Stories from Friday, July 11, 2014

Plans emerged this week for a Texas company to run an oil pipeline through Buena Vista County, part of a massive project to carry light sweet crude from booming oil fields in North Dakota to Illinois. Although the potential path of the project runs through the Storm Lake area, both city and county officials were caught by surprise as news broke. The company has not filed for the necessary state utility regulatory approval or the required permits in the county...

Margaret Ann (Cosgrove) Ohlson age 88 of San Antonio, TX and formerly of Storm Lake and Cherokee, IA, passed away January 11, 2014 at her daughter Ann's home in San Antonio. Memorial services will be held at 10:00 A.M. Saturday, July 19, 2014, at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee. ...

Norma Louise Boisen, age 90, of Schaller, passed away July 8, at Methodist Manor Retirement Community in Storm Lake. Funeral services will be held Monday, July 14, at 10 a.m. at the Presbyterian Church in Schaller. Burial will follow in the Immanuel Reformed Cemetery. Visitation will take place Sunday, July 13, from 3-6 p.m. at the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Schaller. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Schaller is in charge of the arrangements...

STORM LAKE- The Storm Lake Whitecap swim team competed Wednesday night against Rockwell City. In the girls eight and under 50 yard freestyle Lillian Dahlhauser finished in a time of 1:04.01 and Kennadie Miller finished in 1:14.60. For the boys, Issac Tudor finished with a 1:11.70 and Peyton Phillips finished with a 1:15.50...

FONDA-The Newell-Fonda Mustangs softball team defeated Laurens-Marathon 9-0 Wednesday night in their first round of play-offs. Laurens-Marathon knocked out St. Mary's Monday night to advance to this game. Newell-Fonda scored the first run in the second when Hailey Falline drew a walk. She was eventually knocked in on an RBI single from Maddi Morenz to give the Mustangs a 1-0 lead...

HINTON- The Sioux Central Rebels softball team won 10-2 over Hinton Wednesday night in game two of play-offs. The Rebels scored three runs in the first, on in the third, three in the fifth and two in the sixth. Picking up the win on the mound for the Rebels was Lanae Shiley who pitched all seven innings giving up two runs, one was earned. Shiley allowed three hits, a base on balls and struck out one...

FONDA - Newell-Fonda's Renee Maneman tossed a perfect game Wednesday against Laurens-Marathon in the second round of 1A regional softball. Maneman finished the game with seven strike outs as the Mustangs rolled to a 9-0 victory. Maneman also led the way offensively going 3-4 with two triples and two runs batted in, Maneman leads all classes across the state with 84 stolen bases, 27 more than the second place girl...

ALTA-The Alta-Aurelia softball teams season came to an end Wednesday night, losing 1-0 to Emmetsberg in their first game of play-offs. Getting the loss on the mound for the Warriors was Tayler Rohwer who pitched all seven innings, giving up one earned run, six hits, two base on balls and striking out 10...

LEMARS-The Storm Lake softball team was defeated 14-0 Thursday night in their first game of play-offs to LeMars. Picking up the loss on the mound for the Tornadoes was Madison Gaffney who threw all five innings giving up 14 runs, six were earned. Gaffney allowed 10 hits, three bases on balls and struck out four...

LAWTON-The Ridge View Raptor's softball season came to an end with a hard luck loss to Lawton-Bronson by the score of 3-2. Taking the loss on mound for the Raptors was Katie Davidson who threw all seven innings while giving up three earned runs, 10 hits and three bases on balls...

With just two weeks of racing left, the winners on Wednesday night were all familiar to victory lane at Buena Vista Raceway. Getting back to victory lane wasn't easy for any of the six winners, however. Two of the winners had to work their way up through the field and make a pass late in the race, while other drivers were faced with holding off the field throughout the entire night...

STORM LAKE- The St. Mary's Panthers baseball team fell 13-1 to West Bend-Mallard Thursday night. Thursday's game happened to be Senior night, where they honored Ryan Peters, Cole Feltner, Dakota Eimers and Joe Kottke who have all been a part of the team since the eighth grade...

STORM LAKE- The Storm Lake Tornadoes baseball team fell short Wednesday night, losing 7-6 to Emmetsburg. The Tornadoes started the scoring with two in the first, three in the third and one in the fifth. Emmetsburg started late scoring their first two runs in the fifth followed by two in the sixth and seventh to tie it 6-6. The E-Hawks finished the game with the final run in the eighth...

PETERSON - Sioux Central baseball ended their 2014 regular season Wednesday night, capturing their 16th win defeating Cherokee 6-5 after a valiant effort from the Braves in the seventh, but it wasn't enough as the Rebels sealed the deal. Runs weren't hard to come by early on as the Braves opened up the game scoring three runs in the first inning, but Sioux Central answered right back in the bottom half with two runs of their own to make it a 3-2 game after one...