Fairfield News

The Fairfield 10-and-under Crush team earned second place at the Kalona Softball Tournament June 1-2. Pictured are, from left, front row: Chayse Gilchrist, Ellie Shepherd, Coty Engle and Brooke Miller; middle row: Hailey Pohren Gevock, Danielle Breen, Jenna Norris and Rachel Thomas; back row: Olivia Jones, Hannah Simpson, Delaney Breen, Brynley Allison and Averi Henderson. The coaches are Tina Breen, Amy Jones ...

Jessica Ehrenfelt was on the winning team that competed at the Ladies Blast Off Friday at the Fairfield Golf and Country Club. The other team members were Amy McDowell, Joy Padget and Nikki Hunt. Their team won the event with a 68. The event was sponsored by the Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce.

The Trojan baseball team dominated the Burlington-Notre Dame Nikes in every facet of the game Wednesday to earn a 13-0 victory in five innings.After scoring once in the first, Fairfield put up seven runs in the second, highlighted by Josh Dimmitt?s grand slam. The Trojans added five in the third.Meanwhile, Notre Dame struggled to make solid contact at the plate as Fairfield hurler Cameron Baumann surrendered ...

The Trojans waited until game 2 of their doubleheader with Centerville to score, but once they did the floodgates opened.Fairfield split the doubleheader with Centerville, losing the first game 2-0 but getting revenge in the second game, 10-0. GAME 1REDETTES 2, TROJANS 0The Trojans did not have much success at the dish in their first match against the Redettes, amassing only three hits. Katie Anderson had ...

Iowa Mennonite School jumped on the Pekin Panthers early in the first game of Thursday?s softball doubleheader in Packwood.IMS won game 1 by a score of 8-3. The Panthers played much better in game 2, clobbering IMS 13-0 in three innings. GAME 1IMS 8, PEKIN 3IMS scored two runs in the first, five in the fourth and one in the seventh. The team scored those eight runs on just four hits. IMS got some help from ...

Chloe Campbell, left, and Averi Henderson practice a blocking drill Thursday at volleyball camp in the Fairfield High School gymnasium. Fairfield volleyball head coach Nancy Diers organized the camp for elementary school girls.

The Trojan baseball team swept Washington in a doubleheader at home Monday.The home team won a tight, low-scoring affair in game 1, 3-2. The Trojans kept the Demons off the board in game 2 as they celebrated a 5-0 victory.Trojan pitchers kept the Demons off balance all night as they struck out 30 batters in the two games. GAME 1TROJANS 3, DEMONS 2The Trojans got on the board first in game 1 in the third ...

The Pekin Panthers have been crushing the softball at the plate this week.Pekin could hardly contain its scoring against Winfield-Mt. Union Monday in a 15-5 route in six innings. Tuesday saw the Panthers visit Columbus Junction where they finished a rain delayed game from earlier in the season and play another from scratch.Pekin came from behind to win the delayed game, 13-12, and kept the good times rolling ...

The Fairfield baseball team faced a formidable opponent in 14-2 Chariton Tuesday night at home and came up on the short end in both games of the doubleheader.The Trojans played the Chargers down to the wire in game 1, which Chariton won 4-3 thanks to a solo home run in the top of the ninth inning. Chariton?s bats were red hot for game 2 to complete the sweep with a 14-7 victory. GAME 1CHARGERS 4, TROJANS ...

After stranding 16 runners on base in the first 13 innings of Monday?s Southeast Conference doubleheader against No. 12 Washington, Fairfield wasn?t about to maroon more runners in the final inning of the nightcap.The 15th-ranked Trojans scored a pair of runs in the seventh inning of the second game to win 4-3 and earn a split of the doubleheader.?It felt pretty good,? Fairfield junior Marisa Repp said. ?We?d ...

PACKWOOD ? Seven errors in the field and another three outs on the base paths had Pekin head coach Bryan Marlay scratching his head Thursday as his players dropped a 9-4 game to visiting Wapello.?It?s simple softball. You need to make the routine plays, and right now we?re not doing that,? said Marlay. ?When you give teams seven or eight outs in an inning, you?re not going to win. We have seven seniors and we?re ...

The rain didn?t let up Friday, and neither did the Trojan offense.The Fairfield softball team collected 10 hits in five innings to pick up its 14th straight win, topping Columbus 11-1 via the mercy rule in Fairfield. The home win was the first for Fairfield (17-3, 6-2 Southeast Conference) since it jumped into the Class 4A state softball rankings Wednesday. The Trojans now are 15th.?We hit the ball well and had ...