CONRAD — Allison Engle piled up 19 points, 14 rebounds and three blocked shots to help lead the BCLUW girls’ basketball team to a 44-29 win over Colo-NESCO on Monday night.

Betula Messerly added 14 points, six boards and five blocks for the Comets (7-7), who slowly pulled away for the win.

Anistyn Borsch-Rash added seven points off the bench for BCLUW.

McKenzie Niemeyer and Jenna Hill led Colo-NESCO (8-5) with seven points apiece.

Baxter boys beat GMG

BAXTER — Rory Heer scored a game-high 18 points to help Baxter beat GMG 61-53 in Monday’s Iowa Star Conference South Division contest.

Kooper Gill led GMG with 15 points, Avery Bryant added 14 and Austin Vaverka had 11 in the loss for the Wolverines (7-6, 5-2).

GMG hosts Collins-Maxwell tonight.

GMG girls fall to Baxter

BAXTER — GMG girls basketball’s scoring droughts have caused some frustrations for head coach Justin Hornberg throughout the season, and in the Wolverines’ 40-20 loss to Baxter Monday night it was no different.

After scoring four points in the first four minutes of the game, the Wolverines (3-10, 2-7 Iowa Star South) were held to one point offensively the rest of the first half.

This left GMG trailing the Bolts (10-1, 7-0 Iowa Star South) 24-5 at the halftime whistle.

Jenna Yilek led GMG with six points, while Marriah Stonewall scored five and Emily Vaughn three.

Eagles too tall for Trojans

STATE CENTER — A strong scoring night from Joey Tollefson was not enough to keep Pella Christian from beating the West Marshall boys 72-54 Monday night.

The Trojans (4-7) trailed by 17 points at the half (41-24) but twice got within double-digits of the Eagles (6-7). The size of Pella Christian’s interior players, though, was too much in the second half for the Trojans to mount a comeback.

Tollefson led West Marshall with 21 points and hit five 3-pointers. He was one of three double-digit scorers, joined by Graham Nason with 12 and Parker Reese with 10. Reese led the team in rebounds with seven. Payton Hart had eight points, three steals and two blocks.

Bobcats 7th in Storm Invite

ELDORA — Marshalltown wrestling had an up-and-down day in Eldora for the Storm Invitational, finishing seventh in team points out of nine teams with 105.5, beating SH-BCLUW by 50 points but coming in behind Iowa Falls-Alden by 18.

At 113 pounds, Damien Rodriguez went 3-1 and finished in third place. He did so with a pin in the first round, a loss in the semifinals and two victories via decisions in the consolation bracket. The third-place match victory was a 8-1 decision over Kaden Meyer of Iowa Falls-Alden.

Luke Hageman was the champion of the 132 pound bracket, going 3-0 without pinning an opponent. Winning by tech fall over Justin Knaack of AC/GC in the first round, he defeated IF-A’s Brody Hovertsen via 9-6 decision and Brock Mathers of Central Springs 9-5 in the final.

Nick Rebik finished second at 160 pounds, pinning IF-A’s Gage Pohlman and beating Algona’s Riley Goche via a 6-2 decision before getting pinned by Class 2A No. 5 Gabriel Christensen of Ballard in the final.

Class 3A No. 7 Carson Williams swept the 220 pound bracket with pins of AC/GC’s Trent Greiner and IF-A’s Nic Warrington before defeating Dalton Dewitt of Central Springs in the final with a 12-3 major decision.

Tristan King also was victorious at heavyweight with three-straight pins over Carter Heilskov of Hampton Dumont, Kolby Miller of Aplington-Parkersburg/Grundy Center and Logan Meendering of Algona.

SH-BCLUW eighth at home

ELDORA — The SH-BCLUW Storm wrestling team had a tough go of things in its home invitational Saturday, finishing eighth out of nine teams with 55.5 points and only coming out ahead of Aplington-Parkersburg/Grundy Center in the team standings (36).

At 120 pounds, Class 2A No. 3 at 113 pounds Carter Kolthoff walked out with a first-place finish. He did so by pinning Marshalltown’s Hector De La Cruz and Jacob Michaelson of Iowa Falls-Alden before defeating Class 1A No. 4 at 120, Denver’s Joe Ebaugh, with a 12-11 decision.

Aiden Farnsworth finished fourth in heavyweight after going 1-2. After a loss to Logan Meendering of Algona, he pinned Carter Heilskov of Hampton Dumont. In the consolation bracket final, he fell short, pinned by Ballard’s Ehresman Brady.

Ridout shines for Mustangs

HUDSON — Class 2A No. 2 at 126 pounds Dominic Ridout had a standout performance for East Marshall/GMG Saturday at 132 pounds in the Hudson Invitational, winning his bracket and playing his part in the Mustangs’ fourth-place finish in the team standings with 125.5 points.

Ridout went undefeated and pinned Logan Zuck of Jesup before defeating Nashua-Plainfield’s Trey Nelson via 6-4 decision. Nelson is No. 10 in Class 1A at 132 pounds. The final was an injury default victory for Ridout.

The other East Marshall/GMG victor was 220 pounder Connor Murty, who finds himself No. 7 in Class 2A at his weight. He did it with pins of Don Bosco’s Jared Thirty (Class 1A No. 5) and Cole Kelly (Class 1A No. 7) of West Hancock.

Dane Thompson (145 pounds) and Tim Benson (152 pounds) finished fourth in their respective divisions. Thompson went 2-2, with two pins, one defeat via pin and a loss to Alex Streif of North Fayette Valley via 10-6 decision. Benson went 2-2 with a tech fall of Nashua-Plainfield’s Titus Evans and a pin of Don Bosco’s Landon Fernandez.

Comets take care of GMG

CONRAD — Allison Engle and Betula Messerly were in command Saturday night for BCLUW in a 49-29 home win over GMG (3-9).

Engle led all scorers with 22 points. She hit three 3-pointers and made nine of 16 field-goal attempts. Messerly stepped up in the absence of usual second scorer Chloe Walters with 14 points and nine rebounds. Katie Hill scored five points.

The Comets (6-7) won with a convincing final score, but the game was close for much of the proceedings. BCLUW was trailing 22-16 at the half, thanks to solid scoring from Emily Vaughn of GMG. Vaughn led the Wolverines with 10 points on the night, followed closely by nine from Jella Yilek. Adelyn Sienknecht and Reese Dielemann scored five points apiece.