Fairfield News

The Trojan boys? soccer team fell in heartbreaking fashion, 3-2, to No. 13 ranked Pella in the second home game of the season Thursday.Tied 1-1 with under a minute remaining, the Trojans surrendered the winning goal with 30 ticks left on the clock at Trojan Stadium.?We should have held the ball and let the clock run down with that much time left, and the result would have been different,? said Fairfield head ...

TIFFIN ? The Pekin girls? track team scored 112 points and finished second in an eight-team field at the Creek Classic Relays Thursday in Tiffin.?Good night for the girls. Only our second outdoor meet and our younger girls are becoming more competitive,? said Pekin head coach Sarah Wright. ?The team is really supportive of each other, and this will help us as we go throughout the rest of the season.?West Branch ...

PACKWOOD ? Another meet meant another win for the Pekin boys? track and field team Thursday at its own Pekin Invitational.?It was the same story as our last meet,? said Pekin head coach Davis Eidahl. ?We?re strong in the field events and had good depth in the running events where we scored in all events.?The Panthers scored 142 points to edge West Burlington in the team standings by four points. North Mahaska ...

The Trojan boys? tennis team received just enough from doubles duo Matt Burnstedt and Aidan Bachar Thursday to knock off Mount Pleasant in Fairfield.The Trojans needed just one doubles win to clinch the meet after winning four of six singles matches to open. They got the win, but it didn?t come easy.Burnstedt and Bachar fell behind by a set in their No. 3 doubles match before pushing the contest to a third-set ...

Members of the 2012 Maharishi School boys? tennis team are pictured, from left, front row: David Fleshman, Sam Stickels, Rashan Anderson, Raffi Gelfand, Solaris Nite, Daniel Pirc, head coach Lawrence Eyre; back row: assistant coach Rick Trautman, Thomas Weiss, Avery Mullenneaux, Sam Arsanjani, Surya Sawhney, Hong Li Liu, Nicolas Martina and Girindra Selleck. The Pioneers opened the season Monday with a big 9-0 ...

Pictured are members of the 2012 seventh-grade girls? track and field team, from left, front row: Maggie Ferrel, Megan Sullivan, Ashlyn Elmore; second row: Sarah Davisson (mgr.), Sarah Swanson, Caytlyn Nystrom, Kylie Kurtz, Brynna Bowman, Kaylee Watson, Anuja Pharasi, Madalyn Rauscher, Taylor Myers (mgr.); third row: Ashtyn Drish (mgr.), Lauren Ward, Kenady Waugh, Jada Lippincott, Emily Hanna, Ryan Pate, Emmy ...

BLOOMFIELD ? The Pekin girls? track team ran away from the small school competition at Monday?s Dennis Anderson Relays in Bloomfield, scoring 184 points to best second-place Davis County JV by 43.The Panthers kicked off the outdoor season in style with wins in four individual events and two relays.Individually, gold medals were won by Victoria Eckley in the long jump, Mallory Reed in the 100-meter hurdles, ...

NEW YORK (AP) ? New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow has already been introduced to fans, but they'll have to wait until Tuesday to meet his official NFL jersey.U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel granted Nike Inc. a temporary restraining order late Wednesday, finding "sufficient reason" for him to block sales of Tebow merchandise created by Reebok International Ltd. after March 1.Nike has a five-year contract to ...

Each school month, the Fairfield Elks Lodge sponsors the Fairfield Middle School ?Students of the Month? award to acknowledge positive contributions of the students.These positive contributions range from assisting teachers and peers in classroom activities to displaying characteristics as a role model in and out of the classroom.The Students of the Month certificates are awarded after a nomination and voting ...

It took 84 minutes to decide a winner Thursday, but the Fairfield boys? soccer team experienced all the excitement that comes with the start of soccer season and more.Four minutes into the overtime period, the Trojans and Albia finally had a clear winner.With the score knotted up at 1-all to begin the extra period, Trojan senior Kyle Thomas scored the game-winning goal to hand the Trojans a 2-1 win to kick off ...

KEOSAUQUA ? In front of its home crowd Thursday, the Van Buren boys? track and field team came away as the night?s big winner.The Warriors finished more than 50 points above second-place Highland while scoring a meet-high 155 points in Class A action. Highland scored 103 points and Harmony was third with 74.In all, the Warriors won six events; four were individual events and two were from relays.Leading the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) ? John Groce took the Ohio Bobcats farther in the NCAA tournament than they had been in nearly 50 years.He will now get a chance to bring that level of success back to a Big Ten team.An official at the University of Illinois confirmed Thursday that the school has hired Groce as its next men?s basketball coach, replacing the fired Bruce Weber. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity...