ALLEMAN - Short on numbers, the South Hamilton wrestling team looked to bonus points to carry it to success in a Heart of Iowa Conference triangular here last night.With just nine grapplers in the lineup, the Hawks won nine matches - eight by fall and a major decision - and slid by North Polk, ...
HAMPTON - Watching a 12-point lead shrink all the way down to four as the horn sounded to end the third quarter, the Webster City boys' basketball team could have been nervous Tuesday night.Maybe the Lynx were. Maybe they're just good at concealing their emotions.Then again, based on how they ...
HAMPTON - Wide open or guarded tightly, it didn't matter. Jordan Prantner was in one of those zones where the basket looked four feet wide Tuesday night.The Hampton-Dumont senior shooting guard sizzled the nets by draining seven 3-pointers and pouring in 30 points to lead her ninth-ranked ...
WEBSTER CITY - Two months still remain in the wrestling season and yet it's likely that the North Central Conference dual championship will be decided this evening at Humboldt High School.The league's top three teams - No. 1-ranked (Class 2A) Clarion-Goldfield-Dows, Webster City and Humboldt - ...
JEWELL - An instrumental fourth quarter from Sydney Friest and a solid overall performance from Bree Hodnefield helped carry the South Hamilton girls' basketball team to its first win of the season on Coach Jim Marsh Court Tuesday night.Trailing 32-27 after three quarters and 34-31 with 2 ...
JEWELL - Brady Stover's lay-up at the buzzer propelled the CMB boys' basketball team to its first victory of the season and left South Hamilton's players once again scratching their heads on Coach Jim Marsh Court Tuesday night.Expected to be a Heart of Iowa Conference title contender prior to ...
WEBSTER CITY - Ranked No. 12 in the nation by InterMat, it's not always easy for Southeast Polk to find wrestling tournaments where it's welcomed with open arms.Host schools like to compete for titles. And with the Rams in the field, well, that's usually thrown out the window.But Webster City ...
GILBERT - It's hard to fathom a team could be at a crossroads just four games into a 21-game season but, alas, that's where the South Hamilton boys' basketball team finds itself.A Heart of Iowa Conference title hopeful when the campaign kicked off, the Hawks find themselves backed into a corner ...
GILBERT - The offensive rebounds and second-chance points allowed were glaring. But when all is said and done, none of it - not the rebounds, the turnovers, the fouls, etc. - means much if a team cannot put the ball in the basket.And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the 10,000-pound elephant in ...
IOWA FALLS - Kayla Miller should pretend that the clock is just about to hit zero right before every shot that she takes.That way she might never miss again.For the second time in four days, the Webster City senior beat the clock and ripped the hearts out of the opponent here Friday night. ...
IOWA FALLS - Foul trouble and shooting wobbles from long range were causes for concern on the Webster City boys' basketball team's bench here Friday night, but not enough to vanquish the Lynx from the land of the unbeatens.With the offense sputtering somewhat, WCHS directed its focus to the ...
MANLY - Charlie Reiter has got senioritis, and while that might be frowned upon in the classroom, on the wrestling mat it tends to lead to good things.Knowing the days are numbered until the end of his mat career, the South Hamilton 138-pounder isn't about to waste any opportunities, and he ...
HUXLEY - Cole Nokes won plenty of matches in a Webster City wrestling singlet prior to this season and yet the senior 126-pounder entered preseason practice knowing there was so much more to accomplish.He wants to win a conference title just as bad as anyone else. A berth in the state ...
WEBSTER CITY - Allie Flaws' speed has been a known commodity ever since the first day that she stepped onto the Webster City High School track.That talent has taken her to Des Moines to compete on the state's biggest prep stage for three consecutive years. It's the same city that she'll call ...
STORY CITY - Three grapplers went a perfect 3-0 to help the South Hamilton wrestling team win two of three duals during a quadrangular hosted by Roland-Story here last night.Open weights still did plenty to hurt the Hawks - they were open at 106, 113, 120, 182 and 285 - but they won six of the ...
ROCKWELL CITY - It was only 24 hours after a 47-point loss and the thought of "oh no, here we go again," had to be bouncing off the brains of the Webster City players as they looked up at the scoreboard and saw zero points and seven fouls under their name just 2 minutes and 40 seconds into the ...
ROCKWELL CITY - Marty McKinney needs to bottle whatever he said during the halftime break Tuesday night for use down the road.What exactly were the magic words? And were they spoken at a decibel or two higher than the normal speaking voice?"I wouldn't call it super tense, but we just knew we ...
WEBSTER CITY - A recently scheduled meet will be a good test for the Webster City wrestling team this evening when it heads to Huxley to meet Ballard and Carlisle in a double dual beginning at 5:30 p.m.WCHS and Ballard will meet in the opening dual. The Lynx will then immediately wrestle ...
JEWELL - A frenzied pace by both South Hamilton and Greene County translated into plenty of points on Coach Jim Marsh Court Tuesday night.South Hamilton just had an extra weapon.Behind four players scoring in double figures, two of which produced double-doubles, the Hawks ever so slowly inched ...
JEWELL - The South Hamilton girls' basketball team dug a 20-point hole and jumped right in it against Heart of Iowa Conference rival Greene County Tuesday night.The Hawks eventually settled down, but the deficit was simply too large, as the Rams escaped with a 41-32 victory."We played a lot ...