Sports

Knights battle adversity, Hurricanes on football field

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 8:53am

The Kingsland Knights football team lost its home opener to the Houston Hurricanes by a score of 48-22 on Friday night.

What the final score doesn’t show you is just how much adversity the team battled through to compete against the ‘Canes. With the loss, the Knights fall to 0-2 overall and in the District 9 – South (East Sub-District) standings.

Kingsland coach Brent Stinson said the effort was there all night.

Kingsland falls to powerful Mabel-Canton in volleyball

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 8:13am

The Kingsland volleyball team dropped its only match of the week on Tuesday, Sept. 3, a 3-0 (6-25, 10-25, 9-25) Southeast Conference (SEC) road loss at Mabel-Canton.

The Knights (3-10, 2-2 SEC) are battling through injuries early in the season but played a little better than the final scores indicated. Kingsland coach Amanda Siskow said they played several long and extended rallies against the Cougars, but just couldn’t finish them off for points and sustain momentum.

Knights open cross-country season at Stewartville

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 09/03/2019 - 1:25pm

The Kingsland cross-country teams were scheduled for two meets last week but only ran in one as they started the season Thursday afternoon in Stewartville.

The Knights were supposed to open the fall season with a meet at Wabasha-Kellogg, which was canceled due to the weather forecast. Kingsland opened the season with the Bill Glomski Invitational at Bear Cave Park in Stewartville on Thursday, Aug. 29, with the Kingsland boys finishing 16th out of 20 complete boys’ teams, while the girls’ team was incomplete.

Knights split in busy week for volleyball

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 09/03/2019 - 1:17pm

The Kingsland volleyball team split a pair of games last week, starting with a 3-0 loss (16-25, 15-25, 11-25) to Grand Meadow in the Knights’ first road match of the season. Kingsland returned home to Spring Valley and won a five-set marathon against Lyle/Pacelli 3-2 (25-9, 25-19, 15-25, 14-25, 15-11).

The win put the Knights back over the .500 mark at 2-1 overall (2-1 Southeast Conference). New Kingsland coach Amanda Siskow said the team played some good volleyball in spite of being hit by injuries early in the season.

Good spurts at GM

Knights drop opener to perennial football power

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 09/03/2019 - 12:52pm

The Kingsland football team opened the season on Friday night with a tough first test and dropped a road game at Grand Meadow 47-22.

The Knights are off to a 0-1 start overall and in the District 9 – South (East Sub-District) standings. Kingsland coach Brent Stinson said they knew it was going to be a tough test on the road against a team that he says is “one of the top five programs in the state.”

New nine-man programs add uncertainty to 2019 race

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 08/27/2019 - 9:20am

Predicting the champion of the East Sub-district (of nine-man football South District) is a more perilous task than ever before. There is the usual deliberation concerning the graduation losses of the perennial top two or three teams. But this year, there is the added uncertainty of two new rivals playing nine-man for the first time, Kingsland and Southland.

Members of the East Sub-district of the South District have won the last six state nine-man championships and have played in the state title game in nine of the last 11 years. 

Knights open volleyball season with win

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 08/27/2019 - 9:09am

Kingsland opened the 2019 volleyball season with a 3-1 win at home against Schaeffer Academy Thursday, Aug. 22.

The Knights, under new coach Amanda Siskow, won 25-20, 25-17, 13-25, 25-12 in the newly remodeled school Thursday evening.

Junior Ellie Buchholtz had 12 kills, eight assists, six digs and three aces. Sophomore Shelby Beck had seven kills and four aces. Senior Kaysie Vreeman added 13 assists and sophomore Audrey Webster added 13 digs.

Young runners make presence known at 6k

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 08/20/2019 - 1:38pm

Young runners were the swiftest in the annual Ag Days 6k in Spring Valley Saturday, Aug. 17.

Treyton Lanning, 14, of Chatfield was the overall winner, finishing in a time of 23 minutes, 21 seconds, for the 3.73-mile course mostly on the Spring Valley trail. Sue Mettler, 14, was the women’s winner, finishing in 29:28.

The two will also be running cross-country soon, with Lanning running for Chatfield and Mettler competing with Kingsland.

Kingsland cross-country team completes its annual service project

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 08/20/2019 - 1:35pm

Runners open at state park as first cross-country meet set for Monday

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 08/20/2019 - 1:21pm

The Kingsland cross-country teams opened up fall practice with a busy week that included a road trip and a service project. Knights’ coach Erin Milz said they put in some miles last Monday and Tuesday to see where the team was at physically. Then, it was off to a two-day camping/service trip to Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park.