Fairfield News

CEDAR FALLS ? Freshman Sophia Goodale earned 55th place in the 400 and the Maharishi School girls? track squad tacked on a 29th-place finish in the 4x200 Monday at the Dickinson Relays in Cedar Falls.Goodale crossed the finish line of the 400 in 1:11, just ahead of junior teammate Katya Sheridan, who finished 65th in the race with a time of 1:15.Also competing for the Pioneers were freshman Phoebe Carter, who ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? The Iowa State women?s basketball team is headed to the NCAA tournament for the seventh year in a row.The Cyclones are a No. 5 seed, but they will have to face 12th-seeded Gonzaga on the road on Saturday.The winner will play either fourth-seeded Georgia or Montana.Iowa State has won 23 games so far this year. The Cyclones finished second in the Big 12 regular season standings and in the ...

PACKWOOD ? Fairfield?s seventh-grade girls? traveling youth basketball team won its final outing of the season March 9 at Pekin.The Trojans cruised past both Wapello and Tri-County in the opening rounds to advance to play host Pekin in the championship game.The two Jefferson County squads produced a friendly rivalry a season ago as the teams split a pair of matchups, and this year?s rematch picked up right ...

PELLA ? The Pekin boys? track and field team hosted its final indoor meet of the season Thursday on the Central College campus in Pella.Cory Loyd earned Pekin?s lone victory on the day, placing first in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 8.24. The Pekin senior topped the second fastest hurdler in the event by nearly two-tenths of a second.Loyd also was on a pair of top-three relays for Pekin. Loyd and fellow ...

PELLA ? The first indoor meets of the track season provide plenty of surprises for any coaching staff.After all, the indoor season is the first opportunity coaches have to see their newcomers on a competitive stage. It was good news for Fairfield head coach Brian Dunlap, then, when most of his team?s surprises came back as positive ones at the Central College Indoor in Pella.?We were able to take everyone ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Iowa State has earned a No. 10 seed in the NCAA tournament and will face Notre Dame in Dayton, Ohio, on Friday.The Cyclones (22-11), led by third-year coach Fred Hoiberg, have earned back-to-back NCAA tournament bids for the first time in 12 years.Iowa State solidified its spot in the field by sweeping Oklahoma State and West Virginia to close out the regular season. The Cyclones then rallied ...

Iowa is a No. 3 seed in the National Invitational Tournament and will host Indiana State on Wednesday.The Hawkeyes (21-12) missed out on their first NCAA tournament bid in seven years after losing to Michigan State 59-56 on Friday night. Though Iowa won 10 Big Ten games, its lack of quality non-conference and road victories proved to be its undoing.Iowa is back in the NIT for the second year in a row. The ...

PELLA ? Fairfield picked up one victory Thursday at the Pekin Indoor in Pella, and head coach Ron Hunerdosse lauded who he called his team?s ?usual suspects.?The lone win came in the 4x200 relay, where Mackenzie McClure, Sydney Howard, Marisa Repp and Cierra Bielinski topped the field with a 1:54.52 time. Howard anchored the team to victory, as Fairfield nipped second-place Ottumwa by nearly three-tenths of a ...

Although only one girls? basketball team in the Golden Triangle News Service area made the state tournament this postseason, several area teams and the individuals who led them saved their best for last.Mid-Prairie was the lone team to reach Wells Fargo, but both Fairfield and Washington were on the tourney?s doorstep with deep runs through their respective regional brackets. The Demons made the regional final ...

All 12 of the players named to this year?s All-Golden Triangle News Service team are first-time selections, but for the two men chosen as Coach of the Year, receiving All-GTNS honors is nothing new.Mount Pleasant?s Paul Rundquist, the large school Coach of the Year, and IMS? Dwight Gingerich, the small school Coach of the Year, worked their magic again this season with a new group of star players.Gingerich took ...

Wes Welker sure knows how to pick his quarterbacks.The star receiver, Tom Brady?s favorite target, is leaving New England and heading to Denver, where he?ll join Peyton Manning and the Broncos.Also getting new deals were Reggie Bush in Detroit, Dashon Goldson in Tampa Bay, and even Ray Lewis ? with ESPN.Day 2 of the NFL?s free agency frenzy was highlighted by Welker grabbing a two-year deal with the Broncos, ...

? Pekin senior Austyn Vogel also lands on 2013 team. History was made this wrestling season.Several Golden Triangle News Service area wrestling teams reached new heights this winter or accomplished things that hadn?t been done at their respective schools in many, many years.Washington 113-pounder Fletcher Green was not only the Golden Triangle?s first state champion since 2010, but he was also the first Demon ...