Stories from Wednesday, November 26, 2014

The Okoboji girls basketball team defeated George-Little Rock 60-54 on Tuesday night in the Pioneers' season opener. Okoboji led 34-21 at the half and increased that lead to 16 before the Mustangs stormed back, cutting the deficit to just six points...

GT/RA Titans Northwest Twin Lakes Michael Jensen 3 "The difference between this year's team and last year's team is this year we have many kids with little to no experience on the mat but are willing to work hard and put in the time to be successful and accomplish their team goals."...

GT/RA Titans Twin Lakes Todd Hough 2 12-11 overall, 3-5 Cornbelt Conference "This year we are young and inexperienced as least year we had eight seniors." "With only two returners that played varsity last year we will be learning each night out. We need to work on the fundamentals."...

GT/RA Titans Twin Lakes Randy Hough 13 17-5 overall, 9-1 Cornbelt Conference Co-Champions "With the Cornbelt Conference disbanding, we are now in the Twin Lakes Conference. We did not have any seniors last year." "We will have a very experienced team."...

Okoboji Pioneers Siouxland Nate Dau 4 6th in Siouxland Conference "We have around the same number of wrestlers this year and a little more depth then last year." "Work ethic." "We need more kids out to improve the practice environment." Noah Bouse - Jr. - State Qualifier...

Okoboji Pioneers Siouxland John Adams 1st 15-8 overall, 12-6 Siouxland Conference (3rd) "We lose two very good seniors in Darby Jones and Abby Taylor. Darby provided a strong inside presence and Abby was a four-year starting point guard who could really score the ball. We will be deeper than last year's team though as we have two seniors and 11 juniors who have played a lot of basketball."...

Spirit Lake Indians Lakes Rick Reinking 20 18-6 overall, 11-3 Lakes Conference (2nd) "Every team is different due to graduation, but we do have more experience this year." "We have pretty decent size and are very athletic. We have a good mix of inside and outside scoring."...

Spirit Lake Park Lakes Andrew Lundgren 2 12-9 overall, 5-2 Lakes Conference (2nd) "The biggest difference will be losing a core group of seniors that were very seasoned and experienced. In this group of seniors we had three guys qualify for state at least once. ...

Harris-Lake Park Wolves War Eagle Jeff Sohn 13 11-10 overall, 9-1 Cornbelt Conference Co-Champions "Our team will be very similar to last season as the Wolves only lost two seniors, Dalton Snow and Cole Bosma. Cole started every game and was a good player for us last season."...

Harris-Lake Park Wolves War Eagle Eric Clouse 1 16-7 overall, Cornbelt Conference Champions "We lost a great group of seniors from last year's team so there will be a lot of new faces who will need to step up and be big time contributors this season in order for us to be successful. We return a good group of girls who played quite a bit on last year's team and contributed at different moments and will now need to step up on a nightly basis for us."...

Okoboji Pioneers Siouxland Ryan Paulsen 9 2-20 overall, 1-17 Siouxland Conference "We were very inexperienced at the varsity level going into last season. This year, we have several players that have seen extensive minutes in varsity games. We have three starters returning as well as another player that started a few games last year and was our first player off the bench. ...

Spirit Lake Indians Lakes Dr. David Smith 1 16-7 overall, 8-6 Lakes Conference (3rd) "We return our three leading scorers in Alec Henrickson, Billy Brown, and Trevor Smith. We have some great senior leadership and return some great experience. The addition of Ryan Kriener in the middle will really help with the inside game."...