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The Alcester-Hudson Cubs open their
season with the Early Bird Quadrangular in Elk Point next Tuesday.
Team members include (front row, l to r) Jaylen Cole, Austin Schuller,
Eric Barnes, Colin Walth, Andrew TerWee, Trenton Schoenberner, Dominic
Wilson, (back row, l to r) Sawyer Jacobsen, Levi Merrick, Rick Heiman,
Lance Merrick, Derek Lundberg, Austin Osterkamp and Preston Dooley.
Not pictured is Casey Reihe.
By Mike Kezar,
Sports
The Early Bird
Quadrangular will open the wrestling season for Alcester-Hudson in Elk
Point on Tuesday, December 1, against teams from Elk Point-Jefferson,
West Sioux and Marion-Freeman, starting at 5:00 p.m.
Leading the Cubs
this year will be the Merrick twins, Lance and Levi, who both placed
third in the State Tournament last season. Both of the sophomores and
will be joined by fellow classmates and letter winners Derrick
Lundberg and Rick Heiman, who both placed third at Districts last
season.
Casey Reihe, a
freshman, and Erik Barnes, an eighth grader, round out the letter
winners from last season. Back from last year’s squad are freshman
Austin Osterkamp and eighth graders Austin Schuller and Andrew Ter
Wee.
Newcomers this
season are sophomore Sawyer Jacobsen and seventh graders Jaylen Cole,
Dominic Wilson, Preston Dooley, Collin Walth and Trenton Schoenberner.
Alcester-Hudson
will host two Quadrangulars this season. The first will be held on
December 15th against Dakota Valley, Scotland and Tri-Valley, and the
second on January 26th against Bon Homme, Marion-Freeman and Mitchell
JV.
The Cubs will be in
the following tournaments during the regular season; Chester on
December 8, Elk Point-Jefferson on December 19, Webster on December
29, West Sioux on January 9, Big Sioux Tournament on January. 23 in
Tri-Valley, and Lawton-Bronson on January. 30.
The Cubs will
wrestle against Akron-Westfield and West Sioux in Akron on January 10.
Other Quads are in Garretson on January 14, in Canton on February 4,
and the Cubs close the regular season in a Double Dual in Tri-Valley
against the Mustangs and Dell Rapids on February 5.
The road to State
starts on Feb. 13 with Districts in Marion, the Regions on Feb. 20 at
McCook Central in Salem, and the State Tournament in Sioux Falls on
Feb. 26 & 27.
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