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LE MARS — Willow Creek Golf Course hosted its Labor Day Open on September 7. Conditions early in the day were nice before cold and windy weather made its way through by the final round. The Championship division played 18 holes on the red and black courses from the white tees. The top performing golfers advanced to play a final nine on the green course and teed off from the gold tees...

LE MARS — Marilyn Wendt hit a hole-in-one on Tuesday, Sept. 1 at Willow Creek Golf Course in Le Mars. It is the second one she’s ever had. The shot came on the sixth hole of the red course. Wendt used a pitching wedge to complete the 114-yard shot. Witnesses to the ace were Barb Dreckman, Deb Schiltz and Paullette Detloff...

Dates previously set for the 2020 IHSAA and IGHSAU cross country postseason will be split at next month’s meets to accommodate competition and crowds with COVID-19 related precautions. State qualifying meets and the state meet will now be separated by classification and take place over two days. The state meet will remain in Fort Dodge at Lakeside Golf Course, where it has been run as a co-ed event since 1993...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community volleyball team was looking to get back on track after losing their previous five matches in a row. The team accomplished their goal by beating Sioux City West 3-1 in Missouri River Activities Conference action Tuesday. It was the team’s first win since beating the Wolverines at the Sioux City North tournament on Sept. 5...

COUNCIL BLUFFS — Dylan Susemihl led the Le Mars Community boys golf team to a win at a triangular meet held at Dodge Riverside Golf Club on Tuesday. Susemihl shot a 75 to take medalist honors by nine strokes over runner-up Blake Moss of Sioux City North. Susemihl shot a 40 on his first nine and a 35 on the second nine for his total...

LE MARS — Morningside College came away with both team titles at the 2nd Annual Northwest Iowa National Invitational held at Willow Creek Golf Course on Monday and Tuesday. The Mustang women set a new team 18-hole scoring record of 285 on their opening round and cruised to a 25 stroke win over second place Texas Wesleyan. The team shot an 877 total for the tournament to take the top spot after being the third place team last year...

HUMBOLDT — The Class 2A No. 4 ranked WC-KP girls cross country team finished second out of 18 teams at the Humboldt Invitational on Monday. The team faced a group of competition different than what they typically see and even going up against larger classifications of schools, held their own, finishing just six points behind Gilbert and beating everyone else...

SPENCER — The Le Mars Community boys cross country team had all seven of their varsity runners within the top 11 at the Spencer Invite held Monday at the Spencer Municipal Golf Course. After being noted as a team to watch by the IATC since the start of the season, Le Mars finally cracked the top 15 in last week’s rankings and they’ve shown to be deserving after the team easily came away with the team title with 22 points. Runner-up Western Christian scored 64 points...

LE MARS — While Gehlen Catholic has had some quality teams over the last several years with numerous state tournament appearances, one accolade has eluded the team in that time and that has been the CYO Tournament championship. Competing against the likes of bigger schools Bishop Heelan and Kuemper Catholic, teams with similar rich traditions in the sport, hasn’t left much of an opening for the Jays over the years, but they finally broke through Sunday for their first CYO championship since 1992.. ...

KINGSLEY — The Western Valley Conference’s only two competing 8-player football teams met in District 1 action Friday. The Panthers won 41-14 for their sixth consecutive victory in the series. After scoring at least 30 points in their first two contests, the Panthers dropped an egg in their game the previous week at Harris-Lake Park. The offense made a comeback Friday with their highest scoring total of the season...

WEST BEND — The No. 4 ranked Remsen St. Mary’s football team scored the first 56 points of the game and gave up just one score late in a 56-6 victory over West Bend-Mallard in 8-player District 1 action Friday. Blaine Harpenau returned to the quarterback position for the first time since the opening week of the season. He finished with a solid 9-of-14 passing night for 141 yards and a touchdown. He also ran for three scores, totaling 92 yards on just six carries...

HINTON — The Hinton football team had their homecoming spoiled by Sibley-Ocheyedan in a 14-0 loss Friday. The Generals got a touchdown on a pass from quarterback Beau Jenness to tight end Austin Kruger and Jenness scored the other touchdown on a quarterback keep near the goal line in a low-scoring game...

