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Luke MacLean
Meet the Coaches .............4, 5Meet the Seniors ................ 6, 7Varsity schedule ......................9Rosters ...............................10,11JV Schedule...........................12Team Picture..........................13Varsity Recap ........................14Ninth Grade Schedule .........17Ninth Grade Recap .............19
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Meet the Coaches ...
Assistant coach: Luke GagnonCoach Gagnon grew up in Wa-
verly and graduated from HowardLake-Waverly High School where heplayed football, basketball andbaseball. He is a graduate of St.Olaf College where he playedbaseball. This is Gagnon’s fifthcoaching Cardinal football. He isemployed at Ameriprise Financial inMonticello. He and wife Amy live inAnnandale and have two sons,Brody and Jordan.
Mantra: “Hard work beats talentwhen talent doesn’t work hard.”
Head coach: Matt WalterCoach Walter graduated from
Farmington High School and the Uni-versity of Wisconsin, River Falls. He is aphysical education teacher at AHS.He is in his 26th year of coachinghigh school football and 22nd at An-nandale, the past 20 years as headcoach. He lives in Annandale withwife Nancy and sons Nick,14 andBen, 12.
Mantra: “If you’re still talking aboutwhat you did yesterday, then youhaven’t accomplished muchtoday.”
Assistant coach and defensivecoordinator: Mark Kovall
Coach Kovall graduated fromBemidji State University and has 34years of coaching experience; fouryears in Madison, MN and 31 yearsin Annandale. Kovall teaches fifthgrade at Annandale Elementary.He and his wife Pamela live in An-nandale. His children include Bran-don, Jake, Heather, Bailey andMichael; plus son-in-law Joe andtwo grandchildren Olivia and De-laney,
Mantra: “If you are not the leaddog in a sled race, the view never changes.”
Assistant coach and ninthgrade coach: McLain Westman
Coach Westman graduatedfrom Park-Cottage Grove HighSchool and St. Cloud State Univer-sity. He is in his 21st year teachingat Annandale Elementary and he isin his 16th year coaching Annan-dale football. Coach Westman andhis wife Cathi live in Annandaleand have two children Thomas, 13,and Gabriel, 12.
Mantra: “You never know whoneeds you. Good energy is conta-gious.”
Assistant coach and ninthgrade coach: Matt Dreier
Coach Dreier graduated fromNew London-Spicer High School.Dreier attended Ridgewater Col-lege where he played one year offootball. He graduated from St.Cloud State University and is cur-rently a fourth-grade teacher atAnnandale Elementary School. Thisis coach Dreier’s eighth yearcoaching Cardinal football and heis also the head girls basketballcoach.
Mantra: “Nobody who evergave their best regretted it.”
Assistant coach, volunteer:Alex Hohenstein
Coach Hohenstein is a 2016graduate of Annandale HighSchool and a 2020 graduate at theUniversity of Wisconsin, River Falls,with a biology medical science de-gree. He was an excellent Cardinalathlete in football, basketball andtrack.
Assistant coach, volunteer defensive line: Alex Becker
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Meet the Coaches ...Assistant coach: Nick Anderson
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Mantra: “We can't guaranteevictory, but we can guarantee 100percent effort.”
Assistant coach, wide receivers, defensive backs,special teams and junior varsity: Chad Gagnon
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By Tom WestmanAnnandale Advocate
Tonight’s gamefeatures the Car-dinals facing theLittle Falls Flyers.The Cards comeinto the gamewith one victory under their belts,last week’s 21-12 victory overPrinceton. Little Falls also has a 1-0record with last week’s victory overMilaca 23-21.
The Cards met the Flyers in2019 and came home with a lop-sided 42-7 victory. In the 2019game, the Cardinals had 136 yards
rushing and 232 yards passing for atotal of 368 yards. Little Falls had18 yards passing and 152 yardsrushing for a total of 170 yards.
