20 — Cardinal Invitational, 5:45 p.m. Sept. 23 — University of Minnesota, TBD Oct. 1 — Wartburg College, TBD Oct. 6 — Fort Dodge, 5:15 p.m. Oct. 10 — LHC meet at DCG, 5:30 p.m. Oct. 19 — State qualifier at TBD, 4 p.m. Home meet in bold
Large senior class hopes to flip script for Baxter volleyball
They were 8-20 last season and 3-2 in Iowa Star Confer ence“Weplay.have six seniors so we are expecting a lot of lead ership, talent and depth in our returning squad,” Baxter co-head coach Janessa Boley said. “Our expectation for growth throughout the season is high.”Boley is joined by new cohead coach and Baxter alum Jordynn Wesselink and assis tant coach Kristy Dee. The Bolts graduated their top kill producer last season but the second, third and fourth best in that category return in sophomore Abbie Meyer, senior Mandee Selover and junior Julie Damman. The squad also brings back senior libero Lilyan Headlee, who led the team in digs and was second in assists last fall. She was an honorable men tion all-conference selection, too.“As of now, we have a lot of depth and flexibility in what our players can play, so we are working on adapting to our players’ strengths and using the fullest extent of our varsity roster as noth ing is set in stone after our first week of practice,” Bo leyMeyersaid. returns after rank ing second on the squad with 102 kills as a fresh man. She also was second in digs with 72 and third in aces with Selover29.ranked third with 75 kills and 65 digs, first with 57 blocks and second with 30 Dammanaces.added 50 kills, 17 digs, 28 blocks and 22 aces.
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Senior Kendyl Stevenson finished with 28 digs and ju nior Evelyn Boothroyd had 23 digs a season ago. Another positive for the Bolts is they welcome back their top four servers based on percentage in Selover (91.2), Meyer (90.2), Damman (88) and Headlee (85.2).
Boley said the coaching staff is evaluating the setter position and two players are competing for the role. She also expects leadership to car ry over from last year’s roster. “We are going to be watch ing consistency, attitude and effort on the court to make game-time decisions (in re gards to the setter position),” Boley said. “We are looking for more consistency and adaptability this year in gen eral.”
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“Usually the rule for var sity is that we cannot have anyone in the 20s. If we can take all of those 19s from last year and drop them down to the low to mid-18s, we are looking at a pack that can score us back to state despite losing one of the fastest 5K runners in the state.”
Baxter’s volleyball team lost just two seniors from last year’s squad. That’s the good news. The bad news is the two play ers were the team’s starting setter and the team’s top kill producer.TheBolts will try to move their record closer to .500 and beyond with a large number of returners this fall.
The coaches have identified three other players in the pre season who are expected to push for playing time in the frontThatrow.trio includes seniors Bailey Littell, Kelcie Shedd and Calleah Frink. Frink had 15 kills and 11 blocks last fall, while Littell put down nine kills.
Newton, which begins the season ranked No. 15 in 3A, placed fifth at the LHC meet lastThisseason.year’s Cardinals’ var sity squad may see quite a few new faces after Menninga and Friedman. Besides Buch li, others who are expected to contend for varsity spots are juniors Cole Walter, Presley Arnold and Jesus Murillo, sophomores Christian Buchli and Javin Doland and fresh man Lance Zaabel. Doland moved back into the district from Texas. Newton’s roster features five seniors, eight juniors, six sophomores and one fresh man.“There was a large pack that ran at the top of the JV last year,” Weeks said. “Chris tian Buchli, Presley Arnold, Cole Walter and Jesus Murillo all posted a time last year at least in the 19-minute range.
Baxter 2022 Varsity Volleyball Schedule Aug. 27 — Colfax-Mingo tournament, 9 a.m. Aug. 30 — Lynnville-Sully, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 1 — Colo-NESCO, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 6 — Martensdale-St. Marys, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 8 — Collins-Maxwell, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 12 — Madrid Quadrangular, 5:30 p.m. Sept. 13 — BCLUW, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20 — ACGC, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 — Valley Lutheran, 5:30 p.m. Sept. 29 — Meskwaki Settlement, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6 — GMG, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8 — BCLUW tournament, 8:30 a.m. Oct. 13 — North Tama, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 15 — ISC tournament at Tripoli, 10 a.m. Home matches in bold
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“We have five solid boys,” Vaughn said. “We won’t have many others but those five are solid. We don’t have a person who would hinder us in any Gliemway.”earned all-conference honors with a fifth-place finish at the Iowa Star Conference meet last fall. She was 17th at the team’s Class 1A state qualifier. Tuhn and Russell both were top 20 at the conference meet and top 35 at the state qualifier.
