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SIOUX CITY — The inaugural varsity season for the Le Mars Community boys soccer program came to an end at Memorial Field on Thursday in a neutral site Class 2A substate opening round game. The Bulldogs fell by a 4-2 score. Le Mars got out to a 1-0 lead at halftime in what Head Coach Ben Vonheeder said was one of the team’s most complete 40 minutes of play all season...

Editor’s note: Results are from Thursday’s afternoon session for 2A/3A and Friday’s morning session for 1A. DES MOINES — Thursday afternoon action at the state track and field meet continued with the 2A and 3A classes at Drake Stadium with several local athletes showcasing their talents...

Editor’s note: Results are through Thursday’s first session. DES MOINES — The Gehlen Catholic and Remsen St. Mary’s track and field teams were able to qualify events for the finals on Thursday’s opening session of the state track and field meet as the 1A and 4A schools competed first...

REMSEN — Remsen St. Mary’s and Newell-Fonda have met in the substate final each of the last two seasons in games that Hawks have won. In an early-season showdown between the two teams Wednesday, the Class 1A No. 10 ranked Hawks were able to come away with a 10-0 win in five innings...

NEWELL — Remsen St. Mary’s senior Sidney Tritz has advanced to the Class 1A state golf tournament for the second time as she will bookend her career with trips to state. Tritz was the overall medalist at the regional final meet held at the Newell Golf Course on Wednesday...

ANITA — The Akron-Westfield girls golf team is headed back to state after a few years hiatus. The Westerners had the low team score at Crestwood Hills Golf Course in a Class 1A regional final meet Wednesday. The Akron-Westfield girls had made the state tournament for six straight years from 2014 through 2019. The team missed out in 2020 due to the cancellation of the season and then finished fourth last season in the regional final...

DENISON — For the second year in a row, Dani Hurt has qualified for the state golf meet as an individual. She was able to finish with the runner-up score at the Class 3A state qualifying meet held at Majestic Hills Golf Course on Wednesday. Hurt finished the 18 holes with a score of 81, one stroke behind the individual medalist, Nora Carlson of Humboldt...

SERGEANT BLUFF — The Le Mars Community baseball team dropped a doubleheader to Class 3A No. 10 ranked Sergeant Bluff-Luton in Missouri River Activities Conference action to begin the season Tuesday. The first game went to extra innings where the Warriors won by a 7-6 score. Le Mars scored the go-ahead run in the top of the eighth inning but the Warriors were able to plate two in the bottom of the inning to secure the win...

DENISON — The Akron-Westfield boys golf team along with Emerson Pratt from Kingsley-Pierson will represent Plymouth County at the Class 1A state golf meet next week. They punched their ticket with their scores at the district final meet held at Majestic Hills Golf Course on Monday...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community girls tennis team hosted part of the Class 1A regional team tennis tournament on Saturday. The Bulldogs opened play with their Missouri River Activities Conference rival Bishop Heelan. The Crusaders had won in the conference clash during the regular season by a 6-3 score. Le Mars was able to avenge that loss with a 5-2 win over Heelan on Saturday...

PRIMGHAR — The Remsen St. Mary’s girls golf team, along with Kingsley-Pierson individual Abby Thompson, advanced from the Class 1A regional first round meet held at the Primghar Golf and Country Club on Friday. The RSM and K-P teams tied for the second lowest score at the meet with the tiebreaker eventually going to the Hawks based on their sixth golfer as they stay alive in the team postseason tournament while the Panthers are now done in team play...

DUNLAP — The Akron-Westfield girls golf team fired the low round at the Dunlap Golf & Country Club on Friday to advance to the Class 1A regional final. The Westerners finished with a 402 to finish 20 strokes below the other two teams which advanced, host Boyer Valley along with Woodbury Central...

LE MARS — A beautiful night for running led to some quality results for the Le Mars Community girls track and field team on Friday as they hosted the Class 3A state qualifying meet. Le Mars Head Coach Tami Dunn said it turned out to be a good night for her team as six events went on to qualify for state...

