By Kristi Nixon ST. ANSGAR — Even with Osage a heavy favorite in this Top of Iowa East boys basketball game, all coaches involved knew this was not going to be an easy one. Green Devils’ head man Mike Brahn could see that the Saints’ length would give his team some fits. Even so, his…
By Kristi Nixon ST. ANSGAR — As bad as St. Ansgar’s girls’ basketball team wants to beat Osage on the court, the Saints made the kindest of gestures toward Green Devil head man Chad Erickson and his family. A few weeks ago, coach Scott Cakerice’s Saints organized a fundraiser in order to donate toward Erickson…
By Kristi Nixon ST. ANSGAR — In its first girls wrestling season on their own, the Saints claimed one title, a first of the season for senior Emma Hall, at 110 pounds. With coach Katie Walk’s team without its only ranked wrestler, Mariah Michels, with a medical issue according to Walk, who she said should…
By Kristi Nixon OSAGE — Three games into the 2023-24 season, and it is hard to imagine coach Mike Brahn’s Osage team shooting any better. Following an absolute 85-32 throttling of Central Springs on Friday, Dec. 1, the Green Devils are shooting 52.6 percent from the field and 59.2 from beyond the three-point line in…
By Kristi Nixon ST. ANSGAR — On a night in which the Saint senior wrestlers were honored, an eye opening performance came from a wrestlers who was putting on a singlet in action for the very first time in his career. Junior 190-pounder Drew Carlson, out for the sport for the first time ever, looked…
By Kristi Nixon MANLY — Much like the varsity girls’ game before it, the St. Ansgar boys’ basketball team built a heavy lead and hung on for a two-point win over Central Springs. Co-coaches Jason Squier and Eric Kline’s team got out to an 8-0 lead and extended it to 17-4 after the first quarter…
By Kristi Nixon MANLY — The St. Ansgar girls’ basketball team’s aggressive nature nearly came back to haunt it. Foul trouble led to a pair fouling out in the fourth quarter and two more finishing with four as Central Springs mounted a furious fourth quarter rally only for coach Scott Cakerice’s Saints to hang on…
By Kristi Nixon ST. ANSGAR — A quality East Buchanan team came into St. Ansgar and upset the top-ranked Saints, 30-16, in the Class A quarterfinal round on Friday, Nov. 3. The Bucs took awhile to get going, as they were flagged four times in their first two possessions, including three false start penalties, but…
By Kristi Nixon CORALVILLE — Start to finish, the fifth-seeded St. Ansgar volleyball team showed it wanted to make the first state appearance in 35 years a long one. Coach Tyler Johnson’s Saints won the opener, took extra points in dropping the second and won the third, but eventually fell in five to fourth-ranked BCLUW…
Osage’s Byrnes medals in her second state meet By Kristi Nixon FORT DODGE — Scarlett Byrnes’ favorite number is 10 for so many reasons. “Well, I was born on the 10th of October, which is the 10th month of the year, and I was born at 10:10 at night,” Byrnes said. “And I weighed 10…
