Sports

Softball team ends season with winning record

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 05/21/2019 - 2:13pm

The GMLOK softball team dropped a couple of conference matchups last week to end the regular season.

The Bulldogs dropped a home game against Mabel-Canton 7-2 last Tuesday, May 14. The Bulldogs then ended the regular season on Thursday by dropping an 8-3 decision against Randolph.

GMLOK softball ended the regular season at 11-7 overall (8-4 Southeast Conference) and get the playoffs going this week on Monday, May 20.

M-C 7 GMLOK 2

Girls take third at state True Team track meet

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 05/21/2019 - 2:09pm

The GMLOKS girls’ track team took third in the True Team state meet while both the boys and girls finished second in the conference meet last week.

After winning the Section 1 True Team championship, the GMLOKS girls’ team took part in the State Class A True Team state meet on Saturday morning, May 18, at Stillwater High School. The girls finished in third (463 points) place behind state champ Minnewaska Area (549.5) and Maple Lake (505.5).

Golfers take second in triangular

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 05/21/2019 - 1:55pm

The Kingsland golfers played host to a triangular with LeRoy-Ostrander/Grand Meadow and Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson on Thursday, May 16. The Kingsland boys’ team finished second with a score of 174, 12 strokes behind the LARP boys’ score of 162. LOGM finished third (181).

LARP brought the only complete girls’ team to the meet, finishing with a score of 189.

Boys’ results

Kingsland trap team hangs on to first place

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 05/21/2019 - 1:54pm

The Kingsland trap team remained in first place in the Class 2A, Section 6 standings, but the gap has closed a bit. Second-place St. James outscored the Knights by 318.5 points during the fourth week, which closed the overall scoring gap to 84.5 points. Kingsland has 9,128.50 points to 9,044 for St. James, with one week left in the regular season.

GMLOK sweeps two doubleheaders in baseball

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/16/2019 - 11:38am

It was doubleheader week for the GMLOK baseball team, and the Bulldogs swept both twin bills.

The Bulldogs beat Schaeffer Academy on Tuesday, May 7, by scores of 4-3 and 5-1. GMLOK then swept Spring Grove during a doubleheader at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, on Friday, May 10. Scores were 2-1 and 10-3. The Bulldogs are 15-2 overall (11-0 SEC) going into the final week of the regular season.

GMLOK 4 SA 3

GMLOK wins three of four softball games

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/16/2019 - 11:28am

The GMLOK softball team won three of their four games last week, the only loss being 6-5 to a very good Stewartville squad on Monday, May 6.

The girls bounced back with a home doubleheader sweep of Schaeffer Academy by scores of 15-0 and 23-2. They finished this week with a Saturday afternoon non-conference game against Minneapolis South, coming away with an 11-9 win.

The Bulldogs are 11-5 overall (8-2 Southeast Conference) with two games left in the regular season.

GMLOK 3 Stewartville 6

Girls advance to State True Team Track Meet

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/16/2019 - 11:25am

The entire Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostrander/Kingsland/Southland girls’ track team will compete at the State True Team Track Meet on Saturday, May 18, in Stillwater.

The girls advanced to state after winning the Section 1A True Team Track Meet at Dover-Eyota on Tuesday, May 7, which had 15 teams competing. The GMLOKS boys also competed at the section meet, finishing in seventh place in the boys’ standings. Lewiston-Altura won the boys’ team title.

Girls’ results

Kingsland golfers drop first SEC meet

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/16/2019 - 11:21am

Kingsland lost its first golf meet of the season on Monday, May 6, when Lanesboro downed the Knights by two strokes.

Lanesboro beat Kingsland at home 189-187. Kingsland’s Wyatt Pruter was medalist in the meet with a 38. Teammates Nathan Lund had a 46, Gavin Merkel shot 51, Nick Wernimont had 54, Gregg Hubka scored 56 and Dax Wocholtz shot 59

The Lanesboro girls shot 230 to Kingsland’s incomplete score due to not enough girls to qualify as a team. Kylie Welch was Kingsland’s only golfer and she shot a 53.

Bulldogs stay perfect in SEC baseball

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 05/07/2019 - 3:23pm

The GMLOK baseball team won three of its four games last week but went a perfect 3-0 in Southeast Conference play.

Bulldogs win two more softball games

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 05/07/2019 - 3:20pm

The Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostrander/Kingsland softball team won two of its three games last week, all of which were Southeast Conference matchups.

Tuesday’s rain pushed the first game of the week to Wednesday, May 1, which GMLOK dropped 6-5 against Houston. After beating Lyle/Pacelli last Friday, GMLOK won the return match on Thursday, May 2, by a score of 8-1. The Bulldogs ended the week with a 10-0, five-inning win over Alden-Conger/Glenville-Emmons 10-0, sweeping the season series.

GMLOK is 8-4 overall (6-2 Southeast Conference).