Mt. Pleasant News

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News Anni Liechty is a junior at Mt. Pleasant High School and a member of the Panther girls' softball team.Liechty has been a starter for MPCHS since her eighth-grade year, competing for both the 2015 and 2017 state tournament teams. She also plays golf and volleyball, and has represented Mt. Pleasant at state golf.Liechty met with The News on Wednesday during practice. The ...

By Andy Krutsinger,Mt. Pleasant News NEW LONDON ? The ninth-ranked New London boys will at least share the South Division in 2018. The Tiger baseball team knocked off Van Buren 9-4 on Wednesday night to clinch part of the SEISC South Division title and move one win away from clinching the championship outright.The Tigers had to come back after a day-one rain delay, but the offense stayed red hot and put up ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News NEW LONDON ? Day two of New London's home game with Van Buren took place on Wednesday night and the Tigers picked up right where they left off the night before. Camryn Blint continued to cruise in the circle and the Tigers blanked the Warriors 8-0.The Tigers held a 1-0 lead going into the day, which picked up in the top of the third inning. Breanna Mettler had the lone RBI ...

By Andy Krutsinger,Mt. Pleasant News BLOOMFIELD ? The Mt. Pleasant baseball team re-located their offense on Wednesday night at the expense of Davis County. The Panthers put the paws on the Mustangs 16-4 in a non-conference road game.Mt. Pleasant started throwing punches early. The Panthers scored five runs in the first inning to take a commanding lead. