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CORALVILLE — Le Mars Community’s Brooke Rood finished in third place in the 285 pound bracket at the IWCOA Girls State Wrestling Tournament held Friday and Saturday at the Xtream Arena. Rood, who finished in seventh place in the 195 class last year, opened the tournament with a 59 second win by fall over Laynee Orent of AP-GC...

SIOUX CITY — Colton Hoag came away with the lone championship for the Le Mars Community wrestling team at the Bishop Heelan Invitational Tournament held Saturday. Hoag, ranked No. 4 in 3A-220 by The Predicament, won all three of his matches by fall as he pinned Heelan’s Naeron Bisse in 1:04, Cole Leonard of Logan-Magnolia in 58 seconds and then dropped Harlan’s Jeremiah Davis in 34 seconds in the first place match...

MARCUS — The MMCRU boys basketball team did something Friday they’d never done before in their five seasons when they initiated the running clock at the 35-point differential in the second half of an 82-51 win over Akron-Westfield. Since Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn and Remsen-Union joined at the start of the 2016-17 season, the Royals have never won more than four games in a season and their largest margin of victory was 24 points in two separate wins over Clay Central-Everly in the 2018-19 season...

MARCUS — The Class 1A No. 5 ranked MMCRU girls basketball team needed a last-second shot to avoid their second straight loss on Friday as they escaped with a 43-41 win over Akron-Westfield in War Eagle Conference play. Taylor Harpenau came through for the game-winning shot as she got the inbound pass in the corner, took a dribble down the baseline and pulled up for a shot over the long outstretched arm of the 6-foot-3 Natalie Nielsen which banked off the glass and in as time expired...

LE MARS — Gehlen Catholic picked up a pair of basketball wins over Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn in War Eagle Conference action Friday. The Lady Jays earned a 56-35 win. Three players scored in double figures for the team in a balanced scoring night. Rachel Langel led the way with 13 points, nine rebounds and five blocks. Lauren Heying and Miyah Whitehead added 12 points apiece...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community girls basketball team ended a string of three straight losses Friday as they beat Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln 52-42 in Missouri River Activities Conference play. Sarah Brown led the Lady Bulldogs with 18 points which included three makes from 3-point range...

ONAWA — The Hinton wrestling team earned a dual win over MVAOCOU on Thursday by a 42-36 score. The Blackhawks didn’t compete in the two lightest weights, but won the next three starting at 120 pounds as Wyatt Skuodas pinned Kane Boyle in 48 seconds. Skuodas moved into the rankings by The Predicament as he is No. 9 in 1A-113...

KINGSLEY — In a top-five showdown between Class 1A ranked girls basketball teams, No. 3 Kingsley-Pierson edged No. 5 MMCRU by a 65-59 score on Thursday. The Royals led for most of the game until midway through the fourth quarter when the Panthers got in front. The game was as close as one possession with under a minute to play until the Panthers sealed the win at the free-throw line...

SIOUX CITY — The Le Mars Community wrestling team competed in a pair of Missouri River Activities Conference duals Thursday against Sioux City East and Sioux City West. The Bulldogs picked up a 63-18 win over East. Le Mars got on the board first with a win by fall at 126 pounds for Daniel Hinds as he won in a time of 1:39...

LE MARS — Meeting for the third time in the regular season, Gehlen Catholic came out on top of a pair of basketball games against West Sioux on Tuesday. The Lady Jays snapped a three game losing skid with a 58-44 win over the Falcons. The win also avenged a pair of losses earlier in the season to the Falcons which came by 54-46 and 43-24 scores...

CORRECTIONVILLE — A matchup between the undefeated Class 1A No. 4 ranked Kingsley-Pierson girls basketball team and the winless River Valley team ended about as expected in Western Valley Conference action Tuesday with the Lady Panthers earning a 68-28 win. The Panthers improved to 15-0 while the Wolverines fell to 0-11...

AKRON — The Akron-Westfield girls and Remsen St. Mary’s boys basketball teams claimed wins in action Tuesday. The Lady Westerners secured their sixth win in a row as they edged the Hawks 44-41. The team hasn’t lost a game since falling to the Hawks by a 57-51 score in Remsen on Dec. 15...

