Former Tiger golf and hockey standout Greg Werner helped his Minnesota State, Mankato men's golf team to the 2011 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference championship two weeks ago. Werner fired rounds of 79-75-78 over the Jewel Golf Club course in Lake City as the Mavericks overcame a final round three-stroke deficit to win the meet by 21 strokes over runner-up Wayne State (Nebraska)...Another former Tiger golfer, Patti Serdar, is a member of the Minnesota State, Mankato women's team.
Ex-Tiger Mallory Betzold continues to have a banner season for the St. Mary's University women's softball team. In 24 games, Betzold boasts a .373 batting average with four doubles, two home runs and 12 runs batted in. She is also the Cardinals top pitcher with a 10-5 record and 2.44 earned run average. In Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play, Betzold is 5-3 with an even stingier 1.73 ERA...Former FHS baseball standout Kyle Rains has appeared in five games for the Gustavus Adolphus baseball team this spring, batting .214.
Two former Tiger baseball players are back at their familiar softball coaching positions this spring. Paul Harrington has his Totino Grace team off to a fast start with a perfect record through five games in which it has outscored the opposition by a 58-12 margin...Randy Schmitz's Lakeville North squad has started 2-2 in the tough South Suburban Conference.
Rosemount's top softball pitcher is Rachel Hoeppner, the daughter of 1976 Tiger grad Doug Hoeppner whose son Troy Hoeppner is on the University of Minnesota-Duluth baseball team...Joel Klinkhmmer, son of 1977 FHS male Athlete of the Year Pat Klinkhammer and former Tiger athlete Sheryl Flanagan, is a pitcher for Lakeville North, a team considered a contender for South Suburban Conference honors.
2007 FHS male Athlete of the Year Trey Davis placed fifth in the shot put for the University of Minnesota at the Sun Angel Classic at Arizona State University earlier this month...2010 Athlete of the Year Logan Hussung, who is redshirting his first season at Minnesota placed fourth in the shot put at the Hamline Invitational as an "unattached" competitor....Another ex-Tiger thrower, Mallory Skoff, of the University of Minnesota-Duluth ranked sixth in the discus at the Hamline meet.
Michael Amofah of the Tiger class of 2009 placed 11th in the long jump for St. Cloud State University at the Jim Duncan Classic held at Drake University in Des Moines...2010 Tiger grad Matt Shutey ran the hurdles and led off the 4x400 meter relay for the University of Wisconsin-River Falls at the Phil Esten Challenge held at the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse last weekend.
