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LE MARS — The 3rd Annual Northwest Iowa National Invitational returns to Willow Creek Golf Course on Sept. 19-21. The Junior Golf of Northwest Iowa College Amateur kicks off this year’s events on Sunday. It features local amateurs playing a four person scramble with two college golfers, one woman and one man. ...

LE MARS — After losing their top three attackers from 2020, the Le Mars Community volleyball team knew there were going to be some growing pains in 2021. While the team’s record to start the season might not look the greatest at 2-11 after the first 13 matches of the season, Head Coach Jakki Tentinger said she’s seen a lot of growth since the beginning of the season...

AKRON — The Class 1A No. 3 ranked Gehlen Catholic volleyball team got down early with a 25-20 loss in the first set against Akron-Westfield in War Eagle Conference action Tuesday, but fought back to win the next three sets to take the 3-1 win. Gehlen edged out a 25-23 win in the second to even the match and then won comfortably in the third and fourth sets by scores of 25-14 and 25-16...

REMSEN — The fifth set came down to the minimum two points as Remsen St. Mary’s emerged victorious over South O’Brien in a War Eagle Conference match Tuesday. The Hawks won the decisive fifth set 15-13 to claim the match. The fifth set was one of two which was decided by two points with the Hawks getting a 25-23 win in the third to take a 2-1 lead. ...

MARCUS — The MMCRU volleyball team picked up a sweep over Harris-Lake Park in War Eagle Conference action Tuesday. The Royals won the match by set scores of 25-19, 25-12 and 25-10. Ellie Hilbrands and Emily Dreckman were the top attackers for the team in the win. Hilbrands had 12 kills while hitting for a .348 efficiency while Dreckman added 10 kills at a .368 clip...

STORM LAKE — The Le Mars Community cross country runners competed at a meet hosted by Storm Lake on Tuesday. The Le Mars boys finished fifth out of 13 teams at the event. Trace Obbink led the team with an 11th place finish. He was the last runner to finish with a sub-18 minute time, crossing the finish line in 17:56.03. ...

MOVILLE — Hinton, MMCRU and WC-KP all competed at the Woodbury Central Invitational on Tuesday at Meadows Golf Course with strong results for each of the local teams. MMCRU’s Kaden Galles was runner-up in the race of 79 varsity boys. His time of 18:33.34 was just five seconds back of the winning time from Carlos Rodriguez of Sergeant Bluff-Luton. Taking the next spot after Galles was WC-KP’s Tristen Jessen with a time of 18:39.65...

SIOUX CITY — The Le Mars Community boys golf team continued their busy stretch of the season with events on Monday and Tuesday. The team competed in a triangular at Whispering Creek against Missouri River Activities Conference foes Bishop Heelan and Sioux City West on Monday. Le Mars finished in the middle of the three teams with a 351, trailing Heelan’s 337 but better than West’s 493...

INWOOD — The Akron-Westfield cross country team ran at the West Lyon Invitational at Lake Pahoja on Monday. The A-W boys finished eighth out of the eight complete teams, but weren’t too far behind conference foes Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn and Trinity Christian in the team standings...

HOLSTEIN — Gehlen Catholic, Remsen St. Mary’s and WC-KP were among the two classes of cross country teams competing at the Tim Thomas Classic on Saturday. Gehlen’s Carver Ruhland had the best finish of local runners, taking fifth place in the Class B competition. He ended with a time of 18:17.41. Woodbine’s Landon Bendgen had the winning time of 17:45.59 out of 106 runners in the race...

ONAWA — The MMCRU volleyball team got some of their mojo back after a tough week which included War Eagle Conference losses to Akron-Westfield and Hinton. The Royals came away with a 5-0 weekend at a tournament hosted by West Monona, winning all but one of the matches by 2-0 sweeps...

ROCKWELL CITY — Knocking off host school South Central Calhoun, the Kingsley-Pierson volleyball team won their first match of the season at a tournament held Saturday. The Panthers came away with a 21-13, 21-11 win over the Titans. Allison Reinking led the team with three kills while Avery Schroeder and McKenzie Goodwin had two apiece. The team added four blocks with Goodwin scoring two of those. She also led the team with two aces while four others had an ace apiece...