SERGEANT BLUFF — They came late in the game when the outcome was already decided, but a couple late scores for the Le Mars Community football team was a moral victory for a squad who was looking to avoid their third consecutive shutout loss to start the season. The two scores made it a 35-12 final score in favor of Class 3A No. 8 ranked Sergeant Bluff-Luton...

LE MARS — Gehlen Catholic jumped out to an early lead in the first quarter, but couldn’t add to it the rest of the night as Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn scored three touchdowns in the second half to come away with a 22-7 victory in a Class A District 1 battle Friday...

SIOUX RAPIDS — The WC-KP girls cross country team came away with a title at the Chris Smith Invitational hosted by Sioux Central on Thursday. The group had the top score out of 11 complete teams in attendance at the event, scoring 39 points which was well in front of runner-up Okoboji with 71. WC-KP is currently ranked No. 4 in Class 2A by the IATC while Okoboji checks in at the No. 15 spot...

HAWARDEN — MMCRU rattled off their eighth straight win as they traveled to take on West Sioux in War Eagle Conference action Thursday. The Royals won in straight sets to improve to 12-2 overall and 3-1 in conference play. The Royals won by set scores of 25-19, 25-15 and 25-20...

KINGSLEY — The Kingsley-Pierson volleyball team was nearly unstoppable in the first set, but OABCIG came from behind with three close wins in the following three sets to win 3-1 in Western Valley Conference action Thursday. The Panthers opened with a big 25-10 win before dropping the second set 25-19. The final two sets went down to the wire, but the Falcons came out on top by identical 25-23 scores to claim the match...

LE MARS – A safe weekend of fun and entertainment is set at Willow Creek Golf Course on September 18-22 during the 2nd Annual Northwest Iowa National Invitational. This NAIA college tournament is comprised of 22 teams with both national and regional men’s and women’s teams competing. This tournament weekend also helps...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community boys golf team hit the home greens Thursday in the Le Mars Invitational held at Willow Creek Golf Course. It was the third event of the week for the team and the scores progressively got better throughout the week. “A great day weather-wise for our tournament,” Le Mars Head Coach Steve Wick said as Thursday’s meet was a rescheduled event from a not-so-nice day earlier this fall. ...

STORM LAKE — Coming off a win at their own invitational last week, the Le Mars boys cross country team won the team title at Storm Lake’s meet held Tuesday. This win came against a field of runners about twice as big as the Gary Meyer Invitational, but the team maintained about their same placings, again putting four runners within the top eight...

REMSEN — The Remsen St. Mary’s volleyball team picked up a win over West Sioux for the first time since 2016 with a 3-0 sweep over the Falcons in War Eagle Conference play Tuesday. RSM’s last win over the Falcons came in a five-set marathon near the start of the 2016 season, but the Hawks needed just three sets to win this meeting, taking the match by scores of 25-19, 25-20 and 25-11...

REMSEN — Akron-Westfield took the opening set, but MMCRU rattled off the next three for the win in War Eagle Conference volleyball action Tuesday. It was the sixth win in a row for the Royals since a 3-1 loss to Gehlen Catholic the previous week. The Westerners pulled out in front with a 25-19 win in the opening frame as they looked to extend a winning streak of their own out to four matches. ...

KINGSLEY — One win by sweep and another loss in three sets were the results of Kingsley-Pierson’s triangular volleyball match held Tuesday in Western Valley Conference competition. The Panthers got the win over Siouxland Christian by scores of 25-10, 25-17 and 25-20. It was the team’s first win over their foe since 2017...

ORANGE CITY — Class 3A No. 4 Unity Christian had the upper hand over Class 1A No. 8 Gehlen Catholic in a War Eagle Conference showdown Tuesday. The Knights got the sweep for their 10th consecutive victory over the Jays. A hard-fought extended first set likely set the tone for the rest of the match as the Knights came away with a 30-28 win. Gehlen wasn’t able to stay as close in the other two frames, dropping them by scores of 25-18 and 25-17...

SIOUX CITY — The Le Mars Community volleyball team fell to Sioux City North for the third time this year. The latest of these was the MRAC meeting Tuesday which went to the Stars by a 3-1 score. Le Mars got the opening set win 25-23, but couldn’t find another after that, losing 25-15, 25-19 and 25-22...

MOVILLE — Meadows Golf Course was the site of Tuesday’s cross country event for the Woodbury Central Invitational. The host team of WC-KP came in with a fourth place finish in the girls team standings. Sarahy Hamman led the team with an eighth place time of 21:49.82. Sarah Putze was next on the team with a time of 22:08.51 which was good enough for 12th place...

SIOUX CITY — The Le Mars Community boys golf team competed in a triangular meet at Whispering Creek Golf Club on Monday. Bishop Heelan had the best team score with a 328, followed by Le Mars at 392. Sioux City West did not field a full team. Dylan Susemihl earned runner-up honors at the meet for the Bulldogs as he was three strokes back of Heelan’s Shane Sanderson who took medalist honors. Susemihl shot an 81 with nine-hole splits of 40 and 41...

ONAWA — The MMCRU volleyball team put together a good weekend at a tournament hosted by West Monona on Saturday. The Royals went 5-0 on the day to win the tournament and to move their overall record on the season to 10-2. The Royals won an easy match against the host by a 21-10, 21-13 pair of scores. ...

HINTON — Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2020 Blackhawk Birdie Fest best ball golf tournament held on Saturday, Aug. 22 at Deer Run Golf Course. The 2020 Birdie Fest raised more than $7,200 which will be shared by the Hinton Athletic Department and the Hinton Community Scholarship Fund to provide support to Hinton students on the field and as they pursue education after graduation...

HINTON — The Hinton volleyball team came away with a 3-0 sweep of South O'Brien in War Eagle Conference action Thursday. Hinton started with a 25-9 win before the Wolverines added five points each of the next two periods, but it wasn't nearly enough...

LE MARS — The Lady Jays and Lady Bulldogs were up bright and early Saturday for the Le Mars Community volleyball tournament. The crosstown teams paired up in the first match of the day and played a competitive match in the first meeting of the two Le Mars schools since 2017...

LE MARS — A strong rushing attack from Spencer met a Le Mars Community team still trying to navigate through player absences and the result was a 28-0 victory for the Tigers at Jim Lorenzen Field on Friday in the Class 3A District 1 opener. Le Mars Head Coach Gabe Tardive said it’s been difficult trying to find any sort of consistency when kids are rotating in and out of quarantine protocols...

EMMETSBURG — Emmetsburg is among the most decorated programs in Iowa high school football history with 16 championship game appearances and nine title game wins. The E-Hawks have gone through a bit of a rough stretch though the last few years, not having made the playoffs since 2015 and posting a 30-36 record from the start of the 2013 season entering this year...

LAKE PARK — After scoring at least 34 points in each of their first two games, the Kingsley-Pierson football team was held in check Friday in a 21-0 loss to Harris-Lake Park in 8-Player District 1 action. The Panthers struggled to establish anything in the running game, being held to a net of just six yards on 29 attempts in the contest. ...

LAWTON — The Lawton-Bronson football team was fired up for their homecoming game, picking up a 54-13 victory over MMCRU on Friday in the first game of Class A District 1 play. It was the most points scored by the Eagles since a 77-6 drubbing of Westwood in 2011...

AKRON — Rushing for over 350 yards and six touchdowns, the Gehlen Catholic football team opened Class A District 1 play with an emphatic 53-8 victory over Akron-Westfield. Leading the way for the Gehlen offense was Dylan Lehmann who gashed the A-W defense for 296 yards on 16 carries, an average of 18.5 yards per touch. The 296 yards is the fifth best single-game rushing total for a player in the state this season...

AKRON — Remsen St. Mary’s got their first set win over Akron-Westfield since 2017 by taking the opening set, but the Lady Westerners won the next three to claim the 3-1 victory in War Eagle Conference volleyball action Thursday. The Hawks flew in front after their 25-20 win in the opening frame and nearly had the lead stretched to 2-0, but the Westerners avoided the two-set deficit by edging out an extended second set by a 27-25 score. ...

