Fairfield News

The Trojan girls? tennis team rebounded from a rough start in singles action and rolled to two doubles titles at the Southeast Conference tournament Monday in Fairfield.After wrapping up singles play with no champions to show from six brackets, the Trojan girls were the big winner in the tournament?s second half. At No. 2 doubles, the third-seeded duo of Karley Williams and Rachel Hathaway pulled off two ...

KEOKUK ? Fairfield sophomore Alexander Punj needed 26 games to earn his second straight Southeast Conference championship at No. 1 singles Monday. Along with Landen Greiner, Punj needed just 23 more games in doubles play to claim runner-up honors at No. 1.Punj rolled to a title with two huge wins in singles action, defeating Fort Madison?s Jordan Brecount in straight sets (6-0, 6-0) and taking care of Mount ...

The race for the Southeast Conference crown is far from over, and the Fairfield boys are doing their best to ensure it goes down to the wire.In front of a home crowd and on senior night, the Trojan boys kept the defending SEC champ Chiefs silent and supplied just enough of their own offense to claim a 1-0 victory. The Trojans scored their one goal within the game?s first 10 minutes and silenced Keokuk (5-5, 4-3 ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? Records, the saying goes, are meant to be broken. No one ever said they were meant to be shattered.But that?s exactly what Fairfield Middle School?s Michael Fritz did in the discus throw during Monday?s conference track and field meet in Mount Pleasant. The eighth-grader?s throw of 145-feet, 4-inches broke the 18-year-old conference record by six feet and accounted for the Trojan eighth-graders? ...

The boys? individual district tennis meet hosted by Maharishi School has been moved from today to Friday due to forecasted thunderstorms.The Class 1A meet, which will include Fairfield and the host Pioneers, is still set to begin at its original time. A coaches meeting is scheduled at 8:30 a.m., with play to follow.Jeff Courtright, Fairfield activities director, explained the teams will play ?rain or shine? on ...

COLUMBUS JUNCTION ? For the third straight season, the Pekin boys? track team was denied a Southeast Iowa Superconference North championship at the hands of Mediapolis.Instead, the Panthers again settled for second place at the SEISC North meet Monday hosted by Columbus. Led by freshman Chase Copeland, the Panthers won three events on the track and another in the field to score 131 points to Mediapolis? 156.Thir...

WEST BURLINGTON ? The Fairfield girls? soccer team returned to the field for the first time in more than a week Monday and shook off the rust in a 2-1 road loss to West Burlington-Notre Dame.Going into the non-conference contest, the Trojan girls hadn?t played a game since April 25.?They?re a pretty solid team, but we have to win that game,? Fairfield coach Michiel Hekker said following the loss. ?We needed to ...

COLUMBUS JUNCTION ? Poor weather could only hold off the Pekin girls? track and field team so long as the Sarah Wright-led squad celebrated its seventh consecutive title Monday at the postponed Southeast Iowa Superconference North track meet hosted by Columbus.Pekin won five events and finished top-two in several others to tally 161 points ? far ahead of runner-up Mediapolis, which scored 132 points.And to put ...

WEST BURLINGTON ? Cardinal won a pair of events and grabbed points in nearly every other event en route to a second-place finish and 112-point total at the Southeast Iowa Superconference South Division track meet scheduled Monday.The host Falcons won the meet title for the second year running, earning wins in 12 of the 18 events and setting conference records in two of those in front of a partisan crowd at Bill ...

WEST BURLINGTON ? Unity Daugherty won the 1500 and the Van Buren girls? track team finished fifth out of seven teams Monday at the SEISC South Division meet.The Warrior girls placed ahead of both sixth-place Cardinal (61) and seventh-place Maharishi School (13). Central Lee won the team title, racking up 152 points.Daugherty, a junior, finished the 1500-run in 5:24 for the Warriors? only win. She also finished ...

The 10-and-under Fairfield Cougars baseball team earned a first-place finish at the Clear Creek-Amana Classic this past weekend. Team members are pictured, from left, front row: Brecken Courtright, Kyle Jeffrey, Josh Brewington, Brody Angstead, Landen Schafer; middle row: coach Jeremy Jeffrey, Dagen Burnett, Nick Schillerstrom, Bradley Smithburg, Drake Rippey; back row: coaches Jack Schafer, Larry Angstead and ...

MIAMI (AP) ? LeBron James was at his best this season, and the voters tasked with selecting the NBA?s Most Valuable Player took notice.Every voter except one, that is.The NBA still does not have a unanimous MVP, though no one has come closer than James did this season. The Miami Heat star was presented with the Maurice Podoloff Trophy for the fourth time in his career on Sunday after collecting 120 of the 121 ...