February 19, 2001: A screencap of a video pan across the wall of CAL’s gym in Latimer. The teams depicted were Dows-CAL (the junior high when CAL and Dows were sharing, keeping Dows’ nickname of the Tigers alive), Sheffield-Chapin (sharing with Meservey-Thornton for a decade before that, showing the board’s age), CAL, Southeast Webster (started sharing with Prairie Valley in 2014), and Ventura (started sharing with Garner-Hayfield in 2012, consolidated 2015).
The Coulter-Alexander-Latimer Cadets have played their last regular-season games in any sport. The baseball team lost 15-5 to North Tama on Thursday and lost 5-1 to Roland-Story on Friday. This is the second time in four years that North Tama was the final conference sports opponent of a district that surrendered its high school (Northeast Hamilton, 2015). CAL’s final home game, played in Alexander, was a 5-3 win over Janesville.
CAL was the last high school standing of the last six members of the North Star Conference, which disbanded in 2006. CAL will not have a high school next year, entering a whole-grade sharing agreement with Hampton-Dumont. The district will be named HD-CAL, but for the moment there will be no changes to buildings or uniforms.
CAL’s district baseball game tonight is against Northwood-Kensett. The winner gets the right to have their clock cleaned by Mason City Newman.
UPDATE: Northwood-Kensett 15, CAL 0 (4 innings).