REMSEN — The MMCRU basketball teams each scored 55 points in a pair of wins over Trinity Christian on Tuesday. The MMCRU boys snapped a five-game losing streak with their 55-40 win, avenging a 53-45 loss which started the losing skid for the team. Cade Pepper led the Royals with 17 points, six steals and five rebounds in the win. He knocked down 3-of-5 shots from 3-point range...

SERGEANT BLUFF — The Le Mars Community boys basketball team secured their fifth consecutive win as they swept the regular season series from Sergeant Bluff-Luton in Missouri River Activities Conference action Tuesday. The Bulldogs went on the road to pick up a 53-41 win...

BOONE — The Board of Control approved and accepted the lone recommendation out of recent meetings of the joint IHSAA and IGHSAU classification committee, adding one classification of football ahead of the 2021 season. The new classification will be Class 5A, adding an 11-player group to reduce the disparity in enrollment in the IHSAA’s largest class of football, and to increase the number of participating teams and student-athletes in the postseason...

REMSEN — Remsen St. Mary’s Head Football Coach Tim Osterman was named the 2020 Iowa Football Coaches Association State Coach of the Year for the 8-player class. After several years as an assistant coach on the RSM staff, Osterman took over the head coaching responsibilities this past season and led the Hawks to their second state championship in school history...

HINTON — War Eagle Conference rivals Akron-Westfield and Hinton were among the four teams in action in a set of duals Tuesday. Joining them on the mat were Sheldon/South O’Brien and Westwood. The Westerners saw their duals against Hinton and Westwood decided by three points or less as they split those two...

MOVILLE — The Class 1A No. 6 ranked Gehlen Catholic boys basketball team hit their season scoring high on Monday in an 84-57 win over Woodbury Central in non-conference action. A 23-9 advantage after a quarter was the start of a hot-shooting night for the Jays who finished with a 58 percent success rate from the field and a 62 percent success rate from 3-point range where they sank 13-of-21 attempts...

HARTLEY — The Class 1A No. 5 ranked MMCRU girls basketball team ran past Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn on Monday for a 73-25 win. The Royals scored 30 points in the opening quarter as they got out to a 21 point lead early and continued to build on it from there...

REMSEN — Remsen St. Mary’s picked up a pair of wins over River Valley in non-conference action Monday. The Lady Hawks pulled away from a tie at the end of the first quarter to beat the winless Wolverines 62-35. Claire Schroeder led the Hawks in scoring with 15 points followed by two others in double digits as Carmindee Ricke dropped in 12 points and Mya Bunkers tallied 11. Ricke finished with seven steals and Bunkers led the way with six assists...

SIOUX CITY — After losing by a 58-55 score to Sheldon in their previous game which went into overtime, the Hinton boys basketball team lost by an identical score to Sioux City North, this time in regulation, in a non-conference matchup on Monday. Both teams had similar shooting numbers from the field, but the Stars had a bit of an edge at the free throw line as they made 13-of-19 compared to just 7-of-14 for the Blackhawks...

LAWTON — Kingsley-Pierson had three wrestlers claim titles at the Western Valley Conference tournament held at Lawton-Bronson on Saturday. Carson Seuntjens picked up a title at 106 pounds, a year after falling in the title match. He won both his matches this year starting with a 2:00 win by fall against Jordan Orr of West Monona and finishing up with a 2-1 victory against Gunnar Vohs of Woodbury Central to claim the title...

KINGSLEY — It was a battle between ranked teams in Saturday’s Western Valley Conference showdown between Kingsley-Pierson and Woodbury Central. The Lady Panthers, who have occupied the No. 4 spot throughout the season, came away with a 73-57 win over the Wildcats, who just entered the rankings at the No. 15 spot...

LE MARS — Local wrestlers took the mat for the Le Mars Invite held Saturday. The host school finished with one champion at the event as Ayden Hoag scored the championship in the 182-pound class. Hoag won his two matches at the invite, first a win by fall in 2:50 over Jeshua Cervantes of West Sioux in the semifinals, an identical result in a nearly identical time from the previous week at the West Sioux tournament. ...

