WEBSTER CITY — The Fan, the Daily Freeman-Journal’s comprehensive look at the fall sports teams at Webster City and South Hamilton high schools, makes its return today. The 36-page, full color section features football, volleyball and cross country team photos, schedules and preview ...
JEWELL — The South Hamilton volleyball team swept Madrid and then took down Colo-NESCO in three sets on Coach Jim Marsh Court last night. The Hawks (5-2) barely broke a sweat in dismantling the Tigers, 25-15 and 25-6. Following a break, they claimed the opening set from Colo-NESCO, dropped ...
STORY CITY — All things considered, the South Hamilton volleyball team got everything it wanted out of opening night on Monday. Was it perfect? Far from it. Did the Hawks navigate their way through the non-conference quadrangular unscathed? Nope. But with a young and inexperienced ...
WEBSTER CITY — With three upcoming home meets on the schedule, the Webster City cross country program is asking for volunteers to come forward to help make the events successful. Tony Bussan has taken on the role of volunteer director of the meets and he’s hoping there are plenty of ...
I’d like to tell you a story, one that will perfectly incapsulate why I have called Webster City my work home for the past 19 years and 11 months. Drake Doering, you are that story and I hope it’s OK that I tell it now. It was Drake’s idea to organize a golf benefit for my family to ...
JEWELL — South Hamilton’s first winning baseball season in more than a decade produced five all-Heart of Iowa Conference honors at season’s end. Following an 11-9 campaign that included a 6-7 mark and fourth-place finish in the league, the Hawks collected one first-team accolade for ...
WEBSTER CITY — Dylan Steen put a face on the program, one that could provide stability and respect for a team that, quite frankly, looked like it was going to battle through a rebuilding season. Tyler Olson was the secret weapon, someone who head coach Adison Kehoe knew was destined for ...
WEBSTER CITY — One great game turned into two and then into three. Everyone started to take notice by game No. 4, and one outing later the wow factor had been replaced by a certain expectation. It was a lot to hoist on the shoulders of someone so young, but Kelly Stoakes handled all of it ...
WEBSTER CITY — In so many ways, Dylan Steen and Drake Doolittle are different athletes. And in so many ways, they’re exactly the same. Both are multiple-sport standouts, but they soar over the crowd in different disciplines. Steen has the ability to make any athletic endeavor look easy, ...
WEBSTER CITY — Zoey Woodle never got the chance to meet her older sister, Kacie. She was left with stories and memories that weren’t hers to fill the immeasurable void in her life. But on this day, Zoey knows one thing: Her big sis would be proud. All of those early morning drives from ...
WEBSTER CITY — A second outright North Central Conference championship in the past three seasons brought the Webster City baseball team seven all-league accolades. Voted on by the nine NCC head coaches, the teams were released last week. WCHS, which finished the season at 20-10 and ...
BY TROY BANNING tbanning@freemanjournal.net WEBSTER CITY — The battery of Taylor Volkmann and Breanne Diersen have been very good to South Hamilton softball, and, in a way, they’re going out on top. Together. Volkmann, the Hawks’ senior pitcher, and Diersen, her classmate and ...
SLATER — Caleb Olson made two diving catches look easy Monday evening. Words were much harder for the Webster City senior as reality began to set in while the stands emptied at Nite Hawk Field. All good things end eventually. “You know it’s coming, but it just goes by so fast,” ...
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 ...