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Falcon boys’ basketball letter winners: The O-A/BC-IG boys’ basketball letter winners are, front row from left, Landon Ray, Ty Warnke and Ryan Bumann and back from left, Kade Ladwig, Quintin Cranston, Chase Devitt and Ryan Kolpin.

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O-A/BC-IG girls’ basketball letter winners: Four girls who lettered playing basketball for O-A/BC-IG last season return this year. The letter winners are, from left, seniors Jordyn Fredericks, Beth Rehse and Anna VanDusen and sophomore Kylee Weber.

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O-A/BC-IG girls’ basketball team: The O-A/BC-IG girls’ basketball team includes, front from left, Jordyn Fredericks, Beth Rehse, Anna VanDusen, Emma Endrulat, Ashley Lindner and Alyssa Mason. Second row from left, Halle Hemer, Sarah Petersen, Kylee Weber, Liz Zobel, Morgan Godbersen, Addie Hickey, Lillian Hoffman and Ryder Cranston. Back row from left, Mahala Kruse, Joie Matthies, Carly Murphy, Bella Raasch, Elle Schroeder, Jayden Thomson and Anna Winterrowd. Lexi Neville is also a member of the team. Kurt Brown is the head coach and Morgan Boger is the assistant coach.

O-A/BC-IG girls’ basketball team builds around le er winners The start of the 2017-18 basketball season brings promise and uncertainty for the O-A/BC-IG girls’ team.

The Falcons return four letter winners from last year’s 6-15 team. The group includes the top two scorers and rebounders from last season in seniors Anna VanDusen (14.5 points and 7.3 rebounds per game) and Beth Rehse (12.6 points and 7.9 rebounds per game). VanDusen was a irst team all-conference player last season while Rehse was a second team selection.

VanDusen enters the 2017-18 with an injury and it is uncertain how much she will play.

O-A/BC-IG’s other letter winners are senior Jordyn Fredericks (team leader in steals with 28 and second in assists with 55) and sophomore Kylee Weber.

The rest of the roster includes: Juniors—Emma Endrulat, Ashley Lindner and Alyssa Mason.

Sophomores—Ryder Cranston, Halle Hemer, Lexi Neville, Sarah Petersen and Liz Zobel.

Freshmen—Morgan Godbersen, Addie Hickey, Lillian Hoffman, Mahala Kruse, Joie

Matthies, Carly Murphy, Bella Raasch, Elle Schroeder, Jayden Thomson and Anna Winterrowd.

Morgan (VanDerSloot) Boger, who played on O-A/BC-IG’s state championship team in 2011, is the team’s assistant coach.

Head coach Kurt Brown, who served as the team’s assistant coach for the past several seasons and was the head coach for BC-IG from 1997 to 2003, said entering the new season there are a lot of questions that need to be answered.

“The letter winners have the experience (to play varsity ball), but other than those girls I’m not sure who will make the varsity squad,” said Brown. “Early in the season all of the girls will be evaluated to ind out how they can help the team. Ideally, we would like to go deep in our rotation, but we will have to see how that shakes out.”

Brown said depth will be a team strength this season.

“We have some talent and some good athletes,” noted Brown. “We would like to get a nice rotation going, but we have a lot to igure out. We’ll have to wait and see how things fall into place. The girls had a nice

volleyball season. Hopefully, that con idence will carryover to the basketball court.”

The coach added there are some things the girls will have to do this season if they hope to improve on last year’s record. “We need to play with more urgency,” noted Brown. “We’ll need to take care of the ball and play good defense. If we play good defense we will win some games. If we don’t play good defense we will struggle.”

Brown said one factor in the team’s favor this season is the fact the girls won’t have to learn a new system. “We’re not doing a lot of things differently from last year. That continuity will help us. Other than the freshmen, the girls won’t have to learn a lot of new things.

“Our goal is to get better every day in both practice and in games. If we do that we will be okay.”

Brown pointed to four teams who are among the top teams in the Western Valley Conference entering the new year. Those teams are Kingsley-Pierson, Westwood, Woodbury Central and Ridge View.

The girls opened the basketball season Nov. 20 when they played Alta-Aurelia. The

season opener marked the beginning of a busy early season for the Falcons. They will play 10 of their 20 regular season games before the Christmas break.

O-A/BC-IG girls Nov. 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Alta-Aurelia Dec. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . at Kingsley-Pierson 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MV-A-O 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at East Sac 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . West Monona 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at River Valley 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ridge View 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Newell-Fonda 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Storm Lake 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at South Cal. Jan. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lawton-Bronson 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . .at I-K-M-M (1 p.m.)

