In this week’s edition of Lots O’ Stuff there again lots o’ news about area graduates. A couple of other items will be covered.
Unlike last week, the plan going in is to keep it simple and not mention who is related to who.
Cross country
Jackson County Central graduate Andrew Boyum, a freshman at Iowa Central Community College, placed 25th out of 95 runners in the men’s college division at the Luther College All-American Invitational in Decorah, Iowa Saturday.
He was the No. 4 runner for the Tritons with a four-mile time of 23:09.4 in a steady rain.
ICCC was third out of eight teams in the meet, which was a combination of two-year and four-year schools as well as alumni team from Luther.
Fairmont grad Hannah Neusch, a sophomore at South Dakota State, placed 37th out of 67 runners at the SDSU Classic in Brookings Friday with a 5K time of 20:30.42.
Volleyball
The University of South Dakota volleyball team won all three of its matches at the South Dakota Classic.
JCC graduate Alaina Wolff, a 5-foot-6 junior defensive specialist, had five digs and was 11-for-15 serving with one ace in a 3-0 win over CSU Bakersfield Friday morning at the Sanford Coyote Sports Center. She then had three digs and was 11-12 serving with two aces in a 3-1 win over West Virginia that night at the SCSC.
Saturday at The Pentagon in Sioux Falls Alaina posted nine digs and was 12-14 serving in a 3-2 win over Northern Colorado.
After losing their season opener to fourth-ranked Louisville, the Coyotes have won eight straight. Four of those wins have come in five sets.
We’ll have more with Alaina in a future newsletter.
JCC graduate Sadie Voss had a double-double of 11 kills and 19 digs for the University of Sioux Falls in a 3-0 NSIC volleyball win over Upper Iowa Friday night.
She then had eight kills and seven digs in a 3-0 win over Winona State Saturday.
Jackson County Central grad Alicia Brandt is a 6-foot sophomore middle blocker at Waldorf University. She had five kills and one block in a 3-0 win over Iowa Wesleyan.
Luke Becker
Fairmont graduate Luke Becker and the Kentucky Wild Health Genomes have one week in their independent Atlantic League baseball schedule.
Becker has played in 116 games and is hitting .299 with 137 hits in 458 at bats.
He’s second on the team in doubles (26), tied for first in triples (5), first in home runs (21), first in runs batted in (86), first in runs scored (97) and second in walks (66).
CC meet change
Jackson County Central had already made one change for its home cross country meet and now another has been made.
After traditionally being held on a Thursday, the meet was moved to a Tuesday, Sept. 20.
And the site changed recently as it has been moved to Jackson Golf Club. JCC did host a meet at JGC in 2020.
We’ll have more information on that meet as it gets closer.