High School Sports

The Marion County Knights football team hosted Clay County in the second game of the 2011 Pigskin Classic Saturday evening. After coming off of a 48-21 loss to Russell County last week, the Knights looked to even their record. After allowing the Tigers to score midway through the first quarter, the Knights had to fight back to stay in the game. Marion County would climb back into the game and tie the game at halftime, 14-14.  

After six years of coaching the Marion County High School swim team, Colleen Ryan has resigned.
Ryan recently submitted her letter of resignation and will be moving back to her hometown of Madison, Sough Dakota, to accept a position of teaching English as a second language at Dakota State University.
“It was a difficult decision to resign, and leaving my swimmers was one of the toughest parts,” Ryan said.

Friday evening the Marion County High School girls soccer team began their season with the first of two scrimmages. Their opponent was Mercer County, and the home team dropped the contest 4-0.
“Collectively, we are not in game shape as a team and we must work harder in practice and become better conditioned,” Head Coach Hart Hagan said.
From a defensive standpoint, the team isn’t working together as a unit, according to Hagan.

Marion County High School Head Football Coach Jeff Robbins is expecting this year to be different than any other year he’s been at MCHS.
“This year, more than any of the previous seven that I have been here, we will rely upon a team effort,” Robbins said. “We have no superstars on the team this year. We do have several solid high school football players and if they will play together, believe in each other, and trust each other they can be very dangerous.”