Finally, here’s this week’s Lots O’ Stuff. Started this on Sunday and finally got it done in time to start gathering info for the next edition.
Three Jackson County Central wrestlers competed in MN #1 at The Shop Performance Training Center in Minnetonka. The event brings together several of the state’s top wrestlers for the upcoming season.
Kayden Eller won his match as he was a 3-0 winner over Bryan Jacobsen of Kenyon-Wanamingo.
The other JCC wrestlers lost their match.
Shakopee’s Anthony Heim was a 15-2 winner over Kyler Thier and Gavin Jackson of St. Michael-Albertville won 14-2 over Isaac Rodriguez.
College athletes
Jackson County Central graduate Alaina Wolff and the South Dakota volleyball team won a pair of home matches in Vermillion.
The 5-foot-9 senior defensive specialist had 10 digs and two set assists in a 3-1 win over North Dakota and then had eight digs in a 3-0 Senior Day win over Oral Roberts.
The Coyotes, 17-6 overall and 9-3 in the Summit League, travel to North Dakota State Thursday.
JCC graduate Sadie Voss, a 5-9 junior outside hitter at the University of Sioux Falls, had a double double of 19 kills and 10 digs for the Cougars Saturday in a 3-1 home loss to Southwest Minnesota State.
That came after posting eight kills, five digs and one block Thursday in a 3-0 loss to Winona State. USF (12-10, 7-7) hosts Northern State next Friday and Minnesota State Moorhead Saturday.
Jackson County Central grad Alicia Brandt, a 6-foot senior middle blocker at Waldorf, had three kills and three blocks for the Warriors in a 3-0 loss to Northwestern and then had seven kills and two blocks in a 3-1 win at Briar Cliff.
Martin County West graduate Max Olson, a 6-3, 253-pound sophomore defensive lineman for Gustavus, had three tackles including one sack for an eight-yard loss in the Gusties 21-10 win over St. Olaf.
Gustavus (5-2, 4-2) is at Carleton next week.
Two Fairmont grads met up in Sioux Falls on Saturday.
Caden Baarts, a 6-3, 230-pound linebacker, made four tackles for Concordia University of St. Paul. Sawyer Tordsen is a 6-7, 305-pound redshirt freshman offensive lineman at Augustana. The Vikings won 28-7.
Ryan Pierson, who competed in cross country and track and field for Martin County West/Butterfield-Odin, competed for UW-River Falls in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships Saturday in Stevens Point. He placed 82nd out of 90 runners with a career best 8K time of 26:27.6.
At the MIAC Cross Country Championships at St. Olaf College, Fairmont graduate Will Saari placed 140th out of 172 runners in the men’s race. The Pipers’ senior had an 8K time of 30:39.8.
Aspen Clarksean, daughter off JCC grad Dallas Clarksean and Niki, was 140th out of 172 runners in a 6K time of 30:39.8.
Four former local wrestlers competed in the Yellowjacket Open wrestling tournament Saturday in Rochester.
In his first college competition, JCC graduate Nolan Ambrose won the Freshman-Sophomore 149-pound division.
He won five matches, two by fall including a pin of Rochester’s Cohen Wiste in the finals. He also one match each by medical forfeit, technical fall and a decision.
Redshirt freshman Logan Butzon, a Jackson County Central grad, placed fourth in the Open 157-pound bracket. He won his opening match by a major decision before dropping his next three.
Augustana teammates Payton Anderson and Payton Handevidt both competed in the five-man round-robin Open 165-pound bracket. Anderson, an MCW graduate who is a redshirt junior for the Vikings placed second; and Handevidt, a redshirt sophomore, finished fourth.
The wrestler who won that weight went 4-0 and then Anderson, Handevidt and another wrestler all went 2-2. Handevidt defeated Anderson, but Anderson came out ahead on the tiebreaker.
JCC graduates Kie Anderson and William Freking both wrestled for Concordia University of Moorhead at the Pointer Open in Stevens Point, Wis. Both are juniors.
Anderson went 2-2 at 125 pounds with his wins coming by fall and technical fall. Freking was 4-2 at 197 with two of his wins coming by fall.
Heron Lake native Hobie Hedquist played well in a relief role on Friday for the sixth-ranked North Dakota men’s hockey team at No. 9 Cornell to earn his second start of the season for the Fighting Hawks on Saturday.
A sophomore, Hedquist entered Friday’s game with UND trailing 3-1 at 12:32 of the first period and stopped all 16 shots he saw in 44:25 of playing time before the Big Red scored an empty net goal in a 4-1 win.
On Saturday he made 23 saves on 27 shots as Cornell swept the series with a 5-3 win.
Hobie is 0-2 on the season. In 160 minutes and 11 seconds he’s allowed six goals (2.25 per game) and made 63 saves (a .913 percentage). UND is 3-4 and opens its National Collegiate Hockey Conference schedule next weekend with a series at Minnesota-Duluth.
Hayden Hedquist saw some playing time for the Amarillo Wranglers of the North American Hockey League Saturday night. The defenseman had two shots on goal in the Wranglers’ 4-2 loss to the Shreveport Mudbugs. He’s played in eight of the team’s 16 games.
Amarillo is 8-6-0-2 and in fourth place in the NAHL’s South Division. The Wranglers host the Odessa Jackalopes Thursday and Friday.
Fun fact
A non-sports fun fact this time around.
Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.
He was born Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, at the Wise Sanitarium, where his mother worked as a registered nurse.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, competed in wrestling matches as a youth. The lanky 6-foot-4 Lincoln fared well. Lincoln was widely known for his skills and had only one recorded defeat in 12 years.
In 1992, Lincoln was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as an “Outstanding American” in the sport.