LE MARS — Gehlen Catholic, Hinton and host Le Mars Community were all in action at a tournament on Saturday. The host Bulldogs went 1-3 on the day with their lone win coming in their last match against Lawton-Bronson. Le Mars beat the Eagles 21-12, 21-15. Taylor Mackey led the attack with six kills. Kelsey Feuerhelm, Holly McNaughton and Lexi Hurd added two kills apiece in the win. The Bulldogs hit .158 for the match while Lawton-Bronson was held to a .019 efficiency...

LAKE PARK — After averaging nearly 45 points in their first two games of the season, the Kingsley-Pierson offense was held to single digits on Friday in a 28-8 loss to Harris-Lake Park in an 8-player non-district contest. The Panthers have struggled to figure out the H-LP defense, as they were held scoreless in their prior two meetings in 2019 and 2020...

AKRON — Deadlocked at 14-14 at halftime, the Akron-Westfield football team pulled away in the second half for a 33-14 win over MMCRU in their homecoming game Friday. After missing the first two weeks of the season, the Westerners wasted little time getting Lane Kenny involved in the offense. ...

LAWTON — After back-to-back losses to start the season, the Gehlen Catholic picked up their first win of the season in a big way on Friday, knocking off Class A No. 6 ranked Lawton-Bronson by a 29-12 score in non-district action. The game played out a bit differently than one might have expected based on both teams’ first two weeks of the season. ...

HINTON — After scoring just seven points total in their first two games, the Hinton football team got off to a good start with 26 points in the first half against Alta-Aurelia on Friday. Unfortunately for the Blackhawks, they couldn’t add to their lead in the second half as the Warriors outscored Hinton 29-0 in the second half to claim the 43-26 win...

LE MARS — Take away a 27 point second quarter for Sioux City East and the Le Mars Community football team would have been about even with their opponent. With the second quarter points, the Black Raiders stayed perfect on the season with a 42-13 win in a non-district contest played Friday...

REMSEN — The 8-player No. 5 ranked Remsen St. Mary’s football team rushed for nine touchdowns in a 70-0 win over Siouxland Christian on Friday. The Hawks didn’t attempt a pass in the game, running the ball 36 times for 403 yards. Nine different players carried the ball for the Hawks with Brady Koenck getting the most carries with 13 rushes for 77 yards and a pair of touchdowns...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community boys golf team won a Missouri River Activities Conference triangular over Sioux City North and Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson at Willow Creek Golf Course on Thursday. The Bulldogs shot a season low with a 316. North was a distant second with a 338 while CBTJ ended with a 514...

HINTON — A War Eagle Conference battle between Hinton and MMCRU came down to the very end of the fifth set to decide a winner on Thursday night. At the end of the match, which lasted about an hour and 45 minutes, Hinton was able to come away with a 15-12 win in the fifth set to take the victory...

LE MARS — The Gehlen Catholic volleyball team came away with a 3-0 sweep of South O’Brien in War Eagle Conference action Thursday. The team won by set scores of 25-19, 25-16, 25-13. “We got off to a very slow start tonight and South O’Brien really came after us to take advantage of it,” Gehlen Catholic Head Coach Mike Meyer said. ...

BRUNSVILLE — The town of Brunsville’s population grew exponentially for a few hours on Tuesday as hundreds of runners and fans descended on the Prairie Rose Golf Club for the Gary Meyer Invitational hosted by Le Mars Community. After last year’s meet was moved into Le Mars following a postponement, runners were back in Brunsville in 2021...

SIBLEY — MMCRU’s Kaden Galles finished third out of 105 boys at the Sibley Cross Country Invitational held at the Sibley Golf Course Tuesday. The sophomore ran a time of 17:42.66 as he trailed just two runners. One of the runners he trailed was Western Christian’s Tage Hulstein, the No. 5 ranked individual in Class 2A by the IATC, who ended in a winning time of 17:08.15. Galles was just under four seconds behind runner-up Hudson Vonk of Sioux Center...

