By Kristi Nixon DES MOINES — The Saint Ansgar girls’ shuttle hurdle relay team of Sarah Wagner, Kennedy Schwiesow, Bri Minnis and Aspen Falk qualified for the Class 1A final with the fifth-fastest time on Thursday, May 18, running a personal-best 1 minute, 9.83 seconds. Running the fifth of six heats, the Saints won that…
By Kristi Nixon DES MOINES — All the weight is off the shoulders of St. Ansgar’s Riley Witt. Having just committed to Northwest Missouri State’s track and cross country programs, the senior distance runner for the Saints ran freely and claimed his first of what he is hoping is four state titles over the course…
By Kristi Nixon CARROLL — When Leo Klapperich walked off of Carroll Country Club’s course, he sat down and hung his head. He had finished a round of 83, thinking that he hadn’t done enough for Osage in its Class 2A District final in an effort to go to state. Turns out, he had nothing…
By Kristi Nixon CLARION — Osage’s Jayden Scharper didn’t even have his putter. The Green Devils’ senior had to borrow one from another coach at the meet and the result was a sectional runner-up finish to help lead coach Eric Goddard’s team to the team runner-up finish and advancing to Carroll Country Club on Monday,…
By Kristi Nixon OSAGE — Claiming back-to-back Top of Iowa East Conference titles were the St. Ansgar boys, and not only that, but six straight were earned for the Osage girls after the dust settled at Osage High School on Thursday, May 5. The Green Devil girls accumulated 118 team points to get by Nashua-Plainfield…
By Kristi Nixon CLARKSVILLE — Riceville finished 10th out of 10 teams at the Iowa Star Conference boys’ golf meet at Clarksville’s CARD course on a rare comfortable spring day held on Wednesday, May 4. The Wildcats were just one stroke back of Baxter to finish last with 520. Following rain all day the previous…
By Kristi Nixon OSAGE — When it is go-time for St. Ansgar senior thrower Jex Schutjer, he puts in his ‘competitive eye.’ Schutjer lost his right eye to childhood cancer at the age of one-and-a-half and has used a regular glass eye throughout his day-to-day since, but he has a special one he specifically uses…
By Kristi Nixon DES MOINES — Three-fourths of the St. Ansgar distance medley relay had never run the Drake Relays, although half had run the state meet on the blue oval. There was no intimidation there for the Saints as the foursome of Joey Beyer, Dylan Brumm, Bradley Hackenmiller and Riley Witt broke the school…
By Kristi Nixon GREENE — If you ask Osage’s Leo Klapperich, the overall meet co-medalist at Round Grove Golf & Country Club, he was happy to get in a good day to golf at last. His even-par 36 on the Greene course tied with North Butler’s Mitchell Staudt as he led the Green Devils to…
By Kristi Nixon ST. ANSGAR — Goal-setting for Saint senior Bradley Hackenmiller is so much more than what he aims to do on the track. Certainly, he wants to follow in the footsteps of certain former Saint Ansgar stand-outs who recently graduated, but he also wants to honor the memory of his father, Eric. “My…
