The information on the scoresheet said the temperature at the Jackson Heights golf course was 50 degrees at tee time Thursday.
Sunny and calm would have helped. But nope. Cloudy and breezy.
The Turkey Valley boys track team had their best showing of the season this past Thursday as the Trojan boys raced to a second-place finish at the Kee High Invitational.
It wasn’t just the fact that New Hampton won its own invitational tournament Saturday that put a smile on coach Bill Glenn’s face; it was how the Chickasaws did it.
Long before he became a standout wrestler for New Hampton High School, Matt Paulus thought about how cool it would be to be the head coach of his favorite team.
Turkey Valley’s girls cut four strokes from their first meet team score to their second, but the score plummeted Tuesday as the Trojans played in a triangular against Decorah and South Winn.
An undermanned New Hampton boys track team struggled to a sixth-place finish at the Comet Relays in Charles City Tuesday night, but it wasn’t a completely lost night for the Chickasaws.
It was a good day for the New Hampton trapshooting team, who competed in a triangular against Waverly-Shell Rock and Turkey Valley at Fredericksburg Sportsman’s Club on Monday.
A frigid morning did not stop the New Hampton trapshooting team from having a successful meet at the Fredericksburg Sportsman’s Club, as they took the top two spots, while Turkey Valley placed third.
It wasn’t the night Turkey Valley boys track coach Mark Scott was hoping for, but he’s not panicking, either, after his team finished fifth at the Nashua-Plainfield Coed Invitational on Tuesday night.