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SPORTS
CALENDAR
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MACKENZIE VANGERPEN HANNAH LAU
•Volleyball: Fri., Oct. 2, at Luther, 7:30 GHV volleyball team
p.m. tops Eagle Grove
•Volleyball: Sat., Oct. 3, at Northwestern-
St. Paul, 11 a.m.
•Volleyball: Tues., Oct. 6, home vs. Loras,
7:30 p.m.
•Men’s Soccer: Sat., Oct. 3, home vs. GHV’s Gabe Umbarger brings down a Charles City running back in Friday night’s showdown. Lending the assist is Anthony It was a week of highs and lows when our game is smooth and our of-
Lake Forest College, 1:30 p.m. Sherwood. Also pictured is Connor Smith (55). -Reporter photo by Chris Barragy for the Garner-Hayfield-Ventura vol- fense looks strong. Our goal needs to
•Men’s Soccer: Sun. Oct. 4, home vs. leyball team. be to push throughout the set, not just
Carroll University, 1:30 p.m. Cardinals stopped dead in their tracks GHV 3, Eagle Grove 0 in spurts.”
The Cardinals picked up a win on GHV faced Clarion-Goldfield in
•Women’s Tennis: Fri., Oct. 2, home vs. The Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Drew Mitchell to Dallas Nehls. Bran- spark on the following drive, putting the road, downing Eagle Grove, 3-0, the first match of the day. They won
Wartburg, 4 p.m. Cardinals (4-1, 2-0), came out flat don Childs’ PAT kick was good to together a positive series until it ulti- on Tuesday, Sept. 22. the first set, 21-14, but dropped the
•Women’s Tennis: Sat., Oct. 3, home vs. and stayed that way against non- give the Charles City the lead, 7-0. mately ended in a turnover and a long The Eagles didn’t go down easily next two, 21-19 and 15-10.
Luther, 10 a.m. conference foe, Charles City (3-3), The Cardinals were forced to Comet drive for the end zone for a and they made GHV fight for the vic- Lau led the team with seven kills,
(0-2). GHV was plagued throughout punt after a quick possession and the third quarter score of 40-0. tories with scores of 25-19, 25-19 and followed by Van Gerpen with five and
•Football: Sat., Oct. 3, home vs. South- Friday’s game by mental breakdowns Comet’s Shane Feller took it to the The fourth quarter belonged to 25-23. Knutson and Van Oort each had four
west Minnesota State, 1 p.m. that proved too great to overcome. house for a 69-yard return and the the Cardinals. They scored twice on “In practice we have been work- kills.
The Cards received the kickoff, score. The PAT kick was good for a Conner Shaw runs of 13-yards and ing on finishing a set, an area that we Van Oort and Van Gerpen led
Area athletes playing in a college sport in- but the run plays that followed were 14-0 first quarter score. 51 for a final score of 40-12, Charles are improving upon, but still need the defense with eight digs apiece.
clude: Tanner Tusha, Clear Lake, Football, snuffed out immediately. A monster The Cardinals only got flatter in City. to fine tune some more,” said Coach Childress handled the setting po-
Iowa State; Andrea Toppin, Ventura, Cross pick up and some hope came on a Lu- the second quarter. The offense had “My hat’s off to Charles City. Kelsey Steffens. sition and had 16 assists.
Country, Iowa State; Jackson Finn, Clear cas Prohaska pass to Ty Marth, but the no spark and the defense couldn’t put They came ready to play and we really Hannah Lau and Mackenzie For the second match of the day,
Lake, Men’s Soccer, NIACC; Spencer Da- drive ran out of steam on the Comet’s the brakes on the Comets. Going into didn’t,” said GHV Head Coach Scott Van Gerpen led the team with almost the Cardinals faced the tough Lake
vidson, Clear Lake, Men’s Golf, NIACC; nine-yard line. halftime Charles City chalked up two VanDusseldorp. “They did a nice job identical stats. Lau had 13 kills to Van Mills Bulldogs. The Bulldogs won in
Rebecca Long, Clear Lake, Women’s Golf, Tough defense helped GHV earn more touchdowns for a 27-0 halftime handling our line.” Gerpen’s 12. Lau had eight digs and two, 21-6 and 21-10.
NIACC Adam Bueller, Clear Lake, Football, back the ball. Another Prohaska pass, score. The Cardinal offense amassed Van Gerpen had seven. Lau had sev- Lau led the team with three kills
Waldorf College; Meg Monson, Clear Lake, this time to Harley Forry, was good Following halftime, the Cardinals 304-yards, 126 of which came in the en points on serve and two ace serves, and five digs. Childress had five as-
Women’s Golf, Mount Mercy University; for an 18-yard pick up, but a fumble picked up where they left off, playing fourth quarter to Charles City’s 316, while Van Gerpen had six points on sists.
