Stories from Wednesday, January 7, 2015

The Class 2A No. 9-ranked Okoboji girls basketball team suffered its first loss of the season Tuesday, as the Pioneers fell 65-55 on the road to Class 3A No. 5 Sioux Center. The two squads opened to a 16-16 tie after one quarter of play, but the Warriors pulled away in the second quarter to lead 32-28...

The Iowa Lakes men's basketball team fell to Indian Hills on Tuesday by a score of 100-74. The Lakers, who drop to 8-5 overall on the season, were led by Blake Wilder with 16 points.

Former and current Spirit Lake basketball players have rallied together to help Joy Walz, wife of longtime Spirit Lake staff member and assistant boys basketball coach John Walz, who is battling metastatic melanoma, a skin cancer that attacks the entire body...