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LE MARS — Willow Creek Golf Course hosted the Men’s City Golf Tournament on July 18. The championship group played all 27 holes at the course, beginning with the Red course followed by the Black course and then the Green course. Brian Schultz came away as the winner of the championship group with a 106 across the 27 holes. He was +1 with a 36 on the opening nine and then -1 with a 35 on his second nine. He was even par with a 35 on the last nine...

CARROLL — Blaine Harpenau didn’t allow a hit in his near-complete game on the mound while the Remsen St. Mary’s offense pounded out 18 hits in a 14-0 five inning win for the top-seeded Hawks over Grundy Center in the Class 1A state quarterfinal round on Monday at Merchants Park...

LE MARS — This summer, 108 area youth spent time picking up the ins and outs of the game of golf in an eight week program held at Willow Creek Golf Course. Dan Gray, President of Junior Golf of Northwest Iowa, said when he came back to Iowa a few years ago, he wanted to get more youth involved with the sport...

LE MARS — The 60th Le Mars Junior Classic was held at Willow Creek Golf Course in Le Mars on Tuesday, July 6. Juniors aged 6-17 competed in the tournament which featured five different tee boxes, playing a short nine hole course to a championship tee flights for both girls and boys...

SIOUX CITY — The No. 5 ranked Kingsley-Pierson baseball team had been averaging about 10 runs per game this season and hadn’t been held without a run all year entering Tuesday’s Class 1A substate game against No. 10 ranked Tri-Center. The offense of the Panthers came to a screeching halt, as did the team’s season, in a 5-0 loss as the team ends a win shy of a repeat trip to the state tournament...

CHEROKEE — The streak continues for the Remsen St. Mary’s baseball program as they picked up an 11-0 win in five innings over Newell-Fonda in a Class 1A substate game played Tuesday. The six state tournament appearances in a row is tied for the third longest streak in state history as they did it on the home field of one of the teams to do it last as Cherokee went six straight times from 2005-2010. ...

FORT DODGE — The Remsen St. Mary’s softball team finished off their season in the consolation game of the Class 1A state tournament on Tuesday. Facing off against last year’s 1A champions from Clarksville, the Hawks lost by a final score of 4-0. The game is the only time all season the Hawks failed to score a run as they end with a 21-6 record for the season...

FORT DODGE — The Remsen St. Mary’s softball team lost their Class 1A state quarterfinal game to Wayne by a 7-2 score Monday in the battle between the 7-and-2 seeds in the field. The difference in the game proved to be timely two-out hitting by the higher ranked Falcons as they scored six of their seven runs with two outs...

REMSEN — The night couldn’t have started much better for Remsen St. Mary’s senior pitcher Blaine Harpenau. After surpassing 500 career strikeouts in his previous outing, the team’s ace got four strikeouts in the first inning and after the team scored six runs in the third inning, the No. 3 ranked Hawks held on to win their Class 1A district final contest over Gehlen Catholic by a 6-0 score Saturday at Marv Thelen Memorial Field...

KINGSLEY — No. 5 ranked Kingsley-Pierson beat Woodbury Central 11-1 in six innings in a Class 1A district final contest on Saturday. The Panthers scored one in the first which was answered by a run for the Wildcats in the top of the next half inning. Boe Harvey got hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to plate the first run for the Panthers. Dallas Kluender drove in the only run for the Wildcats in the second...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community baseball team’s season came to an end Friday in the first round of the Class 3A postseason as they fell to Spencer by a 3-2 final score. Le Mars entered as the top seed in the Class 3A Substate 1 bracket, but lost their game to the only team in the substate that had a losing record during the regular season...

HINTON — The community of Hinton came together to help construct a new group of batting cages for the youth and high school baseball and softball programs. The batting cages include indoor cages at the community center which can be accessed year-round with a membership. Outdoor cages were also constructed including at the high school baseball and softball diamonds...

KINGSLEY — Lawton-Bronson hadn’t beaten the Kingsley-Pierson baseball team in their three previous meetings in the 2021 season, but they had certainly made things difficult for the Western Valley Conference regular season and tournament champions. The Panthers had won the first meeting of the year by three runs and then escaped with one run margins of victory in the next two matchups. ...

