Saturday, November 1st.
Girls Volleyball.
Section 5AA Final.
#2 Howard Lake WW 3, #1 Watertown-Mayer 1. The #1 seed Royals took the the first set on Saturday night at STMA, 25-19, but the Lakers didn’t flinch! The Lakers won the next three sets, 25-23, 25-19, and 25-16 to advance to state for the first time in school history! The Lakers will open state play on Thursday vs. Albany at the Grand Casino Arena at 3 PM. You can hear that match on AM1360 KRWC, krwc1360.com and on our app. Pregame begins at 2:45 PM.
Howard Lake WW, above, is headed to state for the first time in Volleyball.
Cross Country.
State Meet.
Charlie Bortnem from Dassel-Cokato finished 3rd at the Class AA state cross country meet, the last at Les Bolstad golf course at the U fo M campus on Saturday. As a team in AA, the Delano boys finished 9th. On the girl’s side, the top finisher from Wright County was Mya Werner from Delano who finished 5th at the AA level. As a team the STMA girls finished second overall in Class AAA. Below is a look at some of the top finishers from Wright County at the CC meet.
Boys.
AA.
Dassel-Cokato. Charlie Bortnem, 3rd.
Rockford: Will Czech, 15th.
Delano: Oliver Beck, 52nd, and Landon Ellingson, 70th. As a team Delano finished 9th.
Annandale: Emery Wirth, 44th.
AAA.
Buffalo: Tristan Lenton, 21st.
STMA: Ben Dayton, 66th.
Girls.
AA.
Delano: Mya Werner, 5th.
Dassel-Cokato: Stephanie Ashwill, 46th.
Mya Werner, above, from Delano, finished 5th in class AA.
AAA.
STMA: Mackenzie Myran, 7th, Abigayle Vossen, 22nd, Sophie Miller, 33rd, Ady Hannon, 42nd, Annabelle Vossen, 56th and Delaine Brand, 61st. STMA finished second as a team.
Monticello: Isabella Mahoney, 12th.
Isabella Mahoney, above, and bottom, #805, finished 12th at state for Monticello.
Thursday, November 6th.
Volleyball.
Class AA State Quarterfinals.
#2 Albany 3, #7 Howard Lake WW 2. The Lakers were making their first ever state tournament appearance on Thursday afternoon at the Grand Casino Arena, although they didn’t win, they also didn’t disappoint, as they took #2 seed Albany to the limit. It was obvious that the Lakers were nervous in the first set as the Huskies dominated, 25-12. In the second set the Lakers came out strong and held on for a 25-20 win. Albany took the third set, but in the fourth set the Huskies needed just one more point to advance, but it never came as the Lakers scored the final three and took the fourth set, 26-24. In the fifth set the Huskies jumped out to a big lead, and despite a nice rally, the Lakers came up short, 15-9. Alaina Koch led the Lakers with 16 kills, while Isabell Scheuch added 14 kills for HLWW. Kamryn Stueven had 42 assist’s in the match for HLWW, while Madison Graczyk added 16 digs. Brynn Panek was the top Albany players with 23 kills. The Lakers will now play Friday night at 7 PM at the Grand Casino Arena in the consolation round.
Girls Hockey.
North Wright County 7, Osseo 0. The Riverhawks scored six goals in the second period to pull away from Osseo in their first game of the season. Kendell Ringet and Stevie Rae Lawarance each scored two goals and had an assist in the RiverHawks win.
Brainerd 1, Buffalo 0.
