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The Cherokee Golf Course looked fantastic last weekend as over 147 golfers poured into Cherokee to take part in the 83rd annual Sioux Valley Golf Tournament. With former champions Bill Mathers, Brett Taylor and JD Anderson all ready to compete in the championship flight there was bound to be some good competition along with new names like Corey Matthey and Jack Gustafson...

The South O’Brien softball team traveled to Orange City on Monday, June 12th , to take on the Knights of Unity Christian. The Wolverines jumped out of the gate quickly, scoring three runs in the 1st inning and two more in the 2nd inning to go up 5-0. The Knights scored two runs of their own in the bottom of the 2nd to make it 5-2, but South O’Brien proceeded to plate seven runs in the 3rd to go up 12-2 with what looked like a very commanding lead...

The Ridge View softball team continues to play solid softball as they defeated River Valley Friday night by the score of 3-2.  Picking up the win on the mound for the Raptors was Emerson Else, who threw all seven innings, giving up two earned runs while allowing eight hits, walking three and striking out two. Leading the way at the plate for the Raptors were Beth Meyer, who went 2-3 with a double and two RBI; Katlyn Wiese, who went 1-2 with a triple; and Emerson Else, who went 2-3.  ...

The Ridge View baseball team played three games over the weekend. On Friday night, they faced River Valley and its ace hurler, Tucker Zahnley, and the Raptors fell to the Wolverines by the score of 6-1 in the Western Valley Conference tilt. Zahnley extended his streak of games with double digit strikeouts to four games with 12 Ks on the night and Ridge View managed one hit on the night, a single by Karlo Weldon.  ...

The Cherokee Braves hosted Storm Lake in Lakes Conference softball action Monday night.  The Braves took the lead in the bottom of the first, but the Tornadoes scored five runs in the top of the second, but the Braves answered back with three more in the 2nd eight in the 4th and three in the bottom of the fifth to shorten the game and take a 15-5 five inning win.  ...

The Cherokee Braves baseball team needed to start this week strong with district tournaments around the corner. The Braves beat conference rival Storm Lake at home on Monday by a score of 9-4 and then picked up a 6-1 victory Tuesday at home against Sheldon...

When the pitcher reaches 110 pitches, he may not pitch to another batter. He may only finish pitching to the current batter. If an individual were to pitch on consecutive days, the two or more-day total would determine how many days of rest would be required before the individual could return to pitch. The consecutive day total cannot exceed 110 pitches...

The Cherokee Braves baseball team had a busy week with two games at home and two games on the road. The Braves lost on Monday at home against Estherville - Lincoln Central by a score of 7-2, won on the road against Unity Christian, 8-4, lost at home against Spirit Lake 14-2, and picked up a win by forfeit by pitch count rule at Manson versus Manson Northwest Webster...

MARCUS - Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen Union hosted Akron-Westfield in War Eagle Conference baseball action here Friday night, and spectators were treated to a pitching battle between the Royals’ Conner Sand and the Westerners’ Dylan Irizarry, with #2-ranked A-W coming out on top, 3-0...

The Alta-Aurelia baseball team continued its good play last week. The Warriors’ game with Manson Northwest webster on Friday was suspended after four complete innings due to inclement weather, and will be completed on June 30th at 5 p.m., preceding the Warriors’ scheduled game with Woodbury Central...

The Cherokee Braves hosted the Wolfpack from Western Christian in Lakes Conference softball actionon Friday night.  The Braves scored for the first time in the fourth inning, when Kassidy Pingel led off the inning with a single and Sarah Kach drove her in with a two-out double.  The Braves were not done, and they added two runsin the 5th inning. ...

The Cherokee Swim Team had its first meet at the Bacon Aquatic Center in Cherokee on June 14 against Emmetsburg. Photo by Ken Ross

The Alta-Aurelia softball team beat Manson Northwest Webster on Friday to improve their season mark to 18-1, but the Warriors dropped a pair of games on Saturday. Against MNW, sophomore hurler Abby Kraemer threw a one hitter and allowed one unearned run, walking two and striking out 12 in a 10-1 A-A win. ...

