Fairfield News

The Fairfield girls? tennis team recently wrapped up its season with a banquet Thursday at Fairfield High School. Pictured are award winners, from left: Kim O?Carroll (Best Team Spirit), Haylee Gilpin (MVP), Courtney Laux (Most Improved), and Madison Soupiset and Meghan Shelangoski (Best JV Players). The Trojans? season ended in team play with a loss to Keokuk last week, but sophomore Karley Williams is still ...

The Fairfield Park and Recreation Department announces a summer sand volleyball league. Co-ed, men?s, and women?s teams can participate.Women?s league will be Mondays, men?s league will be Tuesdays, and Co-Ed league will be Thursdays with three time slots: 5:30, 6:30 or 7:30 p.m. Games will begin June 17 at the sand volleyball courts at O.B. Nelson Park. There will be six weeks of regular season play, followed ...

WINFIELD ? Pekin was without starter Leslie Stone on Thursday, but teammate Cheyann Lankford filled in nicely to hand the Panthers their first win of the season.Lankford tossed six innings of two-run ball to lift Pekin to a 12-2 road win over Winfield-Mount Union. Lankford allowed four hits and struck out five to pick up the complete-game win.?Cheyann did a nice job pitching for us in Leslie?s absence. She kept ...

DES MOINES ? Nicole Buch and the seventh-grade Lady Barnstormers played up in the ninth-grade AAU State Tournament May 11-12 in Des Moines and came away with their second state title of the year.The seventh-grade team won three of its first four games to make it to the championship match, where they defeated Iowa Showtime 59-54 in a rematch to claim the title.The Lady Barnstormers, who are coached by Todd ...

BURLINGTON ? Cardinal dropped a pair of games in a softball doubleheader with Burlington Wednesday.The Comets fell 8-2 in the first game and lost the second on the 10-run rule, 11-1.Cardinal?s Lindsey Davis had an RBI double and Carlie Bennett also legged out a double. Delaney Ridgway added a single for the Comets, who managed just four hits in the opener.Ridgway went the distance in the first game, tallying ...

The Fairfield JV Black softball team was hit with seven errors in the nightcap Thursday, and Ottumwa saved its best for last to sweep the host Trojans 2-1 and 16-8.Fairfield led the first game 1-0, but Ottumwa took the lead with two runs scored in the top of the fifth. The Trojans put runners on second and third in the bottom of the fifth but weren?t able to capitalize.?Our offense had a couple of opportunities,...

ELDON ? Brennon Elder smashed a grand slam and drove in four runs Monday as Cardinal rolled to a 12-7 win over New London in the season opener at Cardinal High School.Junior teammate Conner McElderry finished 3-for-4 at the plate with a double and three RBI, and Kyle Kent was 2-for-4 with a double. Cole Campbell hit a two-bagger and Charlie Rachford ended up 1-for-2 as the Comets totaled 11 hits.On the mound, ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? The Trojan softball team was ahead 5-3 Wednesday when rain came and suspended play of their road game against Mount Pleasant.Mount Pleasant had a runner on third with one out, and a batter in the box with a full count in the bottom of the fifth inning when the game was called.In her first outing of the season, Shelby Heston accumulated 11 strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings for Fairfield.The Trojans ...

BLOOMFIELD ? The Fairfield baseball team dropped a pair of games in their season opener at Davis County Wednesday, falling 6-3 in the first game and losing the nightcap 11-2.Brandon Smithburg paced the Trojan hitters with two hits and a run scored in the opening loss. Trenton Hanen went 2-for-2 and drew a walk, and Josh Osby was 1-for-2 and scored a run.In game two, Hanen went 2-for-2 with a two-bagger and two ...

WAPELLO ? Wapello spoiled the managerial debut of new Pekin head coach Pie Reighard on Tuesday, defeating the Panthers 5-3 in the season opener in Wapello.Despite out-hitting Wapello by two, the Panthers left 12 runners on base in the two-run loss.?We just didn?t hit the ball when we needed to. We?re a better hitting team than that,? said Reighard, who took the program?s reins from long-time coach Jeff Eeling ...

Comets KO DanvilleELDON ? Cardinal softball made quick work of Danville in its season opener Tuesday, picking up an 11-1 win in a shortened, five-inning game.Delaney Ridgway led from the batter?s box and the pitcher?s mound. Ridgway went 3-for-4 at the plate and tossed the complete game, giving up five hits while striking out six.Senior teammate Lindsay Moore smacked a home run and drove in three runs, while ...

WAPELLO ? A 10-1 loss to start the season might worry some softball coaches.But not Bryan Marlay, whose Pekin softball team fell by that exact score to Wapello in the season opener Tuesday in Wapello.?We?re traditionally a slow starting team, but we?ll be all right,? said Marlay. ?We?ll be a better ball club than we showed tonight.?The Panthers (0-1) were held to three hits in the Southeast Iowa Super Conferenc...