9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Woodbury Central 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Ridge View 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . Denison (2:30 p.m.)

15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Westwood 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . Siouxland Christian 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WVC Tour.

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Feb. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WVC Tour.

3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WVC Tour.

Feb. 10 . . . . . . . . . . . Regional Tour (TBA)

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Falcon boys’ basketball team: The O-A/BC-IG boys’ basketball team includes, front row from left, Austin Newquist, Landon Ray, Ty Warnke, Ryan Bumann, Chase Devitt and Ryan Kolpin. Second row from left, Ethan Ernst, Reed Godbersen, Kaden Ladwig, Quintin Cranston, Grant Conover and William Grote. Third row from left, Austin Lindner, Izaiah Ironshell, Sam Devitt, Tevin Harms, Austin Wardrip and Tyler Ehrig. Fourth row from left, Preston Gill, Alex Clark, Isaac Newquist, George Ehrig Jr., Carson Godbersen and Eric Sibenaller. Fifth row from left, assistant coach Dan Dotzler, Brayden Sorensen, Cade Ernst, Trust Wells, Ahren VanDusen, Cam Sharkey, Cooper DeJean and head coach Steve Brown. Owen Luft, Peyton Young, Caleb Montgomery, Aden Campbell and Timothy Carlyle are also members of the team.

Compe on for playing me is driving Falcon boys’ improvement O-A/BC-IG took to the basketball court with a young and inexperienced boys’ basketball team last season. Head coach Steve Brown is hoping the experience the boys gained during a 5-16 season in 2016-17 will translate into more wins this season.

“We are ahead of last year as far as putting in our offense and defense because so many kids got playing time last year,” said Brown. “We played a lot of this year’s juniors at the varsity level (last season) so they know what is going on. We also played a full junior varsity reserve schedule last year so our sophomores this year are able to jump right in and know what is going on.”

Brown said depth will be a team strength this year.

“None of our kids are outstanding players, but there are a lot of kids who are interchangeable so we should have some decent depth this year.

“Having so many kids that are equal is good in practice because they push each

other to get better and that is what we are after. We’ve talked to the kids about making themselves better with each practice and to make their teammates better. The more competition you have in practice the better you are going to be.

The kids have worked hard and bought into that philosophy.”

Earning letters during last year’s 5-16 season were seniors Ty Warnke (guard), Ryan Bumann (forward), Chase Devitt (forward) and Ryan Kolpin (center) and juniors Landon Ray (guard), Kaden Ladwig (guard) and Quintin Cranston (forward). Warnke and Bumann were honorable mention all-conference in 2016-17.

Other players Brown is looking at for the varsity rotation are senior Austin Newquist (center) and juniors Grant Conover (forward), Ethan Ernst (guard), Reed Godbersen (guard) and Austin Lindner (forward).

The coach added some other players might make a push for the varsity team.

“We’ve got some other young kids that

played junior varsity ball last season and we might have some freshmen that could possibly slide up to the varsity group. The freshmen class looks promising. There are kids that will help us in the future.”

The rest of the roster includes: Junior—Peyton Young.

Sophomores—William Grote, Izaiah Ironshell, Sam Devitt, Tevin Harms, Austin Wardrip, Tyler Ehrig and Carson Godbersen.

Freshmen—Alex Clark, Isaac Newquist, George Ehrig Jr., Eric Sibenaller, Brayden Sorensen, Cade Ernst, Trust Wells, Ahren VanDusen, Cam Sharkey, Cooper DeJean, Owen Luft, Caleb Montgomery, Aden Campbell and Timothy Carlyle.

Dan Dotzler is the assistant coach.

Brown noted there are 36 boys out for basketball this season. “It’s great they want to be involved in our program, but it also creates some challenges as far as evaluating players and inding playing time for that many kids. But overall, it is

a good problem to have.”

Brown said improving the overall offensive execution of the team will be a key factor in moving up in the win column this season. He said there aren’t any speci ic goals in terms of number of wins because his philosophy on setting goals has changed.

“We’ve changed from outcome goals to process goals,” noted Brown. “The idea in doing that is if we do the little things in practice right—success will follow. If you set outcome goals you have to wait the whole season before you see the outcome. By setting process goals we dwell on things like how many times can I set a screen to help a teammate score.”

Brown pointed Kingsley-Pierson and MV-A-O as two of the better teams in the conference.

“K-P has most of its kids back from last year and MV-A-O under coach Brian Brown is always fundamentally sound.

