STATE CENTER — Cortney Harris has ridden in the backseat as Krista Swenson and Katelyn Sogard drove the car and rode shotgun all spring for the South Hamilton girls’ golf team. That changed on Monday and it was exactly what the Hawks needed. Harris had arguably her finest round of ...
WEBSTER CITY — For the second time in as many meetings this season, Chloe Johnson turned the Webster City defensive zone into her personal playground. After piling up five goals in a victory over the Lynx last month, Johnson, a sophomore, erupted for seven in the second encounter and she ...
LYNX GIRLS TENNIS FALLS: Freshmen Kayley Wibholm and Mackenzie Burney had the best performances of their budding careers in the regular season finale for the Webster City girls’ tennis team Monday afternoon in Fort Dodge. The Lynx dropped a dual meet to St. Edmond, 8-1. Wibholm, ...
CHARLES CITY — Chad Hisler didn’t hide his focus on the team championship banner in the days leading up to Friday’s Class 3A State Qualifying Meet. It was important to the Webster City boys’ track and field head coach, and he made sure it was important to his athletes as well. That ...
WEBSTER CITY — One fluke mishap, that’s all it was. A momentary lapse, an unlucky deflection, no more than two seconds in a match of 4,800 seconds, that’s all it took to undo all of the good that had transpired. And in the end, it decided the match. The Webster City boys’ soccer ...
STATE CENTER — The last four steps were the toughest for Logan Peters here Friday night. And can you blame him? The South Hamilton senior had just run the gauntlet and survived to celebrate it. Peters ran 21⁄2 miles — truth be told, he sprinted most of it — and qualified for the ...
PARKERSBURG — Three scores in the 80s helped put the South Hamilton boys’ golf team in contention to advance out of Friday’s Class 2A sectional tournament at Legend Trail Golf Club. The Hawks posted a 358 and placed third, which was good enough to move on to this Friday’s district ...
CADETS HANDLE LYNX, 6-1: Iowa Falls-Alden scored four goals in the first half and rolled to a 6-1 victory over Webster City in a girls’ soccer match Friday evening in Iowa Falls. Alyssa Boomsa and Emma Olberding both scored two first-half goals for the Cadets (6-6). Autumn Schott and Gabs ...
ORANGE CITY — All links-style golf courses hope to give players a hint of what it might feel like to play in a British Open, and some are more successful than others. But with temperatures only slightly above freezing at tee time and whipping winds that howled close to 30 mph, Landsmeer ...
IOWA FALLS — The Iowa Falls-Alden girls’ tennis team wrapped up a 9-1 regular season by earning a second 9-0 win of the season over Webster City here yesterday evening. The Cadets stormed through the three doubles matches — played at the start of the meet — without giving up more ...
WEBSTER CITY — The name — Class 3A State Qualifying Meet — speaks for itself, the goals pretty self-explanatory. Pushing as many individuals and relays through to next week’s state meet will be at the top of the wish list of all eight teams at today’s state qualifier that will ...
JEWELL — For the better part of the spring season, the Class 2A boys’ 4x800-meter relay outlook has gone something like this: South Hamilton ... and then everyone else. That’s how it has felt anyway. The Hawks were the lone 2A squad to reach the Drake Relays and they’ve sat atop the ...
JEWELL — The legend of the lucky baton began more than 15 years ago with Becca Swalla, who left a thumb print on the stick that has been passed down through the South Hamilton middle school track and field ranks. Swalla is something of a folk hero to this generation of budding Hawks. ...
MASON CITY — The sting of not reaching his goals a season ago, namely a spot in the Class 3A state tournament and a run at a title, have kept Nathan Ferrell awake at night from time to time over the past 12 months. Golf is his sport, his passion. And ever since that missed opportunity ...
FORT DODGE — Humboldt put three players on the first page of the leaderboard and putted its way to a North Central Conference girls’ golf title at the Fort Dodge Country Club on Monday. The Wildcats posted a 350 to finish 18 shots clear of runner-up Clear Lake (368). Hampton-Dumont (409) ...
IOWA FALLS — The Webster City boys’ tennis team wrapped up its regular season with a 9-0 loss to Iowa Falls-Alden Monday afternoon. Heath Patterson gave WCHS (0-8) its best shot at a singles victory, as he fought the Cadets’ Alex Geitz to an 8-5 decision in the No. 2 match. But IF-A ...
The Daily Freeman-Journal WEBSTER CITY — Nathan Ferrell now has proof that it’s possible to shoot in the 60s and still turn beet red with embarrassment during a round of golf. The Webster City senior had it all going — long drives, crisp irons, a red-hot putter — on the hilly ...
NEVADA — Four years of relentless work, both in the weight room and honing technique, culminated in one perfect evening for South Hamilton senior thrower Lily Skartvedt on Thursday. She’s now holds the title of the best thrower in the Heart of Iowa Conference. And it’s not even ...
The Daily Freeman-Journal WEBSTER CITY — Aggressive runs at net and scoring opportunities haven’t been the problem for the Webster City boys’ soccer team this season. Capitalizing on those opportunities, now that’s a different story. Those near-misses have led to plenty of ...
ALGONA — Three of Webster City’s five medals and 23 of its 52 points came during the field events at Thursday’s North Central Conference girls’ track and field meet. The Lynx finished seventh in the eight-team field, ahead of only Clear Lake (41 points). Algona pulled off an ...