REMSEN — Remsen St. Mary’s senior Blaine Harpenau joined an elite group of players in the 500 career strikeout club on Tuesday in the team’s 10-0 five inning Class 1A district win over George-Little Rock. Only 22 pitchers in the state of Iowa have ever accomplished the feat and even fewer did so with just a summer baseball season. ...

MOVILLE — It was as close of a game as you could get, but the Akron-Westfield baseball team saw their season come to a close in a Class 1A district semifinal contest Tuesday with a 1-0 loss to Woodbury Central in eight innings. The lone run of the game came in the bottom of the eighth inning on an RBI sacrifice fly from Will DeStigter out to right field. With the bases loaded and one out, DeStigter’s deep drive allowed Zak Riley to score from third for the winning run...

LE MARS — Gehlen Catholic defeated Trinity Christian in Tuesday’s Class 1A district second round matchup at the Riverview Complex, winning 6-1. Junior Ryan Livermore started the evening on the bump for the Jays, providing a display of Gehlen’s depth at the position after Connor Kraft’s 10 strikeouts on the mound the night before...

LE MARS — Gehlen Catholic rolled past South O’Brien by a score of 6-0 in the second game of Monday’s Class 1A district doubleheader at Riverview Complex, thanks in large part to sophomore Connor Kraft’s stellar performance on the mound and his brother, senior Zach Kraft’s performance at the plate. The win ended a seven game losing skid entering the postseason for the Jays...

LE MARS — In a true roller coaster of a game for fans of both teams, MMCRU failed to hold onto a 4-3 lead over Trinity Christian in the seventh inning of the first game of Monday’s Class 1A district first round doubleheader at Riverview Complex, eventually losing 5-4...

REMSEN — The Class 1A No. 3 ranked Remsen St. Mary’s baseball team had no trouble in their district opening contest against winless Storm Lake St. Mary’s on Monday, winning 10-0 in five innings. The Hawks scored in all five turns at the plate in the win. Levi Waldschmitt had half of the team’s six hits with two singles and a triple. He drove in a pair of runs...

KINGSLEY — The Class 1A No. 5 ranked Kingsley-Pierson baseball team faced no resistance from a winless Whiting team in the district opener on Monday, winning 15-0 in four innings. K-P scored four in the first, eight in the second and got their final three in the fourth to finish off the game early...

MOVILLE — The Akron-Westfield baseball team scored lone runs in each of the first five innings of a 5-2 win over Westwood in the Class 1A district opener played Monday. Five different players had an RBI apiece for the Westerners. Michael Swancutt walked once and reached on an error twice as he picked up an RBI. Tyson Fairbanks, Jack Terpstra, Carter Wilken and Raiden Ericson all drove in a run. Sam Mullinix and Hayden Wahlberg led the way with two hits apiece...

HINTON — Hinton had their baseball season come to a close Monday following a 4-2 loss to Western Christian in a Class 2A district game. It was the second meeting of the season between the two teams with the Wolfpack also winning a 6-2 contest just 10 days prior...

ROCK VALLEY — Three runs in the top of the seventh inning gave the Le Mars baseball team the win in a 7-4 contest against Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley to close the regular season on Monday. It was a back-and-forth contest prior to that as the Nighthawks held leads of 1-0 after and inning and 4-3 after four innings while Le Mars led 2-1 at the end of the second and added another run in the third...

AKRON — For the first time since 2013, Remsen St. Mary’s will make an appearance at the state softball tournament. This comes after the Class 1A No. 13 ranked Lady Hawks avenged a pair of regular season losses to their War Eagle Conference foe with a 6-3 win in the regional final Monday over No. 6 ranked Akron-Westfield...

AKRON — Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire kept their game with Class 1A No. 6 ranked Akron-Westfield competitive in the regional semifinal on Friday, but the Westerners made a few more plays that the Titans didn’t to come away with a 5-1 victory. “I thought our pitching was good, their pitching was good. We feel very fortunate to come out on top,” A-W Head Coach Todd Colt said. “It was two small-ball teams battling. They had one or two throwing errors that gave us a little momentum.”...