CHEROKEE - Corey Matthey, who just completed his freshman year at Morningside College, became one of the youngest winners of the Sioux Valley Amatuer Men’s Match Play Tournament on Sunday, when he won the 83rd edition of Iowa’s oldest Match, defeating 2010 Sioux Valley champ Bill Mathers 1-up in 19 holes. Mathers had rallied to tie on the final two holes of regulation before Matthew won it with a downhill 10-foot par putt...

The Cherokee Washington softball team split a pair of varsity games last Wednesday and Thursday. The Cherokee Braves traveled to Spirit Lake on Wednesday to take on 15th - rated Spirit Lake, and the Braves fell short to the powerful bats of the Indians , 9-1.  The Braves had just three hits in the contest.  Teagan Slaughter led the team with a double and a single, while Paityn Hagberg had the RBI single that plated Teagan Slaughter in the second inning with the Braves’ lone run.. In the pitcher’s circle, Lindsay Williams struck out seven. . ...

Cherokee’s Caleb Claycamp brings it home to score against Unity Christian in Tuesday night’s Cherokee victory over the Knights. Photo by Denny Holton

The Iowa High School Athletic Ssociation (IHSAA) has assigned schools in Class 1A and 2A for post-season baseball. For schools in the Chronicle Times coverage area: MMCRU has been assigned to District #1, with Central Lyon, Clay Central-Everly, Gehlen Catholic, George-Little Rock, Harris-Lake Park, Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn, Trinity Christian and West Sioux, while Ridge View and South O’Brien have both been assigned to District #2. ...

GALVA- The Ridge View Softball Team continues to show progress and improvement as the season moves along, defeating Pocahontas Area by the score of 6-5 here Thursday.  Picking up the win on the mound for the Raptors was Emerson Else, who threw 5.66 innings giving up four hits and no earned runs while walking one and striking out three. ...

In Twin Lakes Conference softball action here Wednesday, the visiting Alta-Aurelia team and host Sioux Central matched single runs in the first inning and two runs apiece in the third inning before the Warriors broke open the 3-3 tie game with four runs in the 5th inning, two more in the 6th, and four more in the 7th inning to post a 13-3 win...

SIOUX RAPIDS - Host team Sioux Central scored four unearned runs on no hits and three walks in the first inning to take a 4-2 lead over the visiting Alta-Aurelia Warriors in Twin Lakes Conference baseball action Wednesday. The Warriors came back with four runs of their own in the top of the 4th to take a 6-4 lead, but the Rebels tied it up in the bottom of the 5th. ...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - The Alta-Aurelia Trap team finished the season by competing at the State Trap Shoot at the Cedar Falls Gun Club from June 7th - 11th.  On Wednesday June 7th the Rookies (4th and 5th graders) and the Intermediates (6th, 7th and 8th graders) competed in the Singles Trap division. ...

The Alta-Aurelia girls continued their winning ways on the softball diamond, with two road victories this week. On Monday the Warriors took on South Central Calhoun in a Twin lakes Conference matchup, and the Warriors were dominant in rolling to a 14-1, three inning victory. ...

The Alta-Aurelia baseball team picked up a couple of road wins this week, shutting out South Central Calhoun 6-0 on Monday, then taking a non-conference game with Odebolt-Arthur/Battle Creek-Ida Grove on Tuesday by a score of 11-4. In Monday’s game, junior hurler Alex Snyder continued his fine pitching, hurling a complete game seven inning, three hit shutout while striking out nine and walking just one. ...

The Cherokee Braves picked up two victories at the Moville Softball Tournament on Saturday June 10th. In their first game, the Braves were victorious over Storm Lake St. Marys 9-1, as  they scored in every inning of the game and never looked back. Eighth grader Teagan Slaughter got the win, going the distance and allowing eight hits while striking out four.  ...

ONAWA- River Valley defeated West Monona, 8-4, in Western Valley Conference softball action here Tuesday. Delaney Zahnley and Alycen Knaack each had three hits and Lauren Jepsen had two for the Wolverines and pitcher Makenna Thomas got the win, allowing five hits while striking out eight...

HOLSTEIN - In non - conference baseball action here Tuesday, Pocahontas Area jumped out to an early lead over the host team, Ridge View. The Raptors fought back to take the lead at 8-7 in the bottom of the sixth inning, but Pocahontas Area pushed two runs across in the top of the 7th inning to take the lead for good and win by a score of 9-8...

