Fairfield News

The Cardinal and Van Buren boys? track teams made the trip to Wayland Tuesday for the Warriors Relays at WACO High School.Van Buren finished in sixth place, while Cardinal earned seventh. The field consisted of 11 teams that included West Burlington Notre Dame, Highland, Lone Tree, Winfield-Mount Union and Keokuk.The Van Buren 4x800 relay team finished in first place with the time of 8:51.29. Gavin Heald earned ...

The Fairfield Middle School seventh-grade girls? track team is, from left, front row: Devika Pharasi (manager), Jenna Wickencamp, A?lia Martin, Danae Drish, Carly Ferrel (manager); second row: Madison Kraemer, Anatta Charoenkul, Jillian Dunlap, Laurel Hilger, Amber Burroughs, Madyson Adkins, Maria Fleischman, Bryanna Popejoy; back row: Blair Bowman, Olivia Roberts, Sara Lemlin, Julia Fritz, Malory Jones, Devyn ...

Rubin ?Hurricane? Carter never surrendered hope of regaining his freedom, not even after he was convicted of a triple murder, then convicted again and abandoned by many prominent supporters.For 19 long years, the prizefighter was locked in a prison cell far away from the spotlight and the adulation of the boxing ring. But when he at last won his biggest fight ? for exoneration ? he betrayed little bitterness. ...

The Fairfield Middle School seventh and eighth-grade boys? track teams traveled Thursday to the Ottumwa Boys Track Invitational.The seventh-grade team finished in fourth place overall out of seven teams with 75 points.Kosta Papazoglou and Tristin Waugh tied for first place in the discus competition, while teammate Austin Simpson earned first in the shot put.Dylan Harvey got second place in the 1600-meter run ...

BOSTON (AP) ? "I need to run."The messages started arriving just hours after the bombings, pleading for an entry into the 2014 Boston Marathon. For months the calls and emails continued, runners begging for an opportunity to cross the finish line on Boylston Street and convinced it would ease at least some of their grief."They'd say, 'I'm not a qualified runner; I don't think I ever will be. I train. I run. I ...

Trojan girls? soccer topples KnoxvilleThe Fairfield girls? soccer team earned a road victory in Knoxville by the score of 3-1 Monday.Kaley Ives, Huma Liptak and Claudia Sloat each scored a goal for Fairfield. Liptak, Elaine Brandt and Courtney Gilmore each made assists.Liptak has scored in each of the Trojans? wins this season and has five goals total. Sloat has four goals on the year.Ives scored off of a ...

Fairfield girls? golf wins triangularThe Fairfield girls? golf team defeated Keokuk and Davis County in a triangular Thursday at Fairfield County Club.The Trojans scored 225 strokes, while Davis County scored 247 and Keokuk had 268.Fairfield?s Lindsey Repp shot a 47 to lead the field. Madalyn Whitaker of Keokuk was the runner-up medalist and shot a 50.Repp?s teammate Olivia Hammel shot a 54. Abby Adam was ...

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) ? Sherpa guides on Mount Everest are considering a climbing boycott after the deadliest avalanche in the mountain?s history, a move that could seriously disrupt the rest of the climbing season, a mountaineering official said Monday.Several Sherpas already have quit while others are still deciding whether to boycott climbing following Friday?s avalanche, said Ang Tshering of the Nepal ...

The Fairfield Middle School eighth-grade girls? track team is, from left, front row: Carly Ferrel (manager), Sophia Allen, Claire Christiansen, Ella Pollet, Devika Pharasi (manager); second row: Cherie Anderson, Natalie Brader, Anna Beasley, Carin Corrick, Aluna Olaniyi, Amiah Neff, Kristin Burnstedt, Trenady Sammons, Brittney Schafer, Kirsi Bland; back row: Taylor Myers, Nicole Buch, Ashtyn Drish, Hailey ...

FMS boys? track competes in BurlingtonThe Fairfield Middle School seventh and eighth-grade boys? track teams ran at the Burlington Middle School Invite Tuesday.The seventh-grade team finished in second place with 106 points. The 4x400-meter relay team, featuring Nickel Iseman, Brian Parcell, Carson Crile and Caden Jones, finished in first place with the time of 4:38. Austin Simpson won the shot put.The ...

MIAMI (AP) ? Finally, the NBA playoffs are set.It took the entire season to fill out those brackets.Overtime thrillers in Memphis and Charlotte, a go-ahead dunk in Oklahoma City to win a game and cap another scoring title for Kevin Durant, plus some good old-fashioned disinterest by Brooklyn ... all that, and more, on the final night of the season was needed before the eight conference-quarterfinal matchups in ...

The Fairfield Trojans girls? track team ran into elite squads Tuesday at the 39th Annual Timm Lamb Pen City Relays in Fort Madison.Mt. Pleasant, which possesses one of the best girls? track teams in the state, took first place in Class A with 144 total points. Washington and Cedar Rapids Jefferson came in second and third, while Fairfield came in fourth place with 80.50 points. Meet host Fort Madison and the ...