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. . . Falcon boys’ improvement (continued from page 4) from last year and a good junior class.

Obviously, we would like to be at the top of the conference and I would like to think we will be in the mix, but it is a question of how fast we grow up,” said Brown.

The boys opened the regular season Tuesday, Nov. 28 at Boyer Valley. They play at Kingsley-Pierson Dec. 1 and open the home season Dec. 5 against MV-A-O. The Falcons will be busy in December, playing 10 of their 21 scheduled games before the Christmas break.

O-A/BC-IG boys Nov. 28. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Boyer Valley Dec. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . .at Kingsley-Pierson 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MV-A-O 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at East Sac 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .West Monona 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at River Valley 15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ridge View 18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Newell-Fonda 21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Storm Lake 22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at South Cal. Jan. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lawton-Bronson 6 . . . . . . . . at I-K-M-M (2:30 p.m.)

9 . . . . . . . . . . . . Woodbury Central 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Ridge View 13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Denison (4 p.m.)

15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Westwood 18. . . . . . . . . . . .Siouxland Christian 26. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WVC Tour.

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Feb. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WVC Tour.

3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WVC Tour.

5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alta-Aurelia Feb. 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dist. Tour (TBA)

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Falcon wrestling letter winners: The O-A/BC-IG wrestling team letter winners include, front from left, Kurtis Krager, Dylan Hemer, Ethan Mortensen and Jake Nieman. Back row from left, Jarrett Hewitt, Devin Behrendsen, Blake Anderson and Tyler Anderson. Ryder Meek also lettered.

Nine le er winners are the founda on of the O-A/BC-IG wrestling team This year’s O-A/BC-IG wrestling team will have the services of nine letter winners including three state tournament quali iers returning from last year’s team.

The letter winners and their projected weight classes this season are seniors Kurtis Krager (120), Blake Anderson (195), Tyler Anderson (220) and Ryder Meek (285), juniors Dylan Hemer (126), Ethan Mortensen (138) and sophomores Devin Behrendsen (182) and Jake Nieman (113).

Nieman also listed freshmen Caleb Reitz (106) and Gavin Parks (160) as wrestlers who will contribute to the varsity team. Shawn Wilkerson and Damian Hammer are also out for wrestling.

The returning state meet quali iers include Krager who is a three time state quali ier. He quali ied for the 2015 state meet, but did not place as a freshman; sixth at 106 at the state meet as a sophomore and sixth at 113 last season as a junior. The other state meet quali iers

are Tyler Anderson who placed sixth at 195 last season and Nieman who did not place at state last season as a freshman at 106.

The wrestlers are coached by Randy Nieman (head coach) and Jory Hemer (assistant coach).

“This is the inal ride for the four seniors,” noted Nieman. “They have put a lot of work into this program and all other sports they have participated in. I would love to say that all of us are working towards a strong conference inish and achieving everyone’s personal goals, but in wrestling, as in life, wishing and doing are two different things.

We have a lot of hard work to put in on a daily basis.”

Nieman listed goals for this season.

“We always want to develop each wrestler to their potential and teach them the life skills of hard work, goal setting and determination. We feel we can develop these skills as well as any program in the school.”

O-A/BC-IG had a 12-5 dual record last season including a 6-1 mark in the Western Valley Conference.

Year after year the Western Valley Conference features some top wrestling talent. Nieman said the top teams in conference this season include Westwood and Woodbury Central.

The Falcons opened the season Tuesday, Nov. 28 with a double dual against East Sac County and South Central Calhoun. O-A/BC-IG will host Ridge View and MV-A-O this Thursday, Nov. 30 in conference action.

Westwood will host the conference tournament Jan. 13. The annual Herb Irgens tournament is slated for Jan. 1920.

OA/BCIG Nov. 28. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . East Sac/So. Cal. (at Ida Grove) 30. . . . . . . . . . . . . Ridge View/MVAO (at Ida Grove) Dec. 2 . . . . . . . . . .at Manson/NW Tour.

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(at Onawa) 9 . . . . . . . . . .at Emmetsburg Tour.

11. . . . . . . . . . . . at Sgt. Bluff JV Tour 14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L-B/Westwood (at Ida Grove) 16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at SE Polk Tour. (at Pleasantville) 18. . . . . . . . . . at Westwood JV Tour.

Jan. 4 . . . . . . . . . .at Woodbury Central 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Ames Tour.

