College Sports

STORM LAKE - The Storm Lake Whitecaps picked up their first win in five attempts on Monday night, taking game one of a best of three series against the Sioux Falls Gold, 10-9, in the Pioneer Collegiate League playoffs. ‘Caps starter Cade Moring got through the top of the first inning facing only four batters to get the offense to the plate. Christian Pena knocked in the first run of the game in the home half, giving the ‘Caps a 1-0 lead after one...

There is a new sheriff, so to speak, roaming the sidelines this upcoming season for the Buena Vista football team in Grant Mollring. Mollring, a long time offensive coordinator for two colleges in Nebraska, takes over after the resignation of former coach, Jay Anderson...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Northwest Missouri State University head men’s basketball coach Ben McCollum has been named the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) 2016-17 Division II Coach of the Year, in a release from the organization on Friday. The eighth year head coach has led Northwest to the last four MIAA regular season titles and lead the team to a national championship on Saturday for the first time in school history...

TUCSON, AZ - Jake Hadaway pitched seven innings, allowing just two unearned runs, and the Buena Vista baseball team scored three runs in the seventh inning tin a thrilling 4-2 victory against Luther College in the Iowa Conference opener for both teams played in Tucson, Arizona, on Friday afternoon...

The journey to becoming a college basketball coach on the Division I level can be a long and tiring journey. For Buena Vista alum, Randy Rahe, he waited in the wings for 16 years before becoming the head man at a mid-major college program. Rahe, a native of Bancroft, Iowa, went to Buena Vista for baseball, but also walked onto the basketball program. ...

Some timely hitting and dominant pitching helped the Buena Vista softball team begin its 2017 season on Friday afternoon with a doubleheader road sweep at Westminster College (Mo.). The Beavers picked up 3-2 and 4-1 victories, respectively. Kennedy Colvert drove home BVU’s first run of the year in the fouth inning of the opener, plating Keely Bycroft. The Beavers added a pair of key insurance runs in the fifth on an error by the Blue Jays followed by a Marissa Schmidt single up the middle...

Buena Vista baseball head coach Steve Eddie had a long road before becoming head coach of the Beavers back in July 2000. Eddie ventured through college and professional baseball on his way to earning 374 wins, as of March 11th, as the Beaver coach. Eddie played baseball for Albert City-Truesdale and remembers seeing his older brothers play as a kid. ...

The Buena Vista team was looking to bounce back on Monday following its first two losses of the season, but the Beavers struggled to get much going offensively during 8-3 and 14-0 setbacks to Hamline University inside of U.S. Bank Stadium. The Beavers scored twice in the second inning to take a 2-1 lead. Freshman Parker Truesdell drove in the first with an RBI groundout before Peyton Renning scored on a wild pitch...

The Buena Vista baseball team got to experience first-hand the newly constructed U.S. Bank Stadium on Sunday night with a doubleheader against Bethel University, but the Beavers came on the short-end of the scoring in both games, falling 6-3 in the opener and 9-4 in the nightcap...

DUBUQUE - Senior Ernesto Garcia and sophomore Brad Kerkhoff capped off the NCAA Central Regional Tournament on Saturday with sixth place finishes to help lead the Buena Vista wrestling team. Garcia advanced into the semifinal round of the 125-pound bracket before suffering his first loss of the day, an 8-1 setback to eventual champion, CJ Pestano of Central College. ...

The bats appeared to be in mid-season form on Friday as the Buena Vista baseball team began its 2017 campaign with a pair of lopsided victories down in St. Louis over both Fontbonne and UW-Platteville, respectively. Senior Kendall Candor drilled a two-run home run in the third inning of the opener against Fontbonne to cap a three-run inning and then drove in two more with a single in the fourth to make it a 7-0 contest. ...