By Kristi Nixon DES MOINES — What a way to walk away from a stellar career. As long-time St. Ansgar girls track and field head coach Phil Baldus plans to retire after the 2024 season, he goes out with the Saints’ first girls state title of the sport in hand. They won a nail-biter team…
By Kristi Nixon DIKE — Osage was seeking its second Class 2A state golf berth in three years, but had a rough outing while the competition played outstanding in finishing fifth in the seven-team field at Dike’s Fox Ridge Golf Club on Tuesday, May 14. The top two teams and six low individual golfers advanced…
By Kristi Nixon DES MOINES — If the Saint girls track and field team are to capture a team trophy in Class 1A, they are going to need a big boost from the 4×400-meter relay. The same foursome of Lila Powers, Amelia Porisch, Kinsey Anderson who combined for the 4×800 state title went out and…
Osage senior PRs, breaks own school mark By Kristi Nixon DES MOINES — Almost seven months to the day in which Osage senior Ericka Power injured her arm at the opening wrestling tournament of the 2023-24 winter season, the Green Devil left her mark in the field during the state track & field meet. Three…
By Kristi Nixon DES MOINES — For only the second time in St. Ansgar school history, the Saints took home a relay state title when they ran to the 4×800 victory on Thursday afternoon, May 16 at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. Amelia Porisch, Lila Powers, Natalie Bork and Kinsey Anderson ran to a season-best…
By Kristi Nixon DES MOINES — Scarlett Byrnes fought off being boxed in early during her Class 2A 3,000-meter race and worked her way to her first state medal in the event, finishing eighth with a new personal best time by five seconds. The sophomore, who ran to 15th in her first state meet a…
By Kristi Nixon SHEFFIELD — St. Ansgar’s Maci Mayer earned the final (sixth) qualifying spot for the Class 1A regional final this week with her 18-hole round of 99 at Sheffield’s Ridge Stone Golf Course on Friday, May 10. The sophomore, who helped the Saints reach the regional final as a team a year ago,…
Saints bring back several to state track & field meet By Kristi Nixon ST. ANSGAR — The feeling isn’t much different for each and every one of the St. Ansgar girls and boys track and field qualifiers who are making a return trip to the Blue Oval. And there is a lot of them. It…
By Kristi Nixon MASON CITY — Osage claimed its fourth straight Top of Iowa East Conference boys golf title, scoring a new 18-hole school record with 311 at Mason City’s Highland Park Golf Course on Monday, May 6. The previous record was set during last year’s TIC East meet at Greene’s Round Grove Golf Course,…
By Kristi Nixon ST. ANSGAR — As close as could be a year ago, the St. Ansgar girls track and field team left no doubt to winning the Top of Iowa East Conference team title in 2024, topping second place Northwood-Kensett by 70 points (177-107) at home on Thursday, May 2. Among the winners for…
