Fairfield News

CEDAR FALLS (AP) ? Deon Mitchell and Seth Tuttle scored a combined 48 points and Northern Iowa held off Toledo 84-81 in overtime Wednesday night.Mitchell was 8 of 11 from the field with 27 points. Tuttle was 6 of 9 from the field, with 21 points. He also had a team-high 10 rebounds. Marc Sonnen added 11 points for the Panthers (2-0).Northern Iowa had a 41-38 lead at halftime, but Toledo was not done.Julius ...

AMES (AP) ? Iowa State has signed four basketball to letters of intent in a recruiting class ranked 24th in the nation by ESPN.High school stars Matt Thomas and Monte Morris and junior college teammates Dustin Hogue and Richard Amardi will be eligible to play starting in 2013-14.Thomas is a 6-foot-4 guard who is considered among the best shooters in the nation. Morris is a 6-foot-1 point guard from Flint, ...

Despite falling short of a trip to Des Moines, many Golden Triangle News Service volleyball teams made a decent postseason run this year, including two that played in their respective regional finals.Class 1A Winfield-Mount Union competed in the regional championship for the first time since 1997, and Class 4A Fairfield came within one game of the state tournament for the second year in a row, this time falling ...

The Southeast Conference champion Fairfield volleyball team held its end-of-season banquet Thursday, and head coach Nancy Diers doled out varsity awards to nine players as voted on by the team. Award winners are pictured, from left, front row: Haley Grunwald (Captain Award), Ashley Manning (Captain Award), Sydney Burnett (Hustle Award), Cheyanne Laux (Defensive Player Award); back row: Erin Thompson (Offensive ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ? Former Penn State president Graham Spanier was arraigned and released on bail at a brief court appearance Wednesday on charges he lied about and concealed child sex abuse allegations involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.Spanier, accompanied by his wife, signed paperwork after his bail was set at $125,000, but he was not required to post any of that amount. He was ...

Both the experienced and the not-so-experienced dotted the All-Golden Triangle News Service map this fall. Out of the 14 cross country runners chosen to the All-GTNS team, five harriers are repeat selections while six others stepped foot on the courses for the very first time.Two teams, however, rose above the rest at the end of the season in Fort Dodge. On the girls? side, defending Class 1A champion Pekin ...

Three members of the Pekin volleyball team and two Van Buren netters have been named to the Southeast Iowa Super Conference?s all-conference teams for 2012.Van Buren senior Hanna Haynes was selected to the All-SEISC South first team for her dominant play at the net, and senior teammate Payten Hughes was named to the second team.Senior hitters Cheyann Lankford and Maranda Baker plus senior setter Leslie Stone ...

Members of the Fairfield High School basketball team and class of 2014 have lent their support to the proposed public/private partnership and ballot issue concerning a new outdoor pool and public gymnasium.Junior basketball player Matt Carr explained overcrowding at Fairfield gyms has been an issue for years.?Our class of 2014 was lucky to participate in traveling basketball from the time we were in fourth ...

LONDON (AP) ? His career is in ruins and now an effigy of Lance Armstrong is about to go up in smoke.The disgraced American cyclist has been chosen as the latest celebrity to be burned in effigy during an English town?s nationally famous Bonfire Night celebrations.Edenbridge in southeast England has built a 30-foot (9-meter) model of Armstrong, who was stripped recently of his seven Tour de France titles for ...

Freshman Katherine Mueller opens up the state swim and dive meet today for Fairfield at the Marshalltown Community Y in Marshalltown.Mueller begins her quest for a medal in the 1-meter dive at 5 p.m. The current FHS record-holder in the 11-dive event is seeded 18th out of 30 after scoring 337.10 at regionals.On Saturday, Fairfield junior Baylee Bowman also will be competing in Marshalltown after qualifying in ...

Van Buren senior linebacker Curtis Thomas has been named to the Class A District 5 first team.As the leading tackler on Van Buren, Thomas helped his team to a 2-5 mark in the district and 2-7 record overall this fall. The senior totaled a team-leading 86 tackles ? 52 solos ? and one sack.The Warriors also landed four players on District 5?s second team, including junior Casey Jones, sophomores Brandon Plecker ...

Members of the Fairfield Middle School seventh-grade basketball team are pictured, from left, front row: Stetson Spees, Saban Simons, Orion Riley, Jordan Guezimane, Hunter Drish, Jimmy Kurka, Juancarlos Tello, Jesse Birlson; middle row: Cade Lisk, Dakota Storto, Jared Wilmon, Blue Schultz, Michael Flournoy, Fabian Perez, Brendon Hagans, Tyler Palmer, Darren Roberts, James Lyman, manager Cole Engle, Hunter ...