Fairfield News

LONE TREE ? The Pekin girls stuck to their modus operandi Tuesday, falling behind early before catching up late against Lone Tree in Southeast Iowa Super Conference basketball.The Panthers trailed 33-19 at halftime, caught up in the third quarter and took the lead with one minute to go in regulation. A Pekin buzzer-beater shot was a little off, however, as it lost to Lone Tree 58-56.?It was the same old story. ...

SULLY ? The Pekin wrestling team earned one dual win Tuesday in its season-opening meet at Lynnville-Sully High School. The Panthers wrestled three teams total in the quadrangular.Pekin topped Moravia 36-30 before falling 42-27 to Sigourney-Keota and 48-30 to host Lynnville-Sully.Pekin head coach Al Chapman saw the meet as a good learning opportunity for him as well as his wrestlers.?It gets to the point where ...

KEOKUK ? In what proved to be the toughest game for the eighth-grade girls yet, the ?A? team came out on top with a final of 37-22.Kylie Kurtz paced the Trojans to a 20-12 halftime lead with 12 points. Kenady Waugh had nine points and Mikaela Lunsford scored seven. Haley Beard contributed six points, Kaylee Watson scored two and Sam Fritz knocked in a free throw.?Tonight was two tough teams just battling it ...

DONNELLSON ? Central Lee out-scored Cardinal 16-0 in the third quarter Tuesday en route to a 63-37 victory in girls basketball action in Donnellson.Cardinal also allowed 23 points in the first quarter and trailed by double digits for most of the game. Cardinal scored 17 points in the second quarter but scored just 11 points in the entire second half.Cardinal had three girls in double-figures, as senior Lindsay ...

Maharishi School lost a defensive battle to West Burlington in its season opener Tuesday, falling 47-26 in Fairfield.Pioneer junior Surya Sawhney did a little bit of everything, finishing with a final stat line of 12 points, five steals, four assists and three boards. Bimba Shrestha scored five points and had a team-high five rebounds, and Avery Mullenneaux finished the game with four points and three boards.Mah...

CEDAR RAPIDS ? Four Fairfield adults participated in Special Olympics Iowa?s State Bowling Tournament on Saturday at the Westdale Bowling Center in Cedar Rapids.Macayla Coffin won a gold medal to lead the group. Sarah Coleman, Stanley Mason and Mark Miller all received fourth-place ribbons at the tournament.Brian Simmons coached the bowlers, with assistance from Lorraine and Ryan Hill.

FORT MADISON ? Fairfield Middle School?s wrestlers battled to another winning record Tuesday at a quadrangular in Fort Madison.With seven double-winners on the night, the Trojans finished with an overall record of 24-16. In addition to host school Fort Madison, Washington and Keokuk were in attendance.Derek Beasley, Michael Fritz, Trenton Hanen and Jose Rojo each won by fall twice. Dylan Abbott won by fall and ...

Down 15 points in the third quarter Tuesday, Fairfield rallied back for a stunning 34-32 victory in seventh-grade boys basketball ?A? action.Kolten Webber led the comeback effort with another double-double of 19 points and 10 boards. Steeler Higdon came through with nine points and nine rebounds, and Blu Schultz tacked on six points. James Lyman fed the offense with eight assists.Fairfield Middle School?s ?B? ...

NEW YORK (AP) ? Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa are listed on the baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the first time, setting up an election sure to become a referendum on the Steroids Era.The 37-player ballot was announced Wednesday.More than 600 longtime members of the Baseball Writers? Association of America will vote through next month. Candidates need 75 percent for induction, and the results will ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) ? Erick Green scored 24 points and Robert Brown had 18 Tuesday night, leading Virginia Tech to a 95-79 victory against Iowa in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.The Hokies (6-0) broke away with a 19-1 run spanning the halves, then withstood a run that pulled the Hawkeyes to within 57-54 with 12 minutes left. Virginia Tech then went on a 12-4 burst to rebuild the margin. The victory, under first-year ...

OSKALOOSA ? The Trojan boys stayed even with Oskaloosa through one half of play Monday, but they couldn?t maintain the pace late and dropped their season opener 46-31.The Trojans led 9-8 after the first quarter and went into the locker room tied 19-all at halftime, but a slow start to the second half put the game out of reach. Oskaloosa led 34-24 after three quarters and continued to out-score Fairfield in the ...

OSKALOOSA ? The easier the shots were for the Fairfield girls on Monday, it seemed, the less likely they were to drop.While the Trojans hit 4-of-10 shots from 3-point land, they made just 14 percent of their shots inside the arc in a 44-26 loss to Oskaloosa. The Trojans? defense stifled the host team in the first half, but their inability to hit the easy buckets down low came back to bite them in the second ...