Stories from Thursday, October 30, 2014

SIOUX RAPIDS - A fast and furious first set almost spelled doom for the Rebels on Tuesday evening. At one point they were down seven points and Head Coach Sue Mattson called a time out to calm her team down. With a combination of well placed shots and the momentum from the home town crowd the Rebels made it back into the game. They went from being down seven to being tied at 23...

STORM LAKE -- The Buena Vista volleyball team was in control early on against Wartburg College on Tuesday night, but the Knights battled back and eventually hung on to edge the Beavers in a five-set thriller to end the conference's regular season. BVU came out sizzling in the opening set, breaking open an 8-7 match by scoring nine straight points to take a 17-7 lead and take the set, 25-13. ...

There is a good chance many of you know who I am, even if I'm just a name on the sports page to you. My name is Mark Schafer and I have been the Sports Editor for the Pilot-Tribune for the last two months since our last Sports Editor, Bubba fled back to his homestate of corn huskers...

Senior running back Dylan Barrett and sophomore punter/place kicker Tyler Stolen are the Iowa Conference Football Offensive and Special Teams performer of the Week for the second straight week, as announced by the league office Monday night. Barrett carried the ball a career-high 42 times for the second straight game in Buena Vista's 44-39 win at Dubuque on Saturday. ...

SPENCER - A familiar foe met the Tornadoes in the opening round of regional action on Monday night in class 3A volleyball. Storm Lake played Twin Lakes conference neighbor Spencer to open up the post season. It started out with a very intense first set that came down to the wire. Neither team was wanting to let the first set go to the other team...

ALGONA - Six points separated the Mustangs from their volleyball season continuing. A five set high scoring match ended the season of the Mustangs on Tuesday evening as they lost 3-2 to Bishop Garrigan in the second round of the Class 1A Region 1 playoff...

Eight Alta-Aurelia band students have been selected to participate in the 46th annual Northwest Iowa Junior High/Middle School Honor Bands Festival. On Saturday, October 18, over 300 seventh and eighth grade band students from 43 Northwest Iowa schools auditioned for a position in two honor bands. ...

The construction on Industrial Road in Alta has been going good according to David Doxtad, engineer with I&S Group on the project. The road is continuing to get graded. Rock will hopefully be placed at the end of this week. The grading of the ditches and drainage to them should be wrapped up soon as well. ...

Ardiss and Bob Galvin of Aurelia are the humble grandparents of their granddaughter Sarah Galvin. Passing along big dreams to their son Steve who graduated from Alta High School in 1978, he has soon passed it on to his daughter. Ardiss. Steve and his wife Abbie made sure that their daughter did her homework when she got home from school before anything else...