Sports

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...

Call this one an ‘old fashion shellacking.” After winning two straight, Cherokee’s baseball Braves suffered a 17-0 shellacking at the hands of a 2-4 Hull Western Christian Wolfpack squad here Wednesday. Cherokee mustered just two hits logged by the Benson twins, Joe and Trey...

SHELDON - You want positives? Okay. You need not look further than the Cherokee vs. Sheldon baseball game Tuesday here. There were plenty positives to choose from in Cherokee’s 6-4 win over Sheldon, the second straight win for an over-achieving, determined, and youth stacked Braves’ ball club...

188 Golfers Shoot Qualiying Rounds Anderson Nails Down No. 5 “You know, when you win, no matter how many times, you never know if you’ll ever win it again,” said J.D. Anderson of West Des Moines after claiming his fifth championship here Sunday in the 86th Annual Sioux Valley Amateur Match Play Golf Tournament...

Tyus Adkins, first-year Cherokee varsity baseball coach, welcomed 32 players to initial practice on Monday afternoon. Adkins replaced longtime Cherokee coaches Cory Ege and Jared Kirkeby, who resigned at the end of last season. Assisting Adkins this season will be coaches Adam Rapp and Kris Alesch...

“A work in progress” best describes this summer’s Cherokee Braves’ softball squad. Twenty players reported for initial practice on Monday under the tutelage of first year head coach, Jen Ohlendorf, and assistant coach Brandon Slaughter. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, Cherokee will play a 12-game slate, beginning with a home game against Spirit Lake on Thursday, June 17...

The Class 3A seventh ranked Spirit Lake Indians rallied for 16 runs in three innings and handed a very young and inexperienced Cherokee girls’ team a 16-1 loss in the Braves’ season opener here Wednesday. Spirit Lake, 3-0, scored three runs in the first, but the Braves countered when Dena Claycamp smashed a homerun over the left-centerfield fence in the bottom of the inning. Unfortunately for the Braves, that would be all the scoring for the hosts...

LEMARS- A veteran stacked LeMars Gehlen baseball club took advantage of seven Cherokee errors and 14 walks on the way to a 20-2 season opening, one-sided win over Cherokee’s youthful Braves here Monday night. In a game that went just four innings, Gehlen turned a 6-1 first inning lead into 20-1 with a 14-run explosion in the second inning. Officially, game over...

CORRECTIONVILLE - Dean Norris, head girls’ softball coach at River Valley, returns five letter winners and his top four hitters from last year’s 17-17 ball club. Returning to spark River Valley Wolverine fortunes this 2020 season are veterans, Juniors Taylor and Kaylee Knaack, and sophomores Brittany Meyer, Katrina Todd and Daisy Olais...

ALTA - A quick glance at the 2020 Alta-Aurelia’s baseball roster reveals vast experience at key positions back from a team that finished 17-10 and missed a return trip to the state tourney, losing in extra innings to Hinton in a district final. In 2018 the Alta-Aurelia Warriors played in the state tourney for the fourth time in school history. In 2019 the Warriors missed the state mark by just two games...

MARCUS - MMCRU Coach Kayla Foresman is all smiles this summer as she returns eight lettermen, five of whom earn War Eagle All-Conference honors in 2019. A year ago, the Royals finished the season 16-11 and fifth in the War Eagle Conference. And, everyone is back, which is great news for Royal softball fans...

HOLSTEIN - A year ago, Ridge View fielded a young and inexperienced team. Not this summer as Raptor head coach Shannon Tesch welcomes eight lettermen returnees to the diamond for this COVID-19 shortened 2020 season. The Raptors opened the new slate on Monday at Kingsley against an always tough Kingsley-Pierson club...

MMCRU’s 2020 Royals baseball squad was hit hard by graduation, losing the service es of seven key seniors. “We’re a brand new team this summer, filling a lot of holes,” said Cam Kuchel, Royals’ head coach. “But we have a strong sophomore class and talented classes below them,” he added quickly...

