Local Sports

By: Matt Scher, matts@977thebolt.com Bondurant, IA – Humboldt Volleyball won in four sets against the Bondurant-Farrar Bluejays Monday night 3-1. The Wildcats fell in the first set 25-20, before winning the next three 25-17, 25-23, 25-19 […]

By: Matt Scher, matts@977thebolt.com Humboldt, IA – The Humboldt Wildcats Football team won their home opener in week two 21-18 over the Ballard Bombers at Mason Maach Field Friday night. On their second offensive possession, the […]

By: Matt Scher, matts@977thebolt.com Humboldt, IA – Humboldt Volleyball held their home tournament Saturday, going 3-1 in the four matches they would play. Kuemper Catholic would have the best performance of the tournament with a 4-0 […]

By: Matt Scher, matts@977thebolt.com Spencer, IA – The Humboldt Wildcats football team opened the season with a 27-10 win over the Spencer Tigers in non-district play at Spencer’s Dale Norton Field Friday night. The Wildcats […]

By: Matt Scher, matts@977thebolt.com Pleasant Hill, IA – Humboldt Volleyball opened their 2024 season in a quad at Southeast Polk Thursday night, going 0-3. The Wildcats began the night with a 2-0 loss to Indianola (19-25, […]

By: Matt Scher, matts@977thebolt.com Humboldt, IA – Camp opened for the Humboldt Wildcats football team on Wednesday night as the team prepares for its 2024 season. The Humboldt football team went 5-5 in 2023, ending their […]

By: Matt Scher, matts@977thebolt.com (KHBT) – The North Central Conference (NCC) is adding a ninth school for the 2025-26 school year. In a press release on Tuesday, the conference announced that the Charles City Community […]

By: Matt Scher, matts@977thebolt.com (KHBT) – The All-Conference selections for softball in the North Central Conference for the 2024 season were released today. 1st Team  P – Delainey Bargfrede (Webster City), Senior * P – Kaili Henning […]

By: Matt Scher, matts@977thebolt.com (KHBT) – The All-Conference selections for baseball in the North Central Conference for the 2024 season were released today. 1st Team  P – Aiden Ulrich * (Algona), Junior P – Carson Nesheim […]

By: Matt Scher, matts@977thebolt.com Humboldt, IA – Humboldt softball fell 4-1 Friday night in a home non-conference matchup with the Emmetsburg E-Hawks. Emmetsburg would get on the board in the first inning with Saige Brown reaching […]