Fairfield News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ? Jim Calhoun and Connecticut didn?t expect their season to end this way.Their future is equally unpredictable.?We?re talking about tonight?s game. We?re not talking about me,? Calhoun said after Iowa State stunned the defending national champions 77-64 in the NCAA tournament Thursday night. ?I?m going to get on the plane tomorrow, go home and do what I usually do and meet up with the team ...

The Cardinal seventh-grade girls? traveling basketball team recently finished its season with an outstanding 24-2 record while winning tournaments at Albia, Tri-County, Eddyville-Blakesburg, Cardinal and Pekin. Players are pictured, from left: Hunter Vittetoe, Makynna Harrington, Autumn Deshler, Riley Liles, Carli Campbell, Kaylie Blunt and Sarah Schmidt. The team was led by coaches Travis Harrington, Roger ...

Pekin senior Trey Sathoff has been named to the Iowa Newspaper Association?s Class 2A first-team all-state squad for the third consecutive season after guiding the Panthers to a 16-6 record in 2011-12.Sathoff capped his career as a Panther with averages of 23.1 points and 9.7 boards per game. He also led his team in steals (44) and 3-pointers (48) while shooting 55.4 percent from the field and hitting 44 percent ...

PELLA ? Just eight days into the season, the Pekin boys? track and field team got its first taste of competition at Friday?s Bulldog-Panther Indoor at Central College.The Panthers placed in seven of 11 events at the indoor.?Many of the schools that placed were 3A and 4A schools that have been practicing for three weeks, so I feel good about how our season got started,? said Pekin head coach Davis Eidahl.Pekin ...

Spring is in the air, as evidenced by a flood of Fairfield High School students filling the track lanes each evening after school. Fairfield junior Grace Smith, pictured, practices the hurdles Friday afternoon in preparation for the upcoming outdoor season. The next indoor meet for the Fairfield girls? track team is Thursday at Pella, and the outdoor season begins March 29 at Mount Pleasant.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ? The judge in former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky?s child sexual abuse case said Tuesday that a defense request for more information regarding when and where the alleged crimes occurred is moot because prosecutors have said they cannot produce additional detail.Judge John Cleland issued the order a day after the two sides debated the matter before him in a central ...

With just five seniors on the Fairfield boys? track and field squad and 24 spots to fill, the Trojans? overall success could hinge on newcomers this spring.?We don?t have a ton of numbers, so we?ll be using a lot of our bodies,? said 14-year head coach Brian Dunlap, who added they were 33 members strong. ?In track you need 24 guys a night if you have them.?Despite the low head count of the senior class, some of ...

The 2012 Fairfield Babe Ruth draft will be held Saturday.If anyone has not signed up and wishes to be on a team, contact Rusty Dimmitt at 472-6048 or Brian Reid at 233-0012.

DES MOINES (AP) ? Despite an early-season swoon, Iowa State has earned yet another trip to the NCAA tournament bid.The Cyclones landed their sixth consecutive NCAA bid on Monday night and will host Horizon League champion Wisconsin-Green Bay on Saturday.Iowa also earned an at-large bid to the tournament, its fifth straight. The eighth-seeded Hawkeyes (19-11) will play No. 9 California (24-9) on Sunday in South ...

IOWA CITY ? The Fairfield boys? track and field team stretched its legs at Thursday?s Demon Indoor to open the season.The Trojans competed against nearly 30 teams on the University of Iowa campus, including larger schools such as Iowa City High and Des Moines Roosevelt as well as conference rivals Washington and Keokuk. As the first meet of the season it proved a valuable litmus test for Fairfield head coach ...

OTTUMWA ? Tickets are now available for the 31st annual Indian Hills Community College Celebrity Night on April 10.Ed Podolak, who has been providing color commentary on Iowa Hawkeye radio broadcasts for the past three decades, will be the guest speaker.Podolak was a standout quarterback and halfback at the University of Iowa and later had a nine-year career in the NFL with the Kansas City Chiefs. He is their ...

DES MOINES ? After surviving a tense first half, the Panthers held Grinnell to only eight points in the second half for a 53-33 Class 3A state tournament semifinal win last night at Wells Fargo Arena.Despite making the state tournament for three years straight, this is the first time the Mount Pleasant boys will be playing in the championship game on Saturday night instead of the consolation game on Saturday ...