REMSEN -The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen Union boys were handed their first War Eagle Conference loss, when they lost, 6-5, in the bottom of the 7th inning agianst against defending state champion Remsen St. Mary’s here Monday. St. Mary’s threatened early when they hit four straight singles to start off the game and Derek Schorg scored the game’s first run. Royals pitcher Tristen Olson then got out of the jam after an infield fly, a strike out and a fly out...

CHEROKEE - As of Wednesday morning, the low score for qualifying for this weekend’s Sioux Valley Men’s Match Play Tournament are a former Sioux Valley champ, Bill Mathers of Cushing, and a perennial Sioux Valley contender, Nick Dreckman of LeMars. Both golfers posted an 18 hole score of two-under par 70...

This Saturday and Sunday brings the 83rd annual Sioux Valley Amateur Men’s Match Play Golf Tournament. Area golfers have been playing qualifying rounds for approximately two weeks, and the top qualifiers will be competing this weekend in Iowa’s oldest Match Play Tournament...

On Monday June 5th the South O’Brien Softball team took on the Blackhawks of Hinton and things were going very well through the first 4 innings of play, as the Wolverines held a 4-0 advantage. In the top of the 5th Hinton scored 5 runs off of 3 hits and 3 costly South O’Brien errors. ...

The Ridge View softball team continued to show progress and improvement as the season moves along.  Monday night, they defeated Lawton-Bronson by the score of 11-1 in six innings.  Picking up the win on the mound for the Raptors was Katie Brinkman, who threw all six innings, giving up no earned runs on three hits, walking one and striking out four. ...

The Cherokee Braves played in the LeMars Invitational on Friday June 9th.  The Braves split on the day losing to the 1A Powerhouse Akron-Westfield 14-0 then turning around to beat the Hinton Blackhawks 8-2. In the short Akron-Westfield game, the Braves struggled defensively behind pitcher Teagan Slaughter, who took over after Lindsay Williams was hit by a pitch in her first at bat.  The Braves only had two hits in the 3 - inning contest with the Slaughter sisters each having one.  The Braves gave up 10 hits to the powerful Westerners. . ...

After starting 0-2 in the Lakes Conference, the Cherokee Braves baseball team had two very important games last week with a trip to LeMars and a home game against Spencer. The Braves beat rated LeMars, 5-3 , on Wednesday, then came home on Friday and beat to top Spencer by the score of 5-1...

REMSEN - The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen Union girls beat Clay Central- Everly, 14-2 in three innings, in softball action in Remsen Friday, June 2nd. Courtney Miller pitched all three innings for the Royals, giving up two runs (one earned) on two hits, walking four and striking out two...

The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen Union boys played four baseball games recently, and the Royals of Coach TJ Schaefer were triumphant in three of the four contests. In the first game, played at Marcus on Wednesday May 31st, the Royals fell to the Blackhawks by a score of 5-2. ...

A good defensive effort in the field was not enough as the South O’Brien varsity softball team only managed to get six hits off of Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn hurler Kaylen Kuchel in recent War Eagle Conference play. Wolverine coach Heather Struve felt her team lacked intensity right from the start and “things never really turned around “ as HMS would go on to win 7-1. SOS only committed two errors in the field, but, said Coach Struve, “ our offensive punch was just not there tonight.”...

In high school baseball action last week, the Ridge View Raptors played Western Valley Conference foe Lawton-Bronson on Friday June 2nd, and the Raptors jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning and added on to it from there.  The Raptors had 15 hits in the game and won their 4th game in a row, 9 -3, improving to 4-2 on the season. ...

The Ridge View softball team lost to Lawton-Bronson last week by the score of 10-7, as the Raptors collected 17 hits on the night. The Raptors traveled to Sheldon on Saturday June 3rd to compete in the tough Sheldon Softball Tournament, and Ridge View failed to come out on the winning end lin any of their their three games, losing Game #1 to Sheldon by the score of 8-3. ...

ALTA - Alta-Aurelia posted a big Twin Lakes Conference win over Storm Lake St. Mary’s here Tuesday, scoring a 4-1 win over the Panthers. Veteran Warriors coach Dan Wendel commented, “Alex Snyder pitched another great game for us tonight. He continues to keep our opponents off balance and has really been tough to score runs on this season. ...