LE MARS — Two of the frontrunners in the War Eagle Conference volleyball race faced off in an early season match Tuesday as Class 1A No. 4 ranked Gehlen Catholic hosted Class 3A No. 5 Unity Christian. After a competitive first set went to the Knights, the next two sets also went to the visitors by slightly bigger margins as the Lady Jays fell to 1-1 in the conference...

HINTON — A dominant 25-3 win in the first set was the start of a three-set sweep for the Hinton volleyball team over Harris-Lake Park on Tuesday in War Eagle Conference action. The Blackhawks followed with wins of 25-8 and 25-13 to seal the match. Anna Coffee led the Blackhawks with nine kills in 13 attempts with just one error as she hit .615 for the match...

AKRON — The Akron-Westfield volleyball team took down Class 1A No. 11 ranked MMCRU in straight sets in a War Eagle Conference match Tuesday. The Westerners squeaked by with scores of 25-23 and 25-22 in the first two sets before claiming the match with a bit more breathing room with a 25-19 score in the third...

HAWARDEN — After a four set loss to Akron-Westfield in their previous match, the Remsen St. Mary’s volleyball team bounced back with a four set win over West Sioux in War Eagle Conference action Tuesday. The Hawks won 25-14 in the first set before dropping a close 25-23 set to even the match. The next two sets remained close, but the Hawks prevailed by scores of 25-22 and 25-21...

LE MARS — In a preview of the conference meet, the Le Mars Community boys golf team finished third out of the eight teams, all Missouri River Activities Conference schools, at the Le Mars Invitational held Tuesday at Willow Creek Golf Course. Le Mars shot a 327 as a team, trailing Bishop Heelan’s 314 and Sioux City East’s 315 on the day...

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COUNCIL BLUFFS — The Le Mars Community cross country teams ran in the middle of the pack in the final standings at the 52nd Annual Lynx Cross Country Invite held Saturday. The Le Mars boys were fourth out of seven complete teams at the event. They had a pair of runners within the top 10 in the race. Trace Obbink led the Bulldogs with a fifth place time of 18:53.5 in the 52 runner field. Teammate Juan Sanchez was three spots behind as he ended in 19:21.2...

CORRECTIONVILLE — The Remsen St. Mary’s football team blanked River Valley 59-0 in an 8-player district contest on Friday. Just about everything was working for the RSM offense in the game. Cael Ortmann completed 9-of-10 passes for 127 yards and four touchdowns in the game. Ryan Willman snagged two touchdown passes on his three receptions which went for a total of 68 yards. Alex Schroeder and Austin Jensen each added a receiving score while finishing with 30 yards...

WESTSIDE — The Kingsley-Pierson football team held an 18-6 lead at halftime before dominating the second half to pull away for a big 51-6 win over Ar-We-Va in an 8-player district game Friday. K-P senior quarterback Jackson Howe had an efficient night, completing 12-of-14 passes for 152 yards and three touchdowns. ...

AURELIA — An extra point proved to be the game winner for Alta-Aurelia in a 22-21 overtime win over Akron-Westfield in a Class A district game Friday. Luis Mendoza kicked the ball through the uprights, the second of a perfect 2-of-2 night on PAT tries, for what would be the winning point in overtime...

LE MARS — In their second game with Ken Vigdal as head coach, the Le Mars Community football team picked up their first win as they beat Bishop Heelan 22-8 in a non-district clash between the rivals on Friday. “I was really happy with our kids,” Vigdal said. ...

MARCUS — The defenses were mostly on display in Friday’s Class A district contest between MMCRU and Hinton as neither team was able to get much offense going. Hinton edged out a 7-6 win with their score coming on a defensive touchdown in the second half...

HARTLEY — Two contrasting styles of offense took the field as Gehlen Catholic traveled to play Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn in a Class A district contest on Friday. In the end, the rushing attack of the Hawks beat out the passing threat of the Jays in a 44-33 win for H-M-S...

