Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 0-0-0-0-0-0-0 0 Sergeant Bluff-Luton 0-4-0-4-0-0-X 8 STORM LAKE- Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley committed five errors and walked seven Sergeant Bluff-Luton batters in the Class 3A District 2 tournament final...
Month: July 2018
Final Northwestern College boys’ basketball camp awards
Northwestern College hosted a boys’ basketball camp this past week from Monday, July 16 to Thursday, July 19, and one student from Western Christian and various students from Boyden-Hull came home with awards. Jacob Vis of Western Christian was the 12th-grade and...
Iowa High School Athletic Association drops annual fee
The Iowa High School Athletic Association recently announced it has dropped its annual membership fee to high schools in Iowa for the first time in 113 years. For the first time since the association was founded in December 1905, the state has eliminated the $2 annual...
Four Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley players earn all-conference honors
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Four Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley baseball players were selected to the Siouxland All-Conference baseball team as picked by conference coaches. Earning first-team honors were Cade Moser and Zach Noble. Moser was a unanimous pick after hitting...
Seven earn all-conference honors
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Seven Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley softball players were selected to the Siouxland All-Conference softball team as picked by conference coaches. Earning first-team honors were Kaitlyn Van Der Zwaag, Taylor Richter, Erika Pottebaum and Keely...
Adrianna Rozeboom
Adrianna Rozeboom 78 Doon, Iowa July 14, 2018 Adrianna “Ada” Rozeboom, 78, of Doon, Iowa, died Saturday, July 14, 2018, at Whispering Heights, Rock Valley, Iowa. Funeral service was Wednesday, July 18, at Doon United Reformed Church, Doon, with interment in Hillside...
Melvin Van Otterloo
Melvin Van Otterloo 86 Hull, Iowa July 19, 2018 Melvin Van Otterloo, 86, of Hull, Iowa, passed away Thursday, July 19, 2018, at Sioux Center Health. Funeral service was Tuesday, July 24, at First Christian Reformed Church, Hull, with interment in Hope Cemetery, Hull....
Leon Koele
Leon Koele 80 Sheldon, Iowa July 12, 2018 Leon Koele, 80, of Sheldon, Iowa, passed away July 12, 2018. Funeral services were Thursday, July 19, at First Reformed Church, Sheldon, with interment in Hope Cemetery, Hull. Leon Harvey Koele was born Oct. 7, 1937, near Hull...
Promise CHS plans back-to-school block party
Promise Community Health Center invites all area students to another back-to-school block party Wednesday, Aug. 1, from 2-7 p.m. at the health center, located at 338 First Ave. NW in Sioux Center. At the event, health screenings and immunizations needed for school...
Sioux County Nature Center groundbreaking ceremony planned
Submitted by Sunday Ford Assistant Director, Sioux County Conservation Board Beauty, knowledge, experience. These three words help to describe the experiences one might have at the Sioux County Nature Center. A ceremony to celebrate the groundbreaking of the addition...
Farmers Feed progress moves them into the future
June De Wit | Staff Writer Henry “Heusie” Heus-inkveld began Farmers Feed & Supply Co. in the late 1950s. In 1962, he purchased the former Boyden Farmers Co-op Creamery building. The 1920’s structure was remodeled. Equipment was added to manufacture Farmers Feed’s...
Shoot for a Cure golf tournament raises over $7,500
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer The Shoot for a Cure golf tournament, which was added to Hull’s Summerfest for the first time this year, did more than raise money for the American Cancer Society. “It was like a big Boyden-Hull Comet reunion. Everyone had a good time...
Bright Start getting some needed improvements
June De Wit | Staff Writer Throughout the last few months, Bright Start Daycare & Preschool has been hosting fundraising projects in order to get some repairs and updates done at the facility. Since the operation is a non-profit, the fundraising and work...
Northwestern College boys’ basketball camp award winners
One student from Boyden-Hull received awards from the first of two boys’ basketball camps hosted by Northwestern College in Orange City this past week from Monday, July 9 to Thursday, July 12. Braylen Crawford was the hot-shot champion in the sixth grade division. He...
Spirit Lake ends the season for B-H/RV 3-2
Carson Schubert l Writer Spirit Lake 0-0-0-2-1-0-0 3 Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 0-0-0-1-0-1-0 2 BOYDEN-Despite Brooke Zylstra’s two-home-run performance, Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley couldn’t overcome mistakes on the bases and in the field...
Nighthawks’ lack of offense spells a 6-0 defeat to LeMars
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 0-0-0-0-0-0-0 0 LeMars 0-1-0-2-3-0-X 6 LEMARS-Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley did commit a couple mistakes on defense, but the biggest issue was the lack of offense in a 6-0 non-conference baseball defeat to LeMars...
Early lead slips away against Alta-Aurelia in tournament final
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Western Christian 1-0-0-0-1-0-0 2 Alta-Aurelia 0-0-0-3-2-0-X 5 ALTA-Western Christian had the early momentum with a single run in the top of the first inning, but that momentum was soon sucked...
Two earn honorable mention in the Lakes Conference
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Two Western Christian baseball players have been selected to the honorable mention list as part of the Lakes Conference all-conference baseball team as released Monday, July 9. Those two players were Evan Wibben and Ty Van Essen. As an...
Six Western Christian girls earn all-conference honors
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Six Western Christian softball players have been selected to the Lakes Conference all-conference softball team as released Monday, July 9. Earning first-team honors were Alyssa Buren, Brooklyn Van Oort and Tori Wynja. Buren was selected as...
Trinity Christian earns its first district tournament victory
Carson Schubert l Writer Harris-Lake Park 0-1-0-0-0-0-0 1 Trinity Christian 2-0-0-0-0-0-X 2 HARTLEY-Trinity Christian won its first district baseball game in the history of the school Tuesday, July 10, in Hartley as the Tigers defeated Harris-Lake Park 2-1 in a...