13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WVC Tour. (at Sloan) 15. . . . . . . . . .at Storm Lake JV Tour 19-20 . . . . . . . . . . Herb Irgens Tour. (at Ida Grove) 23. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at L-B JV Tour 27. . . . . . . . . . at Roland Story duals (Story City) 29. . . . . . . . . . . . at MOV/FV JV Tour (Orange City) Feb. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sectional (TBA) 7 . . . . . . . . .Dual team tour. (TBA) 10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . District (TBA) 15-17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . State tour. (at Des Moines)

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Falcon wrestling team: The O-A/BC-IG wrestling team includes, front from left, Damian Hammer, Kurtis Krager, Caleb Reitz, Dylan Hemer, Ethan Mortensen and Jake Nieman. Back row from left, Jarrett Hewitt, Gavin Parks, Devin Behrendsen, Blake Anderson, Tyler Anderson and Shawn Wilkerson. Ryder Meek is also a member of the team. Randy Nieman and Jory Hemer coach the team.

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O-A/BC-IG bowlers look for con nued improvement

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Falcon boys’ bowling letter winners: The Falcon boys’ bowling letter winners are, front from left, Jarrett Bumann, Darian Hannel and Austin Behrendsen. Back row from left, Cole Rhea, Kolton Krajicek, Colin Bengford and Dana Wessel.

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O-A/BC-IG girls’ bowling letter winners: The O-A/BC-IG girls’ bowling team letterwinners are, from left, Kim Renze, Tori Hoefling, Jenna Henderson and Aurora Anderson.

The O-A/BC-IG bowling teams open their seasons this Thursday, Nov. 30 in Denison against Denison-Schleswig.

The Falcons irst home meet will be Dec. 15 against Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/ Remsen-Union at Ida Bowl in Ida Grove.

Girls The O-A/BC-IG girls’ team placed second at the state qualifying meet last season. Four letter winners are back from that team including an all-district competitor.

The returning letter winners are senior Jenna Henderson, juniors Kim Renze and Victoria Hoe ling and sophomore Aurora Anderson. Henderson earned all-district honorable mention status last season.

New head coach Wylene Wessel noted, “With just a couple of weeks of practice under our belt it is too early to tell who will get the last two spots on varsity, but I’m expecting the four letter winners to return and do great things on the lanes this season.”

Last year’s team had a 7-3 record and was second at the state qualifying meet.

Wessel said she would like the girls to improve in both areas.

“I’d love to see them improve and have a better record this year. My goal is to shoot for second place again, however, I don’t think irst place is too far out of reach this season. I want my team to go in and bowl their best and improve from one meet to the next.”

Wessel said Le Mars is one the top teams in this area, but the Bulldogs may have moved up a class (to 2A), which would take Le Mars out of the Falcons state qualifying district. Le Mars placed ahead of the Falcons in last season’s state qualifying meet.

The rest of the roster includes: Senior—Amy Huls.

Juniors—Rebecca Cedeno, Alyssa Henderson, Brooke Little, Billie Mosier and Sierra Schmidt.

Sophomores—Mary Bennett, Krystal Bettin, Madison Grasty, Skylar Mackey, Stephanie Rigby, Zoe Verschoor and Savannah Wych.

Freshmen—Kylee Dausel, Marley Hewitt and Amber Hoe ling.

Boys The Falcon boys return seven letter winners from last year’s team that recorded a 5-5 record. All of the letter winners were

starters at some point last season.

The veteran bowlers include seniors Cole Rhea and Austin Behrendsen, juniors Dana Wessel, Colin Bengford, Kolton Krajicek and Jarrett Bumann and sophomore Darian Hannel. Wessel (180.6 average) was a second team an all-district bowler last season. Bengford (166.7 average) was honorable mention.

Coach Kurt Hofmeister listed Rhea, Wessel, Bengford, Krajicek and Hannel as the team’s top returning bowlers. The coach listed Behrendsen, Bumann and sophomore Hunter Maass as bowlers who should contribute to the varsity effort.

The rest of the roster includes: Senior—Ryan Dunker.

Juniors—Tyler Euchner, Gage Thoreson and Zane Sohm.

Sophomore—Dylan Ehrig, Brandon Wingert, Bailey Newman, Troy Hillmer and Austin Peterson.

Freshmen—Garrett Leed, Ethan Reitz, Zander Lichtenberg, Austin Wych, Chris Mace, Gavan Flammang, Zach Dunker and Paul Mazler.

“We would like to have a better than .500 record this season,” noted coach Kurt Hofmeister. “We would also like to be competitive enough to have a chance to qualify for the state meet.”

Hofmeister added Le Mars is the top team in the district.