REMSEN — A matchup between Remsen St. Mary’s and Westwood in the softball regional tournament has become a recurring theme over the last several years. RSM won a 2014 regional semifinal game while Westwood had wins in the 2017 regional final and 2019 regional quarterfinal...

SERGEANT BLUFF — The Le Mars Community softball team came up just short of keeping their season alive with the hopes of making a repeat trip to the state tournament as they dropped a 4-3 contest to conference rival Sergeant Bluff-Luton in the Class 4A regional semifinal round Saturday...

ONAWA — One run was enough for the Hinton softball team to win their Class 2A regional opener over East Sac County, but it wasn’t enough to do the same in an 11-1 loss in five innings to West Monona in the regional semifinal round on Friday. The Blackhawks got their lone run as Jadyn Case reached on a walk and her courtesy runner, Kaci Allen, was brought home by Aubree Lake...

LE MARS — The Gehlen Catholic softball team had their season come to a close with a 5-4 loss to Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire in a Class 1A regional quarterfinal game on Thursday. A competitive back-and-forth game saw the Titans strike for a pair of runs in the first inning. The Jays answered for one in the bottom of the frame and took the lead with three in the second. GT/RA knotted the game up with two in the third and got the final run in the fifth which proved to be the game winner...

LE MARS — The Class 1A No. 5 ranked Kingsley-Pierson baseball team picked up their sixth win in a row Thursday by beating Gehlen Catholic 13-4 in the regular season finale for both teams. The loss was the seventh in a row for the Jays after they had won 12 in a row in the middle of the season...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community softball team picked up an 8-0 win over Storm Lake in the Class 4A regional opener on Thursday. After an 11-4 win over the Tornadoes earlier in the season, senior Alivia Milbrodt said the team was confident entering the postseason...

REMSEN — Ana Conover powered a game-ending 3-run home run over the left field fence to cap off an eight run sixth inning which provided Class 1A No. 13 ranked Remsen St. Mary’s an 11-1 win over Kingsley-Pierson in the regional quarterfinals on Wednesday...

HINTON — In a primarily defensive battle, Hinton edged out East Sac County 1-0 in the Class 2A region 2 softball quarterfinal, largely thanks to junior Jadyn Case’s 11 strikeouts in her complete game effort on the mound. “Tonight we had solid pitching and defense that led to the victory,” Hinton Head Coach Jennifer Jacobs-List said...

AKRON — The Class 1A No. 6 ranked Akron-Westfield softball team opened up regional play with a 10-0 win in five innings over Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn on Wednesday. The Westerners scored seven runs in the first inning and added lone runs in the third, fourth and fifth to finish the game early...

RUTHVEN — The MMCRU softball team was eliminated from Class 1A regional play by Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire by a 4-2 score in eight innings. After play was suspended due to weather on Tuesday, the game was completed on Wednesday as the Titans earned a walk-off win in the bottom of the eighth inning on a home run from Macy Alderson...

KINGSLEY — After claiming the Western Valley Conference regular season title, the Kingsley-Pierson baseball team also won the WVC tournament championship with wins on Monday and Tuesday. The Class 1A No. 5 ranked Panthers needed a sixth inning rally to come away with a 4-3 win over Lawton-Bronson in the semifinal round on Monday...

SIOUX CITY — The Le Mars Community baseball team split their games with Sergeant Bluff-Luton in a doubleheader held at Lewis and Clark Park on Tuesday. The Warriors took the first game between the two Missouri River Activities Conference schools by a 6-2 score. SB-L got out to a 4-0 lead after an inning and stayed in the driver’s seat the rest of the night...

LE MARS — No Rylee Schnepf. No problem for the Gehlen Catholic softball team as they picked up a 5-1 win over Trinity Christian in the first round of Class 1A regionals on Tuesday. The Lady Jays have been without the school’s pitching wins leader and 2020 First Team All-Stater for the last week of the regular season and now into the postseason after Schnepf sustained an injury. She was still sporting a knee brace on the bench for Tuesday’s game...