HOLSTEIN — It was a successful night for the KP-WC track and field teams at the Class 2A state qualifying meet Friday. They will send a total of 21 events to state, 12 for the girls and nine for the boys. The girls also claimed the meet team title while the boys finished second in the team standings...

LAWTON — Remsen St. Mary’s will have six events travel to the state track meet after their times from the Class 1A state qualifying meet hosted by Lawton-Bronson were stacked up against the rest of the competition. Five of the events come for the girls with Claire Schroeder advancing in four of those, two as an individual and two more in relays...

LAWTON — Akron-Westfield will be represented at the state track and field meet by two individuals in three events following the results of the Class 1A state qualifying meet hosted by Lawton-Bronson on Friday. Ian Blowe has qualified in both throwing events and will enter state with a good chance to place...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community boys track and field team had a successful night hosting the Class 3A state qualifying meet. Along with winning a team title, the Bulldogs also qualified 12 events for the state meet. “I think we scored in pretty much everything across the board,” Le Mars Head Coach Caleb Van Otterloo said. ...

LAWTON — The Gehlen Catholic boys track and field team claimed the team title at the Class 1A state qualifying meet hosted by Lawton-Bronson on Friday. It is the second straight year the Jays claimed the team title at the state qualifying meet. The boys have qualified six events for the state meet with three of those being individual events and three being relays...

HOLSTEIN — Hinton will be taking 14 events to the state track and field meet after performing well at the Class 2A state qualifying meet on Friday. Nine of those events are for the girls while the boys team earned five qualifications. The 4x400 team edged out a win by .12 of a second over KP-WC with a time of 4:15.44. Rylee Faith, Gabbie Friessen, Kadence Peters and Ashlyn Kovarna are members of the team which will enter state with the 15th fastest time...

LAWTON — Led by 10 boys events qualifying, the MMCRU track and field teams will bring a total of 12 events to the state meet after running at the Class 1A state qualifying meet hosted by Lawton-Bronson on Friday. The MMCRU boys finished second in the team standings to Gehlen Catholic, but actually qualified in four more events than the Jays...

REGIONAL — The Le Mars Community girls soccer team made the trek down to play Sioux City East on Thursday. The weather was in stark contrast to much of the rest of this spring as temperatures broke the record of 91 set back back in 1940, climbing to 93 degrees. That was before a set of thunderstorms rolled through the area, the threat of which had already postponed that day’s scheduled state qualifying track meets...

SIOUX CITY — A pair of Plymouth County natives were named to the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) baseball all-conference lists. Keaton Candor, a Le Mars Community graduate, was named to the second team as an outfielder. He helped the Concordia baseball team to a GPAC tournament championship...

9:00 a.m. Girls shuttle hurdle relay prelims (Remsen St. Mary's - Halle Galles, Mya Bunkers, Whitney Jensen, Claire Schroeder) 10:10 a.m. Boys 3200 (Kaden Galles, MMCRU and Brayden Dirks, MMCRU) 10:40 a.m. Girls 200 prelims (Lauryn Saathoff, Akron-Westfield)...

NEWELL — The Akron-Westfield and Gehlen Catholic boys golf teams advanced to the next round following their Class 1A sectional meet held at the Newell Municipal Golf Course on Wednesday. The War Eagle Conference champion Westerners came away with the low score of the day with a 336 team score. Gehlen Catholic finished with a 341 to take second place and secure the other spot at the district meet...

KINGSLEY — The Kingsley-Pierson boys golf team hosted a Class 1A sectional golf meet at Brookside Golf Course on Wednesday. The Panthers were able to turn in the low score on their home course to advance to the district round. The Panthers shot a 348 which was six strokes better than runner-up Woodbury Central. ...

MAPLETON — The Hinton boys golf team finished their season at a Class 2A sectional meet held at Willow Vale Golf Course on Wednesday. The Blackhawks finished seventh out of eight teams at the event with a 368. OABCIG won with a 339 and and Sheldon took the second place spot with a 351...

