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Golfers end season at section tournament

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 06/04/2019 - 2:13pm

The Kingsland boys’ golf team finished third and Wyatt Pruter just missed out on qualifying for state during competition in the Section 1A Golf Tournament at Willow Creek Golf Course in Rochester.

Conference champion Bulldogs fall in sub-section

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/30/2019 - 9:58am

Hot Byron team downs GMLOK in section softball

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/30/2019 - 9:46am

The Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostrander/Kingsland softball team lost to the Byron Bears 9-1 in the first round of the West Sub-Section 1AA tournament on Monday, May 20.

The No. 3 Seed Bears were playing some of their best softball of the season and it showed both offensively and defensively. The No. 6 Seed Bulldogs could only muster one run and three hits in the seven-inning loss. GMLOK finished the season at 11-8 (8-4 SEC).

Track teams take second at sub-section meet

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/30/2019 - 9:39am

The Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostrander/Kingsland/Southland track teams took a road trip to Stewartville for the Sub-Section 1A track meet. Both squads had fantastic meets and finished second in the team competitions.

Stewartville swept the sub-section team titles, winning the boys’ competition with 225 points while GMLOKS scored 123 points. Stewartville won the girls’ title with 194 points and GMLOKS was second with 177 points.

Kingsland golfers win regular season conference title

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/30/2019 - 9:35am

The Kingsland golf teams had a busy final week of the regular season, starting with a triangular against Dover-Eyota and Southland on Monday, May 20. The Knights then took part in the Southeast Conference meet on Thursday, May 23, with the boys finishing third. Kingsland captured the boys’ Southeast Conference title in the final meet of the regular season on Friday, May 24, with a head-to-head win against Lanesboro.

Triangular

Kingsland trap team finishes second, several individuals ranked in Top 25

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/30/2019 - 9:31am

The Kingsland Knight’s trap team couldn’t hold on to the top spot in the Class 2A, Conference 6 standings, finishing second after the fifth-and-final week of the regular season.

The margin between first and second place came down to 32.5 clay targets. Kingsland finished with a season score of 11,559 to 11,591.5 for conference-winner St. James. It was a two-team race for the top spot as Verndale finished in a distant third place.

GMLOK gets convincing wins to take baseball title

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 05/21/2019 - 2:16pm

The GMLOK Bulldogs played its two biggest regular-season games last week as the SEC championship was there for the taking.

They held serve on their home field in an 11-0, five-inning win over Mabel-Canton on Tuesday, May 7. That guaranteed at least a share of the Southeast Conference title for the Bulldogs. Defending conference champ Randolph came to town on Thursday, May 9, needing to win to clinch at least a share of the title. However, GMLOK came ready to play and capture its first Southeast Conference title (first year as members) with a 9-0 win.

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