AKRON — Akron-Westfield and Gehlen Catholic split their War Eagle Conference doubleheader on Saturday. The Lady Westerners won their fifth game in a row as they came out on top of a 49-40 contest. Chloee Colt made all three of the team’s 3-pointers and all eight of the team’s free throws to lead the Westerners with 17 points. She added five rebounds, four steals and two assists...

SIOUX CITY — Alec Dreckman sank a 3-pointer from the left wing as time expired to give the Le Mars Community boys basketball team a 70-68 win over Sioux City East in Missouri River Activities Conference action Saturday. Dreckman seems to have some of his biggest moments against the Black Raiders after scoring a school-record 51 points against them in a close 75-72 loss a season ago...

SIOUX CITY — The Hinton wrestling team edged out a 33-27 win over Denison-Schleswig in dual action at the Long Lines Family Rec Center on Tuesday. The Blackhawks jumped out to an early lead with wins at 120, 126 and 132 pounds to start the dual. Wyatt Skuodas led off with an 8-1 decision over Hugo Medina. Ethan Sachau followed with a 3:27 win by fall against Juan Garcia and Gage Morgan pinned Angelo Perez in 2:50...

HAWARDEN — The Akron-Westfield girls basketball team came away with their fourth consecutive win as they knocked off rival West Sioux by a 39-36 score on Tuesday. The win avenged a 50-38 loss to the Falcons earlier this season. Natalie Nielsen led the Westerners with 18 points, seven rebounds and seven blocked shots in the contest...

LAKE PARK — The Class 1A No. 5 ranked MMCRU girls basketball team finished with twice as many points in the first quarter as Harris-Lake Park would have all night in a 76-11 shellacking on Tuesday. All 11 Royals who took the court scored points for the team with four finishing in double figures. Taylor Harpenau led the team with 13 points followed by Ellie Hilbrands with 12...

LAWTON — The Kingsley-Pierson basketball teams picked up a pair of wins over Lawton-Bronson in action Tuesday. The K-P boys snapped a three-game losing skid by knocking off the Eagles 51-43. Four players put in all the points for the Panthers, led by Jackson Howe who scored 17 points. Malakie Christophersen added 14 points and Conner Beelner also reached double figures with 12 points. The remaining eight points went to Emerson Pratt...

HINTON — The Hinton basketball teams split their games with Sheldon on Tuesday in non-conference action. The Lady Blackhawks picked up a 59-35 win as they scored the first eight points and maintained a similar lead for most of the first half before using a 17-4 third quarter to pull away...

PAULLINA — The Remsen St. Mary’s basketball teams went on the road and picked up a pair of wins over War Eagle Conference foe South O’Brien on Monday, exactly a month after handing the Wolverines a pair of losses in Remsen. The Lady Hawks faced a bit of a stiffer challenge from their 20 point home win, but managed to come away with a 55-44 victory. ...

LE MARS — After a solid first three quarters of play, the Le Mars Community boys basketball team took their foot off the gas and just coasted in the fourth quarter and withstood an MOC-Floyd Valley comeback attempt for a 54-44 win in non-conference action Tuesday...

LE MARS — A 10 point first half spelled trouble for the Le Mars Community girls basketball team as they ended up dropping in a non-conference game to MOC-Floyd Valley by a 51-40 score on Tuesday. The loss ended a streak of four wins and a run of six wins in their previous seven games entering the contest...

PONCA, Neb. — The Kingsley-Pierson wrestling team earned three dual wins as part of a quadrangular competition on Tuesday. The Panthers earned a 63-18 win over Ponca for one of the wins. The team started off with the first four weight classes beginning with 138 pounds where Damon Schmid won a 7-2 decision over Sam Taylor. After two forfeits, Kole Reis pinned his opponent in 1:10 at the 160 weight...

SHELDON — The Le Mars Community wrestling team picked up a pair of dual victories on Tuesday. The Bulldogs edged out a 34-31 win over Spencer. “We had two big duals tonight for our season, the first being Spencer,” Le Mars Head Coach Shane Hessenius said. ...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community bowling teams defended their home turf at Sweet 16 Lanes by picking up a pair of victories over Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln in Missouri River Activities Conference action Monday. The Le Mars boys had finished nearly 300 points behind the Lynx exactly one month before at the Thunderbowl in Council Bluffs at the Holiday Tournament. ...

