Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Emma Bousema of the Western Christian girls’ soccer team was selected to the Class 1A West Division second-team all-district soccer team as released by the Iowa Girls’ Coaches Association Tuesday, June 5. Bousema was one of 19 other...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Gehlen Catholic 0-0-0-0-2-0-3 5 Trinity Christian 0-4-0-0-1-0-1 6 HULL-Coach Mike De Jager of the Trinity Christian baseball team has emphasized “making the next play” and “overcoming adversity” the past couple seasons. The Tigers...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Gehlen Catholic 1-0-0-5-2-5-X 13 Trinity Christian 1-0-0-0-0-0-0-X 1 HULL-Trinity Christian was playing a clean softball game against Gehlen Catholic for non-conference play Monday, June 4, but two errors in the fourth inning gave the...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 1-3-6-0-4-X-X 14 Okoboji 0-0-0-0-0-X-X 0 MILFORD-Class 3A eighth-ranked Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley continued to swing the bats, but the Nighthawks also had good defense to go with...
Carson Schubert | Writer Western Christian 0-0-0-0-0-X-X 0 Spirit Lake 2-5-1-2-X-X-X 10 SPIRIT LAKE-Lack of preparation led to no hits on offense for the Western Christian baseball team in a 10-0 loss to Spirit Lake in five innings Monday, June 4, in...
Carson Schubert | Writer Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley0-1-2-8-6-X-X 17 Okoboji 0-0-0-0-0-X-X 0 MILFORD-The Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley baseball team scored eight runs in the fourth inning and blew past Okoboji 17-0 in five innings Monday, June...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Western Christian 0-0-0-0-3-0-2 5 Spirit Lake 0-0-0-7-1-0-X 8 SPIRIT LAKE-Western Christian had one bad inning in a Lakes Conference softball game with Spirit Lake Monday, June 4, and that proved to be enough to hand the...
Gertrude Scholten 93 Sheldon, Iowa June 5, 2018 Gertrude Scholten, 93, of Sheldon, Iowa, died Tuesday, June 5, 2018, at Sanford Senior Care, Sheldon. Funeral service was Saturday, June 9, at Lyon County First Presbyterian Church, George, Iowa, with interment in...
Marie Boogerd 93 Rock Valley, Iowa June 3, 2018 Marie Boogerd, 93, of Rock Valley, Iowa, died Sunday, June 3, 2018, at Whispering Heights, Rock Valley. Memorial services were Saturday, June 9, at Calvin Christian Reformed Church, Rock Valley, with interment in Valley...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Thirty-four percent of registered voters in Lincoln Township cast ballots in the primary election Tuesday, June 5. It was the highest turnout in Sioux County with 615 of the 1,767 registered voters participating in the election. Carl Vande...
June De Wit |Staff Writer On Wednesday morning, May 16, students from Boyden-Hull Junior High attended a Math Bee in Sioux Center. The seventh and eighth students attending the event were in the advanced math track. They qualify for the track by receiving high scores...
June De Wit | Staff Writer Agropur Inc. of Hull celebrated its 10-year anniversary of making cheese and whey products at the Hull plant. The company celebrated during its eighth annual Cheesefest Thursday, June 7, under the big blue tent in the open field near the...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Hull may not be the largest city in Sioux County but it was the fastest growing in 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The census estimated Hull’s 2017 population at 2,309. Last year’s population was estimated at 2,267. The...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor HULL-Western Christian did not take long to score its first two goals in the Class 1A Region 1 girls’ soccer tournament game with Sioux Center Wednesday, May 30, but the Wolfpack had to play a lot of defense after that in order to come...
Carson Schubert | Writer Central Lyon 0-5-0-4-0-1-0 10 Western Christian 1-1-3-0-0-0-0 5 HULL-The Western Christian baseball team saw some improvements but it wasn’t enough to get their first win as they lost a non-conference game to Central Lyon 10-5 on...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Cherokee 0-1-2-0-1-0-1 5 Western Christian 5-0-2-1-0-0-X 8 HULL-There was some doubt whether Western Christian would have its Lakes Conference softball game with Cherokee Tuesday, May 29, due to thunderstorms in the...
