Community Sports

ALTA - The races were held on Tuesday night this past week and was the North Central Lines Service Kyle Suter Memorial race. One hundred and nine cars zoomed through race track altogether, and the raceway would like to thank all the drivers that came out and raced for the fans. They also thank Larry and Desi Suter of North Central Line Services for fireworks after the races...

Independence Day for Storm Lake kept up another long standing tradition again this year with the 40th annual Ride and Run that saw 93 teams enter and 86 of them finish. The overall winners were a husband and wife duo, Sam and Sarah Wensink out of Sioux Center. ...

ALTA - Wednesday night saw the return of the thunderous vibrations at the Buena Vista Raceway, a week after the rain caused the cancellation the previous week. The races will be on Tuesday this week due to the July 4 holiday and will be the Kyle Suter Memorial Stock Car race with $1000 to be won...

The Alta Golf and Country Club will be holding a two person best shot tournament on Sunday, June 25 at 9 a.m. with a shotgun start. The cost is $15 per person. To reserve a spot for your team, call the clubhouse at 712-200-2442 or contact Vi at 712-579-1932. They extend a thank you to Tom Bohnenkamp...

ALTA - This past Wednesday night, the Buena Vista Raceway held the Jimmy Squibb Memorial Race, sponsored by Air Source One, for the hobby stock cars. 71 cars in total raced in the five classes on the night. There was a rain delay, but the drivers pitched in to aid getting the track back in racing shape...

ALTA - It was another night of high octane racing at the Buena Vista Raceway on Wednesday night with six different kinds of cars circling the track. In total, 79 cars were registered with the sponsor being CS Asgrow out of Calument. In the Noteboom Implement sport compact race, Alta’s own Corey Nammany was able to take first place. ...

ALTA - Wednesday night was the start of the 2018 season at the Buena Vista Raceway. Joey Ciechanowski and the staff thank all the drivers and fans for a great night of racing. The season pit pass winner was Cameron Vander Weerd of Alton. The sport compact races, sponsored by Noteboom Implement, saw Cory Peters out of Spencer take first place. Andrew Harris from South Sioux City earned second place and Jay Devries from Spencer was behind him at third. Alta’s Corey Nammany was fourth...

Buffalo Ridge is hosting a 4-Person Best Shot on Sunday, June 3 at the Alta Golf and Country Club with a 1 p.m. shotgun start. The entry fee is $25 and there will be lots of prizes. Call the clubhouse (712)-200-2442 or Vi (712)-579-1932 to reserve a spot for your team...

CommUNITY Education will be offering an Adult Summer COED Slowpitch Softball League beginning in July. Game days are held Wednesday and Thursday nights (times will be determined based on the number of teams signed up for the league.) First games of the season will be July11/12 and end with a season ending tournament six weeks later. Team registration is $125...

The Northwest Iowa Bulldogs, based in Aurelia, are back for another season of semi-professional football. This season will see a handful of changes for the Bulldogs as they are in a new league with more teams and see a rival move a little closer. The ‘Dogs left their old league due to not seeing too much potential growth with four other teams. ...

IOWA FALLS - The Albatross traveled to compete in the 49th annual All Iowa Rugby Tournament this past weekend. Showing up with a full squad was the goal and the Tross did just that with 18 men traveling to play rugby. The weather was perfect and the Albatross played two matches on Saturday and one on Sunday...

The time of year is upon the 3-6th grade students in Storm Lake to take part in the Little Tornado Relays on Wednesday, May 9, starting at 12:30 p.m. The events are slated to end around 3 p.m. In case of rain, the make up day is set for May 14 with the same starting and end times...

Storm Lake St. Mary’s High School held their inaugural Hall of Fame induction Saturday, April 28, to induct all of the past athletic state team and individual athletes. Those honored include the 1983 1A baseball team and coaches Brian Van Haaften and Scott Bailey, 2011 1A boys’ basketball team and coaches Brad Wilkening and Nick Landgraf ‘00, 1981 girls’ sprint medley team (Libby Kestel ’81, Beth Loats ’84, Julie (Loats ’81) Rohrer and Amy (Andrews ’82) Hurley. ...

Hawkeyes great Chuck Long will share stories of his football life and career and sign copies of his just-released biography Destined for Greatness during a meeting of the Storm Lake Rotary Tuesday, May 15, noon at King’s Pointe in Storm Lake. Long, who played quarterback for the Iowa Hawkeyes from 1981-85 and holds numerous school, Big-Ten and national passing records, will autograph and personalize copies of Destined for Greatness, greet and join in photos with guests and share memories of playing for legendary Hawkeyes football coach Hayden Fry. ...

The Storm Lake Albatross rugby club has seen a bit of a downturn this year with fewer players joining up this season. So far the Albatross haven’t seen many chances to get out and play the game. Back in early April, they took part in the Wayne America tournament, which they have won in past years, but dropped both contests this season and were unable to play in another due to low player number...

Storm Lake St. Mary’s High School has rescheduled their inaugural Hall of Fame inductions for Saturday, April 28 at 7 p.m. in the school gym. (The first was canceled due to inclement weather.) All of the team and individual state champions will be inducted into the new athletic Hall of Fame, hosted by the St. Mary’s Athletic Boosters...

Newell-Fonda will be hosting a girls basketball camp starting June 18 - June 22. It is open to girls who are going into grades 4-8 next fall. Each day will run 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. The cost to attend is $60. For more information contact Dick Jungers at jungersd@newell-fonda.k12.ia.us...

The Storm Lake Youth Swim Team will hold their annual splash party on Sunday, April 22 from 4 – 6 p.m. at the Buena Vista University pool. Come learn about our swim team and swim at the BVU pool. Swimmers may register for the summer program as well as purchase team suits and supplies. Coaches and volunteers will be there to answer any questions you may have. There will be no admission for swimmers and their families...

Semi Pro Football is coming to Early, Iowa. The North Iowa Knights have a new home and new league for 2018 season, they have joined the Midwest Football League. Knights rival NW Iowa Bulldogs also joined the new league with them along with other teams from Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri. The Knights did not stop there, they also added a new head coach as first year coach Waylan Shoesmith takes over the helm for the Knights and Marty Hart returns as Defensive Coordinator...

The GK Storm Gymnastics team will be sending two gymnasts to Regionals in Cedar Rapids to represent the competitive gymnastics team from Storm Lake. Top gymnasts from seven states will be competing for a spot on the podium. For a GK Storm gymnast to qualify for Regionals, they must reach an All Around score of 36 at two or more sanctioned meets in one season and be a Silver level or higher. ...

CEDAR RAPIDS – Qualifying gymnasts from the The Turn Around’s GK Storm (Storm Lake) and GK Blaze (LeMars) teams competed in the Iowa Xcel State Championships meet March 23-25. The meet featured over 25 Iowa teams and hundreds of gymnasts from across the state. Coached by Samantha Rasmussen, Mike Copeland, Ashley Schimmer and Cassie Wells, the 22 GK Storm gymnasts competed in various levels and age divisions across the three-day meet on all four apparatuses—the vault, bars, beam and floor...