Antonio DiMarco, Clear Lake, Men’s Soc- relented possession. a losing battle for field position ulti- five of which came in the fourth. serve and one ace. The Cardinals came out strong
cer, Grinnell College; Joel Toppin, Ventura, The Comets were the first on mately resulting in a touchdown and GHV’s offense was lead by Shaw Carlie Knutson and Jackie Van in the third match of the day against
Cross Country, Warburg; Pete Swenson, the board with a 70-yard bomb from PAT kick. The Cardinals showed a with 142-yards and two touchdowns Oort also had good nights. Knutson Bishop Garrigan. They captured a
Clear Lake, Football, Western Illinois; Em- on 16 attempts. Cade Baker added contributed three kills, six digs and close 22-20 victory in the first set.
ily Mathews, GHV, Volleyball, Buena Vista 43-yards on nine tries; Prohaska had had two ace serves. Van Oort led the GHV fell apart in the second set and
University; Brock Adams, Clear Lake, Base- 21 on nine; and Jack VanDusseldorp team at the service line with 12 points lost, 21-6. It was a battle to the end
ball, Kirkwood; Kirsten Jordan, Clear Lake, had 15 on four. on serve and one ace. She also had in the third set, but Bishop Garrigan
Women’s Tennis, Central College; Bryson Prohaska was five of 12 passing seven digs and one kill. prevailed with a 15-13 victory.
Hamilton, Clear Lake, Football, Augustana for 87-yards. His receivers were For- Sydney Childress led the team in The Cardinals played the last two
University. ry, with four grabs for 48-yards, and assists with 18. She also had six points matches of the tournament without
Marth had one catch for 39-yards. on serve. Van Gerpen, one of their strongest
The Comets were lead by Tyreque Bishop Garrigan Tournament players.
Baker with 61-yards and a touchdown GHV struggled at the Bishop Lau picked up some of the slack,
on 10 attempts. Alexander Koehler Garrigan Tournament on Saturday, collecting 10 kills. Knutson, Bailee
added 45-yards on eight carries. Sept. 26. The Cardinals dropped all Frayne and Van Oort each had three
The passing game was fronted by three matches. kills.
Drew Mitchell with nine completions “The girls had to play some dif- Knutson and Childress led the
on 15 attempts for 206-yards and ferent positions at the tournament defense with five digs apiece. Van
three touchdowns. His receivers were and they responded well,” said Coach Oort and Payton Bamrick had four
Shane Feller, with four catches and a Kelsey Steffens. “There are pockets digs apiece.
touchdown for 60-yards; Dallas Ne- Childress led the team in assists
hls, with three catches for 119-yards with 12.
and two touchdowns; and Jaden Fos-
ter with two catches for 27-yards. GHV boys take boys third
Leading the Cardinal defense
was Gabe Umbarger with seven tack- at Humboldt X-C Meet;
les and a sack. Also contributing was
Nick Joynt and Baker with five apiece; girls led by Gonzalez
Forry with four; VanDusseldorp and
Grady Umbarger with three and one- The Garner-Hayfield-Ventura gan Graham ran personal best times
half each; and Matt Sonquist with two cross country team proved that prac- at the meet.
and one-half tackles. tice is paying off when they competed Freshman Reece Smith led the
“We will have to get refocused at Humboldt on Monday, Sept. 21. boys team with a fifth place finish
this week, as we will be traveling to The boys took third place behind two in 17:43. Derek Brown was 10th in
Osage for a very tough district game,” big, strong schools. Fort Dodge won 18:08 and Logan Dalbeck placed 13th
said VanDusseldorp. the meet with 69 points, followed by with a time of 18:20. Also running
The Cardinals resume district Mason City with 89. GHV had 95 for the varsity was Austin Siegrist,
play this Friday against the Osage points. There were 18 total teams 30th, 19:03; Ezra Marroquin, 39th,
Green Devils (3-2, 1-2). running in the meet. The girls placed 19:22; Andrew Schreur, 76th, 20:37;
10th in the 18-team field. Pocahon- and Mason Wirtz, 87th, 21:06.
tas won the meet with 52 points, fol- Maria Gonzalez led the girls
lowed by Humboldt with 53. The team, finishing 19th with a time of
Cardinals ended with 249 points. 22:25. Rebekah Larson was 48th with
“I think both the boys and a time of 24:52 and Morgan Graham
girls ran very well on a very difficult was 58th with a time of 25:14. Also
course,” said Coach Jeff Short. “Our running varsity was Kaylee Hudspeth,
times are reflecting that our practices 60th, 25:23; Nicole Upmeyer, 72nd,
are improving our runners.” 26:13; Hannah Wellik, 79th, 26:40
Both Ezra Marroquin and Mor- and Emma Whelan, 89th, 27:16.
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