FORT DODGE — Making a mid-summer pilgrimage to the state softball tournament never gets old for Webster City native Jim Flaws. He hopes to head home later this week toting a shiny new trophy too. And if yesterday’s performance by his top-ranked Carlisle team is any indication, he’s got ...
SLATER — Webster City has 243 hits this season and the argument could be made the two biggest came off the same bat against the same team. Sean Carver is The Man, in more ways than one. And Humboldt isn’t likely to forget the Lynx sophomore designated hitter anytime soon. Just nine ...
Devon Stoakes was so hot, so tired, that he couldn’t speak in the baked-out evening heat Friday night. That’s not hyperbole. Webster City’s freshman catcher was at the end of his rope as he stood behind the Lynx dugout at Nite Hawk Field in Slater. He’d just spent two-plus hours ...
WEBSTER CITY — Would this be considered Round 3 or Round 4? Truth be told, it’s both. North Central Conference rivals Webster City and Humboldt will meet on the baseball diamond for the third time this season and for the fourth time in the past four postseasons this evening. The two will ...
WEBSTER CITY — One of the most successful seasons on the diamond during the Jess Howard era paid dividends in the form of North Central Conference accolades. Webster City received eight all-conference nods, including four of the 14 first-team spots, on the teams that were announced ...
DIKE — The first of two Class 2A District 11 semifinals was scheduled to get underway at 5 p.m. Tuesday evening. Weather forced the first pitch back to 5:30 p.m. South Hamilton showed up sometime around 6 p.m. And Hawks’ head coach Kyle Galetich shouldered the blame. “It is what it ...
WEBSTER CITY — On Friday, Tyler Olson talked his mom, Tami, into bleaching his hair. He was going for a blond look, but ended up with a golden head of hair against his dark-complected skin. As it turns out, the new ’do was quite fitting. Gold hair to cap a golden season. “I ...
With a smirk on his face, but not one bit of arrogance in his voice, Dylan Steen called me out late Monday night. To my face and without hesitation. And I loved it. “I don’t want to say I told you so, but I remember we were sitting here at picture day (in May) and you asked me if I ...
WEBSTER CITY — For some players like Atlanta Hopp, the pain was immediate. For others like Leah Kasch, it took a few minutes for the stunning realization to hit home. Hopp wept and Kasch stared blankly ahead, neither quite believing what happened. Sports, ladies and gentlemen. The ...
JESUP — Harry McMaken stood with his arms draped around seniors Krista Swenson and Leah Jacoby while their four classmates — Cortney Harris, Lily Skartvedt, Breanne Diersen and Taylor Volkmann — completed the circle at the edge of the dirt near right field as the sun set behind them ...
JEWELL — The best seat in the house Wednesday evening belonged to Breanne Diersen. Crouched behind the plate, she saw all the movement, as well as all of the swings and misses. A whopping 57 swings and misses, to be exact. Diersen, South Hamilton’s senior catcher, marveled at what ...
HUMBOLDT — Enough was enough. Losers of four straight games against Humboldt dating back to the start of the 2018 season, Webster City took a baseball-sized chip on its shoulder onto the diamond Wednesday evening. And with the North Central Conference title on the line, the Lynx exorcised ...
ELDORA — Throughout his prep baseball career, Zeke Balderas has always been at his best in the postseason. And now as a senior, as his journey nears its conclusion, he’s making sure that doesn’t change. In other words, postseason Zeke is back. Balderas closed up shop on the regular ...
WEBSTER CITY — Don’t be fooled. Webster City head softball coach Jess Howard may not have expressed those exact words to her players in the lead-up to Saturday’s Class 4A Region 3 semifinal game against Mason City, but you better believe she’s hammered that point home in some ...
SUMNER — The South Hamilton baseball team was forced to travel quite a ways just to get a game in on Tuesday, but it turned out to be worth it as the regular season nears its conclusion. Originally scheduled to face Tripoli on the Panthers’ home field, rain forced the two teams to travel ...
COON RAPIDS — Webster City out hit ninth-ranked (Class 1A) Coon Rapids-Bayard 6-5 here Tuesday night, but the Lynx were unable to string the knocks together in a non-conference setback. The Crusaders (24-4) scored one run in the third inning to take the lead for good and added three ...
WEBSTER CITY — With each smack off the bat, every extra base taken, every foot that stepped on home plate Monday evening, the 15th-ranked (Class 4A) Webster City softball team proclaimed it’s ready and eager for the postseason to begin. Thanks to a marathon first inning that produced ...
WEBSTER CITY — The cushion is gone. And, now, the heat is on. Just two weeks ago, the Webster City baseball team sat comfortably in the driver’s seat as it trucked towards a potential second North Central Conference title in three years. But two league losses, the most recent a 5-4 ...
HUMBOLDT — It was old school North Central Conference softball at its finest, where the pitchers dictated the game, the innings flew by in the blink of an eye and the hitters were left grasping for answers Friday night. Carlie Thompson was finally able to solve the puzzle in the eighth ...
The post-game ritual never changes for the 15th-ranked (Class 4A) Webster City softball team. Win or lose, the players trek towards the outfield grass nearest their dugout and await head coach Jess Howard. They form a circle and from the middle Howard delivers a two- to three-minute breakdown ...