MARCUS — The Rebel baseball team struggled to get things going at the plate, and failed to find the strike zone on the hill during Tuesday’s 10-0 road loss to Marcus-Meridan-Cleghorn/Remsen-Union in Marcus.

Offensively, Sioux Central got one hit from senior first baseman Kadin Wood.

Alan Vasher, Sioux Central coach, said, “I just don’t think we were aggressive enough at the plate. We did a good job of putting the ball in play, but seemed to miss on some good pitches.”

Ask people why they go fishing, and you’ll get a lot of answers, but it’s pretty obvious that fishing is an extremely popular pastime. There is little doubt that fishing can be a stress reliever. Just being out on the water on a nice day like we had last Sunday can give a reprieve from the troubles people are experiencing. That is especially true right now! A break for even a few hours can mean so much!

It’s summer and the fish are hungry. At this time of year, there are lots of techniques that we can employ to catch those hungry fish. The fish can be in deep water, shallow water, they can be suspended or they can be relating to structure. One very good way to catch a variety of fish species, day-in and day-out, is by fishing along and over the weeds that grow in deeper water. Here’s how to go about that.

Hunters will notice a few regulation changes for the upcoming 2024-25 hunting seasons. These changes could impact deer hunters, waterfowl hunters and furharvesters.

DEER

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is hosting eight meetings in Western Iowa to discuss the status of the region’s deer herd as population levels have fallen in recent years. The meetings are open to the public.

State wildlife experts say there are likely multiple factors that have contributed to the decline in the number of deer on the landscape and it might take a multilevel approach for the herd to recover.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is looking for help with its annual wild turkey production survey. During the months of July and August wild turkey sightings are recorded to estimate this year’s nesting rates and nest success.

Spencer High School athletes jumped into action last week, helping anyone who needed assistance with flood cleanup from June 26-28.

The high school students, most of whom were athletes, gathered each morning at 9 a.m. to form groups and decide which houses to go to. Taylor Chapman, Spencer Community School District activities director, organized the high schoolers’ efforts.

Sioux Central would make it five straight wins, improving to 18-5, heading into the team’s final week of regular season play ahead of its postseason debut next Wednesday against either HMS or Emmetsburg in Class 2A Region 2 play.

Sioux Central 6, Newell-Fonda 5

PETERSON — Rebel softball coach Kasey Krager said, “This was a good softball game of two good teams.

After a break in the action following a narrow loss to Newell-Fonda, a narrow win over Gehlen-Catholic and regional flooding, Sioux Central would fall to Kingsley-Pierson, 11-1 last week.

Newell-Fonda 2, Sioux Central 0

PETERSON — Newell-Fonda used lone runs in the first and third innings to account for a 2-0 win against Sioux Central Thursday, June 20, at Brooke Memorial Field.

No information available.

SPENCER SOFTBALL VS DENISON-SCHLESWIG

Friday, June 21 — Spencer Softball Complex, Spencer

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E

Denison Schleswig 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 7 8 0

Spencer 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 6 1

Spencer — No information available.

Denison Schleswig — H: Leinen (2), Wessel, Huebert, Gehslen, Bruhn, Ipsen; SB: Wessel, Huebert, Bock, Bruhn, Ipsen, Gilmore; WP: Leinen.

Spencer Community School District will resume all activities starting this week.

Baseball and softball activities will resume as scheduled.

Anyone with lost uniforms during the flooding, contact 262-1700 ext. 2006 or tchapman@spencerschools.org, or reach out to your coach for assistance.

Also to resume: Open practices, athletic enhancement sessions and camps.

Iowa has over 1,100 species of fish and wildlife. The Wildlife Diversity Program works to preserve and protect Iowa's nongame species, including shorebirds, raptors, songbirds, many small mammals and bats, most amphibians, reptiles, many small fish, butterflies, dragonflies and more.

Three decades ago, in 1994, I was preparing to sail north to the Arctic's Northwest Passage for the first time. I had just completed a sailing expedition in 1992, where I sailed south to Antarctica and across the Antarctic Circle. During this voyage, we made port at Palmer Station, the United States scientific base after being battered by storms along the Antarctic Peninsula.

It was a couple of years back. Some friends and I had gathered for a day of fishing. The word was out that the walleyes on one particular lake were on the bite. When we arrived at the hot lake, there were many, many other anglers there also.

What a last week or so for all of northwest Iowa, southeast South Dakota and southwest Minnesota.