High School Sports

The Okoboji boys basketball team kicked off the 2020 season with a Siouxland Conference victory Tuesday evening. The Pioneers downed Rock Valley 78-75 in Milford. Okoboji got off to a good start, finishing the first quarter with a 30-17 lead. Both teams battled throughout the second quarter and Rock Valley made a push to close the score to 41-36 at the half...

The Harris-Lake Park boys basketball team picked up a dominant home victory to start the season on Tuesday, Dec. 1. The Wolves topped Akron-Westfield 80-47 in Lake Park. "I thought we came out pretty hot and heavy," Harris-Lake Park coach Jeff Sohn said. "Towards the end of the first quarter, we got a little sluggish. ...

The Okoboji girls basketball team dropped a Siouxland Conference home game to Rock Valley on Tuesday, Dec. 1. The Pioneers fell 58-31 to the Rockets in Milford. Okoboji took a 5-4 lead early, but the Rockets took control of the game with a 16-3 lead to end the first quarter up 20-8. Okoboji trimmed that lead to 22-15, but Rock Valley pulled away again at the end of the second quarter to take a 33-17 lead into halftime...

The Harris-Lake Park girls basketball team fell 74-18 to Akron-Westfield on Tuesday, Dec. 1 in Lake Park. The Wolves fell behind 21-5 after one quarter of play and trailed 40-9 at the half. The Westerners led 55-11 through three quarters before salting away the win with a 15-7 score in the fourth...

Spirit Lake struggled mightily at the start of Monday's non-conference basketball road trip to Forest City. The girls scored just 10 points in the first half of a 47-32 loss to the Indians. Spirit Lake trailed 14-9 after one quarter and scored just one point in the second quarter, falling behind 25-10 at the half...

Spirit Lake kicked off the boys basketball season with a 67-52 non-conference road win over Forest City on Monday, Nov. 30. The visitors took a 15-8 lead after one quarter and pushed their advantage to 36-22 at the half. Things were much closer in the second half, but Spirit Lake outscored Forest City 31-30 to salt away the 15-point victory...

The Spirit Lake girls basketball team came up short in its new head coach's debut Monday in Sioux Rapids. The Indians fell 62-45 to Sioux Central in Todd Rogers' first game at the helm of the varsity program. The longtime Mediapolis coach took over one month after previous coach Naethan Hoaglund resigned on April 13. ...

The Harris-Lake Park girls basketball team dropped its season opener to former Cornbelt Conference rival Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire on Tuesday, Nov. 24. The Titans topped the Wolves 51-36 in Lake Park. Harris-Lake Park faced a slim deficit after one quarter of play, as GT/RA took an 11-9 lead early. The Titans extended that lead to 26-21 at the half...

The Okoboji girls basketball team dropped its season opener in Sheldon on Tuesday, Nov. 24. The Pioneers fell 61-46 to the Orabs in Siouxland Conference action. According to coach John Adams — who was unable to coach the Pioneers due to a possible coronavirus exposure, but watched the game on Sheldon's YouTube channel — junior Montana Wilson scored the Pioneers' first six points, pushing her team to an early 6-2 lead over the Orabs. ...

A pair of area quarterbacks earned all-state recognition recently from the Iowa Print Sports Writers Association. Spirit Lake senior Brent Scott was a Class 2A Third Team All-State selection as a defensive utility player and Harris-Lake Park sophomore Tyce Gunderson was an 8-Player Third Team All-State selection at quarterback...

Area volleyball athletes and teams gave their fans plenty to cheer for this fall. Spirit Lake, Okoboji and Harris-Lake Park sported a combined record of 28-56 this season. For their efforts on the court and off, a total of eight area athletes earned postseason awards. Let's take a look back at the 2020 volleyball season...

The 2020 Iowa high school football season was unlike any other in recent memory. Schedules were shortened. The playoff format was altered. Everything from travel arrangements to sanitation was affected by the ongoing global pandemic. Still, Dickinson County teams were able to compete in 25 games combined. ...

Wind whipped across the fairways and greens of Lakeside Municipal Golf Course Saturday morning in Fort Dodge, making for a fitting end to a tumultuous 2020 cross country season. Competitors faced the gamut of Iowa weather this fall — heat, rain, cold, snow, sleet and wind — in a season held under the constant threat of a global pandemic...

The size difference was obvious as Spirit Lake squared off with fourth-ranked West Lyon's mammoth offensive and defensive fronts Friday night, but heart kept the Indians in the fight to the very end. Spirit Lake had several shots late but ultimately fell 12-0 to the Wildcats in the third round of the Class 2A football playoffs...

A second playoff upset wasn't in the cards for the Harris-Lake Park football team, as the Wolves — fresh off of a 55-32 win over previously unbeaten sixth-ranked Coon Rapids-Bayard — fell to No. 2 Remsen St. Mary's on Friday, Oct. 30. The Hawks topped the Wolves 53-13 in Remsen in the third round of the 8-Player playoffs...