Fairfield News

BURLINGTON ? Notre Dame led the Maharishi School boys? basketball team 25-4 after one quarter en route to an easy 84-15 victory Friday night in Burlington.The Pioneers were held scoreless in the second quarter and scored three points in the third before netting eight in the final period.Despite the loss, Maharishi School junior Suraj Pullapantula continued his hot streak from the 3-point-line, where he went 3 ...

FORT MADISON ? The Fairfield boys? JV basketball squad dropped a 48-39 game to Fort Madison Thursday in Fairfield.Tanner Deao led the Trojans with 12 points, and Landen Greiner and Alex Simpson scored eight points each. Both Alex Crile and Keagan Drish tacked on four points apiece.Fairfield will be back at home Tuesday vs. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont.

The Fairfield JV girls? basketball team used a balanced offensive attack to get past both Fort Madison and Danville in a pair of weekend road games.The Trojans topped Fort Madison 35-26 on Friday before rolling to an even more dominant 50-27 win against Danville Saturday. A total of 10 girls scored in at least one of the two games for Fairfield.In Friday?s game, Mackenzie Flattery led the way with nine points, ...

FARMINGTON ? Thomas Fitzsimmons scored a game-high 18 points to lead the Van Buren boys to a 68-27 rout of Harmony in an intra-county rivalry game Friday.Sophomore Garrett Saunders added 13 points for the Warriors, who are currently riding a three-game win streak. Robby Laughlin and Brandon Plecker totaled 10 points apiece, and Tanner Smith and Noah Whitten tallied five each.The 5-4 Warriors have a makeup game ...

ELDON ? Rust? What rust?In just their first game on the hardcourt since Dec. 18, the Cardinal boys rolled to their most dominant victory to date: a 75-32 shellacking of Moravia on Thursday night.As a team, the sharpshooting Comets shot 64 percent from the field and grabbed a decisive 18-4 lead after the first quarter. Up 35-18 at halftime, the Comets poured in 26 more points in the third quarter and cruised ...

KEOKUK ? A total of seven points ? or a few bonus points here and there ? was the difference between a pair of wins and a couple losses for the Fairfield wrestling team Thursday.The Trojans, who were coming off a three-point loss to Oskaloosa before the holiday break, once again struggled to close out their opponent. The Trojans fell to Mid-Prairie 36-33 and then dropped their second dual to Keokuk 31-27. The ...

NFL teams have no fear of playing in the wild-card round.Recent history shows the playoff bye isn?t such a big deal anymore. In six of the last seven years, one of the Super Bowl participants didn?t get a bye to begin the postseason. And five of those teams wound up winning the NFL title.So Green Bay?s blowing the bye by losing to Minnesota last Sunday might not be such a setback. Same for Houston, which had an ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ? Iowa State and Tulsa don?t necessarily think of the Liberty Bowl as a rematch, even though they faced each other Sept. 1 in the season opener for both teams.So much has changed since Iowa State?s 38-23 victory over Tulsa that both teams feel as though they?ll be facing an entirely new opponent Monday in a game sponsored by AutoZone.?Obviously they look like a completely different team, as ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? No. 5 Indiana will have freshman forward Jeremy Hollowell back Monday night at Iowa.Athletic director Fred Glass issued a statement Sunday saying the NCAA has cleared Hollowell of any potential infractions. On Friday, Glass said Hollowell and his family notified the school of a potential ?compliance issue.? Glass says those details will be released later.Glass thanked the NCAA for making a ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? An award-winning trainer who has worked with University of Iowa athletes for 40 years is retiring.Iowa on Thursday announced the retirement of John Streif, an assistant athletic trainer since 1972 and the athletic department?s travel coordinator since 1980. To Hawkeyes fans, Streif has long been a familiar face on the sidelines of sporting events.Streif says he?s fortunate to have been involved ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Gabby Douglas moved to Iowa with dreams of following in the footsteps of Olympic champion Shawn Johnson.The effervescent Douglas one-upped her hero and became the toast of the London Olympics.The teenager from Virginia Beach, Va., came to West Des Moines to train with Liang Chow, Johnson?s coach, and her commitment to gymnastics paid off with the Olympic all-around title.Among the many honors ...

All area basketball games scheduled today have been postponed due to inclement weather.Pekin?s boys/girls doubleheader at WACO has been postponed, and a makeup date will be set at a later time. Maharishi School?s home boys? basketball game vs. Van Buren has also been postponed with a makeup date yet to be determined, and Cardinal?s boys/girls basketball doubleheader at Danville will be made up at a later ...