The Mount Ayr Community Raiderette golf team set a new team nine-hole  mark for the Mount Ayr Golf and Country Club course on Tuesday, April 20 when the Raiderettes and Raiders faced East Union and Southeast Warren in golf action. 

The Raiderettes shot 192 to defeat the Southeast Warren Warhawks and run their season record to 7-0.  Molly Budach took medalist honors with a 45 and Kelsey Glendennig recorded a 47 for runner up honors.  Johanna Scott carded a season best 48, Annie Uhlenkamp had a 52, Jacy England a 54 and Maci Sickels completed the Mount Ayr scoring with a 55.  

East Union boys fired a great round of 158 to defeat both Mount Ayr (204) and Southeast Warren (224).  

Taylor Mayne from East Union took medalist honors with a 38 and the Eagles’ Drew Greene was the runner up with a 39.  The Raider scoring included Jake Glendenning, 42; Dusty Lyden, 50; Russell Reynolds, 52, and Alex Wallace, 60.  

The Raiders have a 3-5 record for the 2010 season. 

Next action

The golfers played at Corning on April 27 and host Nodaway Valley on April 29.

The Mount Ayr Community Athletic Booster Club is planning to begin construction of much needed new restrooms and a concession stand at the baseball/ softball complex near the existing structure.  

The Booster Club has been working diligently over the past few months raising money for the project.  They have raised over $7,000, but much more is needed to insure the building will be a top quality, serviceable structure for the use of athletes, fans and visitors to Mount Ayr Community athletic events.

Ron Landphair has donated his expertise by drawing up the plans for the new concession stand that will be constructed directly east of the existing structure.  Part of the roof of the existing building will be used as a covered “picnic “ area on the west end of the new structure.   

The Booster club realizes that building supplies, plumbing work and concrete are costly, but they also know that the existing facility is inadequate and out of date.  Mike Gilliland has volunteered to be the Booster’s “contact” person for anyone wishing to donate money, materials or labor to this project.  Mike’s cell phone number is 641-234-0173.  

People may also contact Michele Sobotka or Marcia Showalter to help with this building project.

  Brandi Goodale, a senior at Diagonal Community high school, signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Southwestern Community College for the 2010-2011 school year. 

Goodale plans to attend SWCC to start her education for a degree in physical therapy and transfer to the University of Iowa to finish her degree.  She is the daughter of Dan and Kristy Goodale of Diagonal.

During high school Goodale participated in basketball for four years, softball for four years, volleyball and golf for three years and drama and speech for four years.  Goodale was honorable mention her sophomore year and second team all conference her junior and senior years in basketball.

She has already been lifting weights and shooting in her spare time to get ready for the college basketball career.  She knows of a basketball camp that will be held in July for elementary through middle school age and high school students that she will be helping with and then one for the college team as well.

SWCC coach Buck Scheel said, “Goodale works on and off the floor, she shoots well, and leads by example.”

Buck Scheel has coached the Spartans for three years. The most important ingredient to success in athletics and life is discipline, believes Scheel.  Coach Scheel is still working on building the Spartan team from ground up.  The team will have five returning players next year.  

Sacrifice, attitude and commitment are the philosophies Scheel lives and uses when coaching his team.  Scheel has an associate’s degree in business administration and is originally from Columbus, NE.

Mount Ayr Community junior Cade Lambson will be participating in the annual Drake Relays on April 22 and April 23 at the Drake University track in Des Moines. 

Lambson will be competing in the high school division of both the shot and discus.  He will throw the discus on Thursday at 3 p.m. and then compete in the high school shot put event on Friday at 8:30 a.m.  This is the second time Lambson has qualified for the Drake Relays as he finished 16th in the discus last year.

Qualifers for the high school division are chosen without regard to the class in which they compete during the regular season.

Building on big leads from the field events, the Mount Ayr Community Raiders rolled to two more relays titles in action this past week.

The Raiders won by 50 points at the East Union Eagle Relays in Afton Tuesday, April 6, then won the Class Bi title at the Crawford Relays in Osceola by 32.5 points on Thursday, April 8.

