Fairfield News

The Fairfield fifth-grade girls? basketball team recently finished its season with a 14-3 record overall. Players are pictured, from left, front row: Mia Ellis, Bryanna Popejoy, Danae Drish, Jillian Dunlap, Madison Kraemer; middle row: Kara Jeffrey, Lura Gamrath, Malory Jones, Alison Godwin, Olivia Roberts, Ashley Bloomquist; back row: coaches Matt Ellis, Jeremy Jeffrey and Angela Bloomquist. Not pictured: Blair ...

Van Buren senior standout guard Makenzie Zeitler has added yet another pair of honors to her growing list of postseason accolades.Zeitler was recently named a Class 2A All-State first-team selection by the Iowa Girls? Coaches Association and an All-State third-team selection by the Iowa Newspaper Association.Zeitler becomes the first-ever Warrior girl to be named first team All-State by the Iowa Girls? Coaches ...

The Pekin eighth-grade boys? basketball team was often outnumbered but rarely outplayed this season.The Panther roster featured just seven eighth-graders but battled to a promising 7-2 record in 2012.The eighth-grade team was led by Ryan Swanson?s 16.9 points and 11.4 rebounds per game. Second in both categories was Keaton Winn with 10 points and 6.9 boards per game. Starters in the backcourt were Brady Donovan ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? Greg Davis spent 13 seasons calling the shots at powerhouse Texas, which usually dominated a league famous for innovative attacks.Now Davis is coordinating the offense for Iowa, often seen as the epitome of conservative Big Ten football.Davis?s plan for the Hawkeyes will be to merge Big Ten tradition with Big 12 creativity in a system that can re-energize Iowa?s offense.Davis, the former ...

Iowa State is ranked 25th in this week?s Associated Press Top 25 poll.It?s the first time the Cyclones (22-9, 12-6) have been ranked in the AP poll since November of 2005 ? a drought that lasted 130 weeks.Iowa State is coming off an 80-72 win over then-No. 9 Baylor in Saturday?s regular-season finale.The Cyclones earned the No. 3 seed for the Big 12 tournament and will face sixth-seeded Texas in Kansas City on ...

Pictured are the Fairfield boys? basketball award winners following Thursday?s season-ending banquet at Fairfield High School, from left: Cody Kool, Nik Fitch, Davis Lowenberg, Brent Buch and Matt Carr. Kool was named the Most Improved Player and also received the Windex Award and second annual Jordan Leazer Take Charge Award after leading the Trojans in rebounds (177) and charges drawn. Fitch took home the Mr. ...

WAVERLY ? Packwood native and current Wartburg basketball senior Jordan Sathoff was named to the all-Iowa conference first team released Wednesday.The honor marked Sathoff?s third career all-conference selection and second consecutive first-team selection. Sathoff was second team all-conference as a sophomore.The Pekin High School graduate wrapped up his college career as the league?s leading scorer with 19.6 ...

AMES (AP) ? Former Ames High star and current Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg is being inducted into the National Federation of State High School Associations Hall of Fame.The federation announced Thursday that Hoiberg is one of 12 members of the hall?s 2012 class.Hoiberg led Ames to the 1991 state title in basketball and was named Iowa's Mr. Basketball after averaging 29.8 points a game that season. He also was ...

The Fairfield bowling program landed 11 individuals on the Southeast Conference?s all-academic team this season.Fairfield recipients are Jacob Adam, Randy Andermann, Wyatt Andersen, Shannan Baker, Amanda Chatfield, Mitch Goudy, Stian Hoff, Ben Hull, Gabe Hull, Jacob Kessel and Kristen Terrell. Kessel and Ben Hull earned the top grade point averages at 3.96.The 11 selections is a major improvement from one ...

NEW YORK (AP) ? The Braves are remembered for one of baseball?s epic collapses.Too bad for Atlanta the playoffs weren?t expanded a year earlier.Negotiators for baseball players and owners are working toward an agreement to increase the postseason field to 10 teams this season. They had hoped to reach a deal by Thursday, but both sides said talks could continue if they needed additional time to deal with the ...

Fairfield senior Davis Lowenberg is a first-time selection to the all-Southeast Conference second team after leading the Fairfield boys? basketball team to an 8-14 record in 2011-12.Lowenberg was fifth in the SEC in both scoring (12.5 ppg) and rebounding (6.3 rpg) this season. The power forward also led the Trojans in blocks with 12.Senior teammates Brent Buch and Cody Kool were all-SEC honorable mention. Buch, ...

IOWA CITY ? Six area individuals will be joining more than 900 Iowa athletes at the 25th annual Special Olympics Mid-Winter Tournament March 9-10 in Iowa City.Jessica Clements, Ross Robinson, Ronnie Withrow, Nathan Mathis, Justin Cross and Andrew Peiffer, all of Fairfield, are set to compete in the games. Clements, Robinson, Mathis, Cross and Peiffer will be competing in the basketball skills competition. ...