AREA SPORTS: Corey Poole is getting impatient with patience.

Poole’s Thief River Falls High School young girls hockey team is ranked third in the latest Class A state poll. Last season, the Prowlers were regulars in the state poll, getting as high as No. 4. But, it seems, Warroad has always stood in the Prowlers’ way, in the polls and in Section 8A.