Sports Memories by Tom Jones

15 years

Tom Jones

• Doug and Annie Olson shot a 74 to win the primary flight on the Alternate Shot Golf Tournament at Green Lea Golf Course.
• The Clarks Grove Golf Course held their first annual membership championship. Bob Lindeman took first place with John Evans taking second and Mike Callahan comfort.
• In a re-match of the earlier yr’s part championship recreation, the Albert Lea ladies’ soccer crew defeated Mankato East 5-0. Morgan Stadheim had two objectives with Brooke Hanson, Chelsea LeBrun and Ariel Christensen including one.
• No. 4-ranked Mankato West defeated the Albert Lea Tigers soccer crew 47-12 in a recreation performed at Hammer Field. Matt Tiegs scored on a 73-yard cross from Cody Hansen and Luke Grossman had a 10-yard landing run for the Tigers

20 years

• The Albert Lea ladies’ tennis crew went to 5-3 on the season with a 4-3 win over Rochester Century. The meet began on the Southwest courts and concluded on the Channel View courts beneath the lights the place eighth-grader Dezeray Jacobs gained her match 2-1 on the No. 3 singles.
• The Albert Lea ladies’ volleyball crew misplaced their dwelling opener 3-0 in opposition to Owatonna. Amber Edwards had 5 kills, two blocks and one ace for the Tigers.
• Jake Clark scored each objectives to steer the Albert Lea Tigers boys’ soccer crew to a 2-1 victory over Austin. With the win, the Tigers stood at 4-3 on the yr.
• The Albert Lea boys’ c-squad soccer crew was defeated by Mankato West 4-3. Andrew Kortz, Josh Svendsen and Richard Needham scored for the Tigers.

50 years

• Former Albert Lea Tiger soccer gamers Jim Pappas and Dean Rudolph have been making ready for his or her freshman season of soccer at Augsburg College.
• Four former Albert Lea Tiger soccer gamers have been scheduled to sq. off in a recreation between Mankato State and North Dakota. Mike Pappas and Roy Page have been enjoying for the Indians with Jay Gustafson and Reid Katzung enjoying for the Fighting Sioux.
• Paul Neis ran for 3 touchdowns and 233 yards as Bob Deyak’s Albert Lea b-squad soccer crew defeated Austin Pacelli 26-12.
• Mike Curray ran for 3 touchdowns and 136 yards because the Albert Lea Tigers defeated Roseville-Kellogg 36-7 in entrance of a full home at Hammer Stadium.
• The Albert Lea cross nation crew defeated Austin Pacelli 15-50 in meet held on the rugged three-mile Brookside Junior High course. Jim Johnson took first place for the Tigers within the meet with a time of 15:59.
• Joe Lair, Gay Iverson and Ken Helland scored touchdowns as Glenville defeated Emmons 18-6 in Gopher Conference soccer play.

Did ?

Trey Lance, a back-up quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys got here to Albert Lea as a beginning quarterback for the Marshall Tigers in September 2017 and led them to a 70-0 win over the Tigers.

Tiger happenings

Albert Lea ladies’ hockey junior Mika Cichosz has made a verbal dedication to play hockey for Minnesota State University. She will turn out to be the primary lady to play Division 1 from Albert Lea and might be becoming a member of her brother Campbell, who might be a sophomore for the Maverick’s males’s hockey crew this winter.