Sports

Tornadoes entertain old rival Spencer

BY JAMIE KNAPP

Trust and discipline.

Those will be the two biggest words for Storm Lake’s football team when it squares off with rival Spencer tonight.

While the Tornado defense faced challenges in the secondary with Spirit Lake’s passing game last week, this week will be an entirely different challenge as the Tigers bring their vaunted triple option attack to Tornado Stadium.

BY JAMIE KNAPP

With two weeks left in the regular season, the playoff scenario for Sioux Central is simple.

Win both games and the Rebels are in.

Sioux Central controls its own destiny, and that begins tonight with a clash against Fort Dodge St. Edmond in Fort Dodge.

“We need to win out in order to guarantee a spot in playoffs,” Sioux Central coach Brandon Goodchild said. “There are many different situations at this point.  We just need to work at this week right now.”

Goodchild offered his thoughts on the Gaels.

BY JAMIE KNAPP

Now that Newell-Fonda has clinched a berth in the state football playoffs, there’s still something Brian Wilken would like to see from his team in these two remaining regular season games.

Continued progress.

The Newell-Fonda coach has been emphasizing that this week in preparation for the Mustangs’ game tonight at West Bend-Mallard.

Wilken would like to see the progress continue, but more so on the defensive side.

BY JAMIE KNAPP

Last week’s come-from-behind win over preseason conference favorite Dubuque was one of the greatest in some time.

But it was a costly win as four key players left the game with injuries.

That adversity will follow the Beavers on Saturday when they travel to St. Louis to take on Washington University.

“I am concerned about our depth heading on the road,” Buena Vista coach Grant Mollring said. “We are banged up on offense and will need guys to step up to have success moving the ball.”

Boys team takes fifth

Ethan James finished seventh overall and Thomas Olson was 14th to make the all-conference team and help Storm Lake place fifth in the Lakes Conference cross country meet on Tuesday at Spencer.

LeMars was first with 35 points. Storm Lake scored 93.

James posted a time of 17 minutes, 29.93 seconds to pace the Tornadoes. Olson ran a time of 17:50.38. The winning time was 17:04.92.

Team splits double dual

Gracie Meier set a new school record in the 100 breast stroke to help Storm Lake split a double dual girls swim meet on Monday at Spencer.

The Tornadoes defeated Algona 75-19, but were defeated by Spen-cer 59-35.

Kim Johnson reminded her players about a goal that they had set before the season started.

That goal was to win a Lakes Conference match. It was achieved on Tuesday.

The Tornadoes picked up their first conference win of the season as they defeated Spirit Lake 25-21, 16-25, 26-24, 25-23 on Spike Out Cancer and Senior Night at Tornado Fieldhouse.

Alta-Aurelia advanced to the championship bracket of the Twin Lakes Conference tournament after winning a pair of matches in the first round of pool play on Tuesday at Alta.

The Warriors beat Emmetsburg 25-11, 25-6 in their first match. Lauren Rohwer led in hitting by going 14-for-15 with 10 kills. Laney Stanton was 17-for-18 with nine kills and Erin Lockin 8-for-9 with three kills.

Annika Patton finished with 20 set assists. Mary Barnes and Brittany Turnquist each charted seven digs. Lockin added six. Rohwer tallied three blocks.

Newell-Fonda advanced to the championship bracket of the Twin Lakes Conference tournament after splitting a pair of matches in the first round of pool play on Tuesday at Lake View.

The Mustangs beat Sioux Central 25-8, 25-14 in their first match. Melanie Morenz went 7-for-8 in hitting with five kills. Morgan Lynch was 10-for-12 with five kills and Olivia Larsen 6-for-10 with five kills. Ella Larsen was 7-for-7 with three kills.

Sioux Central played in the opening round of the Twin Lakes Conference tournament and the Rebels dropped a pair of matches on Tuesday at Lake View.

Sioux Central was defeated by East Sac County 25-17, 25-5 in its first match. Kennedy Hatch had five kills and Madison Sylvester added three. Karly Boettcher charted eight set assists.

Hatch went 7-for-7 in serving. Boettcher and Haylee Beckman each went 5-for-5.