LE MARS — Class 1A No. 8 ranked Gehlen Catholic made quick work of Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn in their War Eagle Conference volleyball match Thursday. The Lady Jays came away with a 3-0 win with set scores of 25-12, 25-13 and 25-17. Gehlen Head Coach Mike Meyer was happy with the way his team came out and played as they had to adapt once again to different players on the court...

HULL — Jaylen Bork powered down 31 kills as MMCRU came away with a 3-1 victory over Trinity Christian in War Eagle Conference on Thursday. The 31 kills is the second-most by a player in a match in the state this season, trailing only Lamoni’s Abby Martin who had 34 in a five-set match...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community volleyball team dropped to 0-2 in Missouri River Activities Conference matches with a 25-20, 25-15, 25-14 loss to Sioux City East in action Thursday. The Black Raiders have won each of the last four meetings. Lineya Wells led the Black Raiders with 10 kills while Alex Radcliffe and Taylor Drent ended with eight apiece...

LE MARS — After being postponed a few days and moving to a new location, the Gary Meyer Invitational was held at West Floyd Park on Thursday where the hometown boys team came away with the win. The last win for the Bulldog boys at the meet came two years ago when it was held at Prairie Rose Golf Course in Brunsville. Le Mars scored 32 points, well in front of the second place team from MOC-Floyd Valley who scored 63 points...

KINGSLEY — After back-to-back grueling five-set matches, the Kingsley-Pierson volleyball team had a nice quick 3-0 win over West Monona in Western Valley Conference action Tuesday. “Coming off a couple big games in the last week, they played well,” K-P Head Coach Torey Hill said. ...

MARCUS — MMCRU took the first set from Class 1A No. 8 ranked Gehlen Catholic, but the Lady Jays rallied back to take the next three sets as they withstood a challenge from the Royals in War Eagle Conference action Tuesday. “Well it turned out to be the match I expected, as I knew MMCRU had excellent talent and we were playing on the road,” Gehlen Head Coach Mike Meyer said. “They came out fired up and we were getting drilled for most of game one.”...

LAKE PARK — Harris-Lake Park had won three of the first four meetings over Akron-Westfield since the Wolves joined the War Eagle Conference in 2014, but the Westerners rattled off their third consecutive win in the series with a 3-1 victory Tuesday...

HINTON — After winning five matches all of last season, the Hinton volleyball team is already well on their way to surpassing that, getting their fourth win in as many outings to start the season with a 3-0 sweep of West Sioux in War Eagle Conference action...

REMSEN — Both teams scored in the 20s in all three games, but it was Remsen St. Mary’s coming away with a 3-0 sweep over Trinity Christian in War Eagle Conference action. The Hawks won by set scores of 25-22, 25-22 and 25-20. The lineup consisted of either seniors or freshmen for the Hawks and Head Coach Janelle Schorg was happy with the way they came together on Tuesday...

SIBLEY — Cool, damp conditions didn’t stop runners at the Sibley-Ocheyedan Cross Country Invitational held at the Sibley Golf Course on Tuesday. Included in the schools running was MMCRU. The boys team took fifth out of the 13 full teams in competition...

SCHALLER — The MMCRU volleyball team posted a winning mark at a tournament hosted by Ridge View on Saturday. The Royals picked up a 2-1 victory over Westwood, their first win over the Rebels after falling to them by 2-0 scores in each of the last three years in weekend tournament play...

SIOUX CITY — The Le Mars Community volleyball team competed at the Sioux City North tournament on Saturday and came away with a 2-1 record. The team earned a quick sweep over MVAOCOU by scores of 21-8 and 21-7 as the Rams have started the season 0-7...

COUNCIL BLUFFS — Le Mars Community cross country coach Al Engebretson was pleased with his team’s third place finish at the 51st Annual Lynx Invite held at Iowa Western Community College on Saturday. He was even happier with the result considering the circumstances...