KINGSLEY — The Kingsley-Pierson softball team opened the postseason with a 12-0 win in three innings over Whiting in the Class 1A Region 1 bracket on Tuesday. The Panthers scored six runs in the second and six more in the third to complete the win. The team blasted three home runs in the contest, bringing their season total to 29, which is best in Class 1A this season...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The American Rivers Conference announced the spring sport members of its 2020-21 All-Academic Team. Four hundred and twenty-nine student-athletes from the Conference’s six spring championship sports met the requirements for recognition...

CHEROKEE/AKRON — The Akron-Westfield baseball team picked up a pair of wins by beating Cherokee and South O’Brien. At Cherokee on Friday, the Westerners came out on top of an 8-5 final score. Aric Allard led the Westerners with three hits out of the leadoff spot, two singles and a double, as he scored three runs and also drove in one...

FONDA/REMSEN — Ranked No. 3 in Class 1A, the Remsen St. Mary’s baseball team extended their winning streak to six games with a pair of wins. The first win came Friday in an extra-inning affair with a Newell-Fonda team that is receiving votes in the Class 1A rankings. The Hawks scored the game-winning run in the top of the eighth inning for a 3-2 victory...

SERGEANT BLUFF/LE MARS — The Le Mars Community softball team continued with Missouri River Activities Conference action with doubleheaders against Sergeant Bluff-Luton and Sioux City East. The team traveled to Sergeant Bluff on Friday and split their games with the Warriors. SB-L won one game 4-0 while the Bulldogs took the other 12-2...

KINGSLEY — The Kingsley-Pierson baseball team wrapped up the Western Valley Conference regular season with a 12-3 win over MVAOCOU on Friday. The Panthers scored eight runs in the first as they took control of the game early. Malakie Christophersen led the team with 3 RBI on a pair of hits. Damon Schmid and Evan Neumann each had a single and double as the other players with multi-hit games. Neumann added 2 RBI. K-P had 11 hits and eight walks in the victory...

SLOAN — The Gehlen Catholic softball team concluded the regular season with a doubleheader split at Westwood on Friday. Gehlen won the first game 12-1 in five innings. The Jays scored half of their runs from their first two in the batting order as Tiffany Woerdehoff crossed home plate four times and Alyssa Kolbeck added two runs as she reached on a single, double and hit-by-pitch in the game...

HULL — Hinton was swept by Western Christian in a pair of non-conference baseball and softball games Friday. The Lady Blackhawks fell behind 9-0 before scoring four runs in the sixth, but it wasn’t enough in a 9-4 loss. Hinton was held to five hits in the game. Emily Small and Madison Goosmann had two of those hits as each drove in a run. Claire Kasperbauer had the other RBI while Bella Badar, Jadyn Case and Kayan Kunkel all added a hit apiece...

REMSEN/MARCUS — The Remsen team took down their neighbors to the east to claim the WesTel Cup over Marcus on June 12. The two teams were within a point after the scramble ball portion of the event with the Remsen group holding a slim lead. Remsen extended the lead to 12-8 in the alternate shot format to finish up on the Remsen Golf Course. ...

BRUNSVILLE — The 2nd annual Brunsville Masters was held at Prairie Rose in Brunsville on Tuesday, June 29. Players from 6-17 years old filled out six flights. The Championship was conquered by Sioux City’s Blake Harsma, 13, who plays out of Whispering Creek, shooting a 2-over par 74 to win by 11 strokes over Kollin Frederes of Orange City, who won a three-hole playoff over 14-year-old Cole Brownmiller from Le Mars, as both posted 85 over the par 72 layout. Harsma led the field with two birdies...

HINTON — The Hinton baseball team scored a season high in a 15-2 win over Westwood in five innings in non-conference action Thursday. After a rough stretch of three losses the week before, the Blackhawks hope to be building some momentum entering the latter stages of the season...

GALVA/MOVILLE — The No. 4 seed in the Western Valley Conference tournament made it to the championship game by knocking off the top-seed, but Kingsley-Pierson came up short of the tournament championship as they fell to the No. 2 seed. The Lady Panthers opened with an 8-4 win over Westwood on Wednesday in the 4-vs-5 matchup against Westwood in Galva...