Fairfield News

Van Buren would like to put leave week?s trip to Pekin that put a 90-0 loss next to its name behind.Friday?s trip to Marengo to take on Iowa Valley presents an opportunity to do just that.Both teams are still searching for their first win of 2009 and Van Buren is hoping for its first district win since the 2006 season.The Warriors hope to get on the scoreboard early, something they failed to do in last year?s 35-0

Suddenly, the Pekin football team is on a roll.A current three-game winning streak, including last week?s 90-0 stomping of Van Buren, has the Panthers 3-1 on the year heading into Friday?s District 5 tilt at home against Wapello. Wapello also enters Friday with a 3-1 record, but suffered that lone loss just one week ago at the hands of league heavyweight West Branch, 55-28.Along with three wins, the Indians will

PACKWOOD ? Pekin scored early, Pekin scored often and Pekin never showed a hint of letting up Friday night against Van Buren.When the dust settled, a 90-0 romp became a perfect ending for the Panthers? homecoming as everything clicked for an offense that rolled up 681 yards ? 530 of which came on the ground ? to put Pekin ahead early and they never lookd back. Even after seven first-quarter touchdowns put

In their first dual meet of the season ? and first time swimming at home ? Tuesday, Fairfield swimmers took Keokuk to the final event of the evening before narrowly falling 92-89.?The meet was very close and the girls stepped up to the challenge,? said head coach Susie Steinbeck. ?Many swam events that they had not before to give us a chance to win, and it came down the the very last event.?Heading into the winner

KEOSAUQUA ? After taking games one and two, Van Buren looked content to hand game three to Cardinal.Facing a deficit that climbed as high as 10 at 19-9, the Warriors finally turned it on to speed past the Comets and claim the match, 25-22, 25-18, 26-24.?The girls pulled together. I?ve tried yelling, I?ve tried cheering, I?ve tried bouncing up and down and doing all kinds of stuff, but they have to read it, they

I?m a dude. A bona fide red-blooded American male as I like to think.I wear clothes out of the hamper. If there?s a scratch, I itch. I call girls chicks. I put on war paint and grab my medieval weapons before going out on the hunt.Well, most of those things anyway.The point is, given a choice between football and volleyball, I?m taking the gridiron nine times out of ten.With that being said, man, volleyball can

After Dillon Fry?s nine-yard touchdown strike to Alex Love put the Fairfield freshman team up 8-7 Friday, Williamsburg?s Chance Miller scored three unanswered touchdown?s to give the Raiders a 28-8 victory.Miller returned a punt 60 yards for a touchdown in the final seconds of the third quarter, busted a 35-yard touchdown run and also returned an interception all the way back in the fourth. The loss is Fairfield?s

ELDON ? It may have been a rough start, but a finish to remember kept the Cardinal football team undefeated Friday night.A 13-6 win against Lone Tree was preserved with a tremendous goal line stand by the Comet defense that stopped the Lions in their tracks three times inside the three-yard line in the waning seconds. The final Lone Tree drive gave them first and goal at the three-yard line and led to the first-down

Fairfield?s 19-0 loss to Williamsburg Friday night ? a closer contest than the final score may indicate ? dropped the Trojans to 0-1 in district play, but a good gauge for the next six weeks may have been gained.?This was a good game to give us a little bit of a measuring stick of where we?re at and where we need to get to,? said head coach Mike Schenck. ?I told our kids I was proud of how we played, especially

BELLE PLAINE ? For a Pekin Panther football team looking for still looking for a jolt to start the 2009 season, Friday night in Belle Plaine may have been what head coach Tom Stone was looking for.Pekin opened up a 20-0 lead behind two touchdowns from Trenton Northup and one from Hunter Maeder before withstanding a late Plainsman surge to preserve the victory ? its second straight ? and, more importantly, move to

BURLINGTON ? With four matches played in the first two weeks of the season, the Fairfield volleyball team jumped head first into its Saturday tournament schedule in Burlington.The Trojans put in six matches at the Burlington-Notre Dame tournament Saturday and posted a 4-2 record ? both losses coming to Centerville ? but head coach Nancy Diers knows her 14th-ranked team wasn?t at its best.?All day was just a

DAVIS ? Seniors Brad Goehring and Ben Moews went 1-2 for Van Buren Thursday night at the Davis County Invite at Lake Fisher to help the Warriors ahead of the host school and Wayne in the team standings.Goehring?s time of 17:54 was 21 seconds ahead of his teammate ? who had beaten him two days prior on their home course ? with Moews crossing the finish line in 18:15.Zach Pilcher (20th, 20:10), Zach Goodman (21:18)