Things were much better for pickers in the third week as a majority posted records in the double digits. The top pickers this week were the Montgomery family and Matt Hertel who both posted 14-2 records.
After posting the single-week record of 15-1 in the first week of picks, the Montgomery family missed the second week to fall back in the standings. They returned this week with vengeance, however, and put themselves right back in contention.
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By Stephen Wiblemo
Sports Editor
The rain is falling here in Cokato, but it will take more than a little water to stop the eventual storm that will be hitting area tonight when the Charger football team hosts Wright Country Conference rival Orono on homecoming night.
Going into tonight’s game the Chargers know they have a tough assignment to take down the 10th-ranked team in state in Class 4A, but they also know what they will have to do to complete this assignment successfully, and DC head coach Ryan Weinandt has prepared them all week.
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Betsy’s Walk and Roll, a 5K run/walk and 15-mile bike ride to benefit Delano’s Betsy Elsen in her battle against brain cancer, is Sunday, Sept. 27, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Delano.
Participants can participate in either the run/walk or the bike ride for $25. There is also a youth half-mile run for $20.
Same-day registration begins at 10:30 a.m. the morning of the Walk and Roll.
Registration can also be done online by going to betsyelsen.com and clicking on the registraion link to active.com.
For more information on participating in the event, e-mail Tim at tlitfin@mchsi.com. To volunteer, e-mail Alex at a.bechtold@live.com. And to donate an item for the silent an/or live auctions, contact Jennifer at jenny weldon@hotmail.com.
The bike ride begins at noon, the 5K is at 12:30 p.m., the youth run/walk is at 1:30 p.m., and an awards ceremony is at 2 p.m.
First Flight
1. Bob Jaglo 78 82 160 $30
2.Dave Wrase 80 82 162 $20
3. Bill Altmeyer 80 85 165 $10
Second Flight
1. Gary Mickiewicz 85 83 168 $40
2. Mark Payseur 87 83 170 $25
3. Mike Berent 88 88 176 $10
Championship Flight
1. Jeff Haupt 75 78 153 $50
2. Blake Zabel 77 78 155 $35
3. Dan Lensing 83 74 157 $25
4. Brand Hotchkiss 81 77 158 $4
4. Mike Finley 80 78 158 $4
4. Ryan Schmitt 79 79 158 $4
Ron Fadden teamed up with his son Nick Fadden for the first time as a father and son team, and the two captured first in a tight class the weekend of Sept. 19-20 at the Minnesota State Doubles Horseshoe Tournament at Genola Arena. The two are Rockford Ringers.
Sixty teams entered the tournament, seven of them being Rockford Ringers.
Four of the six teams in the Faddens’ class tied with a 3-2 record, so the ringer percentage was used as the tie-breaker.
The Fadden boys entered with a combined 57.24 percent average and pitched an average of 57 percent in the round-robin play. They narrowly defeated the second-place team which averaged 56 percent. The other teams pitched 53 and 52 percent.
The Fadden father-and-son team won one game by one point over the Rockford Ringers team of Tom Holland and Ron Mead. The match was determined on the last shoe of the game.
Last year, Ron Fadden teamed up with Lowell Johnson to win the tournament, so it was a back-to-back win for Ron at State Doubles.
Lowell was goose hunting in Canada this year and was unable to enter.
The other Rockford Ringers team of Marv Timm and Glen Berglund tied for second place. Timm and Berglund finished with a 4-1 record and a 32 percent average. Their entrant average of 27.98 percent. They shared second palce with a team from North Mankato.
This tournament concluded the Minnesota Gopher State Horseshoe Pitchers Assocation season.
Week 2 was especially brutal on our pickers as several favored teams went down. No other game beat our pickers more, however, than the Patriots losing to the Jets. With so many upsets and difficult games to predict, the scores were very low, and the best record of the week was 10-6 marked by Shawn Gebhardt, Rob Neumann, and Brian Heimerl.
There were a few new pickers in week 2, but even more pickers from the first week that didn’t get their picks in this round, giving others a chance to catch up or take a nice lead.
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