“Le Mars will be hands down the best team in our district. Hopefully, we can be right up there with Harlan and M-M-C/RU.” Schedule Nov. 30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Denison 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Le Mars 15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MMC/RU Jan. 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Sioux Central 18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Harlan 25. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at MMC/RU (in Remsen) 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Le Mars tour.

29. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Le Mars Feb. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Harlan 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Denison 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sioux Central 13. . . . . . . . . State qualifying (TBD) 19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . State Tour.

Home meets are bowled at Ida Bowl in Ida Grove.

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O-A/BC-IG girls’ bowling team: The O-A/BC-IG girls’ bowling team includes, front row from left, Savannah Wych, Brooke Little, Amber Hoefling, Skylar Mackey, Kim Renze, Alyssa Henderson, Tori Hoefling, Jenna Henderson, Billie Mosier and Aurora Anderson. Back row from left, Sierra Schmidt, Tiffanie Rigby, Marley Hewitt, Kylee Dausel, Stephanie Rigby, Madison Grasty, Rebecca Cedeno, Mary Bennett and Amy Huls. Wylene Wessel coaches the team.

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Falcon boys’ bowling team: The Falcon boys’ bowling team includes, front from left, Garrett Leed, Ethan Reitz, Zander Lichtenberg, Austin Wych, Chris Mace, Gavan Flammang, Darian Hannel and Dana Wessel. Second row from left, Hunter Maass, Zach Dunker, Jarrett Bumann, Cole Rhea, Troy Hilmer, Colin Bengford and Austin Behrendsen. Back row from left, Zane Sohm, Paul Mazler, Tyler Euchner, Branden Wingert, Bailey Newman and Kolton Krajicek. Ryan Dunker, Gage Thoreson, Dylan Ehrig and Austin Petersen are also members of the team. Kurt Hofmeister coaches the team.

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Ridge View boys’ basketball letter winners: Returning letter winners for the Ridge View boys’ basketball team are, front row from left, Kolton Blum, Jaxon Franken, Klint Blum and Logan Cuthrell and back row from left, Jake Tokheim, Ezra Miller, Austin Degen and Jake Kliegl.

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Raptor girls’ basketball letter winners: The returning Ridge View girls’ basketball letter winners are, from left, Kennedy Mason, Kinzey Dutler, Erin Johnson, Beth Pickhinke, Paige Todd, Emerson Else and Kara Richard.

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Raptor girls’ basketball team: The Ridge View High School girls’ basketball team includes, front from left, Kinzey Dutler, Kara Richard, Paige Todd, Beth Pickhinke, Erin Johnson, Emerson Else and Kennedy Mason. Second row from left, Veronica Kron, Kate Kofmehl, Katlyn Wiese, Kenzee Wunschel and Hanna Blackmore. Third row from left, Bailey Graff, Anya Kistenmacher, Mikayla Kolpin, Autumn Henkel, Cora Devitt and Paige Padavich. Fourth row from left, assistant coach Matt Best, Ashley Kestel (manager), Brooklyn Albers (manager), Katie Brinkman (manager) and head coach Brian Bode. Alexis Clark and Emilie Sawatzky are members of the team.

Raptor girls look to build on 2016-17 season The Ridge View girls’ basketball team went 13-6 overall last season, including a 7-2 conference record. Coach Brian Bode believes his team will be just as competitive this season as it was last year.

“We won some close games last year and hopefully having another year of experience we can maintain that ability to win those games,” said Bode. “Many of our games will be decided on the defensive end. We need to contest shots and not allow teams to get offensive rebounds. Offensively, we will need to take care of the ball, be aggressive and get quality shots. If we do that, I think we will compete each night out.”

The Raptors return seven letter winners from last season. The top returning players are seniors Beth Pickhinke (wing), Erin Johnson (wing) and Paige Todd (forward) and juniors Kinzey Dutler (guard), Emerson Else (guard/wing), Kennedy Mason (guard/forward) and Kara Richard (wing/forward).

Pickhinke was a irst team all-conference player last season when she averaged 12.3 points and 4.6 rebounds per

game. Dutler (6.4 points and 4.8 assists per game) and Emerson Else (5.2 points and 3.4 rebounds per game) were both honorable mention all-conference.

Sophomores Kenzee Wunschel (post) and Hanna Blackmore (guard) are two players Bode is looking to for help on the varsity level.

The rest of the roster includes: Sophomores—Veronica Kron, Kate Kofmehl and Katlyn Wiese.

Freshmen—Bailey Graff, Anya Kistenmacher, Mikayla Kolpin, Autumn Henkel, Cora Devitt, Paige Padavich, Alexis Clark and Emile Sawatzky.

