Stories from Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Irene Barels, age 94, of Indianapolis, Ind. formerly of Storm Lake, died Wednesday, August 20, at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. Memorial services will be held Saturday, September 20, at 1 p.m. at the United Methodist Church in Storm Lake. Visitation will take place from 12 p.m. until the beginning of the service. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake is in charge of the arrangements...

Reba M. Adams, age 87, of Storm Lake, Iowa died Friday, August 22, 2014 at the Buena Vista Regional Medical Center in Storm Lake. A private inurnment will be held at a later date. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake is in charge of the arrangements...

STORM LAKE - The Storm Lake Albatross rugby team is gearing up for the fall season now looking to capitalize off their stellar spring season. The Albatross played 10 games last year and finished with a 7-3 record again qualifying for the All Iowa tournament. The Albatross didn't perform as well as they would have wanted to at the All Iowa Tournament as they finished 5th out of seven teams...

MAPLETON - The Alta-Aurelia Warriors football team begins the 2014 season this Friday as they travel to Mapleton to take on the Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto Rams. The Warriors finished last season at 3-6 and on a two game slide, but prepare to change the momentum back to the winning ways. The Rams finished last season at 2-7 so they will be itching to get the first victory of the 2014 season...

STORM LAKE - The Northwest Iowa Senior Golf Association took over Storm Lake this week and had some pretty good scores tallied. Dick Drahoda posted the low score on the evening shooting a 1-under 35 on the day. Chuck Friday came in just behind with a 1-over 37 and Gary Rosene tallied a 3-over 39...

LAKE CREEK - Tuesday night at Lake Creek Country Club, three golfers sank once in a lifetime shots. There have been five hole in ones this year alone at Lake Creek. Two of them were added Tuesday evening. Steve Berg who was golfing with Alex Kazlos sank a double eagle shot on hole number 13 lastnight...

LAKE CREEK - Lake Creek General Manager Josh Wells and ABCD Tournament Director Steve Brock have decided to do the ABCD tournament again on Labor Day Monday, but on a bit smaller scale. It is a very "low pressure" event, meant to just have fun, and allow Lake Creek members to get out and play with fellow members they otherwise might not have an opportunity to play with during league...

SPENCER - The Storm Lake boys and girls cross country teams opened up their 2014 season in Spencer Tuesday evening and put together some solid times, especially on the girls' team. Top finisher for the the Tornadoes was Bazyl Horsey, who finished 29th overall with a time of 19:01, Sam Olsen came in 32nd with a time of 19:06 and Michael Martin finished 36th with a time of 19:08. ...

ESTHERVILLE - The newly combined Pocahontas Area-Laurens-Marathon Indians won their first volleyball game of the 2014 season Monday night against Estherville 3-2. This was the first game the school had played since the decision to combine all of Laurens-Marathon sports with Pocahontas Area except for football. ...

SIOUX RAPIDS - The Sioux Central Rebels volleyball team opened their 2014 season with a loss against Estherville Lincoln Central on the road. The Rebels fell in five sets 18-25, 25-20, 25-15, 22-25, 5-15. "We started our first set of 2014 a little slow last night," Head Coach Sue Mattson said...

ALTA - The Alta-Aurelia volleyball team opened up the 2014 season in winning style as they defeated the OA-BCIG Falcons, 3-1 the Warriors won the first set 25-16, fell the second set 18-25 and then won the final two sets 25-22, 25-11 to earn their first victory of this young 2014 season...

STORM LAKE - The Buena Vista men's soccer team comes out ranked 8th in the IIAC preseason poll for the upcoming season. The Beavers earned just 16 points, which was just two points behind 7th ranked Coe College. The Beavers finished last season with a 5-13 record...