Fairfield News

CENTERVILLE ? Six Fairfield wrestlers made the early-morning jaunt to Centerville Saturday, and out of those six, five placed at the Big Red Invitational.The Trojans received runner-up finishes from ranked seniors Seth Davisson and Jake Mineart. Aaron Gevock claimed third, Ammon Shaner ended up fourth and Bryce Lunsford placed fifth for Fairfield.The five placings helped Fairfield finish in a tie for 11th place ...

Fairfield?s JV girls? basketball team dropped a pair of games recently, falling at Mount Pleasant 46-43 Friday and then losing a 37-32 home game to Mid-Prairie Monday.Fairfield?s Karley Williams led the offense Friday with 10 points, and Mackenzie Flattery scored nine. Molly Ryan supplied eight points, Taylor Ferrel finished with seven points and four boards, and Mackenzie McClure netted seven points.On Monday, ...

The Trojans played like they could keep up with anybody Friday night ? even the defending Class 3A champs.In their closest game vs. Mount Pleasant in three seasons under Tyler Miklo, the Fairfield boys barreled out to an 11-8 first quarter lead before ultimately falling to their ninth-ranked rivals 51-42 in Southeast Conference hoops.Spencer Peterman scored 12 points and Landon Gamrath added 10 points on 5 of 6 ...

CENTERVILLE ? Jacob Heisel went 3-0 Thursday, and Van Buren wrestling claimed a 37-36 team victory over New London at a quadrangular in Centerville.Following the Warriors? one-point win, which was decided by tiebreaker criteria, they fell to host Centerville 42-24 and concluded the evening with a 55-22 loss to Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont.Van Buren?s Tyler Runyon (106), Unity Daugherty (113), Hunter Coffmann ...

FORT MADISON ? The Maharishi School boys? basketball team racked up 11 points in the first quarter but just eight more the rest of the game in a 93-19 loss to Holy Trinity Friday.The Pioneers, who are now 2-10, shot 4 of 8 from the field in the first quarter yet still trailed 30-11 after one. The deficit quickly grew to 53-13 by halftime vs. the hot-shooting Crusaders (9-4).Surya Sawhney put in eight points and ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? Everything was working for Mount Pleasant in a 54-33 Southeast Conference girls? basketball win over Fairfield on Friday night.?We met every one of our goals tonight,? Mount Pleasant coach Joanna Settles said after the game. ?We scored over 50, rebounded (well) and made our free throws. We also handled the pressure a lot better tonight.?Fairfield, however, struggled to keep up on the scoreboard,...

One overtime victory wasn?t enough, so the Pekin boys? basketball team decided to accomplish the feat twice last week.The Panthers held off WACO for a 57-53 overtime victory Thursday, then once again displayed their nerves of steel Friday for a 64-57 win in overtime.On Thursday, Pekin withstood a late-game rally from WACO to score 10 points in overtime. The Panthers led 31-29 at halftime before being held to 16 ...

WASHINGTON, Iowa ? In the opening night of basketball for the Fairfield seventh-grade girls, the ?A? team came out on top with a 28-17 victory vs. Washington.Led by Nicole Buch?s 13 points and Ashtyn Drish?s 10, the Trojans built a 19-7 advantage by halftime. Fairfield?s Taylor Myers and Alie Kensett finished with two points apiece, and Amiah Neff netted one.?With only six practices before this game, I wasn?t ...

Although the Fairfield varsity wrestling squad struggled to find wins Thursday, its JV wrestlers had no trouble earning victories.Fairfield?s JV team went 3-0 against Fort Madison wrestlers Thursday, both opening and closing the meet with victories in front of its home crowd at Fairfield High School.Max Spalla won by fall in 1:17 and Austin Francisco earned a pin in 2:37 to open the meet. Alex Hahn pulled out a ...

EDDYVILLE ­? Mackenzie McClure and Taylor Ferrel both hit clutch free throws down the stretch Thursday to send the Fairfield JV girls to a 53-48 overtime win at Eddyville-Blakesburg.McClure scored a team-high 10 points and Ferrel had six points with five boards. Other leading scorers included Karley Williams with nine points and nine rebounds, and Mackenzie Flattery scoring nine.Also for Fairfield, Delaney Neil ...

ALBIA ? The Pekin wrestling team left Albia with two dual wins in three tries Thursday at a quadrangular vs. Albia, Moravia and Clarke.The Panthers blasted Moravia 45-14 and Clarke 39-21, but they lost to the seventh-ranked (Class 2A) Blue Demons 52-27.Thomas Slaney (182), Trenton Conger (195/220) and Michael Hadley (285) all finished the day with flawless 3-0 marks. Brandon Baayen went 2-0 at 113 pounds.Panthe...

NEW LONDON ? Van Buren girls? basketball coach Matt Zeitler will take an ugly win over a pretty loss any day of the week.That?s what he got in his team?s return from the holiday break Tuesday. The Warriors scored their second lowest point total of the season, yet they still managed to pull out a 39-26 road win over New London.?We couldn?t hit the broad side of a barn in the first half. It was your typical deal ...