Last night, AGWSR beat BCLUW 13-6 in a cross-district Class A game. “It was the alphabet game,” one of the guys said on the Iowa Sports Spotlight Scoreboard Show (broadcast on radio and Channel 13.2).
Alphabet game? No, make it bigger. They are two of the three five-letter-acronym schools in the state. Alphabet Bowl. This needs to be a thing. You don’t need a trophy, just a title — although they could play for a box of Alpha-Bits. West Lyon and Central Lyon/George-Little Rock play the Beef Bowl. (CL/GLR is the third five-letter acronym although that nomenclature is not normally used.)
Speaking of alphabet soups, the tripleheader-ish sports merger of North Sentral Kossuth and Armstrong-Ringsted will be going by the name of “North Union.”* This is another data point in the small but growing trend of districts partially or entirely separating from geographic names and adopting some other name entirely because there are too many hyphens otherwise. (It’s similar to the problem that arises when two people with already-hyphenated names get married, I suppose.)
*Not to be confused with Union of La Porte City, Remsen-Union, or North Fayette of West Union.
EDIT 8/26: Oh, and East Union of Afton, too.