Community Sports

STORM LAKE - Despite the rainy conditions on Thursday morning, 85 people braved the elements to take part in the 4th of July tradition in Storm Lake, the Bike & Run. This year the overall winners were Sam Wensink and Sarah Wensink from Sioux Center. They managed to take first place overall with a time of 51 minutes and 10 seconds. Coming in second overall was Matthew Smith and Yvonne Smith from Sioux Falls after finishing in 56 minutes and 19 seconds...

ALTA - Wednesday night brought more heart stopping adrenaline at the Buena Vista Raceway as the 305 Sprint Cars took center stage. Jake Martens, all the way from Fairview, Oklahoma took the sprint car feature. In the Plowboy’s Smoked Meats compact: 1. Kaytee Devries of Spencer; 2. Jason Hanson of Albert City; 3. Jay Devries of Spencer...

STORM LAKE – Several Hawkeye legends – including Ronnie Lester, Bobby Hansen, Vince Brookins and Mike “Tree” Henry – will be descending upon Storm Lake again this summer, giving Iowa fans a terrific opportunity to share memories and laughs with some of their favorite former Hawks...

Back on June 9 in Boulder, Colorado, Storm Lake’s resident Ironman competitor, Matt Hanson, took part in their Boulder event. Despite the cold temperatures, it didn’t get too much above 40 degrees, Hanson was able to take first place. “It was cold with no wind,” he said of the conditions. “It was not a warm day.”...

ALTA - It was the Jimmy Squibb Memorial Race this past week at the Buena Vista Raceway. Spencer’s Cody Nielsen won the featured hobby stock race, the featured event of the night. In Plowboy’s Smoked Meats sports compacts: 1. Kaytee Devries of Spencer; 2. Jay Devries of Spencer; 3. Corey Nammany of Alta...

ALTA - The races at the Buena Vista Raceway were finally underway on Wednesday night after the previous week was rained out. This week featured the popular nickel toss for the kids along with the Air Source One-Sport Mod Special. In the Plowboys Smoked Meats sports compact feature: 1. Kaytee Devries of Spencer; 2. Corey Nammany of Alta; 3. Jay Devries of Spencer; 4. Jade Lange of Humboldt; 5. Josh Hanson of Albert City...

Habitat for Humanity of Buena Vista is sponsoring its 3rd annual charitable golf fundraiser. “Holes fore Habitat” will take place on Wednesday, July 17 at Lake Creek Country Club in Storm Lake. It will be a four person best ball with a shotgun start at 10 a.m. ...

WATERLOO - The North Iowa Knights started 2019 with a bang as they traveled to to take on the East Iowa Storm and did not disappoint. The Knights were led on offense by new starting RB Chandler Scott (Glidden) who ran for 98 yards and thre TDs and looked dominate most of the day with great push by the O-Line. The Knights brought a two headed attack at QB with Sam Spencer (Rockwell City) passing for 160 yards and one TD and Cody Goff (Lake City) passing for 37 yards one TD and one TD Rushing...

The Storm Lake Whitecaps are pleased to announce the hiring of Mike Bowles as their on-field manager for the 2019 season. Mr. Bowles is currently an assistant coach with the Ottawa University Spirit in Surprise, Arizona. Mike has a long history of success coaching and playing baseball at multiple levels including stints at St. Joseph’s College (Maine), Chapparel High School (Scottsdale Arizona), Wiscasset High School (Wiscasset Maine), and Central Maine Community College to name a few...

The new racing season at the Buena Vista Raceway is fast approaching, May 22 is opening night, and the Raceway saw some growth during the 2018 season that manager Joey Ciechanowski hopes will carry on to this season. “It went well last year. Our car count went up from 60 to around 70 every week,” he said. “We had a lot of good crowds.”...

CEDAR RAPIDS - The GK Storm Gymnasts competed at the Iowa State Xcel Championships on March 15-17 and March 22-24. The scores were as follows: Platinum: Venus Gonzalez- Vault 9.400 placing second, bars 8.700 placing sixth, beam 9.025 placing third, floor 9.125 and an all around score of 36.250 receiving fourth place overall...

Sometimes in life everything comes full circle for a person. For Storm Lake native Eric Wordekemper, baseball allowed everything to really come full circle. Whether it was aiding the St. Mary’s Panthers to a run at State or pitching halfway around the world, baseball has been the glue that has stuck his life together...

The Storm Lake Albatross rugby club continues to move on despite low numbers this season. Albatross player/coach Daniel Bern stated the numbers are a repeat of what they saw last year, only having five to six guys say they will show up for the first practice...

CEDAR RAPIDS/URBANDALE – The GK Storm gymnastics teams finished out their regular season by competing a two final meets over the last two weekends. Team members traveled to Cedar Rapids over Feb. 15 – 17 to compete at the 2019 Winter Wonderland Invitational. They then braved the winter weather Feb. 22 – 24 to compete in Urbandale at the 2019 Mardi Gras Invitational...

COUNCIL BLUFFS – The GK Storm gymnastics teams traveled to the Mid-American Center last weekend (Feb. 1-3) to compete with over 450 other Excel gymnasts at the 2019 River City Classic. Three GK gymnasts came home with top-three all around honors. GK Storm Bronze gymnast Ireland Kennedy was the all-around champion in her age division with a score of 37.725. Ireland placed first on bars (9.550) and beam (9.650), second on vault (9.050) and tied for second on floor (9.475)...

SIOUX FALLS – The GK Storm gymnastics teams competed at the Rumble in the Jungle meet in Sioux Falls, SD Jan. 18-20. Across the Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum divisions, individual gymnasts brought home seven top-three all-around finishes, and the teams all took three first places...

Four boys from the Storm Lake area, ages 10-13, were named local champions of the 2019 Knights of Columbus Free Throw Championship and have earned the right to compete at the district level. St. Mary’s Council 2326 in Storm Lake sponsored the local competition at the Panther Pit in Storm Lake. All youngsters ages 9-14 were eligible to participate...