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BGHS takes own Quiz Bowl honors
Found: 1 Month 1 Week 5 Days 5 Hours 57 Minutes ago
Algona Upper Des Moines - The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat are universal, but only quiz bowlers will ever know the disappointment of missing out on the Star Wars bonus question....
Beadle scores lead NSK to big win
Found: 1 Month 4 Weeks 19 Hours 24 Minutes ago
Algona Upper Des Moines - It was billed as the eight-man football game of the year and the North Sentral Kossuth Eagles were up to the task. Brock Beadle scored four touchdowns as the Eagles dominated the second half and earned a 34-14 win over No. 2 ranked Armstrong-Ringsted....
Mustangs silence Thunder
Found: 2 Months 1 Week 8 Hours 36 Minutes ago
Algona Upper Des Moines - The No. 2 ranked Armstrong-Ringsted Mustangs scored 49 unanswered points to throttle Twin River Valley 70-24. The contest was played at Armstrong on Friday, Sept. 19....
Wolverines fall to No. 2 A-R
Found: 2 Months 2 Weeks 2 Days 22 Hours 3 Minutes ago
Algona Upper Des Moines - The No. 2 ranked team in eight-man football, the Armstrong-Ringsted Mustangs, flexed their muscles in a 65-22 win over the West Bend-Mallard Wolverines. The district two opener was played at West Bend on Friday, Sept. 12....
C-W-L falls to Mustangs
Found: 2 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days 16 Hours 10 Minutes ago
Algona Upper Des Moines - Second-ranked Armstrong-Ringsted exploded for 28 first-quarter points and cruised to a 54-26 win over the Corwith-Wesley-LuVerne Panthers. The non-district eight-man football game was played at Corwith on Friday, Sept. 5....
A-R runs past W-CL-T
Found: 3 Months 13 Hours 31 Minutes ago
Algona Upper Des Moines - Armstrong-Ringsted returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown and cruised to a 40-6 win over Woden-Crystal Lake-Titonka in the season opener for both teams. The No. 2 ranked Mustangs scored 28 points in the first quarter in the non-district, eight-man contest....
Informal hearing on drainage held
Found: 3 Months 1 Week 13 Hours 6 Minutes ago
Algona Upper Des Moines - ALGONA-In a special joint hearing between Palo Alto, Emmet and Kossuth County board of supervisors and residents, changes for the improvement of drainage district Tri-84 which caters to the Lone Rock and Fenton areas of Kossuth County, and land just south of Ringsted in Emmet County were discussed at an informal hearing on Tuesday, Aug. 26 at Water's Edge Nature Center....
8 is enough for small schools
Found: 3 Months 2 Weeks 48 Minutes ago
The Gazette - Football is football.That seems to be the prevailing attitude among coaches and players as eight more Eastern Iowa programs make the switch from 11-man to eight-man for at least the next two years. There are now 60 schools playing the eight-man game statewide, up from 53 last year."I think a lot of people who see it for the first time will be surprised at how similar it is to 11-man," West Central senior Nick Robinson said. "Athletes show up and it's just about hitting and blocking."West Central joins Central City, Dunkerton, East Central, Lansing Kee, Olin, Preston and Springville in eight-man District 4. All eight schools are new to the eight-man game.Preston and East Central shared a program in Class 1A last season, but decided to split and both are now playing eight-man.Central City, Springville and Olin all open their seasons tonight. Springville hosts Latimer CAL, Central City hosts Northeast Hamilton and Olin is at Janesville.Most of the schools made the change because small numbers on the varsity level were forcing them to use freshmen in roles they weren't ready for yet.While there are similarities between 11-man and eight-man, coaches and players have used preseason camp and early practices to learn the fine points of the game. Even Steve Milder, who has won 190 games in 31 years at West Central, is going to be forced to try some new things."This was an easy decision for our school district to make, but we've run the same offense and defense for 30 years and some of it doesn't transfer to eight-man," Milder said. "Right now this is a learning curve for our coaching staff, trying to figure out where we're making mistakes."I'm happy with what I'm seeing from my kids."Central City and Springville once shared a program that played on the Class 2A level, split and became Class A schools and now are in the eight-man game. They are the only Linn County schools playing eight-man."The kids are excited and they're working hard, and that's good," fourth-year Springville Coach Jared Baumann said.Football is football. Baumann took the Orioles to an eight-player summer camp in South Dakota and reported they won all three of their scrimmages."It's not that difficult when it boils right down to it. It's still football," he said. "All the (eight-man) coaches we talked to said just adapt what you've been doing to the eight-man game. But you are a little limited in the formations you can do."Third-year Central City coach Matt Wies said he also talked to some eight-man coaches from the western part of the state who told him to take his 11-man schemes and adapt them to eight-man."It really hasn't changed that much," Wies said. "It hasn't been too much of a transition."The players seem unaffected. Football is football, right?"They come to practice ready to go and they seem to love it," Wies said,Players who are especially athletic will really love it. Although the field is smaller, with only 16 players on it at a time it can seem more wide-open than the 11-man game. There is more open-field tackling and more one-on-one tackling."You can tell the kids with extra speed just dominate," Wies said. "We're worried about it and we're going to try play as much cover-three (defense) as possible."Athletic teams can put up eye-popping numbers on the scoreboard. Powerful Stanton scored 66, 62 and 78 points in its first three playoff games last year before beating Armstrong-Ringsted, 32-24, in the championship game."From the hash marks to the sideline, you lose only 2 yards," Milder said. "Athletes can dominate, but the game is still the game. You have to block and tackle."Milder is moving Robinson, a 5-10, 165-pound senior, to quarterback this year after using him at running back last year. Robinson is learning through trial and error."We've run the wing-T for so long, so for the first time now we're running something different," he said. "It could be a lot more passing, but with West Central, we're a running program. We'll throw whenever we want and run whenever we want."Football is football, after all.n Contact the writer: (319) 368-8841 or jeff.dahn@gazcomm.com...
W-CL-T to class 1A regional final
Found: 4 Months 2 Weeks 3 Days 23 Hours 4 Minutes ago
Algona Upper Des Moines - Taking advantage of a pair of Armstrong-Ringsted errors early, the Woden-Crystal Lake-Titonka Tigers softball team scored three unearned runs and went on to a 4-0 win. The Class 1A regional semi-final was played at Algona on Wednesday, July 9....
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