“We had so many big plays thatwere not on offense very much inthe first half,” said Coach Walterafter the 2019 game. “We only ran15 plays of offense in the first halfand we had a 36-0 lead.Players to watch tonight
■ No. 1 wide receiver BradySpaulding is a very talented player.The 6’6”, 210 pound junior had 17catches for 167 yards. He should bea big part of our passing game in2020.
■ No. 19 running back RileyNiedzielski, was injured very earlyin the 2019 season, but still man-aged 54 carries for 330 yards andtwo touchdowns. Niedzielski, a sen-ior contributed 57 rushing yards on16 carries in last week’s gameagainst Princeton.
■ No. 67 Isaac Hagstrom is re-portedly fully recovered from hisACL surgery in January. The 6’5”260 pound senior looked reallygood in last week’s Princeton game.Hagstrom is part of the Cardinal’svery strong offensive and defensivelines. As a junior he was named theMost Valuable Offensive Linemanin the East Central South District.
Sections 2020In the two weeks following the
end of the regular season the Sec-tion 5-3A will be played. The Sec-tion, which is the same as last year,includes the following eight teamsand their record so far: Annandale(1-0), Brooklyn Center (1-0), Foley(0-1), Milaca (0-1), Patrick Henry(0-1), Mora (1-0), Pine City (1-0),and Spectrum (0-1).9,800 bags of salt
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Varsity scheduleOctober
■ Friday, Oct 9, 2020 Annandale 21-Princeton12
■ Thursday, Oct 15, 2020 Little Falls at Annandale, 7 p.m.
■ Friday, Oct 23, 2020, Annandale at Milaca, 7 p.m.
■ Friday, Oct 30, 2020, Annandale at Foley, 7 p.m.
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■ Friday, Nov 6, 2020, Glencoe-Silver Lake at Annandale, 7 p.m.
■ Thursday, Nov 12, 2020 Annandale atDassel-Cokato, 7 p.m.
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No. Name Grade. Position Height Weight
1 Gunnar Gustafson 12 RB/DB 5’11” 170
2 Luke Kush 12 WR/LB 6’5” 175
3 Bryce Udy 11 WR/DB 5’11” 145
4 George Moore 11 TE/LB 6’0” 185
5 Austin Litke 11 RB/DB 5’4” 125
6 Owen Bode 10 WR/DB 5’6” 125
7 Lucas Venske 10 WR/DB 5’10” 116
8 David Kicker 11 WR/DB 5’7” 135
9 Beau Thoma 10 WR/DB 5’11” 140
10 Austin Neu 11 QB/DB 6’0” 165
11 Dane Couture 12 WR/DB 6’0” 185
12 Riley Czech 11 WR/DB 6’1” 155
13 Hudson Filippi 10 QB/LB 5’11” 205
14 Aryan Larson 11 WR/DB 5’8” 135
15 Austin Udy 12 QB/DB 6’1” 185
17 Mason Cole 10 TE/LB 6’2” 195
18 Thomas Archer 10 WR/DB 5’8” 135
19 Louis Sobiech 11 RB/DB 6’1” 165
21 Gabe Nagel 12 RB/LB 6’0” 185
22 Morgan Whitford 10 RB/LB 6’0” 175
23 Timothy Johnson 10 WR/DB 5’10” 144
25 Nathaniel Kludt 12 RB/LB 5’10” 175
27 Matt Filippi 10 RB/LB 6’2” 190
28 Hunter Vacek 10 RB/DB 5’8” 155
29 Robby Kuchinski-Helgeson12 RB/LB 5’10” 195
31 Noah Bontjes 12 RB/DB 5’9” 170
33 Malaki Bachan 10 TE/DL 6’2” 230
34 Brayden Biermaier 11 RB/LB 6’0” 190
43 Jonah Olson 10 OL/DL 6’0” 150
50 William Brooks 12 OL/DL 6’0” 230
52 SebastianLong 10 OL/LB 5’7” 165
