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clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 10:45am
Beavers now 3 games back in IIAC race
Wartburg used a five-run sixth inning during the opener and a four-run eighth inning of the nightcap to go on and sweep Buena Vista by scores of 6-2 and 7-3 last Saturday in Waverly.
Game one was a pitcher’s duel with no score until the Beavers took their first lead of the series on a solo home run off the bat of Kolby Hilgenberg in the sixth.
PAC/L-M’s Kyle McClintic (left), Sioux Central’s Wyatt Erickson
and Newell-Fonda’s Riley Tiffany (right) run the 3,200 meters
during the PAC/L-M Relays last Friday. Photo by Chris Vrba,
Pocahontas Record-Democrat
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clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 10:43am
Klaassen helps team win title in Class B
Andrew Klaassen was a double-winner to help Pocahontas Area/Laurens-Marathon claim the team title in Class B of the PAC/L-M Relays last Friday at Pocahontas.
PAC/L-M scored 121 points to edge South Central Calhoun by one point. Alta-Aurelia was fourth with 106.
Klaassen won the 100 meters with a clocking of 11.35 seconds. Alta-Aurelia’s Kaleb Sleezer was third in 11.42.
Andriette Wickstrom with Bennett Beach, 67, who has run 50 consecutive
Boston Marathons.
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clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 10:41am
Storm Laker Andriette Wickstrom, 62, placed 11th in her age group at the 2017 Boston Marathon last Monday. She ran the marathon in 3 hours, 49 minutes, 28 seconds.
There were 344 competitors in the women’s age 60-64 category. This was Wickstrom’s 26th consecutive running of the Boston Marathon, which qualifies her for the Quarter Century Club photo, taken at the Boston Marathon Expo preceding the race.
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Storm Lake seniors Parker Lange (left) and Efrain Gonzalez (right) signed letters of intent last Friday to play basketball and soccer, respectively, at Upper Iowa University. Lange also considered Wayne State, Southwest Minnesota State, Briar Cliff and Morningside. He is pictured with his parents, Todd and Barb, and Storm Lake head coach Heath Stille. Gonzalez chose the Peacocks over Iowa Conference schools Buena Vista and Wartburg. Upper Iowa is located in Fayette. TIMES photos by JAMIE KNAPP
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clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 10:38am
Coach Ben Schekirke won his 100th career game as Storm Lake blanked Sioux City West 5-0 in the Sioux City North Tournament last Saturday.
The Tornadoes were edged 1-0 by Sioux City Heelan in their first match of the day.
Efrain Gonzalez, Eh Ywe Htoo, Juan Mancilla, Jose Martinez and Hector Nunez each scored a goal for Storm Lake in the win over West. Adrian Zavala recorded six saves as goalkeeper.
Storm Lake finished with 12 shots on goal, including four by Martinez and three by Mancilla.
Storm Lake’s Manny Chavez goes airborne
during the long jump competition in last
Friday’s PAC/L-M Relays at Pocahontas.
Photos by Chris Vrba, Pocahontas Record-
Democrat and Buena Vista County Journal
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clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 10:36am
Parker Lange finished second in the long jump to highlight Storm Lake’s performance in Class A of the Pocahontas Area/Laurens-Marathon Relays last Friday at Pocahontas.
Humboldt won the meet with 155 points. Storm Lake scored 38.
In the 400 meters, Chris Shima placed sixth with a time of 56.29 seconds. Dylan Cavanaugh finished third in the 3,200 meters in 10 minutes, 27.29 seconds.
Nicholas Oleson took sixth in the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 1:04.65.
Sioux Central’s Devin Howell hands the baton to
Trace Blomberg during the distance medley relay
in the PAC/L-M Relays last Friday night.
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clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 10:33am
Matt Saunders won the 110 meter high hurdles and two relay teams were victorious as Sioux Central finished second in Class C of the Pocahontas Area/Laurens-Marathon Relays last Friday at Pocahontas.
Algona Garrigan scored 195 points to win the team title. Sioux Central was second with 147, Newell-Fonda fourth with 63 and PAC/L-M JV fifth with 42.
In the 100 meters, Sioux Central’s Jacob Schomaker finished third with a clocking of 11.74 seconds. PAC/L-M’s Ryan Anderson was fourth in 11.78 and Sioux Central’s Roberto Flores fifth in 11.83.
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clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 10:30am
Tornadoes take fifth place as a team
The distance medley relay team finished second to highlight Storm Lake’s performance in the Estherville Invitational last Friday.
Spencer won the meet with 228 points. Storm Lake scored 23 points to finish in fifth place.
In the 100 meters, Emma Kenkel finished fifth with a time of 13.59 seconds. Kenkel was eighth in the 200 meters in 29.81 seconds.
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clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 10:29am
Norse win 8-0, 6-5
Buena Vista put its four-game win streak on the line when it traveled to fourth-ranked Luther for an Iowa Conference doubleheader last Saturday. The Norse, however, would come away with a pair of wins, taking the opener in five innings 8-0 before a walk-off hit in game two gave them a 6-5 win.
St. Mary’s Lexi VanderWoude
chips on to the green on hole
No. 2 during last Thursday’s
meet against Sioux Central
at Lake Creek Country Club.
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clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 10:28am
Michael Demers carded a 43 to claim medalist honors and Cale Murray was the runner-up medalist with a 46 as Storm Lake St. Mary’s beat Sioux Central in a Twin Lakes Conference boys dual golf meet last Thursday at Lake Creek.
The Panthers finished with a 192, the Rebels a 206.
Zach Lenhart golfed a 49 for the Panthers. Josh Feltner shot a 54, Zach Roling a 55 and Andrew Polich had a 63.
A.J. Anderson and Sam Wood each stroked a 48 for Sioux Central. Trey Herrig golfed a 54, Ryan Sundblad a 56, Caden Webber a 58 and Tyler Helbing shot a 66.