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Pair of all-conference runners headline Baxter cross country
Baxter’s cross country team wel comes back a pair of all-conference runners this season. But numbers and depth remain the No. 1 con cern for Bolts head coach Dennis Vaughn.“Wewill try to get five runners on both sides,” Vaughn said. “We may not win a meet, but we can be competitive both as a team and in dividually.”Thegirls’ roster is highlighted by returners Zoey Gliem and Emie Tuhn and Regan Russell. Gliem and Tuhn are sophomores and Russell is a junior.They are joined by senior Grace Gruis and freshmen Maddie Iske and Jayme Riley, who is a transfer from Newton. Gruis was the team’s manager last year.
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The Baxter girls were third as a team at the conference meet but lost two-time state qualifier Elie Tuhn to graduation.
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“The girls are putting in great effort. We should have some very good runners no doubt,” Vaughn said. “But we also will struggle with numbers and won’t have any room forSophomoreerror.”
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Baxter 2022 Varsity Cross Country Schedule Aug. 22 — Woodward-Granger, 5 p.m. Aug. 25 — Collins-Maxwell, 4:30 p.m. Sept. 3 — Pella, 9:30 a.m. Sept. 8 — Colfax-Mingo, 4:30 p.m. Sept. 12 — South Tama County, 4:30 p.m. Sept. 19 — West Marshall, 4:30 p.m. Sept. 26 — Nevada, 4:30 p.m. Oct. 1 — South Hardin, 9:30 a.m. Oct. 4 — Dike-New Hartford, 4:15 p.m. Oct. 13 — Iowa Star Conference meet, 4:30 p.m. Oct. 20 — State qualifier at TBD, 4 p.m.
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Aug. 26 — Davis County, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 2 — Newton, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 9 — Pella Christian, 7 p.m. Sept. 16 — Iowa Falls-Alden (HC), 7:30 p.m. Sept. 23 — Albia, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30 — West Marshall, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7 — Chariton, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14 — Roland-Story, 7:30 p.m. Home games in bold
“Our standards are high. I do think bringing in a bunch of new guys is a good thing because there’s always a new energy with that,” Bonnett said. “Plenty of these guys have got their reps on the var sity football field and had very positive evaluations when they played so now is their chance to take more reps and proveTheit.”biggest focus and con versation to his players after last year’s .500 campaign was playing the sport of football for the right reasons.
PCM head football coach Greg Bonnett walked off the field last season following a 35-0 playoff loss to Williams burg not happy with that game and with the season as a whole.TheMustangs finished 5-5 a year after reaching the state semifinals.Bonnett vowed to improve the record with a big offsea son and he thinks his squad has what it takes to return to the upper-echelon of Class 2A.If that happens, it will be with plenty of new faces.
“I wanted to stress that foot ball is not for everyone and having guys who are out for the wrong reasons will drive mediocrity out of teammates,” Bonnett said. “Even worse than that, the kid is spending hours away from doing some thing they might really want to get better at. I wanted every player to understand it’s OK to not go out for football. The other players and coaches are going to love and support you no matter what because at the end of the day we are all still Mustangs and great friends.”
Nickelson was a third team all-state defensive lineman last year after finishing with 36.5 tackles and a team-best 13 tackles for loss. Fenton was an all-district defensive back after register ing 36.5 tackles, two inter ceptions and a team-best two fumbleCamurecoveries.had27.5 tackles, Vanderpool collected 18.5 tackles and Olson chipped in 14.5Robbinstackles.and Fenton, who led the team in punt and kick return yards last fall, will be joined in the return game by Olson in 2022. The kicker position will come down to either sopho more Trystan Fry or freshman Dominic Witt. PCM will be back in 2A District 7. The reigning dis trict champion is West Mar shall.“We certainly had some bad luck last year, but we could have been better if I would have been a better head coach,” Bonnett said. “I don’t want to feel that way again at the end of this season.”
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Part of the issue with the record could be in correlation with losing starting quarter back Au gust Stock to an
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The Mustangs started 1-3 and 2-4 last fall before finish ing 3-0 to make the postsea son.In the losses, PCM aver aged 4.4 points per game and was outscored 112-22. In the wins, the Mustangs scored 34.4 points per game and out scored their foes 172-60.