No. Name Grade. Position Height Weight
53 Noah Dahlberg 10 OL/DL 6’0” 215
55 Dylan Young 10 OL/DL 5’11” 190
56 Dylan Becker 11 OL/LB 5’11” 183
57 Cole Kjeldergaard 12 OL/DL 5’11” 183
58 Joey Schlichting 10 OL/DL 5’11” 170
62 Kaden Kurr 12 OL/DL 6’3” 225
64 Ashton Bellefeuille 11 OL/DL 5’11” 230
66 Devin Czech 11 OL/DL 6’1” 190
68 Tyler Olson 11 OL/DL 6’0” 260
74 Ethan Donnay 12 OL/DL 5’11” 250
75 Anthony Schultz 12 OL/DL 5’7” 200
76 Jacob Dickman 10 OL DL 5’8” 280
77 Adam Petrich 10 OL/DL 6’5” 300
78 Cody Wittwer 12 OL/DL 6’0” 320
79 Colin Graves 10 OL/DL 6’0” 325
Head Coach: Joe Bartos
Activities Director: Kevin Jordan
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Varsity Assistants: Collin Eckman, Brett Lawrence,
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Superintendent: Steven Jones
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No. Name Grade. Position Height Weight1 Brady Spaulding 11 WR/DE 6’6” 210
2 Carson Wiles 10 RB/LB 5’9” 150
3 Ashton Unzicker 11 WR/S 6’0” 170
4 Jack Nelson 10 QB/S 5’11” 160
5 Bryce Fobbe 11 WR/CB 5’10” 150
6 Lucas Evans 12 RB/CB 6’0” 170
7 Robert Olson 11 WR/S 6’6” 185
8 Joey Bowman 11 WR/CB 5’10” 150
9 Hawkin Miller 11 WR/LB 6’1” 200
10 Gavin Polston 11 WR/S 5’10” 150
11 Tristan Shoberg 11 QB/S 6’0” 160
12 Zach Schmidt 12 WR/CB 6’0” 170
13 Jordan Boltz 12 WR/S 6’4” 175
14 Landon Jones 12 QB/S 6’6” 235
15 Alec Braun 12 WR/S 6’2” 150
16 John Langbehn 12 TE/LB 6’3” 200
17 Isaiah Johnson 11 WR/CB 6’0” 175
18 Carson Gagnon 11 QB/S 5’9” 145
19 Riley Niedzielski 12 RB/LB 5’11” 190
20 Carson Cooper 10 WR/S 5’10” 160
21 Payton Crotty 12 LB/RB 5’10” 205
22 Evan Norgren 10 RB/LB 6’1” 200
23 Rogan Kuser 11 RB/LB 5’4” 155
24 Oliver Johannas 10 WR/S 5’9” 140
25 Nels Burd 11 RB/LB 5’11” 185
26 Tyson Shoberg 10 WR/CB 5’9” 160
27 Ben Wheeler 12 RB/LB 5’8” 160
28 Isaac Pedersen 10 RB/LB 5’6” 140
30 Jackson Pogatshnik 10 WR/CB 5’9” 130
31 Ashton Edmonson 10 RB/S 5’10” 170
32 Jade Manuel 11 G/LB 5’9” 170
33 Max Schimelpfenig 11 RB/LB 5’10 155
34 Isaac Rust 10 RB/LB 6’0” 145
35 Mason Totz 10 WR/CB 5’7” 120
40 Ethan Pedersen 12 RB/LB 5’11” 185
41 Justice Cichon 12 TE/DE 6’2” 180
42 Monte Diedrick 11 TE/DE 6’7” 200
43 Jake Liebhard 10 RB/LB 5’10” 170
44 Trent Scott 10 G/DT 6’1” 230
45 Caleb Roe 11 WR/S 6’2” 170
50 Logan Purcell 12 T/DE 6’7” 250
51 Trevor Potter 10 G/DT 6’0” 180
No. Name Grade. Position Height Weight52 Alex Klatt 11 G/LB 5’8” 225
53 David Heitkamp 10 T/DE 6’2” 185
54 Zack Danielson 12 G/LB 5’11” 195
55 James Meuwissen 11 G/DT 6’0” 200
56 Justin Lampi 12 C/DT 6’2” 240
57 Evan Johnson 10 G/DT 6’0” 225
58 Tommy Eckstrom 12 G/LB 6’1” 175
59 Jacob Nilson 10 G/DE 6’1” 175
60 Ethan Allen 11 T/DE 6’0” 210
61 Sam Heath 12 G/DT 5’11” 230
62 Austin Sundberg 12 C/LB 6’0” 195
63 Drew Conte 12 G/DT 6’3” 280
64 Darrin Kunkel 11 C/DT 6’1” 260
65 Evan Olson 11 C/DE 6’0” 215
66 Ethan Olson 10 T/DE 6’2” 200
67 Isaac Hagstrom 12 T/DE 6’5” 260
