Sports

HOLSTEIN - The 80th annual Ridge View Relays were held on a windy Wednesday and the Alta-Aurelia and Ridge View teams, as well as the Sioux Central girls competed in the meet. The Ridge View boys took second place with 116 points behind Lawton Bronson with 148. ...

SIOUX RAPIDS - The Sioux Central Boys Invitational was held on Monday and Newell-Fonda and Alta-Aurelia headed up to compete in it. Newell-Fonda won the invitational with 154 points. Sioux Central took third with 135 points behind Manson Northwest Webster at 143 points. Alta-Aurelia placed fourth with 122 points followed by Harris Lake Park with 87 points...

ORANGE CITY - The Storm Lake Tornadoes competed in the Dutch Relays hosted by MOC-Floyd Valley on Tuesday. The boys placed fifth with 47 points. MOC-Floyd Valley won the meet with 163 points. For the Tornado boys individual eventsJailen Hansen won the long jump event with a leap of 21-05.75 and Jailen Hanson took second in the 200 meter dash with a time of 22.45 seconds. ...

GOWRIE - The Newell-Fonda girls competed in the Richard Ryan Relays hosted by Southeast Valley on Tuesday and came away with second in the team scores. The Mustangs tallied 116 points with Manson Northwest Webster taking first with 144 points. The Mustangs were ahead of St. Edmond with 89 points, South Central Calhoun with 76, West Bend-Mallard/Gilmore City-Bradgate with 66, Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire with 65 and Paton-Churdan with 14...

CORRECTIONVILLE - The Ridge View girls golf team participated in a golf meet hosted by River Valley and took fourth as a team while Junior Emma Vohs carded 45 to take fifth on the individual results. The Raptors had a 212 behind OABCIG with 197, Westwood with 197 and Kingsley-Pierson with 190. They led MVAOCOU with 220, Woodbury Central with 221, West Monona with 223, River Valley with 354 and Lawton Bronson with 471...

SPENCER - The Sioux Central girls took second to the Spencer girls in a head-to-head golf meet on Tuesday evening with 237 to the Tigers’ 207. Sophomore Kendra Casey led the Rebels and carded a 48 to come in second overall. Michelle Anderson had 61, Abril Morales and Abby Rentsch had 65, Emma Lonning carded a 65 while Madison Thomsen had 73...

STORM LAKE - The Tornado girls soccer team fell 4-1 to the Sioux Center Warriors on Tuesday dropping to 0-1. Senior Cynthia Rodriguez had the lone goal for the Tornadoes and sophomore Arlette Sandoval had 12 saves at the net. Senior Annie Bullock led the Warriors with three goals, five shots on goal, and an assist, while sophomore Ava Winterfeld had seven saves...

STORM LAKE - The Tornadoes boys soccer team took a 1-0 victory over the Sioux Center Warriors on Tuesday to start their season off. Senior Brian Munoz scored the lone goal of the game in the first half and had four shots on goal. Sophomore Deryk Hernandez is credited with the assist while junior Josh Reyes had six saves at the net...

ALTA - High school track kicked off on Thursday for Alta-Aurelia and Newell-Fonda at the Alta-Aurelia Early Bird track and field meet. The Alta-Aurelia boys placed third overall with 104 points, behind Lawton-Bronson at 175 points and South O’Brien with 125 points. Newell-Fonda boys came in fifth with 61 points, behind Manson-Northwest Webster at 75 points, while Whiting was in the rear with 6 points...

It’s hard to be the best at something. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication, and Danika Demers has shown that hard work and dedication by being at the top of the state of Iowa, in all classes, with assists in basketball. Demers is a junior student athlete at Storm Lake St. ...

STORM LAKE – Caleb Eggleston knew he’d tackle subjects like biology and art as a Buena Vista University freshman. He also anticipated taking down opponents as a 141-pound wrestler for the Beavers. But, a colt? Training a colt? That’s something Eggleston didn’t expect. He welcomes the bonus, a result of his place on BVU’s new rodeo team...

STORM LAKE - Braedan Evans and Zachary Tretler each scored goals for the Buena Vista men’s soccer team on Wednesday afternoon, but it was Nebraska Wesleyan finding the back of the net with just under one minute left in regulation en route to a 3-2 victory over the Beavers at J. Leslie Rollins Stadium...

STORM LAKE - The Buena Vista women’s soccer team was back home inside of J. Leslie Rollins Stadium on Wednesday afternoon, but the Beavers came up short against Nebraska Wesleyan, 6-0, during an American Rivers Conference match-up. The Prairie Wolves had 28 shots in the opening half and scored a late first half goal to go in front 3-0 at the break. NWU began the second half with a goal just under three minutes into play for a 4-0 cushion before adding two more goals in the final 15 minutes...

AMES - Senior Alison Schweers carded a round of 82 and tied for third overall to help lead a trio of Buena Vista University women’s golfers, who competed individually, during the DMACC Spring Invite on Tuesday at the Ames Golf & Country Club. Schweers finished just two strokes back of individual medalist Megan Tanhe of Coe College.  Sophomore Cara Kempadoo finished her round with a 94 and freshman Emily Powers added a 103. A total of four teams and 26 golfers took part in the event...

STORM LAKE - Buena Vista University softball had a home opening double-header against Loras College on Thursday night and won 4-3 and 8-6. BVU came out strong in the bottom of the opening inning. Carlee Guyett scored after Michaela Mason hit a fly ball to right field. ...

KANSAS CITY - The Buena Vista men’s golf team finally had its chance to step out on a course for the first competition of the spring as the team competed in the two-day Shoal Creek Invite, hosted by Baker University, that wrapped up on Tuesday afternoon...

The American Rivers Conference (A-R-C) announced today its major women’s basketball awards and the 17-member All-Conference team for the 2020-21 season. Simpson College senior forward Jenna Taylor (Sr., Creston, Iowa/Creston) has been named the American Rivers Most Valuable Player and picking up the league’s Defensive Player of the Year honors is sophomore guard Olivia Larsen (So., Fonda, Iowa/Newell-Fonda) of Buena Vista University. ...

Alcoholics Anonymous is available to serve those in need of recovery help in the Storm Lake area. AA meets in two Storm Lake locations: Thursdays at noon at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, and 8 p.m. Saturdays at St. John’s Lutheran Church.