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NRHEG girls improve record to 5-1
The NRHEG softball team won three games rather handily last week, but they didn’t always make it easy on themselves.
On Tuesday at Legion Field, the Panthers had to rally from a 6-0 deficit after the top of the first inning before eventually 10-running Medford 16-6. They won 9-4 at St. Clair on Monday and beat Blue Earth Area 12-2 in five innings at home on Friday, improving to 5-1 overall and 2-1 in the Gopher Conference. The Panthers have not lost since falling in extra innings in the season opener.
NRHEG 9, St. Clair 4
The Panthers broke open a scoreless game with five runs in the third, taking a 9-0 lead before St. Clair finally scored three in the fifth.
The NRHEG girls’ track and field team hosted a triangular at New Richland last Thursday.
It was the Maddie Wagner-Hailey Schuller show.
The Panther duo combined to win five individual events and ran on a first-place relay as NRHEG won with 94 points to 73 for Maple River and JWP with 18.
Wagner’s wins: 100 meters, 13.6 seconds; high jump, 4-10; long jump, 15-11.5. Schuller’s: 100 hurdles, 17.2, 300 hurdles, 53.1. They teamed with Caitlin Goette and Marnie Wagner to win the 4x200 in 1:56.8. Marnie won the 200 in 28.6. Also winning were Emily Eder, discus, 88-1; Sophia Fischer, shot put, 35-2; and Emily Prigge, 3200, 14:12.8.
Tucker, Schultz toss complete games
Last week was an up-and-down one for the NRHEG baseball team.
It started and ended on a down note, but in between the Panthers picked up their first wins of the season behind strong pitching from Dempsey Tucker and Jack Schultz.
The Panthers ran their record to 2-6 overall and 1-5 in the Gopher Conference under second-year head coach Drew Paukert.
Medford 5, NRHEG 2
The Panthers hosted Medford and struggled to produce runs at Legion Field Monday, April 18.
Freshman Sawyer VanMaldeghem doubled in his first varsity at-bat, while Cole Staloch, Dempsey Tucker and Palmer Peterson singled. NRHEG stranded six baserunners in the first three innings.
Boys' track and field
Last Thursday was a good one for the distance guys and Zeke Erickson.
The Panthers swept the distance relays and Erickson won the throws as the NRHEG boys’ track and field team took second in a triangular at New Richland. Maple River won with 89 points, the Panthers had 64.5, JWP 32.5.
“It was a good meet for the boys,” said coach Duey Ferber. “We saw some PRs. Zeke had a great night.”
Erickson, a senior, notched his first wins of the season, taking the shot put at 32-11.75 and the discus with a toss of 114-10.
Tyler Schlaak, Nate Krause, John Cole and Josh Fleming won the 4x400 relay in 3:46.1 and the 4x800 in 8:51.3.
The Panthers’ other firsts were by Cole, 1600, 4:54.4; and Agro Gushwa, triple jump, 37-6.
Stenzel, Oquist log nice rounds for NRHEG boys
The NRHEG girls’ golf team had a strong outing Thursday, April 21 in a Gopher Conference quadrangular at Oak View.
Host USC edged the Panthers for first, 227-233 for nine holes. Maple River had 286 and Blooming Prairie failed to field a full squad.
Bayli Possin shot a 53 to lead NRHEG. Other scores that counted: Jessica Nafe, 58; Tali Wayne, 60; Grace Logan, 62. Ryley Koziolek and Maci Surat also played for the Panthers.
The medalist was Blooming Prairie’s Taylor Christianson with a 41, nine strokes better than the next score.
On Tuesday, April 19, the NRHEG boys competed in a five-team conference meet at Oak View. Team scores: Blooming Prairie 166, USC 174, Maple River 175, Bethlehem Academy, 194, NRHEG 198.
Camerer blasts home run in 9-2 victory
Most local folks were expecting a tough go of it as the NRHEG softball team hosted Blooming Prairie last Tuesday in search of coach Wendy Schultz’s 200th career win.
It was tough. For the visitors.
Kayley Camerer hit one over the fence and the Panthers played near-errorless defense while blasting the Blossoms 9-2 at Legion Field.
“It was a great team win,” said Schultz.
Kamerer’s home run came at a fortuitous time — with two runners on base — as the Panthers totaled 12 hits and capitalized on six errors and five walks.
Last Thursday was a beautiful day to compete, and the NRHEG girls’ track and field team made the most of it.
The Panther girls finished first among four squads in the NRHEG Invitational in New Richland, winning with 110 points. Medford was a distant second with 59, Blooming Prairie had 53, Maple River 44.
NRHEG dominated, winning nine events and taking second in eight more.
Firsts: Hailey Schuller, 100 hurdles, 17.2 and 300 hurdles, 53.2; Caitlin Goette, 400, 1:10.5; Kelly Harden, 800, 14:56; Maddie Wagner, long jump, 14-0; Sophia Fischer, shot put, 32-2.75; Emily Eder, discus, 94-1; 4x200 relay, 1:56.3 (Schuller, Goette, Maddie Wagner, Marnie Wagner).
