Pam Regur of Fairfield was the overall female winner in the 10-kilometer road race Saturday morning at the 60th annual West Point Sweet Corn Festival in Fort Madison.
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Fairfield will host its annual Meet the Trojans night at Fairfield High School Thursday evening.A parent meeting for athletes involved in FHS fall athletics is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. in the gym.Players and coaches for all fall athletic events including football, volleyball, cross country, swimming and cheerleading will be introduced to parents, fans and community members. Team pictures will begin at 6 ...
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Van Buren parents, fans and community members are invited to a fall sports scrimmage night Friday.Volleyball scrimmages will begin at 5 p.m. in the high school gymnasium, and the football team will hit the field at 7 p.m.Athletes will be announced prior to scrimmaging.
MICHAEL LEACH, Ledger sports editor
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Southeast Iowa showcased some of the best baseball the state had to offer in 2012, and a major reason why was its senior class. Out of the 13 athletes selected to the All-Golden Triangle News Service baseball team, 10 were seniors.One of those seniors, Washington?s Jake Redlinger, had arguably the best season of them all and has been named captain of the All-GTNS team. The cleanup hitter batted .382 this season ...
TRAVIS J. BROWN, Golden Triangle News Service
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Youth was served on the All-Golden Triangle News Service softball team this year. Only two seniors were selected to the 13-player roster.New London?s Bria Mears is one of those two seniors. She was selected as a utility player for her efforts on the mound and at the plate this season.The Tiger pitcher had a 1.66 earned run average this summer, putting her in the top 20 in Class 1A pitchers in that statistic. ...
ASHLEE DE WIT, Golden Triangle News Service
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MOUNT PLEASANT ? Former Iowa Wesleyan College athletes Fred Parsons (class of 1957) and Fred Jacobeit (class of 1950) will be inducted into the IWC Athletic Hall of Fame Oct. 5 as part of homecoming weekend.Parsons was a basketball and baseball player at Iowa Wesleyan and has been a longtime Van Buren boys? basketball coach.A catcher and an outfielder, he started for three straight seasons on IWC?s baseball ...
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LONDON (AP) ? Both jogged across the finish line.Both know they?ve got more in the tank ? maybe even a gold medal.Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake both moved onto the finals of the 200 meters with easy runs Wednesday night. They?ll go for the gold medal in Thursday?s night final, and think the winner has a shot at breaking Bolt?s world record of 19.19 seconds.?Anything is possible,? Blake said. ?It?s the 200 meters ...
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Sarah Attar finished more than 40 seconds behind the lead pack in her women?s 800-meter heat ? and she got the loudest ovation of anyone.Attar became the first Saudi woman to compete in Olympic track and field, wearing a headscarf and finishing with the second-slowest time of any of the 40 women who took the track Wednesday.?This is such a huge honor and an amazing experience, just to be representing the ...
ASHLEE DE WIT, Golden Triangle News Service
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IOWA CITY ? The Hawkeyes have a new offensive system this season, and former Mount Pleasant football players Jordan Cotton and Henry Krieger-Coble are ready to do anything they can to help it out.Krieger-Coble, a 2011 Mount Pleasant graduate and redshirt freshman at Iowa, is playing at tight end for the Hawkeyes this season.?I?m looking forward to working hard for another year,? he said.He?s not on the depth ...
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Sue Long of Fairfield holds up her golf club and ball after scoring her first ever hole-in-one on Walton Club?s eighth hole Tuesday. Janet Morris witnessed the perfect shot, which Long hit using a Titlette 5-iron and Top Flite XL 3000 golf ball.
Julie Johnston/ Ledger photo
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Eighth grader Kylie Kurtz was but one of the cross-country camp attendees at Fairfield High School this past week. The harriers were heading back to the school after running in residential areas near the high school on Thursday.
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Michael Phelps got off to a slow start in the London Games. Now the most decorated Olympian in history is set to sprint to the finish in the last individual race of his career.Phelps will swim the 100-meter butterfly on Friday, with a chance to add a second threepeat to his resume. He won his first individual gold in London in the 200 individual medley on Thursday, making him the first man to win the same ...
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All Times ESTAmerican LeagueEast Division W L Pct GBNew York 61 43 .587 ?Baltimore 55 50 .524 6½Tampa Bay 55 50 .524 6½Boston 53 53 .500 9Toronto 51 54 .486 10½Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 57 47 .548 ?Detroit 55 50 .524 2½Cleveland 50 55 .476 7½Minnesota 45 60 .429 12½Kansas City 44 60 .423 13West Division W L Pct GBTexas 61 43 .587 ?Oakland 57 48 .543 4½Los Angeles 57 49 .538 5Seattle ...
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Seventh grader Hunter Hoskins catches a pass from quarterback James Lyman as they practice from scrimmage against high school football boys who simply tried to stop them with blocking pads. Dillon Fry was acting as safety during the play. The boys were in football camp all this week.
