WASHINGTON ? The strength of the Fairfield track and field team seemed clear before the season even began.Thursday night, that picture became even clearer as the Trojans performed well in field events and sprints in the season-opening outdoor meet at Washington. But more importantly, head coach Brian Dunlap also saw some strong performances in events that were question marks before the season began.Fairfield
For sports fans cheering on their favorite prep team, the high school sports schedule may seem a little full.Add in school work and other activities and it reaches another level for the athletes.But when those seasons end, crank it up another notch for the uncountable number of kids that also step away from their school teams to play on the courts that don?t get as much time on sports pages or the six o?clock news.
The bad news: Fairfield has lost five of its top seven point scorers from last season.The good news: The two returnees are at the top of the list and come in the form of 2009 state meet place winners Libbey Schubert and Katie Hammes.With those two seniors leading the way, the Trojans will count on a big freshman class that takes up more than half of the roster. While the 22 freshmen may make the Trojan lineup a
IOWA CITY ? The Fairfield girls? track and field team took its first step onto the track in 2010 at Tuesday?s Demon Indoor at the University of Iowa Recreation Building in Iowa City.With almost half of the roster filled with freshmen running against varsity competition for the first time, the preseason meet that featured 21 schools ranging from Class 1A to 4A may have opened the eyes of some of the young Trojans
The three wrestlers that ranked highest for Fairfield in wins and team points were honored with Most Valuable Wrestler recognition at the Fairfield wrestling banquet Tuesday night.285-pound Michael Smithburg led the way in both categories with 32 wins and 126 team points and shares MVW honors with Dakota Simmons (125) and Logan Metcalf (215).Metcalf was a senior captain with four varsity letters to his name and now
Schools all around the state of Iowa took one step closer to football season with 2010-11 schedules being set in stone late last week.While seven of the nine regular season games were already established with the release of district assignments on Feb. 2, Fairfield has added Central Clinton and Davis County to the non-district slate. The announcement officially squashes hope of a match-up with rival Washington,
Following a seventh-place finish at the state tournament, Fairfield?s Dakota Simmons was named first team all-conference at 125 pounds joined by fellow state qualifiers Ryan Brewington (135) and Logan Metcalf (215).As selected by the league?s coaches, Jeff Guttry (171), Tanner Metcalf (189) and Michael Smithburg (285) were also given first-team recognition to give the Trojans the most selections of any other team.
Mount Pleasant, which will enter next week?s Class 3A state basketball tournament as the No. 1 seed, dominated the all-Southeast Conference team with three first team selections.As selected by the league?s coaches, Fairfield?s Grant Curran was placed on the second team after leading the Trojans with 13.2 points per game. Derek Byrnes and Josh Hyde were given honorable mention for Fairfield.On the girls? side,
Fairfield Little League registration informationRegistration for Fairfield Little League will take place the next two weeks.The league is open to youth ages 4-12 with registration taking place 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Saturday and Saturday, March 6 as well as 5-7 p.m. Thursday, March 4 at the First National Bank downstairs community room. Cost is $30 for one child, $50 for two and $60 for three or more. Birth
ANKENY ? The Fairfield swim club competed in its sectional meet Feb. 14 with the top three places qualifying for the state meet.In all, Fairfield will send 37 swimmers to the state meet scheduled for Saturday and Sunday March 6-7 in Marshalltown. Boys will compete March 6 while the girls will swim March 7.For full sectional results, read the Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Fairfield Ledger.
TIFFIN ? Fairfield held Clear Creek-Amana to its second-lowest point total of the season, but couldn?t find enough second half offense for themselves to get past the Clippers Tuesday night.Fairfield (4-16) was downed 42-32 in the Class 3A District 6 opener to put the final punctuation on the 2010 season while CC-A moves onto the district semifinal Thursday night vs. Williamsburg. Williamsburg advanced Monday with a
DONNELLSON ? In a game of close calls, Makenzie Zeitler?s potential game-winng 15-foot jumper as time ran out was just inches off, and instead of Van Buren celebrating a regional quarterfinal victory, it was Central Lee moving on with a 32-31 victory Tuesday night.Trailing by one point coming out of a timeout with five seconds left, Van Buren head coach Randy Smith drew up the play for Zeitler that got exactly what
WASHINGTON ? The Fairfield girls? bowling team ended up on the short end of a slim 34-pin margin that separated three teams at Saturday?s Southeast Conference meet.The Trojan girls finished in fourth place with a final tally of 2406 while the boys bested Washington with a score of 2567 to take third place. Keokuk won both the boys and girls? title with final team scores of 2752 and 2517, respectively.Derek Scearcy
SIGOURNEY ? Pekin entered Tuesday?s regional quarterfinal second in all of Class 2A shooting a sky-high 51 percent from behind the three-point arc.But Sigourney?s stingy defense held the Panthers to just 2-9 shooting from long range ? both conversions by Jessi Martin ? and from a 34-34 tie entering the fourth quarter, the Savages had just enough down the stretch to post a 47-43 victory and end Pekin?s season.?They
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