One was a veteran as a sophomore, the other a rookie as a junior.
AGWSR‘s home class 1A Regional girls quarterfinal with North Tama was over as soon as it started, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t more to the night.
The AGWSR Cougar boys finished the regular season the way they started it, with a run of wins. Saturday’s 57-39 drubbing of Hudson was their third win in a row, and brought their record to 12-7 overall.
An odd week of missed games and reschedules, ended with an upset home split Friday night in Ackley. The 12th-ranked AGWSR girls fell 40-33 to BCLUW, while the Cougar boys won 77-53 to complete the North Iowa Cedar League-West schedule.
While his teammates struggled Saturday, Trey Lashbrook stood up to the challenge at the Class 1A District Meet in Denver. Again.
Still buzzing from a win over seventh-ranked Colo-NESCO on Friday, the 14th-rated AGWSR Cougars may have been overlooking Hudson Monday night. That, along with a change to their normal routine, forced them to put together a fourth-quarter surge to beat the Pirates in Ackley, 47-42.
Heading into Saturday’s Class 1A Sectional in Clarksville, AGWSR head coach Chad Gerbracht felt confident he’d get three through to Districts. As the day shaped up, that number nearly doubled.
The roller-coaster ride that has been the AGWSR Cougar basketball season, continued Friday night in Colo. It may have been a surprise to some, but for AGWSR’s head coaches it was more of a relief.
Trey Lashbrook got through a tough Class 1A Sectional a year ago. That was the first step towards placing eighth at State two weeks later. Now he is the one making the 120-pound bracket on Saturday (today).
Saturday was a homecoming of sorts for Mandy Willems.
AGWSR Cougar head coaches Laurie Gann and Russ Banzhaf both admit they got outplayed by the Spartans Friday night in Ackley. The results, 63-46 in the girls’ game and 66-56 in the boys, bared that thought out.
At 30-3, Taylor Kolthoff was no slouch. Still, what he did Saturday was nothing short of amazing. It’s not that he was the only area champion at the North Iowa Cedar League Meet in Parkersburg, its how he did it to move to 33-3.