Fairfield News

The Fairfield JV girls defeated Washington 25-23, 25-21 Thursday.Mackenzi Harwood had five aces and Mackenzie Flattery had four. Harwood also had three kills and seven digs.Mikaela Amendt, Allie Deao and Delaney Neil each had two kills.The freshmen team beat Washington by the score of 25-14, 25-8.Haley Beard went 10-11 serving with five aces. She also had three kills and six digs.Paige Buch went 10-10 on ...

Cardinal defeats Maharishi SchoolIt didn?t take long for the Comets to dismantle the Pioneers Thursday.The final scores were 25-9, 25-4, and 25-8.?Cardinal had a very strong serve and it was tough for our setters,? Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment volleyball coach Danielle Wallace said.Wallace believes the team could have played better and will play better in the future.?The girls were very ...

These weekly rankings are published by the Iowa Association of track coaches.Class 4 A Boys 1. Linn Mar2. Johnston3. Waukee4. Pleasant Valley5. Dubuque Hempstead6. Cedar Falls7. Dowling Wet DM8. City High Iowa City9. Dubuque Senior10. Iowa City West11. Prairie CR12. Burlington13. Washington CR14. Ames15. Sioux City East Class 3A Boys 1. Pella2. Charles City3. Algona4. Decorah5. Boone6. ...

The seventh and eighth grade football teams both beat Keokuk Thursday night.The eighth grade team won 8-6. James Lyman rushed for 104 yards on 13 carries. Steeler Higdon rushed for 29 yards and a touchdown. Defensively, Kolten Webber and Dakota Storto each had a sack. Higdon led the way with four tackles.?Really happy with the way the boys played tonight,? coach Joshua Allison said. ?Overall good first game.?Th...

The Third Annual Doubles at Chautauqua Park Fundraiser will be held Sept. 22 in Fairfield.This Frisbee golf competition will consist of two rounds of 18 holes. The players are tiered after the first round and there is a 50 percent pay-out. The top tier plays for cash.Registration is from 8-9:45 a.m. The player?s meeting is at 9:45 a.m., and tee off is at 10 a.m.For more information, contact Billy Haynes at ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? The parents of a man who died after falling from a pedestrian overpass outside Candlestick Park before a San Francisco 49ers game are denying accounts from witnesses that their 32-year-old son was drunk and stumbling.Kevin Hayes had a ?few? beers while tailgating, but wasn?t so intoxicated that he couldn?t walk straight, Janet and Dennis Hayes said Wednesday. They said their son he had ...

Lake Keomah (Oskaloosa) Results Girls-Individual1.Taylor Lock Pekin 15:482. Dakota Hostetter C-M 16:043. Shea Dahlstrom Pekin 16:064. Kaylee Miller SEW 16:165. Michelle Mauser Albia 16:346. Kennedi Hostetter C-M 16:367. Sloan Reighard Pekin 16:368. Sam Wright Pekin 17:029. Payton Lock Pekin 17:0510. Bonnie Becker Pekin 17:0713. Taylor Winn Pekin 17:3717. Madison Fears Pekin 18:3819. Gabbi Earnest ...

BOSTON (AP) ? Days after the Boston Marathon bombings, B.J. Ganem was one of the wounded veterans who met with survivors who had lost a limb or limbs in the April 15 attack.He thought he?d do a lot of hand holding and hearing crying, but the 36-year-old Marine Corps veteran instead saw resilience.The new amputees asked a lot of questions about his prosthetic leg, which replaced the left leg he lost below his ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? Iowa has done nearly everything it can think of spice up its offense. The once-conservative Hawkeyes have played no huddle, embraced the shotgun more than ever and have even given opponents the occasional spread look.And yet through two games, Iowa's best play has been an old favorite.Send a big back up the middle and dare defenses to stop him.That player this season has been converted ...

The Pekin volleyball team beat Sigourney in four sets Tuesday with the scores of 25-22, 16-25, 25-22 and 25-23.After a close first game, the Panthers faltered in the second. Pekin used rallies in the third and fourth games to seal the victory.?We started off with high intensity and kept it throughout the night,? Pekin head coach Ashley Bartels said. ?When we weren?t hitting as well, we made up for it in blocks ...

The SEISC has released the names of students who participated in spring and summer sports and finished with a 3.25 GPA or higher.The honorees are:Maharishi School: Mickey DeAngelis, Solaris Nite, David Fleshman, Avery Mullenneaux, Surya Sawhney, Girindra Selleck, Prasad Monk, Brandon Prather-Huff, Raffi Gelfand, Laser Nite, Isabel Reed, Flower Shreck, Eugenia Davis, Sophis Medvedevva, Weii Xi and Chosie ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? The fireworks had gone off and so had the smoke bombs. The red-white-and-blue-clad crowd had finished singing "Dos a cero! Dos a cero!" over and over and over.The United States had qualified for its seventh straight World Cup, and it was time to look ahead to the draw on Dec. 6 and next year's tournament in Brazil."I feel good about our chances," goalkeeper Tim Howard said. "We'll see what ...