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Iowa Lakes Community College head softball coach Katie Larson announced the signing of Katelyn Nordmeyer to the 2020-21 recruiting class. Nordmeyer is the daughter of Ben and Sheri Nordmeyer and attends New London-Spicer High School in New London, Minnesota...

MARSHALLTOWN — The Lakers defeated host Marshalltown 72-49 to finish 2-0 at the Emerson Classic. ILCC was led in the finale by Breanna Wendland with 14 points. Shareece Smith added 11 and Brianna O’Donnell contributed 10 points. “Overall our team had a very good weekend,” ILCC coach Ashley Martin said. ...

MARSHALLTOWN — The Iowa Lakes men’s basketball team pushed their winning streak to five after winning two games this weekend at the Emerson Classic improving their record to 5-2 on the season. In their first game of the weekend they would take on 5-0 NJCAA Division 1 Independence Community College. ...

The Tiger basketball teams will be hosting a Meet the Team Night at 7 p.m. Friday in the field house. (Above) Griffin Garnatz reacts to play during the Tigers 2018-19 campaign with brother Gage Garnatz heading up court. The twin senior brothers will return for this year. The event will include a 3-point contest, scrimmages by both teams, and autograph sessions with the players and coaches. Admission to the event is a bottle of sports drink or water. The Tiger girls open their regular season at home on Nov. 25 versus Le Mars and both teams are in action on Dec. 3 at Sioux City East.

Iowa Lakes Community College head softball coach Katie Larson announced Jadynn Moore to the 2020-21 recruiting class. Jadynn is the daughter of Kevin and Traci Moore and attends Estherville Lincoln Central High School in Estherville. “It is going to be great to have another Estherville softball player in the program.” Larson said. “Coach Anderson does a great job at ELC and it will be fun to watch Jadynn grow the next two years.”...

Iowa Lakes Community College head softball coach Katie Larson announced Emma Kral to the 2020-21 recruiting class. Larson is the daughter of Cliff and Sara Kinnetz and the late Kirk Kral. She attends Graettinger-Teril High School. “We are very excited to welcome Emma and her family to the Iowa Lakes family,” Larson said. “Emma is the type of kid every coach dreams of having. She loves the game of softball and comes every day with the desire to learn and grow.”...

ESTHERVILLE — Iowa Lakes wrestling dropped a tough dual against No. 8 Iowa Central in the Laker gymnasium, 32-17, Wednesday night. The Lakers took three of the first four matches led my Matt Jordan at 125 pounds, winning by pin. At 141, Robert Hall picked up another pin for the Lakers and Deville Dentis, at 149, won by technical fall, 19-2, giving the Lakers a 17-3 team lead. However it was all Iowa Central from that point forward as they would take the next six matches, winning the dual 32-17...

DES MOINES ― Enjoy the spectacular colors and cool weather this fall fishing in northeast Iowa’s hundreds of miles of trout streams. From easily accessible streams in state or county parks, to those found in Iowa’s most wild and remote natural spaces, there are plenty of places to catch rainbow, brown and brook trout...

In a recent conversation with some ice anglers, I learned that ice has arrived in the northern parts of the Ice-Belt. If these weather patterns continue, we’re going to be ice fishing earlier than usual. That’s great. It means that the time between the end of open water fishing and the start of ice fishing will be brief...

A perfect fall pheasant hunting morning greeted the 17 participants at the third annual Clay County Pheasants Forever Ladies Pheasant Hunt on Nov. 2. Chapter member Paul Daniels, who helped organize the hunt, reflected on the day. “It was a great day for the third annual Ladies Hunt, and it was our best turnout yet,” Daniels said. ...

Hunters donated more than 4,300 deer hides to Elks Lodges across Iowa last year, which was an increase of over 1,000 hides from 2017. The deer hides are used by the Veterans Leather Program to make professionally-crafted leather gloves for veterans in wheelchairs and also turned in to leather used for therapy programs for recovering veterans. ...

If you’ve ever spotted an abnormally white critter, or taken notice of its pink eyes, you may have seen an albino animal. From snails and fish to robins and deer, albinism has been observed in a wide range of Iowa animals. Missing melanin Albinism is the result of cells that can’t produce melanin, the pigment needed to color skin, scales, eyes and hair. ...

Enjoy Iowa’s natural landscapes fishing Iowa’s rivers and streams this fall. A unique angling challenge is hidden around every bend. “You are never far from one of Iowa’s many rivers,” said Greg Gelwicks, interior rivers research biologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. “Fall is a great time to give them a try.”...

I’m not sure, and I hope I’m wrong, but I think I’ve been on my last open water fishing trip for 2019. This is earlier than usual, but for a variety of reasons, I’m winding the open water season down. Like every open water season before this one, I’ve learned and relearned a good number of things about fishing. I’d like to share some of those things...

As we go through life, we often think how “things come full circle.” A late October fishing trip for bluegills on West Okoboji was the perfect example of this. My friend, Dick Lineweaver, still had his boat on the hoist, so with weather in the 40s and with very little wind, he asked if I wanted to join him one more time before he put the boat away for the season...