SULLY ? Cardinal?s Sam Schmidt rolled to the 220-pound championship match and a second-place finish at a wrestling tournament in Lynnville-Sully on Saturday.Schmidt was joined on the podium by teammates Ryan Cale (113) and Josh Ramos (170), both of whom finished third.The Comets wrap up 2012 with a double-dual at Eddyville-Blakesburg Tuesday.
One more game separates Fairfield?s eighth-grade girls? basketball team from its second straight perfect season following a 59-20 rout of Ottumwa Thursday in Fairfield.The eighth-grade girls finished their seventh-grade season with an 11-0 record in ?A? action. They?re currently 11-0 once again and have a chance to finish the two-year span 23-0 with a final game vs. Washington today.On Thursday, the Trojans and ...
The Fairfield JV boys? basketball team scored more points Tuesday than in any other game this season, yet it also gave up more than before in a 67-56 loss to Davis County.The Trojans had three players scoring in double-figures, including Alex Simpson with 16 points, Jordan Reid with 15 and Tanner Deao netting 12. Simpson also pulled down nine boards, and Reid and Deao combined to hit five treys.Fairfield?s ...
IOWA CITY (AP) ? Freshman Mike Gesell was Iowa?s future point guard long before he even joined the Hawkeyes.But just seven games into what many thought would be a four-year stint, Gesell has ceded his position to an unlikely classmate.Coach Fran McCaffery hasn?t lost faith in Gesell ? not by a long shot. It?s just that fellow freshman Anthony Clemmons has been a revelation as the primary ball handler for the ...
The Fairfield youth basketball program is hosting a tournament for girls and boys in grades five through eight this weekend at Pence Elementary, Fairfield Middle School and Fairfield High School.The girls? tournament is on Saturday and the boys? tournament is scheduled Sunday. A total of 31 boys? teams and 33 girls? teams will be competing in the tournament.Admission is $4 for adults, $2 for students and free ...
PACKWOOD ? The Pekin girls? basketball team bounced back from its first loss in December with another win, a 41-40 nail-biter vs. IMS on Tuesday.Leslie Stone scored a team-high 10 points for the Panthers, who rallied back from a 22-19 halftime deficit. Pekin scored 13 points in the third quarter to take a 30-29 lead, then held on for the win with a nine-point fourth period.Also for Pekin, Beth Atwood scored ...
BLOOMFIELD ? The Fairfield girls? basketball team moved back up to .500 with a 49-36 non-conference victory against Davis County Tuesday in Bloomfield.Junior Marisa Repp?s 19 points and six rebounds led the Trojans, who were coming off a close loss to 15th-ranked Washington last Friday. Senior teammate Sidney Baumann, who has scored in double-figures four times this season, tallied 16 points to go with three ...
ELDON ? Van Buren got back on the winning track with a dominant showing against rival Cardinal Tuesday.The Warriors, coming off a loss to Burlington Notre Dame, thoroughly controlled Tuesday?s game from start to finish and won 62-28 in Eldon.Hanna Haynes led the Warriors with another stellar stat line of 22 points, eight boards, six blocks and five steals. Kaitlyn Johnson scored 16 on four treys, and the ...
The Fairfield eighth-grade girls? ?A? basketball team is two games away from a perfect season following a 52-28 victory over Mount Pleasant on Tuesday.The Trojans started off hot Tuesday taking a 13-2 lead in the first quarter. Mount Pleasant chipped away in the second quarter, but the Trojans went into halftime up 26-14.?Tonight was another solid win for us. We had a few defensive lapses, but made up for them ...
WASHINGTON, Iowa ? Five Fairfield Middle School wrestlers went 2-0 at a Tuesday quadrangular in Washington, Iowa.Zach Barnes, Derek Beasley, Michael Fritz, Chris Hanson and Bailey Jones all were double-winners for Fairfield.Beasley won by fall in 10 and 55 seconds, while Hanson pinned a pair of opponents in 29 seconds and 1:34, respectively. Fritz won his two matches in 29 seconds and 2:21. Barnes earned a 9-4 ...
ELDON ? Dakota Showman scored 15 points and Charlie Rachford added 11 to lead the Cardinal boys? basketball team past New London 65-41 Friday in Eldon.The Comets catapulted out to a 13-2 lead after one quarter of play and held a 29-12 advantage after two quarters. The host team scored another 36 points in the second half to cruise to their second victory of the season.Cardinal?s Conner McElderry also hit ...
KEOKUK ? The Fairfield bowling team opened its season Monday against Keokuk at Arrowhead Bowl.The Trojans dropped both varsity matches, falling 2922-2643 on the boys? side and 2306-1951 in the girls? match.Keokuk, the defending Class 1A state champs in girls bowling, showed little sign of rust. Led by Hannah Seyb?s series score of 385 and Lakyn Boltz?s 362, the Chiefs built a 1610-1245 lead after round one. The ...
Fairfield started the final week of the seventh-grade boys? basketball season off right with a 39-18 victory over Burlington Aldo Leopold in ?A? action Monday.Kolten Webber paced the Trojans with another double-double of 16 points and 13 rebounds, and Steeler Higdon scored eight points to go along with 12 rebounds. Cade Lisk also contributed to the final score with eight points.Also for Fairfield, Blu Schultz ...
Forty-five local children competed in a trampoline and gymnastics intra-team competition Dec. 1 at the Roosevelt Recreation Center.In front of an overflow crowd of spectators, Kristin Burnstedt claimed first place in the trampoline competition, followed by Juliette Pohren in second place and Justin Simmering in third.Then came the gymnastics portion, which consisted of four events: floor exercises, bars, vault ...
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