KEOSAUQUA ? The Van Buren boys just keep on winning.With a 1-3 start to the season against tough competition, the Warriors have now won four straight with a 90-59 victory over West Burlington on Tuesday.The Warriors opened up a 52-25 halftime lead and continued building on to the advantage with an 18-point third period and 20-point fourth.Van Buren (5-3, 4-3 SEISC south) allowed 34 points in the second ...
HIGHLAND ? The Pekin girls came away with a 56-53 victory over Highland in SEISC north action Tuesday night.Emily Ellis scored 18 points and Cheyann Lankford added 16 to help the Panthers to a win after losing two straight games.Jessica Horras and Samantha Wright added seven points each.The Panthers (7-2, 6-2 SEISC south) host Wapello on Jan. 3.
ELDON ? The Cardinal girls? basketball team grabbed 20 steals and turned the ball over a measly 14 times en route to blasting past Harmony 58-36 Tuesday in Eldon.?We went out there. We played with our heads. We played smart,? said new Cardinal girls head coach Jenny Cronbaugh. ?We played under control tonight and that makes a difference for us.?Liz Nichols kicked off the contest with a 3-pointer in the ...
KEOSAUQUA ? Van Buren?s Makenzie Zeitler and Hanna Haynes scored more than enough points to beat West Burlington Tuesday.The duo combined for 52 points ? seven more than West Burlington?s entire team ? and the Warriors topped West Burlington 56-45 in Keosauqua.?That?s a big one because now we?ve beat the top three teams in the conference,? said Van Buren head coach Matt Zeitler, alluding to previous wins ...
IOWA CITY (AP) ? For the second year in a row, Iowa has suspended its top running back for the Insight Bowl.Hawkeyes sophomore star Marcus Coker has been suspended from the Dec. 30 Insight Bowl against Oklahoma after violating the university?s student-athlete code of conduct.The university announced the suspension Tuesday without providing further details.Coker, a sophomore from Beltsville, Md., will not ...
HIGHLAND ? The Pekin boys? basketball team cruised past Highland 84-34 Tuesday.Trey Sathoff scored 26 points on 7-for-10 shooting to help the Panthers (7-1, 6-1 SEISC north) grab their sixth straight.Eleven players scored for the Panthers as they shot out to a 49-27 lead at the midway point. Pekin allowed only seven points in the second half.Bryce Sines added 14 points on 7-for-8 shooting plus six blocks ...
BLOOMFIELD ? The Cardinal wrestling team lost two duals in a triangular at Davis County on Tuesday.Cardinal fell to Davis County 58-23 and 70-12 to Eddyville-Blakesburg.Levi Rupe (106), Tonch Craver (182) and Andrew Hemm (195) all won by fall in the dual against the Mustangs. Ryan Cale won by technical fall, 17-0, against Davis County?s Kody Smith.In the dual with Eddyville-Blakesburg, Andrew Hemm won by ...
IOWA CITY ? Pekin?s Aaron King and Austyn Vogel finished atop their weight classes to lead the Panthers to fifth place out of 12 teams at the Iowa City Regina Invitational Saturday.With only seven Panthers in attendance, the squad scored 86.5 points, eight behind Fairfield and one ahead of sixth-place Columbus.King (120) breezed to the championship match, winning by fall in 1:29 in the quarterfinal round ...
Van Buren 78, MSAE 34The Van Buren boys? basketball team shot 70 percent from the floor Friday on its way to blasting Maharishi School 78-34 in Fairfield.Behind Colin Weaver?s game-high 28 points and Elliott Remick?s 20 points, the Warriors built a 32-8 lead after the first quarter. Maharishi School failed to keep up with Van Buren?s speed or hot shooting and the deficit grew to 53-19 at halftime and 78-26 ...
IOWA CITY ? Headed into the final meet of 2011, first-year Fairfield head coach Steve Miller admitted it?d been a while since he last smiled.He hadn?t seen many reasons to ? not with over half of his varsity roster sidelined with injuries and illness and no first-place team finishes to speak of through the first six meets of the season.He finally cracked one at the Iowa City Regina Invitational on Saturday, ...
The Fairfield boys? bowling team kept rolling with an 85-point win over Mount Pleasant Saturday, improving to 2-0 on the young season.The Trojans won a 2531-2446 decision in the varsity boys? match but lost the varsity girls? contest 2302-2241 at Flamingo Lanes in Fairfield.The Fairfield boys had a marginal lead of 14 pins after round one before settling in during games four and five of baker competition to ...
KEOSAUQUA ? For head coach Al Chapman and the Pekin wrestlers, it wasn?t about whether they would win their duals Thursday, but about by how much.?Our plan was to dominate after we watched Van Buren and West Burlington wrestle first,? said Chapman about the triangular in Keosauqua. ?We knew if we wrestled as hard as we have in practice we could go out and dominate, and that was our word of the night: dominate.?...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? ESPN college football analyst Craig James, who starred as a tailback at Southern Methodist University and with the New England Patriots in the 1980s, announced Monday he was running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican from Texas, a GOP fundraiser said.James, who appears on the cable network?s weekly game broadcasts, has been flirting with entering politics for more than year. Republican ...
NEW LONDON ? The Cardinal wrestling team was the benefactor of four forfeits in its dual with Highland on Thursday and came away with a 47-36 win.The Comets also wrestled New London and fell by a final score of 49-27.Levi Rupe (106), Josh Ramos (170), Tonch Craver (182) and Andrew Hemm (195) all received forfeits vs. Highland. Ryan Cale (120), Robert McLaughlin (152) and Jonathan Rupe (160) won their ...
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