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The Mustangs rushed for 1,750 yards last fall but 1,348 of that total was lost to grad uation.Camu was a third team allstate offensive linemen last fall.The wide receivers are ex pected to be senior Gavin Fenton, juniors Griffin Olson and Jacob Wendt and sopho more Gavin Van Gorp. Olson had three catches for 39 yards last year, while Fen ton hauled in two catches for 12 yards. Van Gorp got varsity action at quarterback, throw ing for 291 yards and rushing forThe40. new-look offensive line (from left tackle to right tackle) features junior Mark Bussan, senior Donovan Nickelson and sophomores Tate Birkenholtz, Trenner Van Dyke and Kaden Clark.
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There will be plenty of new faces on offense. The leading rusher and six of the top seven producers at wideout graduated. So did several players on the offen siveSophomoreline. Adrien Rob bins got significant snaps as a secondary ball carrier last year. He finished with 337 rushing yards and three scores and hauled in six catches for 120 yards and one TD. The other tailback is senior
Several Mustangs will play both ways after eight of the top 11 tacklers from last fall graduated.Thedefensive line features Nickelson, Van Dyke, Clark and Wendt, the linebackers are Van Gorp, Camu, Vander pool and junior Gabe Hobbs and the defensive secondary includes Fenton, Olson, se nior Brayden Nessa and soph omore Riley Graber.
“I felt like we needed sys tems in place that could better sustain a level of play in the event we lost a key player or players,” Bonnett said. “Prac tice planning, repetitions, quality of instruction and things of that nature have been the most important.”
“August has done a great job of strength and mobili ty rehabilitation, and I think he looks awesome,” Bonnett said. “I anticipate him being able to play right away, but it’s something we will decide later. I certainly think August was good enough for another couple of wins last year. I also think he has been a decent enough leader in the offsea son that he’s good for a couple of wins this year if he is on the field or not. He has put in the work every day.”
Bonnett’s coaching staff in 2022 includes Offensive Co ordinator Collin Harrison, of fensive assistant coaches Zach Woods, Jeff Shannon, Logan Biegler, Andy Strum and Peter Thomas and defensive coach es James Nolin, Rusty Vos and BrianBonnettSteenhoek.isincharge of the defense.
De Vries begins PCM volleyball tenure with strong senior class
First-year head volleyball coach Sarah De Vries got an entire sum mer of open gyms to evaluate PCM’sAndprogram.shewas able to identify something that needed to be shored up before the fall season began. “It was great to be able to be a part of open gyms this summer and get to know some of the girls,” De Vries said. “We worked a lot on getting stronger and being more aggressive at the net.” De Vries takes over the program from Mike Vittetoe, who came out of coaching retirement to guide the Mustangs the past few seasons. De Vries has a significant back ground in volleyball. She played on a few state title teams during her prep days at Unity Christian.
Previous to her start at PCM, De Vries coached at the freshmen lev el at Southeast Polk for three years and spent several seasons coaching club volleyball. “I took a long break from coach ing while my kids were little but am now at a good place to start coach ing again,” De Vries said. “As a resi dent, parent and substitute teacher in the district, I saw the need for a newThecoach.”bad news for De Vries is she lost four seniors to graduation from a team which went 12-22 and finished 3-4 in the Heart of Iowa Conference.Thegood news is she welcomes back plenty of players who logged significant varsity time last season. The roster is highlighted by se nior setter Sidney Shaver, senior libero RaeAnn Duinink and senior hitters Riley Johannes and Joslin Briles. Senior Skylar Burns also played along the back-row last fall. Johannes, who earned honor able mention all-conference recog nition last year, will start at outside hitter and Briles takes over as the starter at right-side hitter.
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De Vries is excited about her first season as head var sity volleyball coach but also is eager to develop talent at all levels.“We want to continue to grow our youth programs, which will eventually result in a stronger high school pro gram,” De Vries said. “I’m re ally looking forward to what this first season will bring.” De Vries’ coaching staff in cludes freshman coach Angie Clark and junior varsity coach Jodi Johnson. Contact Troy Hyde at 641-792-3121 ext. 536 or thyde@shawmedia.com
“Overall, this is the small est the program has been in a while,” PCM cross country coach Eric Karr said. “It’s an extremely demanding sport physically, mentally and emo tionally, and I’m struggling to get numbers up.”
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The middle hitters are ex pected to be juniors Reese Palm and Elle Davis. Palm led the team with 22 blocks and contributed 53 kills as a soph omore.Sophomore Addison Steen hoek transitions from setter to outside hitter. Junior Ella Schendel and freshman Tori Lindsay could see time in the back row. “I think any coach’s goal is to improve on the previ ous year and in my first year here, mine is no different,” De Vries said. “The team was very strong defensively last year but not quite as aggressive as I would like to see at the net. We want to improve our of fensive attack as well as put up bigger blocks.”
