Fairfield News

Jumping from a board into a pool of water one meter beneath sounds simple enough.However, things tend to get complicated when you consider that the board is designed to fling someone as high in the air as possible. Then you?re expected to be doing flips, twists and everything in between before hitting the water.And one more thing ? there are judges.Fairfield sophomore Jaci Bell hasn?t been around the sport of

KEOSAUQUA ? Things were going about as well as they could for the Cardinal volleyball team Thursday night at Van Buren, but a few minutes later, they were going about as bad as they could.The Comets made it look easy by taking a 2-0 match lead, but the Warriors stormed back to make it a fierce contest before Cardinal eeked out a 25-24, 25-8, 26-28, 26-24 victory.The game four victory avoided a game five and also

Three days removed from a loss to Keokuk that broke a 37-match Southeast Conference win streak, and one week away from one of the worst tournament performances in recent memory at Ottumwa, the Fairfield volleyball team was back with authority.Three of the four SEC opponents joined the Trojans at the Burlington tournament Saturday, and Fairfield posted four wins on the day without a loss until the championship match

ELDON ? The Cardinal offense couldn?t solve the Alburnett defense, and a second-half blitz in particular, and the Pirates spoiled the Comet homecoming with a 26-0 victory.Alburnett (2-2, 1-1) used its open Friday night the week before to set up a game plan that shut down a Cardinal (0-4, 0-2) offense that has been far from explosive the first half of 2010. The Comets ? one year removed from beginning the year with

Fairfield was expected to win going away Friday night, and that?s what it did ? eventually.It may seem like a broken record, but once again, the Trojans were able to wear down Chariton up front and used the fatigue to put up big offensive numbers. That has been the case in each of the four wins this season, and Fairfield has scored 95 points in the second half compared to 34 in the first.My notes indicate more than

Fairfield and Chariton combined for 41 points in the second half Friday night ? compared to just seven in the first half ? but 27 of those second-half points belonged to Fairfield and it all added up to a 34-14 victory.Trojan quarterback Jordan Leazer and running back Michael Hammes both ran behind their big offensive line for more than 150 yards ? most coming in the final 24 minutes ? and helped Fairfield (4-1, 2-1

Lightning hung around Southeast Iowa again Monday night, and once again didn?t leave before causing problems for area football teams.Fairfield?s game vs. Mount Pleasant, rescheduled from last Friday, has been moved to tonight at 7 p.m. ? weather permitting. Players were able to take the field, and the national anthem was sung Monday before lightning in the south became too much to ignore. The game was officially

For the record, there was no point aside from the final minutes Friday night that I considered the game to be even close to over.I?ve watched enough sports in my day, and, in particular, an adequate amount of high school events the last few years, that I can count on things changing with so much time left on the clock. The bad news was that Central Clinton scored so quick to start the game, and at the same time, the

OSKALOOSA ? The Pekin girls? cross-country team showed exactly why it is the top-ranked team in all of Class 1A while the boys? team showed why hopes are high for 2010 with its heap of returning runners.The Panthers won the girls? division of the Lake Keomah Invite with an impressive score of 25, and the boys came up just two points short of doing the same with a final tally of 47. The Panthers were second behind

KEOSAUQUA ? At long last, area cross country teams heard the sound of a starting gun Tuesday night.Following last Thursday?s rain-out in Ottumwa, runners finally ran their first race of 2010 at the Van Buren Invite at Riverview Country Club in Keosauqua.The Fairfield boys and girls? teams both picked up second-place team finishes in the AA division. The Trojan girls fought off its top Southeast Conference

MUSCATINE ? The Fairfield swim team finished third out of six teams at the Muscatine Invite Saturday.The Trojans scored 243 points while the host Muskies won the event with 429 and Williamsburg scored 287.Jaci Bell won the first of three events on the day for Fairfield with a first-place finish in diving. To edge out her Tipton opponent, Bell completed a back sommersault with a 1.5 twist for a difficulty score of

NEW LONDON ? For the second year in a row, it took a deficit for the Cardinal football team to find its way against Winfield-Mount Union.Last year, the Comets fell behind 14-0 before rallying to a 21-14 win, but Friday night, a 22-0 halftime deficit was too much to overcome and Cardinal fell 29-14 to drop to 0-2 on the season. Trailing by three scores entering the third quarter, Cardinal marched right down the field