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Oct. 28, 2015
OSMOND — The Randolph Cardinals dominated their host Thursday through the rain and fall temperatures, defeating Osmond 34-6 to finish the season 6-2.
“Our defense won this game for us,” coach Mark Lech said. “They (Osmond) put up 44 last week against a number one number two team in the state. Denton is just amazing, he makes play after play after play. He had two really bigs sacks. They weren’t pressured all year and we told our D-ends, if we could get pressure, good things would happen.”
With the win the Cardinals are currently sitting in the eighth position in the NSAA D-2 power rankings, giving Randolph home field advantage for the first round of the D-2 playoffs this week.
Running back Drew Loberg put on a running showcase for the crowd during another stellar performance. Loberg finished with 354 yards, a single game career-high, and three touchdowns. The longest run of the night came at the end of the third quarter, when Loberg took the handoff 75-yards to the house to put the Cards up 34-0.
“It was huge, and we knew if we could break one, they had so many guys up there coming after us that it would go a long ways” Lech said. “And, Drew’s fast and he’s quite a gamer. He just kept going, going and going.”
The Cards earned the fifth seed in their half of the bracket and will host Johnson-Brock (5-3) Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
Oct. 28, 2015
KEARNEY — Friday marked the collimating event for the cross country runners throughout the state, the respective classes State meet.
Randolph freshmen Addison Villwok was the lone representative of the team in the Class D portion.
Villwok qualified for the state meet on Oct. 18 after finishing 14th at the District meet.
The young runner competed against 141 other runners from around the state and crossed the line in 24:06 for 97th place in her first trip to the state meet.
Oct. 21, 2020
RANDOLPH — Randolph finished the regular season with a 14-10 record.
The Lady Cardinals closed out the regular season with a 2-0 (25-18, 25-18) win over Osmond and prior to that, they beat Plainview 2-1 (19-25, 25-14, 25-23) and lost to them 2-0 (28-26, 25-19) while also dropping a match to Wynot, 2-0 (25-20, 25-17).
In the Osmond win, freshman Ella Scott led the way with six kills while in the win over Plainview, Jaiden Taylor (10 kills, four blocks), Scott (five kills, 13 digs), Abby Schmit (12 kills, 10 assists) paced the Lady Cardinals.
Keely Pinkelman had a team-high six kills against Wynot while Taylor had six to pace Randolph in the Plainview loss.
“Having five girls out due to COVID issues has been stressful and the girls are still adapting to changes to our rotations,” Randolph head coach Rob Engel said. “We have had to make some adjustments on the fly and freshman outside hitter Ella has stepped up and played well in their absence. But in the loss to Plainview, we were out of sync all game and after losing the lead late and getting beat 28-26 we weren’t able to recover. They are a much-improved team and have finally gotten over their own COVID related issues to get back to full strength.
“We hope to get everyone back just in time for sub-district play and make a push to the end of the year.”
Engel has coached a team of young warriors who have had to deal with now, two separate quarantines that has affected multiple players, some on more than one occasion.
“We are going to have to find a way to get a win in the conference tournament against good competition without some key players, but that’s the hand we’ve been dealt,” Engel said.
Oct. 28, 2020
HARTINGTON — Cedar County residents want to make sure their voices are heard.
As of Monday, 2398 or 41 percent of the 5,780 ballots either mailed out or handed out here have already come back to the Cedar County Clerk’s office.
That voter turn-out percentage is already better than some primary elections we’ve had here, said Cedar County Clerk Dave Dowling.
Dowling said he expects to go over the 50 percent mark early this week.
Since 1986, Cedar County has averaged a 71 percent voter turn-out for Presidential elections, Dowling said.
At this rate, it appears the county’s record for voter turn-out could fall.
In 2016, a record 75 percent of Cedar County registered voters cast ballots in 2016 General Election. The next highest voter turn-out ever recorded here was back in 1992 when 74 percent of the electorate voted.
