Sports

Ridge View 20, Sioux Central 6 Alta-Aurelia 22, H-M-S 66 Newell-Fonda 41, Kinglsey-Pierson 34 Storm Lake 14, LeMars 36

Scores from tonight Storm Lake 14-Carroll 27 Alta-Aurelia 14-South O'Brien 36 Newell-Fonda 59-Bishop Garrigan 14 Sioux Central 29-Sibley-Ocheyedan 2 Ridge View 12-Western Christian 31

It was homecoming night for Storm Lake, Newell-Fonda and Ridge View tonight. Ridge View won 41-0 over West Monona, Newell-Fonda beat River Valley 63-18 and Storm Lake fell 17-26 to MOC-Floyd Valley. Alta-Aurelia traveled to Hinton tonight and won 43-26 and Sioux Central fell 15-20 in Pocahontas last night...

The Alta-Aurelia Warriors fought through the rain, turnovers and tough Akron-Westfield defense to win 22-21 in overtime. Other scores from this week: Storm Lake fell to 1A #5-ranked OABCIG 10-42 8-man #7-ranked Newell-Fonda took down Siouxland Christian 75-14...

SPENCER - The Storm Lake cross country team kicked off their season at Spencer on Thursday. On the boys side the Tornadoes placed ninth while Western Christian won the meet. Senior Tyler Moon took third place with a time of 17:39.40, Matt Lenzmeier placed 38th at 20:16.37 and Juan Jiminez-Delcid came in 52nd at 21:29.32. Western Christian senior Tage Hulstein won the meet at 17:05.99...

CHEROKEE - The Ridge View and Alta-Aurelia cross country teams went to Cherokee for their first race of the season. On the boys side Ridge View placed fourth while Alta-Aurelia took sixth in the team standings. West Monona won the meet. Ridge View junior Kyler Wunschel placed third with a time of 20:06.80 while Alta-Aurelia junior Braden Sonksen took fifth with a time of 21:02.20. ...

WEST BEND - The Sioux Central volleyball team picked up their first win of the season by taking down West Bend-Mallard 3-2 on the road on Thursday. The Rebels took the first set 25-20 before falling 9-25 in the second and 14-25 in the third to give the Wolverines a 2-1 lead. The Rebels pulled it back by winning the fourth set 25-14 to take it into the final set where they closed the match with a 15-11 win...

NEWELL - The 2A #6-ranked Newell-Fonda volleyball team hosted a triangular to open their season on Thursday and fell in their first match against East Sac County before beating Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire. In their first match against East Sac County the Mustangs fell 1-3. In a close back and forth opening set the Raiders won with a 27-25 win over the Mustangs. The Mustangs then dominated the next set with a 25-12 victory before falling 16-25 and 22-25 to lose the match...

ALTA - The Alta-Aurelia volleyball team took a 3-0 sweep over Southeast Valley at home on Thursday. The Warriors dominated the game taking the first set 25-19, the second set 25-10 and the third 25-12. Senior Jenna Nielsen had 12 kills to lead the team on offense while senior Shea Lockin had 10. ...

STORM LAKE - The Storm Lake volleyball team fell in their season opener at home to Hinton, 3-0 on Thursday. The Tornadoes lost 8-25 in the first set and 5-25 in the second. In the third set the Tornadoes fought back and had the lead for a while before the Blackhawks pulled away to complete the sweep with a 25-16 win...

After a year curtailed by COVID-19 the Buena Vista University football team will finally start their season campaign on Saturday, September 4, at home against Gustavus Adolphus College at 6 p.m. The Beavers had no fall season in 2020 and instead had a spring season with practices and three scrimmage games. The team is excited to get back on the gridiron and play ball next week...

ALTA - The Buena Vista Raceway hosted the final races of the season at the Season Championship on Wednesday evening. The raceway held races for the International Motor Contest Association modified, IMCA hobby stocks, IMCA northern sportmod, IMCA sport compact and IMCA stock cars...

The ninth annual Hy Noon Kiwanis Storm the Lake Triathlon and Duathlon took place in Storm Lake on Saturday. The triathlon and duathlon is a charity event to raise money for the Storm Lake Kiwanis Projects for Youth. The races began at 8 a.m. and started and finished at King’s Pointe Waterpark and Resort...

ALTA - The Buena Vista Raceway hosted races for Stock Car King of the Hill on Wednesday evening. The raceway held races for the International Motor Contest Association modified, IMCA hobby stocks, IMCA northern sportmod, IMCA sport compact and IMCA stock cars...

ALTA - The Buena Vista Raceway hosted races for the Modified Madness event on Wednesday evening. The raceway held races for the International Motor Contest Association modified, IMCA hobby stocks, IMCA northern sportmod, IMCA sport compact and IMCA stock cars...

ALTA - After a week off the Buena Vista Raceway got back to hosting races last night for their Iowa Speed Week event this past Wednesday. On the night the raceway held races for the International Motor Contest Association modified, IMCA hobby stocks, IMCA northern sportmod, IMCA sport compact and IMCA stock cars...

The 3rd annual Barnyard to Blue Ribbon Bike Ride at the Buena Vista County Fair has added a companion event - a new 5K run. Registration for both July 10 events begins at 10 a.m. at the fairgrounds, with the ride and run kicking off at 11. The bike ride is approximately 23 miles. Cost for the bike ride or the run is $20, and participants can still register on the day of the ride. For questions on either event, contact Jake Schable at 712-299-1061 or see the fair’s web or Facebook page...