LE MARS — Any home court advantage for the Le Mars girls tennis team was washed out by having to face off against some tough competition in Wednesday’s Class 1A regional singles and doubles tournament held at the high school, Westmar and golf course tennis courts...

SIOUX CENTER — The War Eagle Conference finished the girls golf season with a split decision atop the conference. Remsen St. Mary’s brought home the tournament championship title following the low score at The Ridge on Tuesday. Akron-Westfield finishes the season with the best overall record in the conference by going 17-1 compared to 15-3 for RSM...

SIOUX CITY — Le Mars Community golfer Dani Hurt finished as the individual runner-up at the Missouri River Activities Conference meet held at Floyd Park Golf Course on Tuesday. Hurt ended with a 78 across the 18 holes which was five strokes behind the individual medalist round from Bishop Heelan’s Anna Fenton. The win helped the Crusaders to a team title with a 343 team score...

MARCUS — Local track and field teams got a final tuneup before the state qualifying meets at the Jack Foresman Relays hosted by MMCRU on Monday. The Gehlen girls brought home a team title at the meet as their teams swept the night. “I’m extremely proud of our girls,” Gehlen girls coach Travis Westhoff said. “This was the first meet we’ve won this year and it’s difficult to find many negatives when you go home with a trophy.”...

SIOUX RAPIDS — The Remsen St. Mary’s track athletes got one final chance to compete before the state qualifying meet as they went to Sioux Central on Monday. Claire Schroeder earned a win in the 100 meter hurdles as she had the top time of 15.73 seconds. Schroeder added a second place time in the 100 meter dash as she finished in 13.05, a tenth of a second behind South O’Brien’s Willa Sickelka. Carmindee Ricke added a fourth place finish out of 20 competitors in the event with a time of 13.68...

SPENCER — The Le Mars Community boys tennis team makes an early exit from the postseason after failing to advance as a team or any singles or doubles competitors from Monday’s district meet. Le Mars was ranked No. 10 in Class 1A in the latest coaches poll and was just coming off of a tournament championship in the Missouri River Activities Conference...

LE MARS — Warm temperatures in the 80s and a stiff southernly breeze greeted golfers at the Western Valley Conference tournament championship held Monday at Willow Creek Golf Course. At the end of 18 holes, the Kingsley-Pierson girls golf team came away with the tournament championship by six strokes over Westwood...

SIOUX CENTER — The Akron-Westfield boys golf team capped off a perfect conference season with the low score at the War Eagle Conference tournament held Monday at The Ridge. The Westerners had the low team score of the day with a 351 as they were 12 strokes better than runner-up Unity Christian. Remsen St. Mary’s (370), Hinton (373) and Gehlen Catholic (376) rounded out the top five...

ROCK VALLEY — The Le Mars Community girls soccer team earned a 4-1 win over Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley on Thursday. Le Mars jumped out to a 1-0 lead by halftime before finding the back of the net three times in the second half. Kylee Britt scored a hat trick for the Bulldogs as she had three of the team’s four goals. Athiei Malueth had the other goal for the team...

MARCUS — The Gehlen Catholic boys golf team traveled to face MMCRU in a War Eagle Conference match on Friday. The Jays came away with the win as they shot a 160 compared to MMCRU’s 183. Gehlen’s Gabe Wiltgen shot an even-par round of 36 for the day as he was the overall medalist. Teammate Dawson Barthole shot two-over par with a 38 on the day. Landen Reuter finished with a 42 as the third in the top three for the Jays...

COUNCIL BLUFFS — Led by nine first place events, the Le Mars Community boys track and field team claimed the Missouri River Activities Conference championship on Thursday at the Gale Wickersham Athletic Complex. It is the team’s first conference title since joining the MRAC. The team placed second last year in their first MRAC conference meet. While Le Mars had joined the league the previous year, no conference meet was held in 2020 due to the cancellation of the season because of COVID-19...

