Fairfield News

Fairfield?s boys? basketball game at Mid-Prairie has been postponed to Feb. 10.The girls? contest at Centerville scheduled for tonight will be made up as a home game Feb. 10.Ninth-grade, JV and varsity teams are still set to play at both sites.Fairfield Middle School basketball games scheduled for tonight against Fort Madison have been rescheduled for Feb. 11.Pekin?s boy-girl doubleheader at Highland has been

EDDYVILLE ? Following a 12-0 deficit early, Fairfield played as well as it has all season according to head coach Tyler Miklo and blew past Eddyville-Blakesburg (5-11) for a 68-53 win in non-conference action Monday night.Davis Lowenberg led Fairfield with 17 points and Grant Curran neared a triple-double with 15 points ? 13 scored in the second half ? 13 rebounds and eight assists. Curran also assumed ball-handling

MEDIAPOLIS ? Van Buren?s Zach Corman took the 215-pound title at the SEISC wrestling tournament Saturday in Mediapolis, but the short-handed Warriors fell to last out off 11 teams in the final team standings.Corman pinned Wapello?s Jacob Kerr in 3:53 to claim the title.285-pound Ryan Kruse added a sixth-place finish for Van Buren, which scored a total of 40 points.Cardinal ends up fifthMEDIAPOLIS ? The Cardinal

MOUNT PLEASANT ? The Mount Pleasant bowling team had just enough at the end to beat the Fairfield girls and more than enough the whole way to upend the Trojans boys Saturday.On their home lanes, the Panthers squeaked out a 2397-2386 victory in the girls match while the boys rolled to a 3152-2507.Nicci Mellott rolled her first every 200 game on her way to a 336 series and Sam Ruckman added a 318 series thanks to a

Iowa City Regina scored on nine of its first 10 possessions and put the game away early on its way to a 62-25 victory at Fairfield Thursday night.Zoe Dutchik scored on five of those trips to tally 10 early points for the Regals (15-3) while the Trojans (5-10) didn?t hit from the field until more than five minutes in. Serena Ward broke the ice for Fairfield with a jumper, but Regina had already opened an 18-3 lead

A JV tournament Friday and the Stars and Stripes Wrestling Club youth tournament Sunday are just the undercards around Saturday?s main event ? the Southeast Iowa Classic ? that will make wrestling fans feel at home in Fairfield this weekend.Just one week before sectional tournaments commence, a Fairfield Invite title will be up for grabs amonst a field of 13 teams including the host Trojans. Fairfield?s trio of

After seeing Iowa City Regina jump out to a 21-3 first quarter lead in the girls? contest, the Regals pushed a similar fate on the Fairfield boys.6-foot, 7-inch big man Braden Lehman scored nine of his game-high 18 points in the first quarter and helped make Regina (12-5) a 72-26 winner by the end of the night.?We just didn?t play very hard, and it?s frustrating to be this late in the season and roll over and take

Full-court pressure has been an Achilles heel for Fairfield for much of the season, but the shoe was on the other foot Monday night vs. Maharishi School.The Trojans (2-12) came with pressure from the get-go and picked up their second win of the season with a 58-22 victory.?They were very aggressive and put a lot of pressure on our ballhandlers,? said MSAE head coach Mitch Haas. ?It really affected our ability to

BURLINGTON ? One game removed from seeing its undefeated season ruined at 15 games, the Van Buren girls? basketball team was back with vigor.The Warriors (16-1, 12-1 SEISC south) scored the first 13 points of the game and never looked back on their way to a 52-38 victory at Burlington-Notre Dame (5-10, 4-9).Junior Makenzie Zeitler scored nine straight points as part of the run and finished the game with 18 points

CLINTON ? Injuries and illness continued to plague the Fairfield wrestling team and a stacked field at the Bob Leuders Invitational in Clinton didn?t help matters.The Trojans finished in eighth-place out of a crowded field of 24 teams in the final team standings as one wrestler, 285-pound Michael Smithburg, came home with a medal.?It was a very tough tournament, and there were no easy medals to be had,? said

Keokuk was hitting on all cylinders to hand Fairfield a season-opening loss in December, but the Trojans found their groove Saturday to avenge the loss and pick up another win.The boys? squad ran away from Keokuk in the round two baker games to win its second meet of the year by a final score of 2479-2344. The JV boys? team also won by a score of 2048-1956.The girls? team, however, couldn?t build on last week?s win

WASHINGTON ? Washington seemed to out-hustle Fairfield to loose basketballs during Friday night?s Southeast Conference game, and that was the key as the Demons defeated the rival Trojans 58-40.Washington out-rebounded the Trojans 36-18 in the contest.?It?s a big goal for us to have more rebounds,? Washington junior Lauren Vittetoe said. ?We go after rebounds pretty well. Coach [Phil Long] emphasized that they?re