Fairfield News

MOUNT PLEASANT ? Fairfield senior Stian Hoff was named co-bowler of the year and led the Fairfield boys? bowling team to its first state tournament bid Thursday in Mount Pleasant.The Trojan boys extended their season at the district meet with a score of 3009 to become an at-large state qualifier. Fairfield finished second in the final team standings, while Louisa-Muscatine won the team race with 3101.?The boys ...

WEST BURLINGTON ? Great River Medical Center is offering a clinic for athletes, age 12 and up, who want to improve their running forms and techniques. The clinic is scheduled from noon to 4 p.m. Feb. 25 in the Nike Room at Great River Center for Rehab and Clinics, 1401 W. Agency Rd., West Burlington.Presentation topics include nutrition and hydration, proper shoe wear and stretching. Participants will receive ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) ? Denver Holmes banked in a 3-pointer with 0.6 seconds left to lift Evansville to a 63-62 win over Northern Iowa on Wednesday night.Holmes? 3 from the top of the key was his second in the final 18 seconds. The first put the Purple Aces (13-13, 8-8 Missouri Valley) ahead 60-59. Johnny Moran answered with another 3 for Northern Iowa (17-11, 7-9) with 8.6 seconds remaining before Evansville ...

LIBERTYVILLE ? The Libertyville Little League has announced sign-up dates for the upcoming season.League sign-up dates are from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Libertyville Community Center and 5-7 p.m. Tuesday at Libertyville Elementary School. Online sign-up using the Jevin system continues until Feb. 29 at ~Children of all area towns are invited to join. Any child aged 4-6, with birthdates May 1, 2005-April ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? It was business as usual for the seventh-grade ?A? girls Monday in Mount Pleasant.The Trojan ?A? team kept its undefeated season intact with a 41-26 win over the Panthers. Samantha Fritz scored 19 and Kylie Kurtz had nine to pace the Trojans. Jenna Crile scored four, Haley Beard tallied three points, and Kenady Waugh and Mikaela Lunsford added two each.?Tonight was a good win for us. We weren?t ...

Two to represent Pekin at stateEDDYVILLE ? Pekin junior Thomas Slaney and senior Aaron King are still standing as the high school wrestling field continues to narrow.Slaney was crowned champion at 182 pounds and King took second at 120 during Saturday?s district meet in Eddyville. Both Panthers have qualified for the state tournament beginning Thursday.Slaney, who claimed the sectional title one week ago, ...

FORT MADISON ? With the Trojans trailing headed into the fourth quarter Friday, senior Tori Ogden found her can?t-miss spot 15 feet from the rim.Ogden, shooting a total of 12 free throws in the final quarter, missed her first attempt but sank the next 11 to lift Fairfield past Fort Madison, 58-49, in the regular season finale.?That was a really good win for us. A lot of good performances out of the gals,? said ...

KEOSAUQUA ? The Van Buren girls? basketball team moved one step closer to a state tournament bid with a 57-46 win over Davis County to open regional play Saturday.The 10th-ranked (Class 2A) Warriors led wire-to-wire, overcoming foul trouble late in the game to keep their state tournament hopes alive.Van Buren took a 17-9 advantage after one quarter and 30-17 lead by halftime. The Warriors led by as many as 19 ...

It took the Fairfield boys? basketball team 21 games to get on a winning streak, but their first of the season is coming at the best possible time.The Trojans rolled to their second straight win in Friday?s season finale, holding off a late Fort Madison rally and earning a 57-52 win.?We feel like we?re playing our best basketball at the right time and we?ve got to be happy with that,? said Fairfield head coach ...

Whitney Hastings (pictured), son-in-law to Sheri Haupert-Betz of Fairfield, displays his first-ever trophy mountain lion this winter.Hastings, of DeSoto, Kan., shot and killed the New Mexico lion on a guided hunt Jan. 26 in high desert country at the south end of Gila National Forest.The 34-year-old used a 44-magnum rifle to shoot the animal as it was perched 60 feet above in a tree. He then scaled the tree to ...

DONNELLSON ? The Cardinal girls? basketball team saw its season come to an end Saturday, but not before rewriting a portion of the record books.Cardinal?s Lindsay Moore tied the record for points in a season with 366 and Liz Nichols broke the season record for 3-pointers with 52 during a 69-42 loss to Central Lee.Moore scored 11 points and Nichols added another 10 with three treys in the first round of regional ...

Van Buren 67, Pekin 60KEOSAUQUA ? In what could be their first of two matchups in under a week, Van Buren bested area rival Pekin 67-60 in SEISC shootout action Friday.The Warriors (15-6, 13-5 SEISC south) and Panthers (16-5, 14-4 SEISC north) started out hot in the first quarter, with Pekin grabbing a 21-20 lead. Van Buren scored another 21 in the second quarter to take a 41-34 advantage into halftime and held ...