Fairfield News

ELDON ? Cardinal split a pair of games in a home tournament Saturday in Eldon, falling to Davis County 16-2 and defeating Tri-County 13-4.Sophomore Taylor Blunt picked up the win vs. Tri-County as the host Comets took advantage of some wild pitching en route to the nine-run victory. Blunt tossed six innings of four-run ball, allowing five hits and three walks while fanning six. Kaleb Durflinger, another sophomore...

PACKWOOD ? Pekin displayed some of its best hitting and pitching of the season in Friday?s home triangular, and the result was one win in two games.The Panthers? bats came alive to tally 12 hits in a 16-10 victory over Moulton-Udell in the opening game before Leslie Stone pitched the host team to a 2-0 loss in the nightcap.Pekin head coach Bryan Marlay said he?s still waiting for his team to put both aspects ...

Fairfield High School head tennis coach Bill Sheppard will be leading a boys summer tennis camp for three weeks starting Monday at the Fairfield Middle School courts.A camp for students entering kindergarten through fifth grade will run from 9-9:50 a.m. June 10-28. A second camp, for children going into grades 6-8, will immediately follow each day at 10-10:50 a.m.Both camps cost $20 per week.Sheppard, who has ...

IOWA CITY ? The Fairfield softball team bounced back nicely following two disappointing defeats against Washington to earn a pair of wins at the Iowa City West Classic Friday.The Trojans (5-3) opened the annual softball classic with an 8-2 victory over host West and finished the tournament with a 9-3 win against Centerville.Fairfield head coach Bob Bradfield said the improvements were easy to see coming off ...

KALONA ? Behind a stellar performance from senior starter Cameron Gingerich, IMS kept Pekin off the scoreboard and posted a 9-0 win Friday in Kalona.Gingerich struck out nine and allowed just three hits to toss the complete game shutout. Meanwhile, IMS jumped on top with three runs in the second inning and Lane Schrock smacked a grand slam in the third inning to break the game open. IMS, which led 8-0 after ...

OSKALOOSA ? Delaney Ridgway recorded four hits Saturday, including one home run and a triple, to lead the Cardinal softball team to a 1-1 record at the Oskaloosa Invitational.Ridgway went 2-for-4 and drove in three runs in the Comets? 7-4 win over Pella, and the freshman was 2-for-4 with a homer in her team?s 7-5 loss to Newton.Also for Cardinal, Carlie Bennett was 2-for-4 with a double, and Lindsay Moore ...

ANKENY ? Karley Williams mustn?t care much for the term ?sophomore slump,? because the Trojan instead had a breakthrough second season punctuated by a trip to the Class 1A individual tennis tournament.And although Williams didn?t come up with a win in her state debut Thursday, head coach Heidi Grunwald said it was a good day for the sophomore. Williams bowed out with a pair of losses in the opening rounds, ...

Fairfield JV Black dropped a pair of games to Muscatine at home Friday.Brynna Bowman started in the circle and took the loss as Muscatine went off for an eight-run second inning. Haley Beard pitched three innings of relief, allowing two hits and one run with a pair of strikeouts.Also in the five-inning first game, Taylor Ferrel and Bowman supplied one RBI apiece. Beard had a single, and both Kelsey Roberts and ...

The Fairfield 14U Crush softball team caught fire in May, recently winning 14 times in a 15-game span after opening the season with a 2-4 record.The local team won its first tournament in Fairfield, where it upped its record to 5-4. The girls subsequently went to Washington on May 12 and won another tournament with three victories.Their next stop was Iowa City, where they went 2-1 to bring their season record ...

Trojan senior golfers Ashley Henkel and Kristen Terrell were both recently selected to the Southeast Conference?s all-academic team for 2013, head coach Joe Kruzich said Thursday.To be eligible for the all-academic team, students must be a junior or senior athlete or support person who earned a 3.25 grade point average for the most recent grading period.

Cancellations and postponements around the Iowa sports world continued into Thursday and Friday, affecting softball and baseball games for Fairfield as well as all other area schools.The Fairfield baseball team experienced its second straight postponement Thursday. Its JV-varsity doubleheader at Pella Christian was called off due to the inclement weather, with a makeup date pending.Also for Fairfield, Thursday?s...

Athletes from Team Fairfield competed in biking and track and field events at the 2013 Special Olympics Summer Games May 23-24 in Ames.The local team was very successful, and the 12 total competitors combined to win sixth first-place medals as well as six runner-ups.The biggest winner for Team Fairfield was Joe Blain, who tallied half of the team?s victories. Blain was first in the 250-meter bike race, 50-meter ...