While people die and America roils with no leadership from the fool on the Hill, I bag my sadness for a time to revel in the joy that our high school baseball and softball players have a go-to plan to PLAY BALL! And, with most area prep teams saddled with underclassmen, as many upperclassmen have disdained their final years of playing ball in their shortened, pandemic seasons, I thought it appropriate to offer a few tips to those young, inexperienced athletes. ...

—Ida Grave eliminated Cherokee’s basketball Braves 58-56 in District 3 finals ending Cherokee’s record at 15-6 on the season. The Braves were co-champions of the Lakes Conference with Storm Lake. Larry Timmerman led Cherokee with 19 points, while Steve Larson and Tom Graves reached double figures with 15 and 10 points, respectively...

—LeMars Gehlen’s Joe Pitts belted a pair of homers and racked up six RBI’s in a 24-5 Gehlen Jays win over South O’Brien’s Wolverines. “Gehlen came in with good sticks,” said SOS head coach Mark Schnoes. For Gehlen, 23 of the 24 runs scored were earned runs...

Last week our governor, Kim Reynolds, opened the door for high school athletics to begin practice on June 1st, which has sent coaches and athletes scrambling to put together formidable squads in such a crazy time frame. The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (GHSAU) and the Iowa high School Athletic Association (IHSAA) announced they were all in saying there will be state tournaments for softball and baseball despite a shortened season due to COVID-19...

Cherokee preps will join other Iowa high school girls’ softball and boys’ baseball teams in returning to the diamond for practice on June 1. A cloud of uncertainty has hung heavy over all sports as high school spring sports were canceled due to COVID-19. We all wondered when. or even if high school sports would return to competition...

—In women’s recreational slow pitch softball, Dan’s Cyle defeated Cherokee Farm Service 15-9. In that game, Barb Mott cracked a triple, Traci Gravenish had two doubles, while Bobbi Rasmus and Linda Loucks each had a double. Also, Deb Sorenson and Ruth Thompson each had two singles for the victors. For Cherokee Farm Service, Kathy McClaren had a triple and three singles...

—Ryan Kolpin paced Aurelia to a 22-1 win over Sutherland in Sioux Valley Conference baseball action, going 4-for-4. Brad Rohwer accounted for Sutherland’s only score, a round tripper in the bottom of the first. —Brian Parrott highlighted a 13-run Willow first inning with a grand slam homer as the Thunderbirds got back on the winning track with a 13-3 drubbing of Lawton-Bronson here Monday...

—Willow’s Thunderettes captured first place points in the 440-yard dash, discus and 880-yard medley relay at the Odebolt-Arthur Relays. Linda Bruning dashed to a :62.8 time to win the 440, while teammate Cindy McCoy grabbed top honors in the discus with a 95-4 toss...

Saying “goodbye” to our beloved friend and fan Kenny Bern wasn’t easy, especially for family, especially for his next door neighbor, and especially for the adopted family he spent so many holidays with. When we lose people we love, it takes time to sink in as we reflect often how this person impacted our lives...

—In Cherokee Little League action it was Craig Johnson fanning 15 batters and collecting the 9-4 win for the Dodgers over the Mets. Bruce Lindell was the loser and struck out 12 batters. Tom Grant belted a grad slam homer for the Dodgers and Lindell led the Mets with a triple and single...

Mother’s Day is Sunday. It’s a good day to give thanks to our Moms. Some years back, I was taking photos at a local track meet, when in a preliminary race a sprinter ripped his shorts. The runners’ coach, jokingly showed the shorts to the sprinters’ mother seated in the stands. The mother calmly reached into her voluminous purse, took out a needle and thread, and repaired the garment. It ran in the finals and won...

—Marcus’ varsity boys’ golf squad established a new school record 155-stroke performance and whipped Eastwood golfers 155-181. The 155-stroke effort betters the old Marcus High School record of 156 set in 1977. Bob Clarkson led the Eagles with a medalist 37-stroke performance, while Tim Ludwig and Richard Haines helped out with 39s, and Keith Ebert shot a 40...

