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Dodgers pick up road win

ANKENY — The Fort Dodge baseball team found out what stands between them and a spot in the Class 4A state tournament on Tuesday. A few hours later, the Dodgers went on the road and picked up a convincing 7-2 victory here over Ankeny Centennial. Fort Dodge (29-8 overall) pounced on the Jaguars in the second, plating three runs. Davis Underberg drove in Cal Pederson for the first, Jaxson Dencklau’s bunt single scored Will McElroy and Underberg came around to score on a wild pitch. “No doubt (scoring early) that was huge,” said Fort Dodge head coach Blake Utley. “We got ...

SPLIT DECISION

The Fort Dodge baseball squad was clicking on all cylinders as it pulled away from Ames to take the opening game of a critical twinbill on Monday at McNeil Field. The Little Cyclones responded in the nightcap, though, leaving the Dodgers with work to do — and in need of help — for a ...

Dodgers clinch league title

The third-ranked (Class 4A) Fort Dodge softball team has become deft at identifying a problem and attacking it. The Dodgers had been relatively sluggish in Monday openers this season. That all changed in a hurry against Ames at Rogers Park yesterday evening, as head coach Andi Adams’s squad was at its best in an impressive 11-1 victory to open the twinbill. Fort Dodge (31-4 overall, 14-0 in the Iowa Alliance Conference Northern Division) then capped the doubleheader and season sweep of the Little Cyclones with a 13-5 win in the nightcap to officially secure the outright league ...

SE baseball team honors seniors

The St. Edmond baseball team honored seniors Grant Galles, Kinnick Henning, Max Webster, Jackson Calvert, Jack McElroy, Ethan Swisher and Carson Bargfrede here Monday night at Rogers Park. Algona picked up the North Central Conference sweep by scores of 7-4 and 10-0 in six innings, securing ...

Recent repeat winners uncommon until last year

Eddie Doyle’s victory in the men’s open division at last year’s Fort Dodge Ford Lincoln Toyota Webster County golf tournament marked the first time a player in that bracket had repeated as champion in over a decade. The routine had hit a stretch of familiarity from 2006-12, as Kevin ...

No. 3 Gaels lose slugfest

With the winds blowing out at Rogers Park Monday night, the third-ranked (Class 1A) St. Edmond and No. 11 (3A) Algona softball teams put on an offensive clinic. In the end, it was the Bulldogs prevailing, moving one step closer to securing the North Central Conference title from the Gaels, 15-14. Algona (19-4 overall, 11-1 in league) earned its first season sweep over St. Edmond (21-9, 10-3) since the 2017 season. They can earn the outright NCC championship with a win over Clear Lake on Wednesday. “We never stopped fighting, and I’m proud of the girls for that,” SEHS head ...