The NRHEG boys’ track and field team finished second among four squads in the NRHEG Invitational in New Richland Thursday, April 14.
Maple River took first with 103 points, followed by the Panthers with 77, Blooming Prairie 53 and Medford 39.
The Panther boys captured five firsts: Josh Fleming, 400, 55.9; Brady Agrimson, 300 hurdles, 44.1; Agro Gushwa, high jump, 5-8; 4x400 relay, 3:47.6 (Tyler Schlak, John Cole, Gushwa, Fleming); 4x800, 8:56.8 (Schlaak, Cole, Nate Krause, Fleming).
Seconds were by Schlaak, 800, 2:15.7; Cole, 3200, 11:19.2; Agrimson, 110 hurdles, 17.4 and high jump, 5-6; Zeke Erickson, shot put, 41-1 and discus, 117-11; 4x200, 1:47.0 (Aaron Seath, Gushwa, Jarret Utpadel, Lucas Hermann.
NRHEG baseball team battles Big Nine foe to the wire in 7-6 setback
In less than a week, the NRHEG baseball team made about a month’s worth of improvement.
After a 15-5, five-inning loss at WEM on Monday and getting shut out 6-0 at Maple River Thursday, the Panthers gave a Big Nine foe all it could handle Friday before falling 7-6 on a suicide squeeze in the bottom of the seventh inning at Albert Lea’s Hayek Field.
“I thought we played a lot better baseball tonight as compared to our two earlier games in the week,” said NRHEG coach Drew Paukert, whose team fell to 0-4.
The Panthers took a 2-0 lead in the first when Cole Staloch and John Hubly singled, scoring on a base hit by Trai Wicks and a Dempsey Tucker sacrifice fly.
Albert Lea responded with two in the home half of the first.
NRHEG golf girls win opener, boys fifth at Maple River
Written by Jim LutgensThe NRHEG High School golf teams opened competition for the 2016 season last week.
The girls traveled to Blooming Prairie Monday, April 11, finishing first with 260 strokes for nine holes to runner-up Maple River’s 275. USC and Blooming Prairie did not have full squads.
For the Panthers: Jessica Nafe, 62; Kyra Possin, 63; Tali Wayne, 67; Bayle Possin, 68; Grace Logan, 81.
Taylor Christianson of Blooming Prairie was the medalist with a 54.
The boys traveled to Maple River Tuesday and finished fifth among five squads with a nine-hole total of 211. Blooming Prairie won with 165, followed by Maple River with 174, USC 175 and Bethlehem Academy 205.
NRHEG scores: Adam Oquist, 48; Rob Jewett, 51; Nick Shultz, 54; Chris Stenzel, 58; Ross Lenort, 73; Ethan Thompson, 76.
The medalist was Nick Neubauer of USC with a 37.
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With temperatures hovering near 40 degrees and the wind whipping, Monday was a day the NRHEG softball team was looking to go home early.
Kayley Camerer and Gabby Muri made sure it happened.
The pair combined to drive in 11 runs and the Panthers capitalized on nine walks and numerous errors to 10-run Waterville-Elysian-Morristown 22-3 in five innings.
“The girls played great defense and hit the ball well,” said NRHEG coach Wendy Schultz, whose squad evened its record at 1-1. “Kayley and Gabby hit the ball especially well.”
If not for the first inning, the NRHEG baseball team might have kept it close at Waterville-Elysian-Morristown on Monday.
But the first inning was a rough one.
The Bucs plated eight runs on four hits, six walks, an error and hit batsman and went on to beat the Panthers 15-5 in five innings. NRHEG fell to 0-2 after opening the season against teams favored to compete for the conference title.
It wasn’t an easy opener for the NRHEG baseball team. But the Panthers kept it close.
The locals kicked off the season against one of the conference favorites, Faribault Academies, and fell 2-0 in a pitcher’s duel at Legion Field Monday, April 4.
Dempsey Tucker and Faribault’s Anthony VanThomme took turns putting goose eggs on the scoreboard, though the Panthers had baserunners and scoring chances in every inning. The visitors won it in the top of the seventh.
The NRHEG softball team lost its season opener to Faribault Academies 10-4 in nine innings Monday, April 4 at Legion Field.
The Panthers scored twice in the bottom of the seventh to send it to extra innings, but the Cardinals won it with six in the top of the ninth.
Torrie Stencel was 2-for-3 for the Panthers, Grace Johns 2-for-4 with a double and two RBIs. Rachel Collins went 2-for-5 and scored twice. Natalie Aaseth, Gabi Muri, Anna Lundberg and Kylie Arndt added one hit each.
Lundberg took the pitching loss, allowing six earned runs on 10 hits, with seven strikeouts and five walks. The Panthers had