Eagle Relays title won

Mount Ayr Community won the East Union Eagle Relays scoring 116 points in Afton on Tuesday, April 6.  

The rest of the team scoring: Clarinda Academy--66, Worth County--66, Adair Casey--61, Nodaway Valley--59, Orient Macksburg--54, Bedford--43, Central Decatur --33, Lamoni--26, East Union--23, and Lenox--10.   

“I am very pleased with our overall effort so far this season,” stated coach Brad Elliott.  “We have trained through these early meets, so it is exciting to see us competing so well.”   

The Raiders dominated the field events scoring 55 points to put them far ahead of the field heading into the running events. 

Cade Lambson and Dustin Pritchett went 1-2 in both the shot and discus.  Lambson threw a season best 154’ 7” in the discus and heaved the shot 51’ ’0.5”, which also is a season best  to win that title. Pritchett threw a career best 48’ 10”  to capture the silver in the shot.  

Braydee Poore won the high jump and Sheldon Triggs and Matt Sobotka both placed in the long jump.  Korey Beaman won the 110 meter hurdles and he teamed with Matt Sobotka, Braydee Poore and Chad Starlin to take the shuttle hurdle relay title with a 1:06.93 clocking.  

The Raiders closed the evening by winning an exciting 4x400 meter relay.  Chad Starlin pulled away in the final five meters to secure the victory for Mount Ayr Community.  The other members of the relay were Brett England, Tyler Hinz and Korey Beaman.

Crawford Relays title for boys

Mount Ayr Community again came roaring out of the field events and continued to pile up points to win the Crawford Relays in Osceola on April 8.   

The Raiders scored 143.5 points to top the ten team Class B field on Thursday.  The rest of the scoring: Martensdale-St. Marys--111, Murray--91, Moravia--69, Lamoni--59, East Union--52, Central Decatur--33, Lamoni--26, Lenox--22, and Lineville-Clio--9.   

“I am proud of the way our guys competed,” said head coach Brad Elliott.  “We have worked these guys hard and they have responded with great effort and good performances.”

Cade Lambson raised his season’s best in the shot to 51’ 6” and 156’ 8” in the discus.  Dustin Pritchett had a career best 137’ 3” throw in the discus on Thursday.  These two young men again rolled up 36 points by going 1-2 in the shot and discus.   

The 4x800 team of Alex Sobotka, Drake Schafer, Jordan Clymer and Brett England turned in a season best 9:17.80 clocking to win gold at Osceola.  

The shuttle hurdle team of Matt Sobotka, Braydee Poore, Chad Starlin and Korey Beaman won for the second time this week and the 4x400 team of Korey Beaman, Brett England, Tyler Hinz and Chad Starlin also won for the second straight time running 3:43.78.   The 4x200 relay of Matt Jones, Matt Sobotka, Tyler Hinz and Chad Starlin picked up another first for the Raiders with a winning time of 1:40.88.  

Tyler Hinz won the 200 and Korey Beaman the 110 meter hurdles to complete the gold medal winners for Mount Ayr Community.

Next action

The Raiders went to Chariton Tuesday, April 13 and run at the Clarke Invitational tonight (Thursday). Tuesday, April 20, they go to the Red Oak Invitational and are at the Martensdale-St. Mary’s Invitational on Thursday, April 22.

The Raider and Raiderette golfers opened the 2010 campaign with victories over the Martensdale-St.Marys Blue Devils and the Southeast Warren Warhawks on April 8  in Mount Ayr.   

The Raiders carded a 199, Southeast Warren a 223 and Martensdale-St. Marys failed to post a team score as they had only three golfers.  

Taylor Hagen from Martensdale-St.Marys was the medalist with a 43 and the Raiders’ Jake Glendenning was the runner-up with a 45.  

The rest of the Raider scoring: Dusty Lyden--50, Russell Reynolds--50, Ethan Pollock--54, Alex Wallace--56, and Levi Stark--65.    

The Raiderettes easily downed the visitors by shooting a good opening match score of 213.  The Lady Blue Devils shot 249 and the Lady Warhawks turned in a 280 total.  