The assistant coach is Matt Best. Team managers are Ashley Kestel, Brooklyn Albers and Katie Brinkman.

The return of seven letter winners; versatile players who are able to play multiple positions; the players comfort level within the system and team chemistry are areas Bode listed as strengths of this year’s team.

The coach added while his club has several strong suites there are areas that need some work.

“We will certainly need to work on rebounding and boxing out as size is not something we will have compared to our opponents,” said Bode. “We want to be able to play faster, so getting out in transition is an area we’d like to improve. We also need to develop depth after our irst seven players.”

Bode said heading into the 2017-18 season the team’s number one goal is to improve on last year’s success and have more wins. “Each year brings new challenges and each team has their own unique identity. We want to focus our success on how we inish. Finishing at the rim, inishing in the fourth quarter and ultimately inishing our season with a win.

“Attitude and effort are two things our players can control. We will mix our defense depending on the low of the games.

We like to be seen as a scrappy team with an aggressive mindset. We might not be the biggest, fastest, or strongest, but we will play like we are.”

Bode said the WVC will be very competitive this season. He listed Kingsley-

Pierson, Woodbury Central and Westwood as the teams to beat in the Western Valley Conference.

Ridge View girls Nov. 27. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Alta-Aurelia Dec. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Lawton-Bronson 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .River Valley 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Kingsley-Pierson 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cherokee 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at West Monona 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at OABCIG 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sioux Central (at Schaller) Jan. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Westwood 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Storm Lake 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MVAO 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OABCIG 16 . . . . . . . . . . at Siouxland Christian 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Woodbury Central 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ar-We-Va (at Schaller) 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WVC Tour.

29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WVC Tour.

Feb. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WVC Tour.

3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WVC Tour.

5 . . . . . . . . . . at Storm Lake St. Mary 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regional Tour.

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Ridge View boys’ basketball team: The Ridge View boys’ basketball team includes, front from left, Michael Zobel, Logan Cuthrell, Klint Blum, Jaxon Franken, Jake Kliegl (manager), Jake Tokheim, Ezra Miller, Austin Degen and Kolton Blum. Second row from left, assistant coach Alex Warnke, Jaden Droegmiller, Kevin McGuire, Andrew Brockman, Matthew Brosamle, Brant Price, Karlo Weldon, Nathan Yockey and head coach Mike Smith. Third row from left, Caleb Kistenmacher, Brecken Conover, Jared Vohs, Kole Winkel, Nick Gisch, Alex Movall, Dawson Blum and Grant Schmidt. Fourth row from left, Beau Blackmore, Anthony Garcia, Wade Vincent, Carlos Galvan, Bo Clausen and Logan Blum. Logan Gross is also a member of the team.

Raptor boys build around returning le er winners The Ridge View boys’ basketball team has several pieces in place to build on last season’s 9-13 record including seven letter winners. Three of the letter winners saw starting time during the 2016-17 campaign.

The letter winners include senior Jaxon Franken, Klint Blum and Kolton Blum and juniors Jacob Tokheim, Ezra Miller, Austin Degen and Logan Cuthrell. Franken, Tokheim and Miller were all starters. Junior Jake Kliegl who earned a letter last season and saw time in the starting rotation is out for the season.

Franken, who led the team in scoring (11.3 points per game) last season and Tokheim (the team leader in assists with 86 and steals with 68) both earned honorable mention all-conference honors last season.

New head coach Mike Smith, who has been the assistant coach for several years, is also counting on juniors Kevin McGuire, Andrew Brockman and Karlo Weldon to help on the varsity level.

“We have our leading scorer back this year for his senior year and a lot of

experience behind him,” noted Smith.

“We only graduated two starters last year and everyone else got some game time experience last year. We have a lot of size in the backcourt so we hope to be a good rebounding team.

“A big thing that we are going to stress this year is defense and rebounding.

We need to improve in both areas if we are going to win games this year. Our main focus this year is defense. I will be preaching all season about getting stops and boxing out.”

The head coach added his club also needs to improve on its shooting and free throws. As a team last year Ridge View shot 53 percent from the free throw line. Cutting down on turnovers and valuing the basketball are also top priorities this season.

Smith said his could be a good season for the Raptors, but there is work to do.

“We have more juniors and seniors this

year, but everyone had a lot of playing time last season. We want to be a very good defensive team and be successful on the offensive side. We can accomplish a lot of things this year, but it’s going to be a learning experience for all of us.”

