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EUGENE, Ore. — Kingsley native Kiana Phelps put together a solid regular season throwing campaign for the University of Oregon track and field team. The redshirt senior won the discus at four events this spring. She claimed the title at the Hayward Premiere meet, the Oregon Relays, the Oregon State University High Performance meet and the Oregon Twilight meet to close the regular season...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community girls golf team placed two within the top five of the Missouri River Activities Conference Tournament held at Willow Creek Golf Course on Tuesday. The Bulldogs were the only team with multiple golfers within the top five...

SPENCER — Le Mars Community senior Kaden Wingert will continue his season as an individual after finishing as the district singles champion in competition at the Riverview Tennis Courts on Wednesday. The top two singles players and top two doubles teams move on to the state singles and doubles tournament to be held May 28-29...

SIOUX RAPIDS — The Remsen St. Mary’s track and field teams completed their regular season with a final tune-up before Thursday’s state qualifying meet by competing at a meet hosted by Sioux Central on Monday. The Lady Hawks finished sixth out of eight varsity teams at the event. The team’s top placing event was a win for Whitney Jensen in the 400 meter dash. Her time of 1:05.74 was over five seconds faster than the runner-up time in the race...

SIOUX CENTER — Gehlen Catholic took the runner-up spot at the War Eagle Conference girls golf tournament Tuesday at The Ridge. Unity Christian claimed the team title with a 395 while a trio of Plymouth County schools took the next three spots as Gehlen shot a 414, Akron-Westfield fired a 420 and Remsen St. Mary’s ended with a 422...

LE MARS — The Kingsley-Pierson golf teams claimed Western Valley Conference tournament championships at Willow Creek Golf Course on Monday. The Lady Panthers had three of the top five individuals as they completed the sweep of the regular season and tournament titles...

SIOUX CENTER — The War Eagle Conference boys golf tournament was held Monday at The Ridge. Of the five local schools in attendance, the Remsen St. Mary’s team had the best finish with a 351 team score to take a distant third behind Harris-Lake Park (330) and Unity Christian (332)...

LE MARS — War Eagle Conference foes Akron-Westfield and Gehlen Catholic battled at the Gehlen Jays Golf Classic held Friday at Willow Creek Golf Course on a beautiful sunny spring day. The Westerners came out on top by a 351-355 score in the 18 hole tournament which also included Lawton-Bronson in a distant third with a 425. Several other schools pulled out of the tournament which was originally supposed to have fielded eight teams...

HAWARDEN — Gehlen Catholic led the local teams at the West Sioux Falcon Relays on Thursday with a team title for the boys and a runner-up finish for the girls. Akron-Westfield, Hinton, MMCRU and Remsen St. Mary’s also competed at the event. The Jays picked up a team title with 155.5 points, easily topping runner-up Lawton-Bronson’s 93 points at the meet...

SIOUX CITY — Making their debut appearance at the Missouri River Activities Conference track and field championships, the Le Mars Community teams captured a total of 11 event wins at Elwood Olsen Stadium on Thursday. The Le Mars boys won seven events at the meet and finished in second place in the team standings behind Sioux City North, who won their first MRAC championship in the league’s 20 year history...

LAKE PARK — The Remsen St. Mary’s golf teams went on the road Thursday to complete their War Eagle Conference regular season schedule with a dual at Harris-Lake Park. The Lady Hawks picked up a 211-224 win at the meet. H-LP had the top individual score as Rylie Wittrock shot a 47 to edge out RSM’s Tori Galles by a stroke. RSM had the next two scores as Sidney Tritz shot a 50 and Alyssa Schorg tallied 54 strokes on the day...

SIOUX CITY — Briar Cliff volleyball has announced the signing of Jaylen Bork to its 2021 roster. Bork is a senior at MMCRU High School and is from Remsen. “We are thrilled to add Jaylen to our squad, it’s been fun to watch her develop throughout the recruiting process,” said BCU Head Coach Lindsey Weatherford. “She is a talented multi-sport athlete from right here in the Siouxland area and we are excited to work with her on the court this fall.”...