Six Mustangs are back af ter competing on the varsity squads last season.
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The girls’ team goes 10 deep and seniors Jillian Fairbanks and Riley DeVore and sopho more MaKayla True are back from last year’s varsity lineup.
The three returning male runners who were on the var sity in 2021 were sophomores Carson Taylor, Jacob Buys and Wyatt“VeryVannoy.fewof the kids out for the cross country team are true distance runners, so as multi-sport athletes, it’s just so tough on their bodies,” Karr“Onesaid.thing I’m hoping to change for the program is a lot of prehab exercises to work on injury prevention. I’m talking about all the little exercises and lifts that target the lig aments, tendons and small muscle groups, especially the ankle and shin area. All the little things that we don’t al ways like to do because they don’t give you immediate tan gible results in the mirror, but they will pay off big time in the long run.”
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The top returner from last year is True, who was 25th in the girls’ 5K race at the Heart of Iowa Con ference meet and 39th in the Class 2A state quali fier.Fairbanks and DeVore were 31st and 32nd, re spectively, in the confer ence meet and 62nd and 64th in the state qualifier, re spectively.Therest of the girls’ ros ter features juniors Kaitlynn Smith, Emma Heibert and Betsy McClellan, sophomore Alyce Engle and freshmen Reagan Vannoy, Abigail Tee ter and Alexis Fagg. “With only 10 girls out this season, they will all be com peting for a varsity spot,” Karr said. “MaKayla, Riley and Jil lian were consistently in the top seven last year, and I don’t expect that to change. Abi Teeter and Reagan Vannoy are two freshmen that had a lot of success in middle school so I look forward to seeing what they can do at the high school level.”On the boys’ side, joining the sophomore trio of Taylor, Buys and Wyatt Vannoy will be freshmen Coby DeRaad, Leighton McClure, Carter Dudley and Charlie Ford. “Carson Taylor made a lot of improvement last year and has been working hard this summer,” Karr said. “Fresh men Coby DeRaad and Leigh ton McClure are two who I expect to be at the top of the varsity roster. The biggest thing this offseason is consis tency with training, especially with the four freshmen who are basically doubling their race from middle school.”
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Mustang harriers will count on youth in 2022
“We have a solid core of seniors this year leading our team,” De Vries said. “These girls all add great energy to our team and have been pos itiveJohannesleaders.” was second on the team last year with 72 kills and registered 13 assists, 77 digs, 11 blocks and 34 aces. Briles tallied 45 kills, 11 as sists and 15 digs. Shaver led the team with 344 assists and ranked second with 40 aces. She also finished with 107 digs and had a serve percentage of 94.5. Duinink ranked second on the team with 149 digs and added 31 aces. Her serve per centage was 91.4. Burns tallied 64 digs and served at a 90.4 percent clip.
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PCM’s cross country team will count on plenty of under classmen this season. Both the boys’ and girls’ squads have two seniors com bined and each team likely will feature a pair of freshmen in the top half of the lineup.
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The Mustang girls were fifth at the HOIC meet and ninth in the state qualifier a yearTheago.2021 boys’ squad did not have enough runners for a teamAssistingscore.Karr this season will be PCM alum and for mer girls track and field coach Bridget Martin. Both Karr and Martin will be strict on having a mental ly tough, competitive mindset and being positive. “It’s an extremely tough sport that very few under stand, but at the same time, if you choose to compete in cross country, show up ready to work,” Karr said.
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By Troy Hyde Sports Editor Colfax-Mingo Schedule 7 p.m. p.m. 9 North Mahaska (HC), 7 p.m. Belle Plaine, 7 p.m. Ogden, 7 p.m. Lynnville-Sully, 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 14 Wayne, 7:30 p.m.
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Troy Hyde/Newton News Colfax-Mingo junior Curtis Horras is the Tigerhawks’ top returning of fensive skill position player after earning first team all-district honors as a wideout and kicker last fall.
