Stories from Thursday, October 30, 2014

The joy of running is back for Alec Baldwin. A change of scenery for the Black Hills State University junior transfer was just the opportunity the former Iowa State and Spirit Lake High School runner needed. Baldwin, a state champion in cross country and track at Spirit Lake, opened the 2014 season by winning the South Dakota School of Mines Invitational and placing second (first college finisher each time) at meets in Spokane, Washington, and Denver...

Ninety-six minutes. That's how long the Indians defense kept MOC-Floyd Valley off the scoreboard following a six-day stretch in which the teams squared off twice. In neither of those games did the Dutchmen gain more than 172 yards of total offense. No MOC-FV player gained more than 61 yards on the ground, and no receiver had more than 42 yards through the air in either contest...

The Superior Fire Department had a field fire under control in less than a half hour. thanks to some help from neighboring farmers. The department was called out at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday to a cornfield north of 110th Street and east of 310th Avenue. Firefighters at the location spayed water on a ditch near the graveled road while farmers continued to use disc equipment to knock down cornstalks nearby...

Okoboji stand-out golfer Alex Mankle recently signed to play for Morningside head coach Todd Sapp in the fall of 2015. In three years at Okoboji High School Alex was selected to First Team All-Conference and Siouxland Conference Champion each year, to the Second Team All-State Tournament team her freshmen year and to the First Team All-State Tournament team her sophomore and junior years. ...

Let this be a warning to the 8-Player classification -- Harris-Lake Park is here to crash your party. What could have been a long, sad bus ride turned into a two-and-a-half-hour celebration Wednesday night, as the Wolves returned home after upsetting District 1 champion Boyer Valley, Dunlap 29-26 in the opening round of the football playoffs...