AURELIA/KINGSLEY — A triangular meet between the Alta-Aurelia, Kingsley-Pierson and Remsen St. Mary’s boys golf teams came down to just one stroke at the Aurelia Country Club on Tuesday. The host school shot a 181 to edge out the K-P and RSM teams by one stroke as they ended with identical team scores of 182...

LE MARS — The Gehlen Catholic golf teams finished off their conference regular season schedule with wins over Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn at Willow Creek Golf Course on Tuesday. The Lady Jays won easily by a 212-263 margin as they posted the top five individual scores of the meet...

LE MARS/OMAHA, Neb. — The Le Mars Community girls tennis team finished off their regular season with their Missouri River Activities Conference dual finale on Monday and the conference tournament on Tuesday. The Lady Bulldogs won a 5-4 dual over Sioux City East at home to start the week. ...

ONAWA/CORRECTIONVILLE — The Kingsley-Pierson golf teams competed in the fifth and final Western Valley Conference meets of the season Monday. The Lady Panthers finished in third place at the Onawa Country Club. The finish came up short of the first place results of the previous two conference meets along with the first WVC meet of the season. The team also finished third in their second contest of the league teams...

STORM LAKE — The Le Mars Community track and field teams competed at the Tornado Relays hosted by Storm Lake on Monday with the boys finishing runner-up out of eight teams and the girls taking fourth out of seven teams. The Le Mars boys won three events, two relays and one field event, at the meet...

ONAWA — For the third time in a row, the KP-WC girls track and field team takes the Western Valley Conference championship. The KP-WC boys finished second in the conference meet hosted by West Monona on Monday. The KP-WC girls breezed to a team title with 176 points. Ridge View was second at 123.5 points...

HARTLEY — Individuals and relay groups from the local schools earned 10 total event wins at the War Eagle Conference track meet hosted by Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn on Monday. Hinton led the local girls teams with a third place team finish at the conference meet, trailing Unity Christian and South O’Brien in the standings. ...

HINTON — Every stroke mattered in Monday’s War Eagle Conference golf matches between Hinton and Akron-Westfield at Deer Run Golf Course. The home Hinton boys won by two strokes over the Westerners while the margin in the scores from the girls were decided by one stroke with a win for the visitors...

LE MARS — Willow Creek Golf Course was the site of a late season set of War Eagle Conference matches featuring Gehlen Catholic on Monday. The Gehlen boys earned a pair of wins as they shot a 184 which topped South O’Brien’s 211 and Trinity Christian’s 203 scores...

SIBLEY — Le Mars Community’s Dani Hurt was among the top six who earned medals at the Sibley-Ocheyedan Invite held at the Sibley Golf & Country Club on Monday. Hurt shot a 45 on the day as she was just a stroke behind the overall medalist score from Unity Christian’s Laura Beltman. Hurt’s 45 tied for the second best score with Unity’s Kerri Kroeze as she managed evens on two par-4 holes on the day...

MARCUS — After sharing the course but not competing the week prior, the MMCRU and Remsen St. Mary’s golf teams squared off Monday at the Marcus Golf Club. RSM won both matches in the meet. The RSM boys won by a slim three strokes in a 186-189 score. ...

COUNCIL BLUFFS/SIOUX CITY — The Le Mars Community boys tennis team wrapped up their first season in the Missouri River Activities Conference with a perfect record. The tennis team competed against their two MRAC foes from Council Bluffs on Friday. The Class 1A No. 8 ranked Le Mars boys picked up a pair of wins including a 6-3 win over Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln, who was receiving votes in the 2A coaches poll...

CORRECTIONVILLE — Gehlen Catholic, Hinton and KP-WC were all in action at a track meet hosted by River Valley on Friday with the three local teams all scoring event wins. The Gehlen Catholic boys finished atop the team standings out of seven in competition...

PRIMGHAR — The Akron-Westfield boys golf team shot their best score in a War Eagle Conference match this season as they took down South O’Brien by a 172-189 tally at the Primghar Golf & Country Club on Friday. Carter Wilken led the way for the Westerners with a four-over par 40 for the course. He was even on five holes and finished with a +1 on the four remaining holes...

