Fairfield News

BURLINGTON ? Fairfield JV Black softball split its season-opening doubleheader with Burlington on Tuesday.Fairfield won the first game 8-2 but fell to the host Grayhounds in the second game 5-2.Kelsey Roberts and Corynn Klehm both tallied two singles and scored twice to lead the Trojan offense in the first game. Taylor Ferrel smacked a double and a single, scoring once. Kaylee Watson and Haley Beard had one RBI ...

For the first time without Lawrence Eyre as head coach, the Pioneer boys? tennis team earned a trip to the Class 1A state team tournament with a pair of victories over Grinnell and Pella Saturday at the M.U.M. tennis courts in Fairfield.The Maharishi School boys handled Grinnell 5-0 in the substate semifinal and took care of Pella 5-2 in the final to advance to the state tournament for a record ninth consecutive ...

Felisto Guezimane is well aware of the history between Fairfield and Keokuk on the pitch. He?s also familiar with the old saying, ?It?s hard to beat a team three times in one season.?So, after defeating Keokuk twice in the regular season, the fourth-year head coach wasn?t about to take any chances going into Monday?s substate first-round game vs. the Chiefs at Trojan Stadium.Neither, it appeared, were his ...

OSKALOOSA ? The Fairfield girls? golf team shot its best 18-hole round of the season Monday, finishing eighth out of 12 at a regional tournament on Edmundson Golf Course in Oskaloosa.Led by freshman Lindsey Repp?s 95, the peaking Trojans scored a 437 to end their season on a high note. Fairfield, which was extremely consistent with a 219 on the front nine and 218 on the back, also had scores from freshman ...

Fairfield?s JV baseball team got its season started Monday with a home doubleheader vs. Williamsburg.The Trojans lost their first game 5-3 before bouncing back to claim a 6-4 win in the nightcap.Nick Jackson allowed four runs ? one earned ? in four innings to earn the win in the nightcap. Jackson gave up two hits and tallied a strikeout. In relief of Jackson, Wyatt Stark allowed no runs and struck out four in ...

DES MOINES ? The Pekin boys? track and field team didn?t make it to the final day of competition at the state track meet but still grabbed a pair of medals Friday before heading home.The distance medley team of Chase Copeland, Quentin Garrels, Christian Wittrock and Eli Harper earned an eighth-place medal for Pekin with a finish in 4:43.02. Copeland, Garrels, Christian Wittrock and Keaton Winn also finished ...

DES MOINES ? Hanna Haynes could only choose one event at the state qualifier, but it looks like the Van Buren senior chose right.Haynes, who suffered an injury late in the season, placed sixth in the Class 1A 100-meter hurdles Saturday at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.?This is my favorite event,? she said.After making state with a time of 16.39, Haynes improved in the state preliminary round with a 16.16 finish ...

DES MOINES ? Gwynne Wright capped a busy weekend with a 10th-place finish in the 800 and a 12th-place time in the 1500 Saturday at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.Wright finished the 800 in 2:25.87 prior to completing the 1500 in 5:12. Senior teammate Maleaha Earnest finished 19th in the 1500 in 5:20.On Friday, the Panthers also received a ninth-place finish from Mallory Reed in the 100-hurdles (16.59), plus a 17th ...

WILLIAMSBURG ? In the season opener at Williamsburg Monday, the Fairfield boys? baseball team endured a rough first game before lightning spoiled a promising nightcap.The Trojans fell to the host Raiders 10-0 in the opener of the twinbill. The postponed nightcap ended in a 1-all tie.Fairfield head coach Josh Allison was just happy to get the season?s first games started.?It?s always good to get the first games ...

DES MOINES ­­? If someone told Daniel Schwarz a year ago he could be a state champion, he never would have believed it.My, how things change in one year.Schwarz became the Fairfield boys? first state champion since 2010 on Thursday, outlasting 23 others in the high jump for a dominant, four-inch victory at the state track and field championships in Des Moines. Schwarz cleared 6-feet, 6-inches for the win, but ...

WILLIAMSBURG ? Two strokes.Two measly strokes were all that separated Fairfield from a state tournament berth as it fell back to fourth place at Friday?s district meet in Williamsburg.The result kept the Trojans from a state bid for the first time in three years. Juniors Joe Hietpas and Matt Carr led the way with a pair of 81s as the Fairfield boys scored a 333 to fall behind host Williamsburg (316), Centerville...

FORT MADISON ? Fairfield had its hands full with Keokuk in the regional team final Saturday, falling to the Southeast Conference rival 5-0 on Fort Madison?s tennis courts.Fairfield senior Haylee Gilpin was one point away from winning her match at No. 1 singles when Keokuk ended the dual with its fifth win in singles play. Gilpin led the third-set super tiebreaker 9-7 after splitting the first two sets with ...