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Iowa Lakes women’s basketball player Breanna Wendland was named the Iowa Community College Athletic Conference player of the week for the Lakers. Wendland was one assist shy of a triple-double against the Dordt JV with 27 points, 10 rebounds and nine dimes...

ESTHERVILLE — After dropping the season opener, the Iowa Lakes women’s basketball team has reeled off four straight victories with the latest coming Wednesday night at home against Minnesota West Community and Technical College 69-52. The Lakers were led by 20 points from Breanna Wendland. Samantha Hagedorn added 15 points, and Shanice Vaughn added 10...

The courtesy dock is removed for the season. --- About 1,600 rainbow trout were stocked on Nov. 7. Use small tube and twister jigs, in-line spinners, casting spoons, and live minnows or crawlers fished under a bobber. --- As of Nov. 15, the lake was covered with skim ice. ...

File photo Three Spencer Tigers picked up All-Lakes Conference nods for this past season with senior Julia Feldman, pictured above, leading the way as a second team all-conference player for the second year in a row. Fellow seniors Leah Heikens and Marissa Salton picked up honorable mention honors from the league.

NORFOLK, Neb. — The Iowa Lakes men’s basketball team kept its record spotless over the weekend, winning two games at the Hawk Classic hosted by Northeast Community College. The Lakers moved to 3-0 on the year with a 98-77 win over Central Columbus Friday...

NORFOLK, Neb. — The Iowa Lakes women’s basketball team picked up a pair of wins over the weekend at the Hawk Classic hosted by Northeast Community College. After holding on for an exciting 83-80 win over the Mount Mary College JV Friday in a game that saw freshman Breann Wendland pour in 31 points, the Lakers added another hard fought win Saturday, taking down Northeast 78-72 behind 20 points each from Shareece Smith and Wendland...

DES MOINES — During the Laker wrestling program’s second open tournament of the season, they had a number of individual wrestlers place. Head coach Cody Alesch was pleased with his team's improvement from last weekend when he said, "I'm happier with this week's performances than I was last week. ...

DES MOINES — Bats are a great addition to any backyard — not only are their nightly aerial acrobatics fun to watch during the summer, they are also an excellent source of pest control and will kill loads of those pesky mosquitoes! One of the best ways to attract bats to your yard, if you don’t have any of their preferred dead trees, is to build (or buy) a bat house! During the summer, there are a couple of species of bats in Iowa that roost in large colonies; the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) and little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus). ...

Winterizing your boat, just as with any cleaning procedure should be done before moving to another lake and when putting your boat away for the season. This will help prevent the spread of aquatic nuisance species. Flush your outboard engine with fresh water using flush muffs (or a similar device) attached to the raw water pickup. ...

Halloween decorations are often centered around arachnids — the family of creatures with four pairs of legs that includes spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks — of some sort. I think it’s just because spiders and their relatives are considered creepy with their many legs and fangs. Yes, all spiders have fangs, and most have venom in them. However, most spider poison will not harm people because it’s quite weak...

Whether you’re after fish in open water or through the ice, your lure presentation is one of the most important considerations for success. Since ice fishing season is fast approaching in many areas, now is a good time to think about lure presentation as it applies to ice fishing...

I’ve been pheasant hunting for over 60 years, beginning back in the days when I was a youngster growing up on the farm in north-central South Dakota during the famous Soil Bank years. In those early years, I was simply a walker and a pheasant carrier, my dad’s answer for a 2-footed flusher! Yet, it was fun because I could walk along with my dad, my uncles and several neighborhood farmers. ...

The courtesy dock is removed for the season. About 1,600 rainbow trout were stocked on Nov. 7. Use small tube and twister jigs, in-line spinners, casting spoons, and live minnows or crawlers fished under a bobber. Water temperatures are in the upper 40s. ...