MAPLETON — The KP-WC track and field teams won the girls and boys team titles at the MVAOCOU Invite on Thursday. Damon Schmid took first in the 100 meter dash in a dead heat with Denison-Schleswig’s Kevin Sabin as each had a time of 11.98. Schmid had a similar situation in the long jump as he tied with Denison-Schleswig’s Evan Turin for the top distance of 19-07 in the long jump, but he won the tiebreaker for the top spot in that event as well...

HAWARDEN/HINTON — The final margin in the girls and boys scores were five strokes each in a golf split between Hinton and West Sioux in War Eagle Conference action Thursday at Hawarden Golf & Country Club. The Blackhawk boys won their match by a 190-195 score. Brody Spies led the way for the team with a medalist round of 42 across the nine holes. He was even on the par-4 seventh and eighth holes and finished +1 on each of the other seven holes as he finished +7 on the par-35 course...

SANBORN — In the battle of the Hawks, Remsen St. Mary’s won both matches against Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn on Thursday at the Sanborn Golf & Country Club. The RSM boys picked up a 177-191 victory to improve to 6-2 in War Eagle Conference matches this season...

HOLSTEIN — The Kingsley-Pierson boys golf team slipped to their lowest finish in a Western Valley Conference meet this season with a fifth place finish at the Holstein Country Club on Thursday. The team had one second place finish and two fourth place finishes in their prior WVC meets...

KINGSLEY — The Kingsley-Pierson girls golf team earned another team title at the fourth Western Valley Conference meet held Thursday. The Lady Panthers won on their home turf at Brookside Golf Course for this meet after also winning two of the first three meetings of the league schools...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The National Strength and Conditioning Association has announced its 2021 All-American Athlete Award recipients. Among those selected were Krista Zenk, a senior volleyball player at Morningside College, and Daniel Bishop, a senior wrestler at Augustana University...

LAWTON — Gehlen Catholic, Hinton and KP-WC were the three local teams who competed at the Eagles Coed Relays hosted by Lawton-Bronson on Tuesday. The Gehlen boys came away with the team title out of 11 teams while KP-WC finished second at the meet. The Jays got their first win in the 4x800 as they topped Sergeant Bluff-Luton by less than a second. Jeff Augustine, Traegan Kramer, Ethan Herbst and Ryan Augustine combined for a time of 8:49.54...

CHEROKEE — The Le Mars Community track and field teams were in action Tuesday at the Lynn Jolly Coed Relays hosted by Cherokee. The Le Mars boys ended second out of eight teams at the event. Brandon Vander Sluis earned a win in the discus with a toss of 165-07 which was over 20 feet farther than the next best throw. ...

INWOOD — The Akron-Westfield track and field teams competed at the West Lyon Co-Ed Invitational on Tuesday. Lauryn Saathoff earned a win in the high jump. While four individuals all reached a top height of 4-04, Saathoff did it in the fewest attempts to take the win...

SLOAN — The Hinton boys golf team swung over 20 strokes below their season average, but still came up short against a hot shooting Westwood team on Tuesday. The Rebels fired a 160 on their home course, tied for the lowest team score by a 1A team this season, as they finished 14 strokes under the 174 from the Blackhawks. The 174 was a season best mark for the Blackhawks...

ALTA — MMCRU and Remsen St. Mary’s competed at the Warrior Coed Relays hosted by Alta-Aurelia on Tuesday. The MMCRU boys track and field team finished in second place at the meet. The Royals got a 1-2 punch in the 3200 meter run as Kaden Galles and Brayden Dirks took the top two spots. Galles won the race in 10:54 while Dirks ended .08 of a second over the 11-minute mark. Dirks added a third place finish in the 1600 at 5:15.87, about two seconds behind winner Kyler Wunschel of Ridge View...

LE MARS/SIOUX CITY — The Le Mars Community tennis teams beat Bishop Heelan in Missouri River Activities Conference action Monday. The boys swept the Crusaders by a 9-0 score. “This was a nice performance from all the varsity guys tonight,” Le Mars boys coach Alex Struck said. “Overall, the guys are starting to find their stride as we approach the end of the season.”...

REMSEN — The MMCRU golf teams competed against West Sioux in War Eagle Conference action Monday. The Royals scored a pair of wins in ideal golf conditions with sunshine, temperatures in the 80s and just a slight breeze. The MMCRU boys put together a solid outing as they won 179-206 on the day at the Remsen Golf Course. The team had five of their six golfers score as good as or better than West Sioux’s top scores...