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“It’s hard to get everyone a lot of reps right now so that’s been frustrating for the guys,” Lietz said. “I’m happy with the progress so far. We are not there yet, but we don’t have to be.”The returning all-district players are juniors Curtis Horras, Trey Hockemeier and MerrittHorrasMcConeghey.wasafirst team wide receiver and kicker. He hauled in 33 catches for 696 yards and scored six touch downs last fall. He averaged 21 yards per catch and was 3-of-4 on field goals and 21-of-23 in extra points as a kicker. Hockemeier was a second team defensive back. He had 34.5 tackles and added 25 catches for 235 yards and two scores as a wideout. He also returned 24 kickoffs for 360 yards.McConeghey shined de fensively for the Tigerhawks last fall. He ranked second on the team with 47 tackles and added two fumble recoveries to earn honorable mention all-districtOffensively,recognition.herushed for 150 yards and four TDs on 29 carries.Besides McConeghey, the offensive backfield includes sophomores Xavier Woods, JT Berner and Isaiah Baucom.
Rausch also had 91 digs and led the team with 39 aces. Lampe ranked sixth in the LHC with 471 assists and reg istered 15 blocks, 108 digs and 14 Heraces.serving percentage was 96.6 and her 5.7 assists per set ranked sixth in the league. Delaney Woollums’ time on the floor increased as the season went on last year. She played in 16 matches in her first varsity season and fin ished with 29 kills and 29 digs. Her serving percentage wasAnother96.4. returning starter is sophomore Chloe Swank, the team’s libero. Swank had 199 digs and 32 aces last fall. from 6
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There are many positions up for grabs, including quar terback.And a lot of those ques tions were expected to be answered at the scrimmage against Saydel on Aug. 19. The starting quarterback will be either junior Cael Bracewell or sophomore Shane Hostetter. The Tigerhawks also are deep at wide receiver and have 13 or 14 linemen who Lietz thinks are varsity players.
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Earles tied McConeghey with 47 tackles last year. Bracewell finished with 18 tackles.The defensive backs are Hockemeier, Horras, Woods, Wood and Kaden and Konner Dalton.Woods tallied 14 tackles as a freshman.“Thedefense is far ahead of last year,” Lietz said. “Our mentality and aggressiveness will be improved. They are getting after it.”
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Horras and Hockemeier return at wide receiver and will be joined by Woods and juniors Joe Earles, Conner Wood, Konner Dalton and KadenBracewellDalton.will play wide re ceiver if he does not win the quarterback job. He registered 32 catches for 230 yards and one TD last year in that posi tion.“It’s a great battle right now,” Lietz said in reference to the QB competition. “They both have great attitudes. We are happy with both of them and have not yet made a de cision.”Junior left tackle Ben Kee ney, junior left guard Kayd Pleggenkuhle and junior cen ter Sam Dawson all are back after starting last year on the offensive line. The other two spots are be ing contested by juniors Don ovan Baucom and Logan Aller and sophomores Brock Nich ol and Jermaine Cross. “We’ll spread it out, but believe it or not, we like to be 50-50 pass to run,” Lietz said. “I’m happy with the offense. We have been solid up front. We’re trying to see how they gelThetogether.”three-man defensive line will be a rotation of the players listed at offensive line. Lietz said six linebackers will battle for playing time at four spots. Those six players include McConeghey, Earles, Hostetter, Bracewell, Isaiah Baucom and Nichol.
Ahn will be one four play ers expected to play all the way around for Newton. The others are senior rightside hitter Audrey Rausch, sophomore outside hitter Delaney Woollums and soph omore setter Macy Lampe. Rausch (33), Lampe (30) and Woollums (29) are the three next best returning kill producers from last year.
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Colfax-Mingo head foot ball coach Jeff Lietz and his coaching staff identified what ailed his squad last fall. The Tigerhawks must be better up front if they want to improve on last year’s record and register their first win ning season since 2018. Lietz believes his team is improved and camp com petitions in most positions should bring out the best in the“Wesquad.have to be better de fensively and offensively all the way around,” Lietz said. “We have to better up front on both sides of the ball. I do think we are improved though.”TheTigerhawks were 3-6 last season and 3-3 in Class A District 6 play. This year’s team will be young as it has no seniors on the“Practicesroster. have gone well,” Lietz said. “I love the energy. I love the work ethic.”
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Lietz’s staff includes as sistant coaches Jacob Lietz, Dylan Berkey, Ben Ferkin and Joe Krieger and volunteer as sistant coaches Matt Barka low, Brian Summy, Phil Grant, John Borts, Josh Rathje, Gabe Simpson and Ryan Hermes.
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“She’s really good. There won’t be much of a drop off I don’t think,” Grant said. Moving Woods to the mid dle creates an opening along the front line.
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Juniors Hailey Sumpter and Chloe Rorabaugh will start the season as the middle hitters. They played right-side and outside hitter, respectively, last season.“With the returning court expe rience we have, it will be harder for teams to simplify the game when fac ing us,” Coach Woollums said. “They are going to have to play us more hon est and in turn it will give the team a chance to accomplish even more.” Sumpter finished with 16 kills, 16 blocks, 34 digs and 34 aces last year. Her serving percentage was 96.1. Rorabaugh finished with 14 kills.
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Tigerhawk volleyball seeks return to SICL Gold Quad
The Tigerhawks welcome back senior hitter Caylee Cun ningham, who was snubbed out of a first team all-confer ence honor last fall after reg istering 263 kills, 223 digs, 47 aces and 22 assists. The kills, aces and digs ranked second, third and fourth on the team, respectively.“Weare looking forward to her being the No. 1 option. She has always had someone else,” Grant said. “I even want Caylee attacking from the backGrantrow.”lost a handful of hit ters last fall and graduated one of the top setters in school history in Kyra Lester. But she brings back a talented duo on the back row in seniors Joslyn Chadwick and Abi Rawlins. Rawlins registered 199 digs, 19 kills and 40 aces last year and her serve percentage wasChadwick89.6. had 46 digs and 14 aces and her serving per centage was 95.8. She is ex pected to be the team’s start ingThelibero.only other returner who got varsity experience last year was senior Felicity Woods. She finished with 31 kills, 52 digs and 12 blocks in 2021.Grant said she likely will move Woods to the middle and pair her with freshman BritneySophomoreKeeney.Trinity Smith is expected to replace the de parted Morgan Van Dyke op posite of Cunningham. Smith would have played varsity last year had their not been so many senior hitters.
Colfax-Mingo head vol leyball coach Michelle Grant knew she had a conference-ti tle caliber squad in 2021. The Tigerhawks reached the South Iowa Cedar League championship match a season ago but enter 2022 with a few new faces in some key spots. But, Grant thinks her team can get back to the SICL Gold Quad this fall. “We were close last year, and I feel like we can get back to the Gold Quad,” Grant said. “I think we will need a mo ment at the beginning of the season with Madison (Stack house) and Trinity (Smith) being so new. We might drop some matches early that we shouldn’t and wish in October we could get those back.”
This year’s Newton coaching staff includes assistant varsity coach Mallo ry Shipley, junior varsity coach Nicky Lampe, freshman coach Dan Bright, volunteer coach Wayne Woollums and volunteer freshman coach Erin Bright.
Aug. 23 — Home tournament, 4:30 p.m. Aug. 25 — ADM quadrangular, 4:30 p.m. Aug. 30 — Oskaloosa, 7:15 p.m. Sept. 1 — North Polk (GVC), 5:30 p.m. Sept. 6 — Pella, 7:15 p.m. Sept. 13 — Norwalk, 7:15 p.m. Sept. 15 — DM Christian (Knoxville, SEW), 4:30 p.m. Sept. 20 — Pella Christian, 7:15 p.m. Sept. 27 — Indianola, 7:15 p.m. Sept. 29 — Gilbert, 5:30 p.m. Oct. 1 — Home tournament, 8:30 a.m. Oct. 4 — Dallas Center-Grimes, 7:15 p.m. Oct. 11 — Grinnell, 7:15 p.m. Oct. 13 — LHC tournament at Indianola, 4:30 p.m. Home matches in bold Contact Troy Hyde at 641-792-3121 ext. 536 or thyde@shawmedia.com
The final starting spot will come down to juniors Charlotte Donahue and Ad die Schroeder and freshman GraceLesterHunsberger.willbereplaced by sophomore Madison Stack house, who has not played volleyball since seventh grade. The Tigerhawks were 22-12 last year and finished 9-2 in theTheySICL.won a five-set match against Pleasantville in the postseason. Grant’s assistant coach es are Rachel Van Zante and Krissy Yanske.
Aug. 27 — Home tournament, 9 a.m. Aug. 30 — Southeast Warren, 5:30 p.m. Sept. 12 — Lynnville-Sully, 7 p.m. Sept. 15 — North Mahaska, 7 p.m. Sept. 17 — ACGC tournament, TBD Sept. 19 — HLV, 7 p.m. Sept. 22 — Montezuma, 7 p.m. Sept. 26 — BGM, 7 p.m. Sept. 29 — Keota, 7 p.m. Oct. 1 — Pleasantville tournament, 9 a.m. Oct. 3 — English Valleys, 7 p.m. Oct. 4 — Sigourney, 7 p.m. Oct. 10 — SICL Pool Play at TBD, 5 p.m. Oct. 13 — SICL Bracket Play at TBD, 5 p.m. Oct. 15 — W-G tournament, 8:30 a.m. Home matches in bold
Wermager, Almazan and White are defensive specialists and Clayton will play middle hitter and right-side hit ter.Wermager is the only one of this group who logged varsity action last year. She played in all 32 matches and finished with 100 digs. Four of the eight LHC teams fin ished above .500 last year and the oth er three won at least 16 matches.
