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The NRHEG clay target team finished in third place for the fall league.
“It was a team effort to move up from our initial start for the season, so the coaches are quite pleased with the final result,” said NRHEG coach Dan Sorum.
Alden Dobberstein led all shooters with a 24.1 season average. This was good enough to give him the second highest average in the conference and to finish 23rd in the state. There were 3300 athletes in the league this fall.
Also finishing in the Conference Top 25 were Justin Beauvais (11th) for the guys and on the ladies side, Ciara Stenzel (7th), Gracie Luna (11th), Faith Phillips (14th), Nora Flatness (15th), Abbie Viktora (18th), and Alexis Olson (25th).
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By JIM LUTGENS
Sports Editor
The NRHEG High School cross country teams took some high hopes and a season’s worth of work into the Section 2AA meet hosted by Norwood-Young America at Baylor Park Thursday, Oct. 26.
It did not go as they hoped.
The Panthers’ state hopefuls fell short and the girls’ squad finished 10th out of 17 teams, marking the end of the season for NRHEG distance runners.
Sophomores Devon Nelson and Jacob Karl, who placed first and third, respectively, in the Gopher Conference meet, finished far off the pace. Karl placed 28th, clocking 18:06.02 for 5 kilometers, while Nelton was 31st in 18:06.32. Also running for the Panthers were Jackson McGannon, who took 79th in 20:35.96, and Owen Flatland, who was 107th with a time of 23:57.69.
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By JIM LUTGENS
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For the fifth year in a row, the NRHEG High School volleyball team faced arch-rival Waterville-Elysian-Morristown in the section tournament.
If you’ve been paying attention the last four years, you probably can guess what happened last Thursday when the teams met in the sub-section quarterfinals at Mankato East High School. Yes, the Buccaneers again prevailed, 3-0, winning 26-24, 25-18 and 25-5.
“This was a tough loss for the Panthers,” said NRHEG coach Ashley Tolzman. “They started out strong in the first set. You could see that they came ready to play. They were communicating well and covering the court.”
Unfortunately, it did not continue.
“The second set started out rough,” explained Tolzman. “We made a few mistakes and got in our heads and stopped talking. They were able to get past it and fight to make a comeback and make the score closer.”
Then everything fell apart.
“In the third set, all communication stopped and frustration took over,” said Tolzman. “WEM went on two long runs with serves that we just couldn’t return.”
Individually for the Panthers: Gabby Schlaak 7 kills, 1 block, 14 digs; Camryn VanMaldeghem 1 block; Izzy Stadheim 1 dig; Elsie Schultz 15 digs; Tayler Schmidt 7 kills, 19 digs; Hallie Schultz 26 set assists, 1 kill, 12 blocks, 15 digs; Keira Lenort 4 kills, 8 blocks; Madi Murray 11 kills, 12 blocks, 2 digs; Chloe Stork 5 blocks; Faith Nielsen 1 assist, 19 digs.
The Panthers completed their first season with Tolzman as head coach. The Panthers graduate seniors Elsie Schultz, Hallie Schultz, Erin Peterson, Sydney Lewer, Stadheim, Schmidt, Lenort, Murray and Nielsen.