Fairfield News

BURLINGTON ? Rarely does school spirit hurt a team.Yet the Fairfield cross country teams experienced one of those unlikely occurrences Thursday at the Grayhound Invite in Burlington.The Trojan girls, missing Homecoming Queen Sage Richmond and fellow court candidate Hannah Sobaski to the pep rally in Fairfield, finished fourth in the seven-team field with 93 points. The boys, meanwhile, were without queen ...

The Fairfield varsity team will be competing at the 33rd annual Grayhound Invitational Saturday in the Carl Johannsen Gymnasium in Burlington.Fairfield will be joining Muscatine, Davis County and Burlington?s gray team in pool B. The other pool of teams includes Burlington?s purple team, Galesburg, Ill., Fort Madison and Mount Pleasant.The Trojans kick off the tournament at 9:45 a.m. against the Mustangs. They ...

OTTUMWA ? Indian Hills Community College plans to honor a second wave of individuals into its Athletic Hall of Fame.Nominations are currently being accepted for the second class of inductees.The HOF was established last year to honor athletes, teams, coaches and other individuals who distinguished themselves with their contributions to Indian Hills, dating back to the years of Centerville Junior College. Those ...

The Van Buren and Pekin volleyball teams have earned spots in the Southeast Iowa Super Conference tournament finals after finishing runner-up at their respective first round sites Thursday.They will be joined by Mediapolis, Danville, New London, IMS, Holy Trinity and Winfield-Mount Union in the championship round. The games will take place Saturday at Southeastern Community College in West Burlington. Start time ...

PELLA ? Pekin graduate Emma Nelson, a member of the Central College women?s cross country team, turned in a breakthrough performance at the Grinnell Les Duke Invitational on Sept. 8.The Central junior finished 24th overall (24:34) to help the Dutch place fifth in the 11-team field. Nelson was the third Central runner to cross the finish line.?Emma ran a really strong race,? said associate head coach Stephen ...

WASHINGTON, Iowa ? Fairfield resident Peter Mannisi was the overall winner of the 13th annual Hospice of Washington County 5K Memorial Walk/Run held Saturday in Washington?s Sunset Park.The 65-year-old won the race with a time of 19:54, which was nearly 26 seconds faster than the second-place finisher. Mannisi was in second place at the midway point before running away with the victory over the course?s final ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? It was a mixed bag of results for the Fairfield eighth-grade football team in Tuesday?s games with conference rival Mount Pleasant.The Trojan ?A? team fell to the host Panthers 36-0, but the ?B? team won by a similar margin with a 42-0 victory.Tony Zapata and Michael Fritz led the ?A? offense with 56 and 54 yards rushing, respectively. Baily Kemp was 2-for-3 passing for 22 yards. Brian Buch ...

FORT MADISON ? Fairfield Middle School cross country runner Sammy Fritz claimed her second win of the season Thursday.The eighth-grader broke the tape on the Fort Madison Invitational?s two-mile course in 14:34. She won the Van Buren Invite earlier this season and placed second at Fairfield?s invite.Joining Fritz with a top-10 finish Thursday was teammate Ashlyn Elmore in sixth place in 15:30. Emily Hanna ...

KEOKUK ? Keokuk?s big play gave the Fairfield football team big fits Friday at Calvert Stadium in Keokuk.The Chiefs? Gabe Vandenberg completed four touchdown passes ? including long throws of 53, 44 and 26 yards ? to lead Keokuk to a 42-14 victory over Fairfield in Class 3A District 7 action. The Chiefs rolled up 525 total yards offense and scored four touchdowns in the second quarter alone to hand Fairfield its ...

The Fairfield seventh-grade volleyball team took three of four matches from Ottumwa last Thursday in Fairfield.The Trojan ?A? team lost in three games (12-21, 21-18, 9-15) while the ?B? team won in three (17-21, 21-16, 15-4). Kristen Daugherty led the ?A? team with 12 serves, and Taylor Myers executed two kills in the ?B? game.Both the ?C? and ?D? teams won in straight sets. Shanti Williams had two kills and ...

PACKWOOD ? Pekin Sports Boosters plan to meet the last Wednesday of every month beginning Sept. 26 at the Pekin High School library. Meetings will begin at 6 p.m.The entire community is invited to attend. The Pekin Sports Boosters Association aims to ?support, encourage and enhance the sports programs and our student athletes through physical and financial means and to promote sportsmanship through quality ...

FORT MADISON ? All the hard work the Fairfield harriers have put in has yet to show up in the team standings, but Fairfield head coach Jerrod Belzer is confident the training will pay off in no time.Running at the Fort Madison Invitational in Rodeo Park Thursday, Jessica Lamb finished second overall to lead the girls to a third-place finish and 54 points. The Fairfield boys, paced by Randy Andermann in 12th ...