Fairfield News

CHARITON ? Yards were hard to come by for the Fairfield JV football team Tuesday, and Chariton took advantage to claim a 14-0 win at home.Combined, Nick Jackson and Tanner Deao accounted for more than half of Fairfield?s total offense. The two skill players rushed for 25 yards apiece.On defense, Alex Christenson led the Trojans with eight stops.The Fairfield JV squad (1-1) will look to rediscover its offense ...

KEOSAUQUA ? Fairfield eighth-grader Sam Fritz got her season started on the right foot Tuesday at the Van Buren Invite in Keosauqua.Fritz cruised to the front of the field in the season-opening middle school race, eventually claiming the individual title in a time of 7:33.Fritz?s seventh-grade teammate Nicole Buch was 27 ticks behind to take sixth place, and eighth-grader Ashlyn Elmore finished eighth in 8:14. ...

MUSCATINE ? Fairfield junior Baylee Bowman picked up a pair of top-three finishes to help the Fairfield swim team collect 72 points at Saturday?s meet in Muscatine.The Trojans finished sixth in the seven-team field, beating Tipton by 25 points. Linn Mar won the meet with 408 points, Muscatine was second with 355 and Williamsburg scored 193 points to finish third.Bowman took second in the 100-meter freestyle and ...

Falling to Davis County by one point a season ago was painful enough.But two years in a row? Heartbreaking.One year removed from a 30-29 loss to Davis County, the Trojans again found themselves on the losing end Friday as Mustang kicker Ryan Fullenkamp split the uprights for his first career field goal. The Mustangs won 27-26 Friday at Trojan Stadium.Though the Mustangs couldn?t seem to buy an extra point ...

SIGOURNEY ? After his team lost both games to Sigourney-Keota in his first two seasons as Pekin?s starting quarterback, senior Graham Wittrock was determined to end the Panthers? four-game losing streak in the ?Backyard Brawl? rivalry.Wittrock made a number of plays ? but with his legs, not his arm ? to lead No. 10 Pekin to a 25-13 win at Sigourney-Keota on Friday night, giving the Panthers their first win over ...

ELDON ? The Cardinal ground game racked up six touchdowns and more than 400 total yards Friday in the team?s most lopsided victory of the Adam Hadenfelt era, a 55-16 blowout of Danville.Jonathan Pedersen rushed for three of those touchdowns and 140 yards, Tyler Albert scored two touchdowns with 77 rushing yards and Dakota Showman picked up 115 yards and a touchdown on the ground to lead Cardinal.?We didn?t feel ...

The Fairfield freshman football team picked up its first win of 2012 with a 48-16 rout of Davis County prior to the varsity contest Friday.Jordan Reid rushed for three touchdowns, threw for another and scored on a pair of two-point conversions. His 149 rushing yards on 19 carries were tops on the team, and he went 3-for-5 passing for 67 yards.Other Trojans getting in on the scoring Friday included Zach Martin, ...

Pekin?s Shea Dahlstrom, foreground, and the rest of her Panther teammates take off ahead of the field Thursday at the start of the junior high race at Ottumwa?s Wildwood Park. Dahlstrom won the race in 14:00 and the Pekin girls earned the meet victory with 11 points, 37 fewer than second-place Ottumwa. Pekin?s Bonnie Becker was second overall in 14:22 and Kaylee Linder finished third in 14:52 for the 1-2-3 ...

WAYLAND ? The Pekin volleyball team opened conference play with a 25-20, 25-17, 25-17 victory over WACO on Thursday.?We hit and served aggressively and took care of the ball offensively, which has been a weakness in the past,? said Pekin head coach Ashley Bartels. ?The girls came together as a team ... and this is what will help us become successful.?Jessica Horras had a team-leading six kills, while Maranda ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? The match was a constant battle, but ninth-ranked Fairfield pulled it all together while Mount Pleasant struggled to get all aspects of its game working at once in the teams? first Southeast Conference match of the season last night. The Trojans took the contest in three close sets: 25-23, 25-23 and 25-21.The victory was sweet for Fairfield?s Sydney Howard, who was expecting to fight for every ...

Area cross country teams dive into action this week as Van Buren hosts its home invitational tonight at Riverview Country Club. Joining the Warriors will be Cardinal and Fairfield.Middle school races will get underway at 4:30 p.m. with JV and varsity to follow.Pekin is also hosting a home meet at Lake Keomah this evening.The events all lead into the Fairfield Invitational scheduled for Thursday at Waterworks ...

AMES (AP) ? Iowa State running back Shontrelle Johnson was forced to confront the possibility that he?d never play football again.Johnson has bounced back from months spent worrying about an ailing neck to be in the best shape of his life.Johnson, who missed much of 2011 following a scary neck injury in early October, celebrated his return on Saturday with the best outing of his career. Johnson rushed for a ...