ORANGE CITY — The Remsen St. Mary’s golf teams split with Unity Christian in a War Eagle Conference matchup at Landsmeer Golf Course on Tuesday. The RSM boys came away with a 160-176 win. Carter Schorg led the way with a 36 for the Hawks. Collin Homan was next with a 39 as that matched with Unity’s Graden Van Essen for the next-lowest score of the day...

AKRON — The Akron-Westfield golf teams improved to 9-0 by picking up wins over Gehlen Catholic and Hinton in War Eagle Conference action. The Westerners hosted their conference rivals in a triangular held at the Akron Golf & Country Club on Thursday...

MOVILLE — The Kingsley-Pierson boys golf team earned a win over several other teams at The Meadows Country Club on Tuesday. While competing against conference schools, the meet was not an official Western Valley Conference counting contest. Emerson Pratt was the runner-up medalist as the K-P golfer shot a 41 for the day. That matched West Monona’s Owen Collison and was just a stroke behind Ridge View’s Aiden Martin for best on the day...

KINGSLEY — Hinton didn’t have anyone in the top three individuals in their triangular meet against MVAOCOU and Kingsley-Pierson on Tuesday, but that didn’t stop the Blackhawks from having the low score of the day with a 211. That was lower than MVAOCOU’s 214 and K-P’s 221...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community girls golf team hosted Bishop Heelan and Sioux City West in a Missouri River Activities Conference triangular on Thursday at Willow Creek Golf Course. Bishop Heelan came away with the top score of the day with a 212 as they were led by overall medalist Anna Fenton who shot a 44...

DUBUQUE — Allison Bailey, a 2017 graduate of Kingsley-Pierson, was awarded the Wendt Character Athlete of the Year Award at the University of Dubuque 2022 Honors Convocation. Bailey has been a member of the University of Dubuque Spartans basketball team since her transfer in 2019...

SANBORN — The Akron-Westfield golf teams continued their perfect start to War Eagle Conference play by taking down Harris-Lake Park and Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn on Tuesday. The MMCRU golf teams also joined in the meet to face the Wolves and Hawks as work to consolidate the schedule from earlier postponements has taken place...

SLOAN — The KP-WC track and field teams swept the team titles at the Western Valley Conference track meet hosted by Westwood on Tuesday. The KP-WC girls won the conference meet for the fourth year in a row. The team got a gold and bronze in the long jump as Aubree Bell won by over a foot with a leap of 17-01.50 and Lexi McElrath took third with a leap of 14-11.25...

HINTON — Local girls claimed seven event wins at the 42nd War Eagle Conference track meet hosted at the Held Sports Complex on Tuesday. The Hinton girls track and field team dethroned Unity Christian from their perch atop the conference. The Knights had won the girls title in each of the last nine runnings and had won 23 of the previous 25 times the meet has been held. ...

HINTON — Local boys claimed 10 event wins at the 42nd War Eagle Conference track meet hosted at the Held Sports Complex on Tuesday. For the first time in 20 years, the Gehlen Catholic boys have claimed the team title at the conference track meet. The Jays last brought home the title in 2002, the second of back-to-back titles in the conference. The Jays dominated the conference for many years when they won eight straight from 1989 to 1996...

SIOUX CITY — The Le Mars Community girls golf team placed third out of seven teams at the Sioux City East Golf Invite held at Floyd Park Golf Course on Wednesday. It was a close finish for the top spot with the top four teams all scoring in the 360s across the 18 holes. Sergeant Bluff-Luton took the team title with a 361, followed by Bishop Heelan with a 366, Le Mars with a 367 and Sioux City North with a 369...

OMAHA, Neb. — The Le Mars Community tennis teams played in the Missouri River Activities Conference tournament held Tuesday at the Koch Tennis Center at Tranquility Park. The Le Mars boys won the conference tournament title and also had the individual singles champion...

DES MOINES — A few former track and field athletes from our local high school teams have taken their talents to the next level. Gehlen Catholic graduate Zach Kraft was one of 11 competitors in the men’s decathlon university/college division at the Drake Relays. He is a member of the Iowa State track and field team...