In terms of the conference race, Smith said the Raptors most challenging games will be with MV-A-O/Charter OakUte, Woodbury Central and Kingsley-Pierson.

Smith’s assistant coach is Alex Warnke.

The rest of the roster includes: Senior—Michael Zobel.

Juniors—Mattthew Brosamle, Brant Price and Nick Gisch.

Sophomores—Jaden Droegmiller, Nathan Yockey, Jared Vohs, Alex Movall, Dawson Blum, Grant Schmidt and Logan Gross.

Freshmen—Caleb Kistenmacher, Brecken Conover, Kole Winkel, Beau

Blackmore, Anthony Garcia, Wade Vincent, Carlos Galvan, Bo Clausen and Logan Blum.

Ridge View boys Nov. 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Alta-Aurelia Dec. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . at Lawton-Bronson 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .River Valley 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Kingsley-Pierson 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cherokee 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at West Monona 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at OABCIG 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Manson-NW Jan. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Westwood 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Storm Lake 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MVAO 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OABCIG 16 . . . . . . . . . . at Siouxland Christian 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Woodbury Central 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ar-We-Va . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (at Schaller) 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WVC Tour.

30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WVC Tour.

Feb. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WVC Tour.

3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WVC Tour.

5 . . . . . . . . . . at Storm Lake St. Mary 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Newell-Fonda 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dist. Tour. (TBA)

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Raptor wrestlers take another step forward Ridge View’s wrestling coach Caleb the attack offensively. We don’t like to sit “Our conference is tough,” noted Chris5 . . . . . . . . . Hum/East Sac/So. Cal Christensen says his team is on a little back and play the role of defensive wres- tensen. “There are a lot of good teams re. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (at Lake View) better footing this season after ielding a tlers. We will look to push the pace in turning more guys than we are, as well as 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L-B/WCentral young, inexperienced squad in 2016-17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (at Moville) matches and win matches in the third pe- bringing in some good freshmen. West“We have guys this year who have var- riod. We want our guys to attack on their wood and Woodbury Central are going 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Sibley Tour. sity experience,” said Christensen. “Last feet and win the close matches through to be tough as well as O-A/BC-IG. Charter 14. . . . . . . . . . . . .WMon./Woodbine year we lacked experience and didn’t conditioning and discipline.”

Oak-Ute combining with MV-A-O brings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (at Holstein) have the guys who had mat time. This 16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raptor duals Christensen said given the fact the Rap- new faces to the table. year we bring a bit more mat experience tors will have trouble illing a full line up, “We will look to compete the best we . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (at Holstein) to the table.

4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Westwood/K-P success will be based more on individual can in the conference and hope to get Jan. “We have wrestlers from last season improvement. “With our numbers down some guys to the top of the podium come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (at Holstein) with some good match experience. From we will look to improve the guys we have. tournament time.”

11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Cherokee our lower weights up we have Dylan We want to see improvement throughout 13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WVC Tour.

Christensen’s assistant coaches are Wood (10-24), Lance Else (25-14), Cam the year and look to get kids to the next Doug Davidson and Jeff Kohn. Team man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (at Sloan) Steffens (2-14), Tyler Smith (2-3), Chance level. Giving up big points in duals hurts agers are Kaitlyn Currie, Brittany Vincent 19-20 . . . . . . . . . .Herb Irgens Tour.

Hansen (2-14), Tate Phillips (7-31) and in the win and loss column. So we will fo- and Taylor Major. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (at Ida Grove) Trenton Miller (26-9) who was a district cus on getting our kids to the next level 27. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at K-P Tour.

Ridge View quali ier for us last season. All of our re- and improving them in the wrestling Nov. 28. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . West Sioux/AA 29. . . . . . . . Cent. Lyon/Heelan/KP turners have good match experience and room.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (at Central Lyon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (at Hawarden) that will help this season.”

Christensen said the Western Valley Nov. 30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MVAO/OABCIG Feb. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sectional (TBA) All of those wrestlers earned letters Conference will be a challenge again this 10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . District (TBA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (at Ida Grove) last season.

15-17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . State Tour. season.

Dec. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Manson Tour.

The coach added there are additional prospects on the roster.

“We are always looking for guys to step up and ill a spot,” said Christensen. “We have a good group of incoming freshmen who will help contribute to our team this year in Aaron Wier, Gary Baughn, Damien Garcia, Chase Zahner and Jaxon Smit.

These guys can hopefully step up and ill some spots for us on varsity this season.”

