Stories from Monday, November 2, 2020

The final standings for the Twin Lakes Conference country meet were released last week. On the boys side, Sioux Central was third overall as Alta-Aurelia was eighth out of the nine teams. Southeast Valley’s Travis Nuss was the boys’ coach of the year...

With the elimination of the final three Twin Lakes Conference volleyball teams last Wednesday night, the Twin Lakes Conference released the final standings and all-conference teams for the 2020 year. East Sac County won the conference with an 11-0 record. Newell-Fonda was second with a 10-1 mark as Alta-Aurelia was third after finishing 8-2 in the conference. Sioux Central tied for eighth with Manson-NW Webster, both schools having a 4-7 record. St. Mary’s took 11th after going 1-9...

FORT DODGE - On a regular year, the state cross country meet takes place over the course of one day, but this has been anything but a regular year. This year, the meet was split into two different days, Friday and Saturday. Friday saw Storm Lake’s Luiz Martinez compete and then Saturday was Alta-Aurelia’s Trey Engelmann’s turn to try his hand at the Lakeside Golf Course...

AUDUBON - Newell-Fonda added a trophy to its packed case Friday night, after bowing out of the 8-man playoffs at Audubon, 28-6. The Mustangs ran into too much Gavin Smith, as the Wheelers’ workhorse junior quarterback toted the ball 35 times for 243 yards behind his big offensive line, running for three scores and throwing for another. Meanwhile, NF platooned QBs for much of the game as its run game never got on track...