The rest of the varsity roster in cludes seniors Emily Wermager and Roxanna Almazan and juniors Addie White and Gracie Clayton.
“The LHC has proven to be a solid volleyball conference year after year,” Coach Woollums said. “Many teams we faced in 2021 had players with years of varsity-level experience, while five of six players on our side were ex periencing it for the first time.”
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“If we could run 10 kids and score 10 kids, we’d be really good,” Tomas said. “I couldn’t tell you right now. If I made a list today, it may not be the same next week. “We’re young, but we should still see a big step forward. It will be a competitive group of kids.”e girls’ team will start with seven runners, which equals a full varsity squad.Likewith Rhone, Tomas said Wilkins is the team’s No. 1 runner until someone takes it from her.
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Freshman Gage Byal, sophomore Josue Rodriguez, junior Austin Lane and senior Seth Brant are the four other runners who Tomas expects will battle for a varsity spot.
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Colfax-Mingo’s boys cross country team went into 2021 with expectations of nishing in the top three at the South Iowa Cedar League meet.ey didn’t reach that mark but with so many key returners back from the squad, the goal is the same for long-time head coach Zach Tomas. “We didn’t nish as well on the boys’ side as I think we should have. I felt like we should have been top three,” Tomas said.“So top three is the goal for us again with so many guys back.” e boys welcome back six runners from last year’s state qualier and conference meet. Which seven make the varsity and what order they nish in at each meet remains a mystery to Tomas, but senior Carter Gibson and sophomores Harrison Rhone, Xavier Woods and Tony Buenrostro are expected to be in the top four. “Carter, Harrison and Tony have all been at the front at some point of our summer workouts. Xavier was hurt though, too,” Tomas “Harrisonsaid.isour No. 1 until someone takes it from him. He seems like he’s motivated to stay there.”e girls’ roster brings back senior Joslyn Chadwick and sophomores Shae Wilkins and Devan Chadwick. e squad also features three incoming freshmen and senior McKenna Pleima, who is out for the sport for the rst time.“It will be interesting on the girls’ side as the freshmen get adjusted to the distance. en you add in McKenna,” Tomas said. “ ere are a lot more questions on the girls’ side. And we’ll only get the answers at the meets.”
Rhone was 15th at the SICL meet last fall and Woods nished 18th. e next best nisher was sophomore Owen Ament, who is back with the team in 2022. Senior Mason Edwards and junior John McGill also are back after running on the varsity at season’s end. Gibson will focus only on cross country this season a er dual sporting with football lastWoodsfall. missed a lot of the preseason and summer workouts because of an injury su ered during baseball season.
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By Troy Hyde Sports Editor 4:30 p.m. Ottumwa, 4:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. p.m. 4:30 p.m. 5:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 5 p.m. 4:30 p.m. at Sigourney, 4:30 p.m. TBD, 4 p.m.
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Sept. 8 — Home invitational,
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Joslyn Chadwick will dual sport with volleyball and Woods also is on the Tiger hawk football team.
“We would love to keep our LHC title — it’s one of our favorite meets,” Patter son said. “The NCC is a battle with Decorah. We love to take home conference crowns so winning those two are always a focus. It will be tougher this year, but we’ll have to see what we are made of.”
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“If you do everything the way you are supposed to and eat correctly, the times will take care of themselves,” Vaughn said. “We will focus on doing ev erything right in practice. We don’t want to go through the motions.” Vaughn’s staff includes as sistant coach Colby Wagner.
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Tomas expects Joslyn and Devan Chadwick to be solid contributors and freshman Bianca Lane to push to be one of the team’s top runners. The rest of the roster features Plei ma and freshmen Lilyan Had sall and Mallory Sipma. “I don’t know right now. If you watched workouts, you would understand,” Tomas said. “We have kids look good one day and some other kids look good the next. We are young on the girls’ side.”
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“The sophomores are a large and great group who works hard and all of them swam over the summer at least a little,” Patterson said. “A few freshmen are coming in who will make a varsity im pact,Thetoo.”relays are always a fo cus for Patterson’s program. A lot of the team’s success each year comes from a load of girls competing well in all three relays. The 200 medley relay team placed ninth at the state meet last fall, while the 200 and 400 freestyle relays both were 10th.“We love our relays,” Pat terson said. “Lillie Ray was on all three last year and will be playing a huge role again this year.“It will be exciting to see who will fill the rest of those spots. Taking new people to state is always fun.”