68 Gavin Robasse 10 G/LB 5’9” 215
70 Jonah Peterson 10 C/DT 5’11” 220
72 Zach Neutz 11 G/DT 6’6” 270
73 Nick Jenniges 11 T/DE 6’3” 200
74 James Sladky 11 G/DT 5’10” 210
75 Zach Millner 10 G/DT 6’0” 220
76 Isaiah Stevens 10 G/DT 5’9” 220
77 Kessler Kenning 12 G/DT 6’0” 280
78 Elliot Peterson 11 G/DT 6’1” 280
79 Jacob Martin 11 G/DT 5’9” 255
80 Brayden Buschel 10 WR/CB 5’7” 140
88 Dominic Phillips 10 TE/DE 5’7” 150
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Gagnon, Alex Becker, Alex Hohenstein,
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■ Monday, Oct. 19,Annandale at Little Falls,5 p.m.
■ Monday, Oct. 26,Milaca at Annandale,5 p.m.
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Cardinals vs. Little FallsFriday, Oct. 9, Annandale 21-Princeton 12
The Cardinals hostedPrinceton on Friday,
Oct. 9, and clinchedtheir first win of the
season 21-12.At right, Lucas Evans in-tercepted the ball and
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WRIGHT COUNTY BOARD
DNR seekscomments onpanfish limits
The DNR seekscomments on panfishlimits for East andWest Lake Sylvia. Seethe story on page 5.Slow downfor farm equipment onthe road
It’s harvest time forfarmers. Be carefulwhen approaching slowmoving vehicles. Findmore safety tips on
page 5.Sports update
See the Cardinalsports on pages 7 and8.
Candidateprofiles
Check out page 11for more candidateprofiles for area elec-tions.
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Main Street opens, new lanes, wider sidewalks
There was an error in last week’s Annandale Advocate, Oct.7, in the Annandale City Council candidate profiles. JaredJordan’s government and free time paragraphs were incor-rectly copied. He did not serve on the Annandale CityCouncil for 10 years or the Planning and Zoning commis-sion. The only incumbent running in the City Council raceis Matthew Wuollet. The Advocate regrets the error.
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation announced all new lanes, cross street connections and sidewalks along Highway 24 between Highway 55 and
Poplar Avenue had opened Friday, Oct. 9. The $4.9 million project, which began April 8, includes a new road surface, improvements to city underground utili-
ties and expanded walks. The project includes a newly designed downtown streetscape area with wider sidewalks, planting areas and colored concrete.
Pedestrian bump-outs are installed for improved visibility of walkers about to cross the road at Chestnut Street, Cedar Street and Cherry Avenue. Bump-outs
also provide shorter crosswalk distances and reduce motorist speed while at the intersection. Crews have a few off-road items to complete, including sidewalk
and removal of equipment and traffic control devices. MnDOT thanks the Annandale community for their continued patience during the six month project to im-
prove Highway 24. For more information on project benefits, visit mndot.gov/d3/projects/annandale/.
