Stories from Thursday, January 22, 2015

Former Storm Lake High School football standout, Logan Masters gets promotion at Wayne State

STORM LAKE - If there is any rivalry in the Twin Lakes Conference that is bigger than St. Mary's and Newell-Fonda in boys basketball it hasn't shown itself lately. The battle of Highway 71 has had many great bouts in the long history. On Tuesday night the two teams showed a glimpse of what makes the Panthers Mustangs battle one of the hottest tickets in Northwest Iowa...

Spirit Lake pulls away in second half through use of height in Tuesday night's game

STORM LAKE - There was no shortage of assists in the game on Tuesday night between Newell-Fonda and St. Mary's. More time was probably spent passing the ball than dribbling it down the court, but that was the game plan for the coaches. At one point in the game it was so focused on passes that Newell-Fonda player Maddi Morenz gave herself an assist an a pass while making a shot...

STORM LAKE - Storm Lake struggled for points as they played their second top-ten ranked Lakes Conference opponent in a row. Tuesday night the Tornadoes girls hosted the Spirt Lake team that is ranked No. 4 in the most recent IGHSAU poll. For the Indians they had no problems holding onto that ranking with a 60-14 victory...

GRAETTINGER - Alta-Aurelia had to play G-T/R-A on Tuesday without their leading scorer, Ross Friedrich who missed the game due to an illness. His pressence was missed in the stating lineup as the Titans were to pull away in the final quarter to take the 70-52 win...

HOLSTEIN - All the Raptors boys basketball team had to do on Tuesday evening was survive the first quarter. The 11 points that River Valley put up in the first quarter were the best offensive effort that they had on Tuesday as the Raptors were able to win the game 70-36...