The second half of the North Iowa Cedar League-West schedule got started Thursday in Conrad. It didn’t go the way either of AGWSR’s head coaches had hoped after opening the schedule with a home sweep of the BCLUW Comets.
AGWSR’s Trey Lashbrook, ranked 10th in 1A at 120, will tell you he’s struggling. The junior two-time State placer is 22-5 this season after falling Thursday night to ninth-rated Brooks Meyer of Denver. All five of his losses are to ranked wrestlers over all three classes.
The AGWSR Cougar girls have struggled even in their wins this season. That continued Tuesday in Parkersburg as they held on to a 39-34 win over Aplington-Parkersburg. AGWSR’s boys have been struggling as well, and that also continued in a 65-42 loss to the Falcons.
While girls wrestling continues to knock on the door of sanctioning as its own thing, more tournaments for girls are popping up around the state. While her teammates were wrestling to third at the St. Edmond Duals not even an hour north in Fort Dodge, AGWSR freshman Trinity Rotgers was at on…
Every Cougar who saw the mat more than once at Saturday’s St. Edmond Duals in Fort Dodge won a match. Ali Gerbracht (106/113) and Trey Lashbrook (120/126) were the only two to have their hand raised five times while AGWSR went 3-2 for third place.
The first round of North Iowa Cedar League-West play came to a close in Reinbeck Friday night. For the AGWSR Cougar girls, their 73-33 win kept them in line for a possible conference title at 8-3 overall and 5-1 in the North Iowa Cedar League-West, while the boys’ 79-56 loss to the Gladbrook…
Female athletes have been blazing a trail in the sport of wrestling.
The AGWSR Cougars dropped a pair of North Iowa Cedar League duals in Ackley Thursday night, but there was plenty to celebrate. One hundred things to celebrate to be exact.
The AGWSR Cougars returned to mat action Tuesday in Fairbank. They dropped a 47-26 decision to host Wapsie Valley and lost 48-35 to Aplington-Parkersburg. Along the way, a pair of Cougars moved to within one win of a milestone.
The AGWSR Cougars and Grundy Center Spartans amp things up when they play each other. Tuesday in Ackley, they did it again as they renewed their heated rivalry. And, both games were classics.
Neutral sites are typically saved for tournaments, but Upper Iowa University played host to several area boys teams for a jamboree on its Fayette campus on Jan. 4. One of those games saw the New Hampton Chickasaws beat the AGWSR Cougars 55-36. The loss left the Cougars at 2-5 on the season.
The long Christmas break left the AGWSR Cougars a little rusty when they opened 2020 in Hudson Friday night. Both squads lost with long scoring lapses, the girls 55-40 and the boys 51-43.