Jackson County Central has received a silver academic team award from the Minnesota Baseball Coaches Association.
Teams with a grade-point average from 3.75-4.00 receive the Gold Academic Award. Teams with a GPA from 3.50-3.74 receive the Silver Academic Award.
Luverne also received a Silver Award.
Here’s the list of Class 2A teams earning academic honors:
Gold
Albany
Breck
Eden Valley-Watkins
International Falls
Minnehaha Academy
Minnesota Valley Lutheran
Montevideo
Proctor
Rock Ridge
St. Agnes
Tri-City United
Silver
Blooming Prairie
Cannon Falls
Chatfield
Jackson County Central
Luverne
Ottertail Central
Roseau
St. Croix Preparatory Academy
Moore Wrestling Camp
Jackson County Central graduates Cooper Moore and Keegan Moore will be conducting a wrestling camp in Hull on Friday, July 15 and Saturday, July 16. Times are 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1-2:30 p.m.
The cost is $60 including lunch.
Cooper, a 2012 graduate, was a two-time state champion with the Huskies and finished with 237 career wins. He went on to wrestle at Northern Iowa, where he was a two-time MAC champion and three-time NCAA Division I qualifier.
Keegan, a 2016 grad, won three state titles at JCC and earned 227 wins. He is a three-time NCAA Division I starter at three different universities, Oklahoma State, Northern Iowa and Oklahoma.
Between Cooper and Keegan was another Moore brother, Paden, who graduated in 2015 and won one state title and 229 matches.
Fun fact: Those 693 combined wins for the three Moores puts them fifth on the list of wins for a set of brothers.
The groups of brothers ahead of them contained six, nine, four and five wrestlers.
Here’s the list:
796 – Hansen brothers, Albert Lea: Josh (2003) 121 wins, Zach (2005) 91, Beau (2007) 124, Cody (2009) 167, Cory (2011) 170, Lucas (2013) 123.
719 – Bothun brothers, Team United: Rick (2000) 76 wins, Dave (2003) 48, Tom (2004) 53, Luke (2006) 153, Jimmy (2007) 15, Jake (2010) 143, Michael (2012) 12, Jordan (2014) 107, Donny (2016) 112.
712 – Lexvold brothers, Kenyon-Wanamingo: Mitchel (2012) 212 wins, Nathan (2008) 186, Drew (2010) 180, Chad (2010) 132.
699 – Wurm brothers, Maple Lake/Annandale: Lloyd 171 wins, Loren 105, Len 142, LeRoy 89, Lance 192.
693 – Moore brothers, Jackson County Central: Cooper (2012) 237 wins, Paden (2015) 229, Keegan (2016) 227.
For more information on the camp and get registered, email jessie.regalado@westernchristianhs.com or call 507-276-3345.
Flat Earth golf
The 11th annual Flat Earth Wrestling Club golf tournament will be held Saturday, Aug. 6 at Jackson Golf Club. Play begins with a shotgun start at 3 p.m.
The format is nine-hole, four-person best shot.
Entry fee is $40 per person or $160 per team, which includes greens fees, golf cart and a Flat Earth Wrestling Club item.
A pork loin dinner served with fixings and desert will be served at 6:30 p.m. A ticket for the meal only is $10.
For information, call or text Ron Anderson (507-227-1078), Eric Dahlin (507-840-0718), Bryce Vancura (507-840-0870) or Troy Schultz (507-841-3344).
Obstacle Course
Make plans to check out this awesome event coming up during the Jackson County Fair.
We'll have more information in a future newsletter.
Half Marathon
Two runners from Jackson participated in the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon as part of the Grandma’s Marathon festivities in Duluth.
Clayton Lewis had a time of 3:33:36 and placed 6,876th out of 7,004 runners and Carla Schultz had a time of 3:33:37 to place 6,877th.