The Cherokee Braves softball team continued winning ways with a Lakes Conference victory against LeMars on Wednesday night.  The Braves broke scoreless tie in the 4th inning when JeMae Nichols and Lindsay Williams singled, followed by Lily Anderson driving in Nichols on a misplayed ball.  Kassidy Pingel then scored Williams and Anderson on a misplayed ball by the LeMars centerfielder.  The Braves struck again in the fifth inning, when Payton Slaughter reached on another error and Paityn Hagberg walked.  Lindsay Williams then singled to load the bases, scoring Hagberg, and Lily Anderson singled to right, scoring Nichols.. ...

The Braves picked up another conference win on Tuesday night, 9-3 over Spencer, behind the big bats at the top of their lineup.  The Braves got behind 1-0 in the top of the second, but they evened the score in the bottom of the second inning when pitcher Lindsay Williams belted a solo home run to start the night off for the Braves.  ...

The Cherokee Braves baseball team is back to having a full schedule after having a week off early this season. The Braves were able to pick up two wins on Saturday, defeating Odebolt-Arthur/Battle Creek-Ida Grove 12-2 and Hartley- Melvin- Sanborn 11-1. The Braves were back to action on Monday, but fell to Emmetsburg by a score of 6-5 in 10 innings...

The WHS softball varsity team defeated Storm Lake 8-1 last Friday thanks to a strong start.  The Braves took the lead in the first inning after Paityn Hagberg reached on an error, then scored on a passed ball. The Braves secured the victory thanks to five runs in the seventh inning. The big inning was driven by a single by Lily Anderson, a stolen base, an error, and a pinch hit double by Teagan Slaughter...

The Cherokee Braves baseball team traveled to Storm Lake on Friday June 2nd, hoping to start conference play out on a good note, but hit batters early, combined with a timely base hit by the Tornadoes allowed Storm Lake to defeat the Braves, 3-2. The Braves got on the board in the top of the first inning scoring a run with two outs. ...

GALVA - The Ridge View softball team suffered another tough home loss Thursday, losing by a score of 5-3 to a very good Woodbury Central team. Taking the loss for the Raptors was Katie Brinkman , who pitched well. Katie pitched 5 2/3 innings and allowed three runs (one earned) on four hits, walking two and striking out one. ...

HOLSTEIN - Ridge View defeated Woodbury Central,8-4, in Western Valley Conference baseball action here Thursday. Jake Tokheim was the winning pitcher in relief. and Colin Cuthrell was credited with a save.  At the plate, Cole Degen was 3 for 3 with a double and two RBI. and Jaxon Franken and Karlo Weldon each had two hits and two RBI...

The Alta-Aurelia baseball team played three games over the weekend, and the team managed to win two of the contests despite the heat and a depleted pitching staff. On Friday, in a Twin Lakes Conference game at Sac City, senior Cruz Frisbie was ”exceptional again in his second start,” in the words of Warriors’ coach Dan Wendel, who added, “His command and mound presence is intimidating to opponents and he is turning into a high level pitcher. ...

The Cherokee Braves softball team travelled to Hull last Wednesday for their conference opener with Hull Western Christian. An early lead helped propel the Braves, as Lindsay Williams drove in Paityn Hagberg in the first inning with a double after Hagberg had opened the contest with a single. The Braves scored three more runs in the 5th inning on a double by Lily Anderson and a home run by Williams, and they wound up with a 6-0 win over the Wolfpack....

ALTA/AURELIA 13, POCAHONTAS 6: Sophomore Abby Kraemer struck out 20 while surrendering only four hits in Alta/Aurelia's Twin Lakes Conference win Wednesday May 31st. Jessica Flaherty went 4-for-5 and drove in four runs while Rowan Kolpin homered in the win for the 7-0 Warriors...

HINTON - Though the Alta-Aurelia baseball team lost their first game of year here Thursday, veteran Warriors’ coach Dan Wendel felt some good things will hopefully come out of A-A’s 4-3, 7th inning walk-off loss to the Hinton Blackhawks. “This was a good test for our guys,playing a team that has gone to the state tournament the last three years and facing their best pitcher,” said Wendel. ...