County Board slows down forbetter look at French Lake areademolition and ditchesBy Larry Windom
Not so fast. That was the directive a couple oftimes by the Wright County Board of Commis-sioners as they waded through a full agenda pre-sented at Tuesday morning’s regular meeting.Caught in the current were two topics – one re-garding a proposal to demolish residence on taxforfeited land, and the other regarding a requestto fund additional research into a pair of countyditches – both of which appeared at first to beminor topics but which quickly evolved into de-bate and, eventually, motions to take a step backfor another look.Leading the way back-wards was CommissionerCharles Borrell who was infine contrarian form as hequestioned the recommenda-tions of staff.
The first debated topicwas a proposal to pay for thedemolition of an abandonedresidence located on a smalllot on the shore of the CrowRiver in French Lake Town-ship, located southwest of An-nandale. A motion was immediately made to allow theauditor/treasurer to accept the lowest bid fordemolition and removal of the structures on theproperty, but Commissioner Borrell jumped into question the proposed action. Citing the costof demolition and noting that clearing the prop-erty might make it impossible to rebuild undernew construction guidelines, he asked if it mightbe better to first try to sell the property as is.Other commissioners appeared to agree withBorrell’s train of thought, with CommissionerMark Daleiden noting, “Maybe we should atleast explore it as an option.”
After a few more com-ments, commissioners agreedto withdraw the motion andinstead voted unanimously tosend the matter to the TaxForfeiture Committee tocheck into it and make a rec-ommendation.The second debated topicis also located largely inFrench Lake Township, but itimpacts a much larger terri-tory and many more landowners. The issue iscounty ditches, specifically, County Ditch 19and, so some extent, County Ditch 16, both ofwhich are located near French Lake and withinthe watershed surrounding the lake. Matt Detjen, the county’s agricultural anddrainage expert, appeared before the board to re-quest permission to hire a firm to undergo“complex hydraulic modeling” to more accu-rately determine the benefits and damages to allproperty owners affected by the drainage project.This extra, specialized work would cost about$6,000, he said.
But Commissioner Borrell jumped in againto question the recommendation. “I almost needa guarantee that this will resolve the equityissue,” he stated. “Otherwise, why are we spend-ing the money?”Via remote, County Assistant Attorney GregKryzer joined Detjen in recommending the ad-ditional study. He pointed out that WrightCounty is very unique in regards to its countyditches.
County BoardTurn to page 3
Charlie Borrell
Mark Daleiden
Refunding of buildingbonds, direct savingsto taxpayersThe Annandale School Board held a special meeting Thurs-
day, Oct. 8, at the Annandale Elementary School Media Cen-ter.
The purpose of the meeting was to approve a resolutionawarding the sale of bonds for the refunding of the 2011 bondsissued for the construction of the Annandale ElementarySchool building.
The district received two bids, the low bid was for an interestrate of 1.2791 percent. The original bonds issued in 2011 hadan interest rate of 3.635 percent.“With the new interest rate, the district is able to lower fu-ture bond payments starting in 2022 and concluding in 2031by a total of $2,912,831,” said Business Manager Rick Pullen.“This is an average levy reduction of approximately $306,000per year.”
According to Superintendent Tim Prom, Annandale re-ceived a high rating because of District 876’s financial stabilityover the years, the increase in enrollment and the positivegrowth the City of Annandale has seen recently.“The refunding or refinancing of our bonds could not havecome at a better time,” Prom said. “We were estimating thesavings to be about $2.5 million, but because of the very lowinterest rates combined with the district's high rating, that sav-ings was $2.9 million. “This is a direct savings to our taxpayers by lowering the fu-ture required debt levies.”
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The ninth grade team faced off against Litchfield on Thursday, Oct. 1and lost their first game of the year. Above, Nick Walter uses somefancy footwork to try to outmaneuver a Litchfield defender. At right,Hudson Helget is being pursued down field by the Litchfield defense.