Christensen said one positive the coaches see this year is the fact the Raptors don’t have any zero year guys in terms of experience. “We have a team of wrestlers that have been improving over the past few years and are ready to see varsity competition. Hopefully, we can re ine some of our talent and improve as the season progresses.”

Christensen said the Raptors will struggle to ill a line up this season. “Our lack of numbers will hurt us dual wise, but we will look to do our best as a team this year and inish to the best of our ability.

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Ridge View wrestling letter winners: The Ridge View wrestling team letter winners returning from last season are front “We always push our wrestlers to be on from left, Chance Hansen, Cam Steffens, Trent Miller, Lance Else, Tyler Smith, Dylan Wood and Tate Phillips.

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Ridge View archery letter winners: The Ridge View archery returning letter winners from last season are front row from left, Cloe Droegmiller, Katie Brinkman, Evan Cockerham, Brant Price and Cassie Allen. Second row from left, Brett Taylor, Arianna Parra, Tristin Drey and Lauren Johnson. Third row from left, Andrew Brockman, Rayann Volkert, Jaden Droegmiller and Brayden Stowater.

Ridge View archery program enters second year The Ridge View High School archery program, under the direction of Justin Kinney, is entering its second season of competition. The popularity of the sport is growing as 43 participants signed up this season. The irst year program had 33 archers.

In its irst year of operation, seven Ridge View archers competed in both sections of the state tournament (bulls eye and 3D) and in a 300 tournament for fun. Six of the state quali iers return this year.

In 3D, four of the Raptors who return this season placed in the top 50 at state with Brett Taylor leading the way as he inished 26th with a 269. Brant Price

(262), Tristin Drey (251) and Cassie Allen (249) were the other top 50 placers.

Evan Cockerham and Lauren Johnson also competed in the tournament.

In the Iowa Deer Classic 300 Tournament, Taylor won his division while Price placed third and Allen placed third in her division.

In addition to the state quali iers, Ridge View returns the following varsity shooters from last season: Brayden Stowater, Jaden Droegmiller, Cloe Droegmiller, Katie Brinkman, Jake Kliegl, Austin Degen, Rayann Volkert, Arianna Parra and Andrew Brockman.

The roster also includes Alexis Clark, Ben Spina, Aden DeLance, Jacob Brink-

man, Colton Dutler, Karlo Weldon, Jon Madsen, Madeline Else, Cam Steffens, Eric Johnson, Chase Zahner, Brecken Conover, Russell Brummer, Jordan Groethe, Kevin Herrera, Logan Blum, Mabel Brockman, Ben Todd, Austin Hansen, Anthony Garcia, Taylor Major, Andres Carbajal, Trent Moeller, Connor Pickhinke, Coriyel McCray, Kennedy Mason, Tori McDanel and Jaxon Smit.

Coach Kinney said the goals for the upcoming season include qualify for state as a team; qualify as many individuals as possible for state; have every archer improve their scores as the season progresses and ind the enjoyment that archery provides while being challenged

with it at the same time.

The Raptor archery season begins Dec. 16 and culminates with the state tournament in Des Moines in March for those who qualify.

The regular season tournament schedule includes at Lawton-Bronson (L-B) on Dec. 16; Ridge View 3D tournament, Jan. 6; at L-B Jan. 13; Ridge View 3D tournament, Jan. 16; Ridge View bulls eye tournament, Jan. 20; at Sergeant Bluff-Luton (tentative) Jan. 27; at Sergeant Bluff-Luton, Feb. 3; Ridge View 3D tournament, Feb. 5; at Sergeant Bluff-Luton, Feb. 10 and Ridge View bulls eye tournament, Feb. 17. Most tournaments will have duals the Friday night beforehand.

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Ridge View archery team: The Ridge View archery team includes front from left, Jordan Grothe, Cloe Droegmiller, Katie Brinkman, Ben Todd, Andrés Carbajal, Kennedy Mason, Madeline Else, Trent Moeller and Cassie Allen. Second row from left, Brett Taylor, Kevin Herrera, Coriyel McCray, Mabel Brockman, Tori McDanel, Taylor Major, Colton Dutler, Eric Johnson, Anthony Garcia and Austin Hansen. Third row from left, Ben Spina, Brayden Stowater, Arianna Parra, Tristin Drey, Lauren Johnson, Jaxon Smit, Austin Degen, Jake Kliegl and Cam Steffens. Fourth row from left, Brecken Conover, Andrew Brockman, Rayann Volkert, Jaden Droegmiller, Jacob Brinkman, Chase Zahner, Brant Price, Evan Cockerham and Alexis Clark. Justin Kinney coaches the team.

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