PRIMGHAR — The Hinton golf teams picked up a pair of road wins over South O’Brien in War Eagle Conference action Monday at the Primghar Golf & Country Club. The Lady Blackhawks won by a slim margin of 212-214. “The Hinton girls trimmed 22 strokes off their season average in shooting a 212 to take down the South O’Brien Wolverines on their home course in Primghar,” Hinton girls coach Joel Small said. “It was a great win for the Lady Blackhawks after struggling at Remsen last Thursday.”...

REMSEN — The Remsen St. Mary’s golf teams competed against West Sioux in War Eagle Conference action Monday. The Hawks scored a pair of wins on a near perfect day for golf with sunshine, temperatures in the 80s and just a slight breeze. The RSM girls picked up a 196-241 win over their conference foe. ...

IDA GROVE/MAPLETON — The Kingsley-Pierson golf teams competed in the third set of Western Valley Conference meets on Monday. The Lady Panthers competed at the Ida Grove Golf and Country Club as they won the meet with a 197 team score. It is their second win at a WVC meet this season. The won the first and finished in third at the last meeting of the conference schools...

ORANGE CITY — The Gehlen Catholic golf teams were tripped up by Unity Christian in War Eagle Conference action Monday at Landsmeer Golf Course. The losses put the Knights in the driver’s seat in the league races as teams surpass the midway point of the conference season...

SIOUX CITY — Dani Hurt earned medalist honors for the Le Mars Community girls golf team Monday, but it wasn’t quite enough for the Bulldogs to pick up a team win as they ended 11 strokes behind Sioux City North. The meet was held at Sun Valley golf course with Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson also competing in the meet. The Yellow Jackets were well behind North and Le Mars with a 262 team score. North finished with a 195 while Le Mars shot a 206...

HARTLEY — Remsen St. Mary’s and Akron-Westfield made the trip to their War Eagle Conference neighbor for a track meet on Friday for the Hawk Relays hosted by Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn. Claire Schroeder of RSM had the top time of 14 individuals in the 100 meter dash. She ran the race in a time of 13.22 seconds as she was .64 in front of the second place time...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community tennis teams faced Sergeant Bluff-Luton in Missouri River Activities Conference action on Friday. The Le Mars boys won 5-0 against a shorthanded SB-L squad. All of the matches were 8-0 wins for the Bulldogs. Kaden Wingert defeated Collin Schnaar at No. 1. The second position featured a win for Matt Ahlers over Derek Mohr. Hayden Gamble lost matches against Michael Meis and Kade Calhoun...

QUIMBY — Kingsley-Pierson girls golf coach Val Sitzmann couldn’t believe what she saw when she tallied her team’s score from their meet at the Quimby Golf Course on Friday. “When I saw the team total show up on the spreadsheet, I wrote the scores down on a piece of paper and re-added them,” Sitzmann said. ...

LE MARS — Jayden Barthole shot the individual low round and helped the Gehlen Catholic girls golf team claim the team title at the Le Mars Invite held Friday at Willow Creek Golf Course. The Lady Jays had the low score out of 12 teams in the field, all of which were bigger schools. The team shot a 391, easily beating the second place score of 405 from runner-up Sioux City East...

AKRON — The Akron-Westfield golf teams scored wins over MMCRU in War Eagle Conference action Friday. The boys competed and at the end of the match Akron-Westfield came out with a six stroke edge over the Royals. Carter Wilken led the way with a 40 for the Westerners on their home course at the Akron Golf & Country Club. He had a birdie on the par-5 second and even pars on five other holes on his round...

SHELDON — The Le Mars Community boys track and field team competed at the Sheldon Orab Boys Invitational on Thursday. The team had one individual and one relay win at the meet, both involving hurdles. Konnor Calhoun had the winning time in the 400 meter hurdles. He finished just over a second in front of second place with a time of 1:02.43. Teammate Riley Sadoski was third with a time of 1:03.56, a tenth of a second behind runner-up Tristan Blom of MOC-Floyd Valley...