Stories from Monday, October 19, 2020

oux Central host a triangular that featured Newell-Fonda and South Central Calhoun. The Rebels fell in both matches while the Mustangs kept up their momentum with two wins. N-F downed SCC in three sets: 25-11, 25-22 and 25-20. Ella Larsen had 13 kills to lead the attack as Macy Sievers picked up nine. Anna Bellcock and Sophie Stewart combined for 31 assists. Ella Lynch had 10 digs and Larsen four blocks. N-F had five aces...

ALTA - The Alta-Aurelia spikers controlled their own destiny in the Twin Lakes Conference entering Thursday night’s game against unbeaten East Sac County. The Raiders showed the Warriors why they were unbeaten, taking a three set to win the conference, sending A-A to a third place finish...

STORM LAKE - The Storm Lake girls volleyball team took on a tough Cherokee Brave team on Thursday night and were unable to get a set win. The Braves took a 3-0 night against the green and white. The set scores were 22-25, 17-25 and 9-25. “Loved the way the girls came out and battled. ...

STORM LAKE - Saturday was the yearly home tournament for the Storm Lake volleyball team as they welcomed in Boone, Kingsley-Pierson and Sioux Central. Storm Lake was able to win a game as was Sioux Central. Storm Lake started their day against Boone and took 2-1 win over the Toreadors with scores of 25-14, 22-25 and 16-14. Mary Yanga had 10 kills for the Tornadoes with Jadyn Rydberg adding nine. Holly Dierenfield had 12 assists and 13 digs...

POCAHONTAS - The Alta-Aurelia and Sioux Central cross country teams took part in the Twin Lakes Conference meet on Saturday morning. The Alta-Aurelia girls finished second and crowned an individual conference champion in the boys race. Sioux Central’s ladies took third out of the eight teams and the boys were third out of nine teams...

HOLSTEIN - It was a big of a slow start for Ridge View on Friday night in their Class A playoff opener against Akron-Westfield, but the Raptors were able to use a strong second half to run away in a 45-6 victory. “Our offensive line had a great night as we had over 300 yards rushing,” RV coach Dale Tokheim. “We didn’t throw much because running the ball between the tackles was working so well.”...

LAKE CITY - Sioux Central tried to battle but the South Central Calhoun Titans were just too much on Friday night in the 1A playoff opener. The Titans got up early on the Rebels and ran away with a 46-7 contest. “We went against a very solid South Central Calhoun team,” Rebel coach Brandon Goodchild said. “I never thought our guys gave up.”...

NEWELL - It was a rematch from a game earlier this season to start the Newell-Fonda playoff run on Friday night. The Mustangs found themselves going against West Bend-Mallard again and the result was nearly the same, N-F taking a 54-6 decision to advance to the second round of the 8-Player playoffs...

ALTA - After a scoreless first half on Friday night between Alta-Aurelia and Gehlen Catholic in a Class A playoff opener, both teams found success on the scoreboard in the final 24 minutes. However a big special teams miscue led to a late Gehlen score to end the Warrior season, 23-20...

STORM LAKE - In a pandemic-shortened season, for one year only, the football playoffs became “everybody-in.” Storm Lake stayed in, with a come-from-behind first round win Friday night, their second over LeMars in two weeks, 36-28. That buys the Tornadoes a rematch at Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley, one of the three co-champs of the division, in a Friday game that Storm Lake head coach Rudy Wieck predicts will be “a dogfight.”...