Sports

The Alta-Aurelia offense has had trouble this year finding the endzone but on Friday night against Bishop Garrigan, the Warriors exploded with a handful of big plays to take a 26-2 victory for their second win. “Good night. The game had a weird flow to it,” Warrior coach Chris Reinert said. “We had some more trouble in the red zone and we have to find a way to get it done down there.”...

Cherokee hosted their annual volleyball tournament on Saturday.  Normal pool and bracket play was limited due to the current pandemic, so no pool cross-play with semifinals and finals were played, keeping teams in separate buildings.   Cherokee won their pool winning both matches of the day.  They beat South O'Brien, 2-0 with set scores of 21-18 and  21-11.  They also beat Siouxland Christian 2-1 with set scores of 21-12, 18-21, and 15-13.  Their record improves to 12-5. ...

The cross-country team was blessed by fantastic weather at Tuesday’s track meet in Storm Lake. Junior Kyrstin Agnitsch blasted her way through the course, landing in first place with a time of 19:47. Head cross country coach Matt Hoskinson offered this commentary: “We had a gorgeous night to compete. ...

After much thought and consideration, the Cherokee football coaches and administration decided that they are unable to play the Varsity football game on Friday night at Okoboji. They have had several players out due to COVID-19 and they simply do not have enough Varsity ready players to play a game that would be safe for their athletes. Monday's JVR football game vs. Alta-Aurelia has also been canceled. There has been no decision on any other football games at this time...

Last Friday the Cherokee Braves hosted the Cardinals of Garner Hayfield Ventura for their homecoming football game with hopes of getting back in the win column after the previous week’s loss against Ridge View. The Cardinals had other plans for the Braves as the Cardinals used a ground and pound offense to rack up 490 rushing yards on their way to a 41-0 take down of the Braves...

AURELIA - The Alta-Aurelia football team had their fair share of chances on Friday night when they welcomed Lawton-Bronson to Valor Field. Both teams have visions of their first win, but three trips inside the Eagle 10 yard line yielded no points for the Warriors in a 14-7 setback...

On September 1 Cherokee played in the Dutch Invite, facing stiff competition but coming out 2-2. The girls lost to class 3A, 9th ranked MOC-FV 20-22 and 23-25, beat Sheldon 9-21, 21-10, and 15-11, lost to 4th ranked, class 4A Sergeant Bluff-Luton 21-17, 16-21, 10-15, and beat Spencer 21-7 and 21-10. ...

The Wolverines traveled to Sioux Rapids Friday for the 2020 Football season opener. The Wolverines stumbled a bit with 3 fumbles and lost 27-7. The Wolverines kicked off to the Rebels to start the game. The Rebels put together a long drive and scored the opening touchdown with 7:50 to go in the 1st quarter. ...

(This column written several years ago couldn’t be more appropriate than now as a long overdue reckoning between blacks and whites hopefully is at hand. Perhaps goodness will prevail after all.) I’ll never forget her beautiful face as she saved the Struck boys’ lives...

The Cherokee Braves overcame a slow first half last Friday against the Royals off MMCRU to advance to 1-0 on the season with a 21-7 victory on the road. Both teams struggled offensively early in as the Braves led 2-0, scoring a safety, going into halftime...

The Alta-Aurelia Warriors went 5-4 last year but a new district looms overhead for the returning starters (seven on offense and eight on defense) as Chris Reinert takes over as the lone head coach this year for the Warriors, his first as the solo top leader...

Last season the Cherokee Braves finished their football season with a 2-7 record with one of their two wins being a district victory.  This season the competition may get even tougher for the Braves as they will move up a Class to 2A and will have to face last year’s 2A runner-up, Algona...

Covid-19 has created challenges, and when it comes to volleyball the Braves have been doing their part being extra precautious. Maintaining social distancing when possible, wearing masks while riding in school vehicles, disinfecting volleyballs, and players supplying their own water bottles and towels are many ways the Braves are staying safe leading to the upcoming season...

Baseball just ain’t the same without the dirt. Who’d a thought that a simple collection of organic and mineral matter would or even could mean that much to a person. Especially if that person is you. Dirt. It stains your clothes, scrapes your knees, muddies your shoes, gets in your nose, ears, mouth and finger and toe nails, is tracked in on the carpet, settles on the laundry hanging on the line, soils your snazzy vehicle, blows in the windows and out of the fields, and is home to thousands of creepy crawlies…. ...

ALTA - It was the first time this season that the Alta-Aurelia and Newell-Fonda baseball teams met up this season and it was in perhaps no bigger situation on Saturday night. The two competed against one another for the right to be the 1A-District 2 champions and to advance to Tuesday night’s Substate Championship contest. The Mustangs were able to hang on to take a 7-5 decision against the Warriors...

REMSEN — While not the home team on the scoreboard, MMCRU Head Coach Kayla Means said the atmosphere at the Remsen Sunrise Park field they share part-time with Remsen St. Mary’s made her team feel right at home. “We knew it was going to be a fun atmosphere coming into this game being we also play on this field as a home field, it’s their home field,” Means said. “The atmosphere was fun to play in. I thought the girls did a really good job finally getting on the bats there in the seventh inning.”...

REMSEN — It looked like the MMCRU baseball team was going to cruise to a win over Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn on Wednesday in War Eagle Conference action. The team got out to a 5-0 lead through four innings, but the Hawks tied the game with a five-run fifth and then took the lead in the top of the seventh. The Royals came back in their last at-bat to get the win in dramatic fashion by a 7-6 score...

ORANGE CITY - Cherokee's Covid-19 shortened softball season ended for good here Wednesday night in a Class 2A Quarterfinal 10-0 loss to host MOC-FV. "After the game, I told the girls that I'm so pleased with their progress this year and the best part is we don't lose anyone from the roster for next year," said Cherokee head coach Jen Ohlendorf...

I didn’t fire Denny Holton. That brother from another mother quit to appease his family, socialize more, sip Jameson, bird watch, and live a longer, fuller, more enriched and relaxed life while sampling the great outdoors. I just don’t understand it...

PETERSON - Sioux Central's 6-9 Rebels scored a dozen runs in the first three innings on just six hits to sideline an error plagued Cherokee squad in five innings here Wednesday night, 12-1. It was the tenth loss for the Braves (2-10), who return here Saturday for a first round...

ALTA - For the first this season on Tuesday night, the Alta-Aurelia baseball team experienced something they hadn’t done yet. The Warriors were downed by Coon Rapids-Bayard, 12-5 for their first loss of the year. Alta-Aurelia broke the scoreless game open with a run in the bottom of the second. However, the Crusaders scored twice in the third and twice in the fourth, A-A adding a run in the home half of the fourth frame to trail 4-2...

STORM LAKE - The Cherokee Braves baseball and softball teams found themselves on the wrong end of the scoreboard on Monday night when they visited Lakes Conference rivals, Storm Lake. The Braves baseball team found themselves shut out, 8-0. Cherokee allowed a run in the first, four in the third and three in the sixth...

The mighty purple and white of Meriden-Cleghorn. The Comets. So many outstanding coaches, teams and athletes who made great memories. At a quick glance, Comet teams from the 1972-73 season were particularly successful in football and wrestling, and followed up with a strong track season and a 15-5 baseball campaign...