BAXTER - A balanced offense enabled the South Hamilton boys' basketball team to start hot and never let up in a 74-49 rocking of Heart of Iowa Conference rival CMB here Friday night.The Hawks (7-8, 6-6 HOIC) were able to avenge a 59-57 loss to the Raiders (2-14, 2-11) on Dec. 15 by putting four ...
POCAHONTAS - South Hamilton sent four wrestlers to the finals and brought home one gold medal and five top-three finishes from Saturday's Lynn Moody Invite, which was hosted by Pocahontas Area.The solid performance slotted the Hawks into sixth place in the team standings with 123 points. ...
WEBSTER CITY - Nobody has been more frustrated with Landon Daniels' 3-point shooting than Landon Daniels himself. But with a couple flicks of the wrist, the form and his smile returned last night.Content to defend and pass for much of the season, Webster City's senior guard went on the ...
WEBSTER CITY - Jordan Prantner carries a hefty-sized bull's-eye on her back whenever she enters a hostile gymnasium.But seventh-ranked (Class 3A) Hampton-Dumont is a lot more than just one player. Try to take Prantner away and others simply step to the forefront.With Webster City doing ...
STORY CITY - Records are meant to be broken, even if it makes a coach feel uncomfortable as he watches it happen.Webster City wrestling coach Chad Hisler tried to downplay his team's 81-0 destruction of former North Central Conference rival Eagle Grove here Tuesday night; he's not one to show ...
JEWELL - Low scoring outputs at the start of each half prevented the South Hamilton girls' basketball team from putting together a real challenge against Heart of Iowa Conference rival Gilbert on Coach Jim Marsh Court Tuesday evening.The Tigers (11-6, 11-2 HOIC) outscored South Hamilton 21-11 ...
JEWELL - A scintillating shooting performance by Gilbert on Coach Jim Marsh Court here Tuesday night enabled the Tigers to remain alone atop the Heart of Iowa Conference boys' basketball standings.Gilbert (12-2, 10-2 HOIC) connected on 67 percent of its shots (34 of 51) and knocked down 74 ...
HAMPTON - He never slows down. He never rests. He never gives an opponent even a millisecond to breathe.Welcome to the world of tangling with Drake Doolittle, and good luck. You're going to need it.Webster City's fifth-ranked (Class 2A) 113-pound freshman cemented himself as a state title ...
HAMPTON - All 14 wrestlers in the top six. Eight among the best three at their weights. Six finalists. Four champions.Did Webster City represent itself well at Saturday's 49th annual North Central Conference tournament? You better believe it.With a point total that would have been good enough ...
CLARION - Marty McKinney prefers his teams play man-to-man defense, he always has and he probably always will.But he's not so stuck in his ways that he refuses to budge. Clarion-Goldfield-Dows probably wishes he was a curmudgeon.After giving up 17 first-quarter points to the Cowboys, North ...
CLARION - Nightmare - that's the only word that Webster City girls' head basketball coach Nicole Muhlenbruch could conjure up to convey her thoughts on Friday night's North Central Conference showdown with Clarion-Goldfield-Dows.And she never saw it coming.Focused on the task at hand prior to ...
NEVADA - What's better than grabbing a hold of one milestone? Clutching two, of course.That's what South Hamilton junior Luke Peters did on Saturday, as the fifth-ranked (Class 1A) 160-pound wrestler joined the 100 wins club during the semifinal round and then claimed a Heart of Iowa Conference ...
Klemp, Hill lead Hawks to one-point winJEFFERSON - Logan Klemp and Collin Hill both produced a double-double, as they led South Hamilton to a nail-biting 55-54 victory over Green County in a Heart of Iowa Conference boys' basketball clash here on Friday.South Hamilton (6-7, 5-5 HOIC) led by 11 ...
OGDEN - The scoreboard told a story, one that was probably expected here last night. A different tale was weaved on the mat though and proved that the score can sometimes be a bit misleading.South Hamilton may have been overmatched against ninth-ranked (Class 2A) Webster City, but the Hawks ...
WEBSTER CITY - What you think will happen and what actually happens are always two separate things when the North Central Conference wrestling programs get together for their annual tournament.Grapplers bump up or down weight classes. Upsets happen. Teams make unexpected surges.So while ...
JEWELL - Joe Smoldt took two dribbles between three defenders, went airborne and heaved a three-quarter court shot toward his bucket as the horn sounded to end the first half here Tuesday night.Right on line, the prayer came within an inch of being answered, but instead bounced off the front of ...
JEWELL - The rims that sit 10 feet above Coach Jim Marsh Court have been nothing but unfriendly to the South Hamilton girls' basketball team this winter and, at this point in the relationship, the Hawks are ready to date other rims.Hawks' head coach Tony Woodall would personally replace the ...
WEBSTER CITY - District football and the playoff structure received facelifts on Wednesday when the Iowa High School Athletic Association's board of control approved the changes for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.With the number of playoff qualifiers dropping from 32 to 16 in each of the six ...
WEBSTER CITY - Behind a suffocating defense, particularly in the third quarter, the North Central Conference-leading Webster City boys' basketball team stayed perfect amongst its league brethren inside its home gymnasium Tuesday night.The Lynx limited Iowa Falls-Alden to 30 percent shooting ...
WEBSTER CITY - Still within shouting distance of the top of the North Central Conference standings when the night began, the Webster City girls' basketball team suffered its most disappointing loss of the season Tuesday night.A 27 percent shooting performance (17 of 62) and an inability to ...