Fall Sports
Football
Tyler Moen’s 523 yard, five touchdown breakout in Week 8 was the marquee event of the 2019 season. Moen established a new Atlantic single game rushing record with his performance against Shenandoah and the total ranks 2nd in Iowa High School history for a single game. He also established a new single season record for Atlantic with 1,909 rushing yards. Atlantic went 4-5 with victories against Saydel, Kuemper Catholic, Shenandoah, and Red Oak. In a 28-7 loss to OABCIG they held the eventual state champion Falcons to their 2nd lowest point total all season.
Stat Leaders
Tyler Moen 1,909 rushing yards, 9.0 yards per carry, 25 total TD’s, 30 tackles, 5 interceptions
Colin Mullenix 11 catches for 270 yards and 5 TD’s, 42.5 tackles, 20.6 yards per kickoff return
Garrett McLaren 612 passing yards, 6 TD’s
Nile Petersen 11 catches for 196 yards
Joe Weaver 40 tackles
Bodie Johnson 39 tackles
Cross Country
The Trojans made it to the state meet as a team for a second straight season. They placed 14th in Fort Dodge. Junior Craig Alan Becker emerged as one of Southwest Iowa’s best runners in his first year in the sport while seniors Bradley Dennis and Evan Brummer were consistently strong performers. Dennis intends to continue his career at Iowa Western Community College.
State Meet Results
23rd-Craig Alan Becker
50th-Bradley Dennis
74th-Evan Brummer
98th-Zane Berg
108th-Drew Engler
123rd-Ethan Williams
128th-Cooper Jipsen
Winter Sports
Wrestling
Despite having just two seniors the Trojan program didn’t experience much-if any-of a drop off. The team went 15-4 in duals including 9-1 against conference opponents to split the Hawkeye Ten title with Harlan and Creston/O-M. Atlantic/CAM finished as the runner-up to Creston/O-M in the Hawkeye Ten Conference Tournament. Easton O’Brien, Aybren Moore, Kadin Stutzman, and Cale Roller won individual conference championships. Four wrestlers qualified for state and Cale Roller earned a medal. The senior heavyweight capped off his career with a 4th place finish. Easton O’Brien, Aybren Moore, and Joe Weaver were the other three state qualifiers.
Top Records
Cale Roller, 48-8
Kadin Stutzman 42-10
Joe Weaver 42-13
Easton O’Brien 40-17
Aybren Moore 38-6
Ethan Follman 38-17
Jaxson Bell 30-22
Devin McKay 28-25
Swimming
The Trojans had a fairly young group with only one senior. Alex Sampson led the team in the 50 and 100 yard freestyles with season best times of 25.07 and 55.04 according to quikstats. Bryan York’s times of 1:58.40 and 5:15.31 were tops on the squad in the 200 and 500 freestyle. Cole Sampson led the team at 1:07.40 in the 100 yard backstroke and Drew Engler had the best times in the 100 breaststroke at 1:08.10 and 200 IM at 2:25.87.
Basketball
All teams want to be playing their best basketball at the end of the season and the Trojans can certainly make the claim that they were doing exactly that. Atlantic took eventual state qualifier Harlan to overtime in the first round of the postseason. They finished the year at 8-14. Skyler Handlos became a go to scorer and Nile Petersen was a consistent double-double threat. The team had to overcome the loss of 2nd leading scorer Tyler Moen to a knee injury.
Stat Leaders
Skyler Handlos 16.6 points
Tyler Moen 10.6 points
Nile Petersen 10.1 points, 9.1 rebounds, 2.2 assists
Grant Sturm 7.5 points, 2.1 assists, 2.0 steals
Dayton Templeton 6.6 points
Craig Alan Becker 5.5 points, 36.8% 3-point shooting
Spring Sports
2019 Soccer
The season began in promising fashion with wins in their first three games, but the Trojans weren’t able to sustain the success. Injuries and stiffer competition reversed the early season momentum and resulted in a 4-12 overall record.
Stats
Beau Dickerson 6 goals, 4 assists
Nathan Brockman 5 goals, 5 assists
Ben Anderson 5 goals, 3 assists
Alvin Nantz 111 saves
Clayton Jipsen 68 saves
2019 Tennis
One year removed from a state appearance as a team the Trojans had a little rebuilding to do and finished with a 6-4 record in duals. Nile Petersen was the constant force at the top of the lineup. The Wartburg commit made another trip to the state tournament individually and was the conference runner-up. He was joined in the state field by newcomer Grant Sturm who pulled off some upsets in the district tournament to qualify. Brody O’Brien, Jesse Reid, Dayton Templeton, Avery Andersen, Ethan Williams, Bodie Johnson, and Ethan Sturm also saw varsity action.
2019 Golf
Atlantic won the Hawkeye Ten Conference Tournament for a third year in a row. This time around it was by just one stroke over Glenwood. The Trojans were four strokes away from a state tournament appearance as a team. Matt Gearheart and Cyle Renaud each qualified as individuals. For Gearheart it was his 4th time playing at state and he finished in 3rd place. The final day of the tournament was called off due to weather so the first day results stood as final. Renaud placed 55th in his third state appearance.
9-hole averages
Matt Gearheart 38.0
Cyle Renaud 40.83
Braden Smith 41.5
Tate DenBeste 45.67
Drey Newell 46.0
Garrett McLaren 47.67
Cooper Jipsen 58.67
2019 Track
Track has emerged as a marquee sport for Atlantic in recent years and the team brought home their 2nd straight team trophy from the state meet. They were just four points away from team runner-up Dubuque Wahlert. Atlantic was the Hawkeye Ten Conference champ. At the conference meet Tyler Moen and Chase Mullenix were each a part of four golds while Craig Alan Becker won the 1600.
State Finishes
1st-Tyler Moen, Colin Mullenix, Zade Niklasen, Chase Mullenix, 4X400
1st-Zade Niklasen, Colin Mullenix, Tyler Moen, Chase Mullenix, Distance Medley
2nd-Chase Mullenix, 800
3rd-Tyler Moen, 400 (49.55)
4th-Craig Alan Becker, Nathan Behrends, Bradley Dennis, Chase Mullenix, 4X800
5th-Tyler Moen, 200
6th-Craig Alan Becker, 800
7th-Craig Alan Becker, 1600
11th-Zade Niklasen, 200
11th-Zade Niklasen, 400
12th-Jalen Petersen, 3200
21st-Spencer Ray, Gannon O’Hara, Cael Pulido, Colin Mullenix, Sprint Medley
Summer Sports
Baseball
Atlantic finished at 7-18, but won three of their last four regular season games. They gave a ranked Harlan squad a run for their money in the first round of postseason play, but were ousted by the Cyclones 2-0. When senior Chase McLaren was on the hill the team had a chance to beat anybody and that was proven true with a 3-2 upset of perennial power Harlan on June 24th. Another exciting win came against Creston at home when Nile Petersen had a walkoff hit to cap off a three run 7th inning comeback. Senior to be Brody O’Brien has committed to play at Briar Cliff.
Stat Leaders
Chase McLaren .500 avg, 11 doubles, 16 RBI, 3.27 ERA, 58 K’s
Brody O’Brien .343 avg, 17 RBI, 3.31 ERA, 38 K’s
Grant Sturm .433 OBP, 21 runs
Colin Mullenix .313 avg, 9 stolen bases
Gunner Kirchhoff .270 avg, 11 RBI
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