Mt. Pleasant News

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News NEW LONDON ? The first of three football games between Henry County teams took place on Friday night and it was the Tigers who roared early and often. No. 3 New London stayed unbeaten with their third-straight blowout victory, beating WACO 71-12.The first quarter was an electric one. The two teams combined for 37 points in the opening period.Keontae Luckett got things ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News PELLA ? The Mt. Pleasant freshman football team fell 36-0 in Pella last night. The Panthers had a tough time containing a talented Dutch running game.Carson Coleman was 7-16 in the loss with 50 yards passing. Mitchell Moothart had 28 rushing yards on four attempts. Dylan Hagans had 12 yards on nine attempts, and Dalton Church led the recievers with four catches for 31 ...

The Mt. Pleasant Golf and Country Club had its Club Championship on Monday. Kiley Miller and Jacob Moffett were the big winners for the year.Miller won the club championship, defeating Mike Wilson in the finals. Patrick Zielinski was third and Bo Vitale was fourth. Moffett won the Presidential Flight. He outlasted Doug Kennedy for first place.

By Andy Krutsinger,Mt. Pleasant News Zach Beason is a senior at Mt. Pleasant High School and a member of the Panther football team.Beason has been the starting quarterback at Mt. Pleasant since his sophomore year, throwing for 1,633 yards and 15 touchdowns last season.Beason is also a member of the Panther wrestling, track and field, and baseball teams.He met with The News on Tuesday after practice. The ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WINFIELD ? The Winfield-Mt. Union football team held a six-point lead early in the third quarter on Friday night, but Montezuma closed the game out on a 20-0 run, and the Wolves had to settle for a 34-20 loss.The game was moved to Winfield because of heavy storm possibilities in Montezuma, giving the Wolves an extra home game on the schedule. W-MU capitalized on the home ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News Iowa Wesleyan Volleyball officially got underway last weekend. The Tigers played five games between Friday, Aug. 31, and Tuesday, Sept. 4. Over that time, the Tigers went 1-4.IW suffered two losses on Friday. The Tigers dropped a match in three sets against Grinnell College (25-20, 25-16 and 25-19), and then were swept by Illinois College (25-15, 25-15 and 25-19). Lida ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News The three Henry County small schools all had conference games on Tuesday, and the county went 2-1 on the day with a couple of close wins. New London and Winfield-Mt. Union both won in five sets. WACO lost in three.The Tigers scored a comeback win over rival Danville at home after being down 2-1 in sets. New London won 25-15, 19-25, 21-25, 25-12, 15-12 to move to 9-1 ...

By Doug Brenneman, Golden Triangle News Service WASHINGTON ? Things looked positive for Mt. Pleasant volleyball after the opening set in Washington on Tuesady night, but the Demons won the final three games to keep Mt. Pleasant winless in conference play.?We just made more mistakes than what they did,? Mt. Pleasant coach Dave Streeter said.It didn't look like that would be the end result early as the Panthers ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News INDIANOLA ? The Iowa Wesleyan cross-country team had their first meet of the year last weekend, running at Pickard Park and Indianola. In just one race, the Tiger women already had an individual first-place finisher.Freshman Sierra Howardson took the top spot, crossing the line in 16:56. The former Bloodhound state-qualifier beat Simpson College's Shelby Hunemiller by 25 ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News Time ran out on an Iowa Wesleyan comeback attempt in Saturday night's season opener against Cornell College.The Tigers battled back from a 21-0 deficit in the first half and made the game of it, eventually faltering 27-21.Cornell scored twice in the first quarter. Quarterback Blayze Griffis found the end zone on a 55-yard pass to Blake Langhurts and a 45-yard touchdown ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News The Iowa Wesleyan soccer teams each took the field for the first time this fall over the weekend. The Tiger men went 1-1 in two games and the women fell in their only contest.The Tigers men had a weather-aided win at Central College. IW trailed 2-1 in the game on Saturday, but the contest was rained out and they had to completely start over the next day.On Sunday, the ...

By Andy Krutsinger,Mt. Pleasant News WAYLAND ? The WACO football team bounced back from last week's loss in a big way, dropping 59 points on English Valleys for their second win of the season. The Warriors knocked the Bears off by a final of 59-40, holding a comfortable lead throughout the night.WACO looked good early, jumping out to a 16-0 lead in the first quarter. Quarterback Nik Coble found Wyatt Harbison ...