KINGSLEY — Kingsley-Pierson peeled off an extended third set win, but the Class 1A No. 11 ranked MMCRU volleyball team was just a bit too much for an inexperienced Panthers squad. The Royals picked up a 3-1 win in non-conference action on Thursday. “We were just passing really well, especially on serve receive,” MMCRU Head Coach Heather Youde said. ...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community volleyball team dropped a 3-1 match to Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln in Missouri River Activities Conference action Thursday. The Lynx claimed the first set 25-21 before the Bulldogs answered with a 25-18 win in the second. CBAL claimed their fourth win in a row over Le Mars by taking the third and fourth sets by scores of 25-15 and 25-19...

HULL — Erika Kuntz and Tristen Jessen each had a top five finish for the WC-KP cross country team in Tuesday’s race hosted by Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley at Rolling Hills Country Club. Kuntz finished third out of 46 girls in competition. She posted a time of 21:10.5 on the course. She trailed just two runners, both from Unity Christian, as Amaya Van Essen won in 20:25.8 and Olivia Hoogland took second in 21:03.6...

REMSEN — The Akron-Westfield volleyball team dropped their first set to Remsen St. Mary’s in a War Eagle Conference matchup on Tuesday, but fought back to take the next three sets as they claimed a 3-1 win. “Our passing, our digging was very good,” A-W Head Coach Robyn Van Eldik said was a key to taking the win. “We do have some heavy hitters so if we have the pass, we’ve got the set and down will go the ball.”...

ORANGE CITY — After starting the season 0-3 at their first tournament of the season, the Le Mars Community volleyball team got in the win column Tuesday by knocking off the host school at a tournament held at MOC-Floyd Valley. Le Mars eked out a win in the first set of a best two-out-of-three match. The team used a block at the net from Taylor Mackey and Payton Wright to clinch the 21-19 set. Mackey led the team with six kills in the match while Wright had all 14 of the team’s assists...

HARTLEY — The Class 1A No. 5 ranked Gehlen Catholic volleyball team scored nearly the equivalent of a full set win of points just from their serving on Tuesday in a War Eagle Conference sweep of Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn. The Lady Jays won 25-4, 25-13, 25-6 where their 22 ace serves were just one point shy of the total points the Hawks scored in the entire match...

FORT DODGE — In one of the biggest tournaments of the fall golf season, the Le Mars Community golfers finished 12th out of 20 teams in an invitational held at the Fort Dodge Country Club on Tuesday. “I was excited for this event because I thought it would really give us a good idea of how we match up against a lot of schools,” Le Mars Head Coach Nick Knapp said...

LE MARS — The connection between the Le Mars Community High School and Morningside University bowling teams continues to grow stronger. As classes at the Sioux City institution of higher education commence this fall, three more former Bulldogs will become Mustangs in the sport of bowling...

Akron-Westfield def. Remsen St. Mary's 3-1 Gehlen Catholic def. Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn 3-0 Hinton def. South O'Brien 3-1 MMCRU def. Trinity Christian 3-0 Ridge View def. Kingsley-Pierson 3-0 Le Mars def. MOC-Floyd Valley 2-0 Sergeant Bluff-Luton def. Le Mars 2-0...

REMSEN — With several key players from last year’s state champion team having graduated, there were a few unknowns for the Remsen St. Mary’s football team entering the 2021 season. The Hawks put some of those question marks to rest following a 44-15 win over Harris-Lake Park in an 8-player non-district game to start the season Friday...

MARCUS — Cherokee scored twice in the fourth quarter to overtake MMCRU in a non-district football game on Friday. The Braves came away with a 27-20 win over their neighbors to the west. Cherokee jumped out to an early 14-0 lead before the Royals scored the next 20 points to pull in front. ...

KINGSLEY — Kingsley-Pierson came up four points short in a back-and-forth non-district 8-player contest against Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire on Friday with the final score being 42-38. The Panthers got off to a quick start with a 12-0 lead less than three minutes into the contest, but GTRA was able to take the lead into the locker room at halftime by a 20-18 score...

HINTON — The Hinton football team struggled on both sides of the ball in Friday’s season opening non-district contest against Woodbury Central, getting beat 52-0. Woodbury Central scored four touchdowns on the ground, three through the air and added a punt return for a score for the most points given up by the Blackhawks since a 54-20 loss to Bishop Garrigan in a 2013 playoff game...