The AGWSR Cougars had their hands full in both games Monday night. The girls overcame an early deficit before holding on to win, while the boys struggled throughout in a loss in Belmond.
Trinity Rotgers placed at the IWCOA Girls State Meet as a freshman. Now a senior, she has her eyes on repeating that in the first IGHSAU-sanctioned Girls State Tournament in a couple weeks.
The struggles for the AGWSR Cougar boys didn’t take the weekend off. Hosting Jesup on Saturday, they fell to 0-14 with an 87-22 loss in Ackley.
The AGWSR Cougar girls and boys continued their separate paths Friday night in Reinbeck. Though the girls rebounded from their first loss of the season earlier in the week with a 57-48 win over Gladbrook Reinbeck to go to 14-1 overall and 5-0 in the North Iowa Cedar League-West, the boys fel…
With leading scorer Bradly Roder on crutches because of an ankle injury suffered Friday night in a loss at East Marshall, it was going to be tough for the AGWSR Cougars to win their first game in 12 tries Monday night.
West Marshall (12-1) is a good basketball team. Ranked fifth in Class 3A, they showed how good they are Monday night in Ackley with a 53-33 win over the previously unbeaten AGWSR Cougars (13-1).
The AGWSR Cougars trailed much of their home Cougar Invite Saturday tournament, and were as low as fourth as results came in over the final two rounds. But behind a quartet of champions, they were able to edge East Buchanan 177.5 to 173 for the title.
The AGWSR Cougar girls beat the East Marshall Mustangs 73-36 in LeGrand Friday night. The boys lost 70-32.
Friday’s Cougar Invite in Ackley may have been a round robin tournament with no team scores kept, but the three local teams were the winners. Not that they would have won had there been team scores, but in the sense of being winners for the meet itself.
It was a special night in Ackley Thursday. Senior nights usually are, and that was no different for the eight seniors on this year’s squad. Six of them wrestled, with Kylie Willems and Trinity Rotgers waiting their turn to say goodbye the next night with a girls home tournament.
The AGWSR Cougar girls have been tested on their way to an unblemished 11-0 mark heading into Tuesday’s home joust with the Union Knights (2-10). For a while, it looked like they would be tested again.
While the AGWSR Cougar girls (11-0) continued to take care of business, the boys (0-9) continued to search for a place in that partnership. After the girls walked away with 69-32 win in Traer, the boys were tripped up at the finish line.