Justin Webster

The Pekin boys' basketball team hosted SEISC foe Winfield-Mt. Union Tuesday night, beating the Wolves 60-38 to improve to 6-2 both overall, and in conference play.Head Coach Ken Hutchinson has been preaching fast starts to his team all season, and although the didn't set the nets on fire, they did hold a 15-8 lead after the first period. The second period was slower offensively for both squads, with Pekin edging ...

Iowa running back Akrum Wadley ran for 159 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Hawkeyes to a 56-14 win over the Nebraska Cornhuskers in what probably was the last game of the Mike Riley era in Lincoln, Neb.The Cornhuskers suffered just their fourth losing season since 1962 and finish the season a disappointing 4-8 and 3-6 in the Big Ten. Iowa (7-5, 4-5) won the Heroes Trophy for a third straight season, ...

Fairfield junior student-athlete Danae Drish just collected another major recognition, being named as one of 13 players on the 4A Southeast all-district volleyball team for 2017.The junior Drish was a first-team all-SEC selection this fall after being named second-team in 2016.She was named to the GTNS big school all-area volleyball team, and she was selected as the best defensive player on the Trojans team at ...

The Fairfield five that swim for Ottumwa High had their first swim meet of the season Tuesday night, a duel against Dowling Catholic.Jackson Weaton and Kevin Kretz competed on the 400 yard freestyle relay team that finished second in 3:33.96.Weaton also swam the 200 yard free in 2:02.37, good for second place with Evan Huff finishing fifth in 2:31.08 and Evan Masterson coming in sixth in 2:32.95.Dylan Barras ...

The SEI Super Conference released its fall sports all-academic list for student-athletes in grades 9-12 with a 3.5 GPA or higher while playing volleyball or running cross country. This list also includes football managers and cheerleaders. Cardinal will submit a list following the conclusion of their first trimester. Pekin:Maci Gambell, Whitney Johnson, Paige Winn, Faith Oostra, Kennedy Coleman, Leah Dix, ...

Pekin head football coach Bud Blakely knew his team could compete with anyone in the state going into their first round matchup at undefeated Hudson Friday night, all they had to do was play their ballgame.Unfortunately for the Panthers, everything went the home team's way in a 35-0 victory fueled by five touchdowns from the Pirates' backfield. The tandem included juniors Christian Seres who had 27 carries for ...

Saturday afternoon at the 2017 state cross country meet in Fort Dodge, Ashley Bloomquist did herself and the town of Fairfield proud as she put on a tremendous performance, shaving almost 33 seconds off her qualifying time from less than two weeks ago.On Oct. 19 at Pella, Bloomquist ran 20:06.6 which qualified her as the third place finisher from that region. Saturday in Fort Dodge, the junior's time improved to ...

The Fairfield Trojans swam at the regional meet Saturday in Indianola, finishing eighth place overall with 51 points.Individual and relay results from the Trojans' events were as follows: 50 yard freestyle17th Blair Bowman 28.40 and 19th Danielle Elliott 28.69 100 yard freestyle14th Danielle Elliott 1:04.36 200 yard freestyle relay8th Tessa Seibert-Erica Olson-Blair Bowman-Danielle Elliott 2:01.99 100 ...

Fortunately for Fairfield, this is reality when you live in an especially enviromentally-concious community such as ours that is now the first town in the nation with a solar-powered Taco John's.It all started when a local businessman/meditator wanted to open a franchise that didn't contain lard in its beans the way Taco Bell's did and found that TJ was a ?healthier? option. Currently, the location on West ...