Month: June 2019

Math team takes first place

Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer The Hull Christian School eighth grade math team placed first in the recent Dordt University 2019 math bee competition. Konner Struik also won first place overall in the individual competition. The competition involved individual and team...

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Habitat home dedication slated for Saturday, June 8

Siouxland Habitat for Humanity invites everyone to a home dedication Saturday, June 8, at 11:30 a.m. at 1713 Sixth St., Hull, to welcome partner family, Brandon and Karla Van Lo and their children, Santiago, Jimena, Daleyza and Matias, into their new home.  Dedication...

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Adrian Van Hofwegen

Adrian Van Hofwegen 95 Sioux Center, Iowa May 28, 2019 Adrian Van Hofwegen, 95 of Sioux Center, Iowa, died Tuesday, May 28, 2019, at Royale Meadows Care Center in Sioux Center. Funeral service was Friday, May 31, at First Christian Reformed Church, Sioux Center, with...

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Marylin Van Der Zwaag

Marylin Van Der Zwaag 79 Hull, Iowa May 25, 2019 Marylin Van Der Zwaag, 79, of Hull, Iowa, passed away Saturday, May 25, 2019, at Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Funeral service was Saturday, June 1, at First Reformed...

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Viola Meyn

Viola Meyn 98 Sheldon, Iowa May 22, 2019 Viola Meyn,  98 of Sheldon, Iowa, died Wednesday May 22, 2019, at Sanford Senior Care in Sheldon. Graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 15, at Evergreen Lawn Cemetery, George, Iowa. Viola Lena Lichtenberg was born...

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Pauline Van Der Zwaag

Pauline Van Der Zwaag 100 Orange City, Iowa May 23, 2019 Pauline Van Der Zwaag, 100, of Orange City, Iowa, passed away Thursday, May 23, 2019, at  Pleasant Acres Care Center, Hull, Iowa. Funeral service was Tuesday, May 28, at Free Grace Reformed Church, Middleburg,...

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Angeline Tiedemann

Angeline Tiedemann 94 Sibley, Iowa May 29, 2019 Angeline Tiedemann, 94 of Sibley, Iowa, died Wednesday, May 29, 2019, at Country View Manor in Sibley. Memorial service was Sunday, June 2, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Sibley, with interment in St. Paul Lutheran...

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Western Christian shuts out Sioux Center 3-0

Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Western Christian 2-1  3 Sioux Center            0-0  0 SIOUX CENTER-Western Christian once again controlled most of the possessions in a Class 1A Region 1 girls’ soccer tournament game at Sioux Center Tuesday, May 28, and, as a result,...

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Weather cancels final round of state golf

Nathan Broek | Sports Editor MARSHALLTOWN-The final round of the Class 2A boys’ state golf meet at American Legion Memorial Golf Course in Marshalltown was cancelled Friday, May 24, due to rain. As a result, Boyden-Hull’s Drew Van Roekel’s first-round results...

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Defensive miscues result in another mercy-shortened gam

Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Trinity Christian 0-0-0-X-X-X-X  0 South O’Brien      8-0-4-X-X-X-X  12 PAULLINA-Alyssa Maassen had a better effort in the circle for Trinity Christian in a War Eagle Conference softball game on the road with South O’Brien Friday, May 24,...

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Wolfpack get first ‘W’ of the 2019 season

Carson Schubert | Writer Sioux City West 0-0-1-2-1-0-1  5 Western Christian 10-0-0-1-0-0-X  11 HULL-The Western Christian softball team captured its first win of the 2019 season as the Wolfpack defeated Sioux City West 11-5 in a non-conference game Friday, May 24....

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Western Christian tops Central Lyon 2-0

Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Central Lyon 0-0-0-0-0-0-0  0 Western Christian 0-0-0-1-0-1-X  2 HULL-Western Christian had a good effort on the mound and with the gloves in its non-conference baseball game with Central Lyon Friday, May 24, and as a result the Wolfpack...

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Wolfpack fall short to the Warriors in double OT

Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Western Christian 1-0-0-0  1 Sioux Center            1-0-0-1  2 SIOUX CENTER-Neither team gave an inch in a Class 1A Sub-state 1 boys’ soccer tournament final Saturday, May 25, but the Sioux Center Warriors nipped Western Christian with a...

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Free bases cost Nighthawks on opening night

Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 0-1-2-0-0-0-0  3 LeMars 0-1-0-1-3-2-0  7 LEMARS-Eric Salazar on the hill had a strong start to the 2019 season during a non-conference baseball game between Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley and LeMars in LeMars Thursday, May...

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Nighthawks blast Eagles 13-1 in three

Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Lawton-Bronson 0-0-1-X-X-X-X  1 Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 5-8-X-X-X-X-X  13 BOYDEN-Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley once again lit up the scoreboard and it did not take long for the Nighthawks to topple Lawton-Bronson 13-1 in three innings of...

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