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Swedenhjelm said the lack of punt return yardage has to do with the Cardinals choos ing to go after punts, but he expects the kick return game to be “I’mbetter.excited about our po tential at kickoff return. We have a lot of depth with peo ple who can return the ball so that will help us out quite a bit,” Swedenhjelm said.
The roster features six se niors in Ruggles, Lillie Ray, Olivia Felton, Skyler Gooden, Emily VanderMolen and Ellie Wogen.Thesix juniors are Brooke and Jacy Linahon, Lauryn Garrett, Jadin Brooks, Estella Allen and Brianna Aebischer. The rest of the roster fea tures 12 sophomores and sev en Lilliefreshmen.Ray and Ruggles are the top returners in the 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle and the 100 backstroke. Peyton Ray also was one of the top 100 and 200 freestylers last season.Four sophomores are the top returners in the 200 freestyle. After Peyton Ray was Anna DeVries, Alex Riney and Izzy Lane. Sophomore Avery Mey er, DeVries and Peyton Ray are the top three returners in the 500 freestyle and Riney and sophomore Addi son Van Maanen join Ruggles as top returners in the 100 backstroke.Thetop four returners in the 200 IM are Riney, Van Maanen, Ruggles and Meyer and Brooke Linahon is the leading returner in the 100 breaststroke.Sophomore Paige Benson played a key role in filling out last year’s relay teams, too.
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Matt Richardson earned all-conference status last year with a ninth-place finish at the ISC meet. He was 27th at the 1A state qualifier. Jones, Rainsbarger and Bethards were the next finish ers at the state qualifier. Vaughn wants both the boys’ and girls’ squads to be more consistent this season.
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Aug. 25 — Grinnell/Williamsburg, 5:30 p.m. Aug. 30 — Marshalltown (Hoover), 5:30 p.m. Sept. 1 — Grinnell (Indianola), 7 p.m. Sept. 8 — Ankeny, 5:30 p.m. Sept. 13 — Oskaloosa, 5:30 p.m. Sept. 24 — WDM Valley invitational, 9 a.m. Sept. 27 — Oskaloosa (Perry), 5:30 p.m. Oct. 6 — Des Moines Lincoln, 5:30 p.m. Oct. 11 — Boone, 5:30 p.m. Oct. 15 — NCC meet at Luther College, 10 a.m. Oct. 18 — LHC meet at Indianola, 5:30 p.m. Nov. 5 — State qualifier at TBD, Noon Home meets in bold
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Aug. 26 — Knoxville, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 2 — PCM, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 9 — Marshalltown, 7 p.m. Sept. 16 — Saydel (HC), 7 p.m. Sept. 23 — Pella, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30 — Oskaloosa, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7 — CR Washington, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14 — CR Xavier, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 — Clear Creek-Amana, 7:30 p.m. Home games in bold
Newton averaged around 32 points per game last sea son. The Cardinals surren dered only 5.25 points per game outside the district, but that number grew to 38 points against when facing league foes.“We play in a league with some great teams, and great teams can score in all sorts of ways,” Swedenhjelm said. “In some of those games it was not necessarily all our defense either. We need to make sure that we play complementary football in all three phases.” Class 4A District 4 was loaded last season. Three teams in the league qualified for the playoffs, five were in the top 20 of the RPI and all six were in the top 25. One of Newton’s biggest fo cuses this offseason, accord ing to Swedenhjelm, was to improve the depth. The Cardinal head coach expects four or five players to see action on both sides of the ball.“We took some steps in the right direction last sea son,” Swedenhjelm said. “We learned how to compete. Even in games we lost, we were in dogfights for a majority of the game. We still have a few steps to take, but you always will.” Cedar Rapids Xavier is the defending district cham pion. The Saints were 5-0 in league play, while Pella, Clear Creek-Amana and Cedar Rapids Washington all were 3-2.“In our district, you can not afford to take any team for granted and need to be ready to compete each week,” Swe denhjelmSwedenhjelm’ssaid. staff in cludes assistant coaches Jeff Richardson, Trent Powers, Brian Springer, Randy Ervin, Chase Dickinson, John Harp er, Lucas Warner, Ed Ergen bright, Dan Bebout, Logan Shaver and team historian TomTheWeeks.freshman head coach Is Loren Jacobsen and his as sistant coaches are RJ Brown and Dan Cibula.
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