—The undefeated, rampaging Aurelia Bulldogs took another step toward the state tourney with a 93-58 win over Ocheyedan’s Mounders in district semifinals at Spencer. Senior Tim Hills led the Bulldogs in scoring with 18 points, while Alan Hallquist added 14, Brian Winterhof 14, Mike Tolzin 10 and Randy Tietgen 10...

—Little League results: In the Braves 8-0 win over the Cubs, Donnie Rahn was the winning pitcher and Jimmy Linn suffered the loss for the Cubs. Mike Leatherman paced the Braves with a homer, while Lee Harmon tripled and Brian Ames singled for the Cubs...

MARCH 2005 —Cherokee sophomore wrestler Tyler Halverson led a throng of area wrestlers here last week with a 7-5 decision over top-ranked Kyle Pedretti of MFL-Marmac in the finals of the Class 2A State Wrestling Tourney to claim the 103-pound State Championship...

MAY 1994 —The Cherokee Bravettes tennis duo team of Sherry Kohn and Jenni Lewallen combined talents to win the first flight of the Lakes Conference doubles, while teammates Jolene Hamburg and Mandy Snyder placed fourth in the second flight. League champs Kohn and Lewallen are 5-1 on the season in doubles competition...

—Aurelia’s five-touchhdown assault capsized Alta’s charges here Friday and the Bulldogs dampened this Alta Homecoming with a resounding 34-6 Sioux Valley Conference victory. The win was the fourth straight for ‘Dogs Coach Bill Hodam’s firery squad. The highlight for Alta came when fleet-footed Myron Radke, for the third time this season, ran back a kickoff for a touchdown. Radke took the ball on his own 15 and eluded everyone on the pretty 85-yard dash up the field...

—The Daily Times headlines read: Who Says Nobody’s Perfect? She’s history. Beautiful, unblemished satisfying history. Smiling 16-0 history. Lakes Conference champion history. One of the 12 top teams in the state history. The 1974-75 Cherokee Washington High Braves capped an outstanding season by anyone’s standards with a tense, and yet carefree, 53-50 victory over an aggressive Sheldon Orab club here Friday night...

—Ex-Bravette Chris Orr takes Nebraska prep cage by storm. Former Cherokee Daily Times Sports Editor Jeff King wrote an article about Cherokee prep cager Chris Orr being named first-team all state at Columbus, Neb. Scotus High School. Here are some excerpts: “Coach John Petersen, the girls’ basketball coach at Scotus High, got a visit from Santa Claus six months early this year...

—Cherokee Daily Times sports headlines read: ‘Crippled’ Wick’s 34 Ties Mark, Lifts Braves, 75-69. Al Wichendal, hobbled most of the season with a ankle injury, entered the game against LeMars in the first quarter for John Ambrose. Cherokee trailed 17-9 at the end of the period...

FEBRUARY 1976 —Cherokee’s matmen, bolstering six individual champions, cruised through an eight-team field at Denison and repeated as team champions of the Denison Invitational. Braves claiming individual championships were Tim Thompson (98), Doug Schmillen (105), Mike Lundy (138), Brad Phipps (145), Curt Sauer (155) and Paul Hasenwinkel (167)...

MEMORY LANE FEBRUARY/MARCH 1980 —Marcus teams win doubleheader. Bobbi Schmillen scored 56 points for the Eagles, setting a new school single game scoring record, surpassing her previous school record of 51. Little sister Roxanne added 18 for the victors of Head Coach Jerry Martin...

WUEBBEN IS ELITE PLAYER Most folks in our area know the “Wuebben” name. It’s synonymous with friendship, leadership, loyalty, work ethic, athletic talent and much more. We’re referring to Ron and Mary Wuebben, who spent a large portion of their lives in this county working and raising a fine family of three - Bart, Cory and Wendy...