Molly Budach fired a 48 to take the medalist honor and teammate Kelsey Glendenning carded a 51 for the runner-up spot.  The remaining Raiderettes scores were: Jacy England--55, Annie Uhlenkamp--59, Maci Sickels--62, and Johanna Scott--62.

Next action

The Raiders and Raiderettes played Wayne on Tuesday and travel to Leon today (Thursday). Monday, April 19, the teams travel to Central Decatur again to take on Central Decatur and Interstate 35. They come back home Tuesday, April 20 to host East Union, Southeast Warren and South Page.

Mount Ayr Community’s Raiderettes opened the 2010 track season by taking the title of the Demon Indoor Relays in Lamoni on March 30.  

“It was a good start and we are looking forward to competing outdoors,” said head coach Deb Larsen. 

Mount Ayr Commuinty won 11 events and finished second in five others to roll up 194 points and easily outdistanced the five-team field.  

Lamoni was second with 93 points, Mormon Trail/Lineville-Clio third with 62, Princeton fourth with 61, and Mercer was fifth scoring 23  points.  

Tiffany Wimer won the 55 meter hurdles and Amanda Perrigo raced to the 55 meter dash title.  Allie Knapp won the 400 meter run, Becca Pennington the 800 meter run and Megan Doubleday the 1500 meter run to complete the individual winners for the Raiderettes.  

The Raiderettes won all the relay events at the indoor meet as well.  

Listed are Raiderette results for the Lamoni Demon relays:

Shot put -- 2. Jensen Stewart, 30’ 5”; 6. Claire Andresen, 26’ 9”.

Long jump -- 2. Becca Pennington, 14’ 6”; 3. Madi Hosfield, 14’ 4”.  

High jump -- 2. Desirae Trammel, 4’ 4”.  

3000 meter run -- 2. Becca Gregg, 13:51.6; 3. Valerie Jones, 16:23.2.                                                                                                                              

55 meter hurdles -- 1. Tiffany Wimer, :09.76; 2. Jensen Stewart, :10.53.

55 meter dash -- 1. Amanda Perrigo, :08.39; 3. Grace Fernandez, :08.84.

200 meter dash: 2. Allie Knapp, :29.49; Brittni Gillespie, :33.9; Grace Fernandez, :34.09; Charmaine Johnson, :34.2. 

400 meter dash -- 1. Allie Knapp, :67.20; Valerie Jones, :82.00.

800 meter run -- 1. Becca Pennington, 2:40.9; 3. Hannah Fletchall, 2:54.9.

1500 meter run: 1. Megan Doubleday, 6:06.2; Becca Gregg, 6:40.6; Taylor Lynch, 6:43.70.

4x800 meter relay -- 1. Becca Pennington, Katelyn Warin, Allie Knapp, Bailey Myer, 10:50.7.

1600 meter medley relay -- 1. Brittni Gillespie, Megan Doubleday, Jamie Novak, Madi Hosfield, 4:54.00.

4x200 meter relay -- 1. Amanda Perrigo, Erica Kemery, Bailey Myer, Katelyn Warin, 2:01.2. (JV) Morgan Quick, Charmaine Johnson, Desirae Trammell, Jordyn Grose, 2:13.00.

800 meter medley relay 1. Tiffany Wimer, Erica Kemery, Jamie Novak, Katelyn Warin, 2:05.1.

4x100 meter relay -- 1. Tiffany Wimer, Erica Kemery, Amanda Perrigo, Jamie Novak, :56.91. (JV) Brittni Gillespie, Charmaine Johnson, Jordyn Grose, Jensen Stewart, :60.43.

4x400 meeer relay -- 1. Megan Doubleday, Hannah Fletchall, Madi Hosfield, Bailey Myer, 4:38.4.

Next action

The Raiderettes were to run at Clarinda Tuesday night and at Interstate 35 tonight (Thursday). Monday, April 12, they go to the Panther Relays in Creston and Thursday, April 15 they travel to the Fillie Relays in Shenandoah.