KINGSLEY — Hinton and Kingsley-Pierson each took a game in a non-conference basketball doubleheader on Monday. The Class 1A No. 4 ranked Lady Panthers pulled away for a 78-49 victory. Hinton led 15-14 after a quarter before the Panthers started the second quarter on a 6-0 run and worked their way to a 33-25 halftime lead...

HAWARDEN — Le Mars Community’s Camden Feuerhelm and Kingsley-Pierson’s Carson Seuntjens were the two local class winners at the West Sioux Invite on Saturday. Feuerhelm came away with the 170-pound title at the event. He won all three of his matches by fall by pinning Spencer’s Kael Brandt in 2:44, Central Lyon/George-Little Rock’s Gable Van Beek in 3:00 and Payton Ludington of Lewis Central in 1:07 in the first place match...

GRAETTINGER — Akron-Westfield finished in third place out of 10 teams at the GT/RA Wrestling Invitational on Saturday. The team had one individual champion crowned. Coming off his only loss of the season in dual action Thursday, Class 1A-106 No. 6 ranked Cael Morrow won his two matches to claim his weight class. He pinned Myle Beck of OABCIG and Harley Tobin of North Union in the first minute as he moved to 17-1 on the season...

NEOLA — Hinton’s Derek Anderson came away with the team’s only title at the Tri-Center Invitational on Saturday, winning the 220-pound class. The Class 1A-220 No. 2 ranked wrestler picked up three wins by fall, beginning with a 1:00 pin of Tri-Center’s Tristan Vorthmann. ...

HINTON — The Hinton girls basketball team won all three games in their first week back from the winter break with the latest win being an 80-35 victory over Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn on Friday in War Eagle Conference play. “We keep preaching ‘Play hard, play smart, play together and have fun,’ that’s always our motto before we break the locker room,” Hinton Head Coach Matt Leary said. “They really lived up to all those.”...

HINTON — The Hinton boys basketball team faltered late in a 63-55 loss to Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn on Friday in War Eagle Conference action. The Blackhawks held a four point lead entering the final frame, but could only muster up seven points across the final eight minutes as the team lost their third consecutive game...

LE MARS — The Gehlen Catholic basketball teams split their contests with West Sioux on Friday. The Class 1A No. 8 ranked Gehlen boys team won their game by a 60-47 score which was a larger margin of victory than the team’s four point road win over the Falcons back in December...

KINGSLEY — The Class 1A No. 4 ranked Kingsley-Pierson girls basketball team moved to 11-0 on the season with a 73-49 win over MVAOCOU on Friday in Western Valley Conference action. McKenzie Goodwin had a double-double for the Panthers with 19 points and 10 rebounds to lead the team in both categories...

MARCUS — Class 1A No. 5 ranked MMCRU came away with a 67-57 win over Sergeant Bluff-Luton in a non-conference girls basketball game Friday. Sergeant Bluff-Luton, which outgrew the War Eagle Conference, played their first game against either Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn, Remsen-Union or the combined program since their last year in the conference in the 2009-10 season...

AKRON — After losing a 45-41 contest to South O’Brien earlier in the season, the Akron-Westfield girls basketball team avenged that loss with a 54-41 win on Friday. Natalie Nielsen led the way with a double-double by scoring 19 points on 9-of-12 shooting and pulling down 13 rebounds. She added three blocks and two steals...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community basketball teams came away with a pair of wins over Sioux City West in Missouri River Activities Conference action on Friday. The Lady Bulldogs rattled off their fourth consecutive win as they won 66-52 in the first half of the doubleheader...

REMSEN — Class 1A No. 10 ranked Remsen St. Mary’s was clicking on all cylinders Thursday in a 66-29 non-conference win over Siouxland Christian. The two teams met in last year’s district final which the Hawks won by eight points, but this game saw the Hawks surpass that margin by halftime with an 11 point advantage at the break and RSM outscored the Eagles 26-2 in the fourth quarter for a convincing win...

LAWTON — The Kingsley-Pierson wrestling team dominated their duals in Western Valley Conference action Thursday. The Panthers outscored Lawton-Bronson 63-14 in their dual which included seven forfeit wins beginning with the five lightest weight classes...