Sports

Four new assistant coaches have joined the Buena Vista University athletic coaching staff for the start of the 2013-14 academic year, BVU Director of Athletics Christyn Abaray announced.

State tourney teams Newell-Fonda, Ridge View dominate list of selections

Two schools account for 13 of the 23 players chosen

Two teams dominated the landscape of prep softball in the area this summer. Each team had one of the more imposing players in the state.

Newell-Fonda and Ridge View were those teams. They each advanced to the state tournament where they placed fourth in Class 1A and 2A, respectively.

Storm Lake leads list
of selections with 4
players on first team

Alta-Aurelia lands 3 players on team; SM, N-F, RV 2 each

In a season that saw a lot of teams flirt around the .500 mark or a little better, one team stood out as the most dominant in the area.

Storm Lake won 18 of its first 21 games before finishing the season by dropping four of its last five games.

AGWSR scores 2 runs in bottom of 7th to edge Ridge View

Ashley Sicard belted a double to score Olivia Ingledue and Kristen Zacharias with the tying and winning runs as AGWSR rallied to beat Ridge View 3-2 in the third place game of the Class 2A state softball tournament last Friday at Rogers Park in Fort Dodge.

Home run ball hurts Mustangs in 11-3 loss to Don Bosco

Don Bosco scored five runs in the third inning before tacking on four more in the fifth to defeat Newell-Fonda 11-3 in the third place game of the Class 1A state softball tournament last Friday at Rogers Park in Fort Dodge.

Newell-Fonda broke out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning when Renee Maneman walked, stole second and later scored on an infield error.

The Dons tied it in the bottom of the first when Karli Welter slugged a solo home run.

Storm Lake Under-12 coed soccer select team traveled to the 2013 Iowa Games in Ames last weekend not knowing what to expect.

Having never played together as a select team, the group was completely unsure how they would compete against some of the top talent in the state.

Storm Lake’s Under-14 coed soccer select team was in Ames last weekend competing in the annual Iowa Games.

The team competed in the highest competition level offered at the Games and faired extremely well, claiming first place in their age division.

In the first game, Storm Lake took on Dyersville United. Storm Lake was in control from the opening whistle, tacking on a number of early goals. The game was never in doubt as Storm Lake won 13-0.

Four players from Alta-Aurelia headline the list of selections to the Twin Lakes Conference first team for baseball.

The Warriors were represented on the 15-player elite team by catcher Alex Stephan , infielder Jayson Van Haaften and outfielders Josh McCormick and Bryce Radke.

Buena Vista University Director of Athletics Christyn Abaray has announced that Kristen Gay will become the university’s next head women’s soccer coach beginning in the fall of 2013.

For the past five seasons, Gay has been head women’s soccer coach at the University of North Dakota where she led the program through its Division I transition in 2008.

BY JAMIE KNAPP

It would be a fair statement to say Remsen St. Mary’s had never seen a team put so much pressure on its defense the way that Newell-Fonda did.

The Mustangs forced the Hawks into mistake after mistake after mistake. Throw in about five more of those mistakes.

Newell-Fonda took advantage of a state tournament record eight Remsen St. Mary’s errors by scoring 11 unearned runs to win 14-1 in the first round of the Class 1A state softball tournament on Monday at Rogers Park in Fort Dodge.