Stories from Monday, December 19, 2016

Storm Lake led from the early going Friday, cruising to a fifth straight win and a 4-0 start in the Lakes Conference race, with a 72-59 win over local rival Cherokee. Six-foot-six Cherokee senior Trey Valentine opened the scoring with a three-point shot off the board, but Storm Lake sophomore Cham Deng answered with a bomb of his own, followed by a two-pointer. ...

The unbeaten, #4-ranked Cherokee Braves lived up to their billing Friday night. Storm Lake started out ice cold, as the hard-pressing Braves built a 13-5 lead and forced the Tornadoes into a time out. The news went from bad to worse, as SL point guard Brianna Soto picked up her third foul with three minutes still to play in the first quarter and had to take a seat. ...

Storm Lake splits a pair of duals ORANGE CITY - The Storm Lake wrestling team went into a double dual meet and split the two of them on Thursday night. They were able to defeat Estherville-Lincoln Central 58-24, and narrowly lost to M-O-C Floyd Valley, 37-36...

Alta-Aurelia said good-bye to former basketball coach Chris Abaray which created a void for their head coaching position for the boys basketball program. Fonda native Evan Franzmeier had moved back to the Buena Vista County area two years prior and had been the head man for the junior high teams for Alta-Aurelia. Franzmeier applied for the position and earned the whistle for the Warrior program this year...