BY MATT HEINRICHS — SPORTS EDITOR

Okoboji’s baseball team fell behind early in a 9-5 Siouxland Conference road loss to Sibley-Ocheyedan on Friday, June 24.

The Generals scored eight runs in the opening frame and tacked on another in the second to take a 9-0 lead. Okoboji battled back, scoring a run in the third, another in the fifth and three in the sixth to pull within four, but it was too little, too late.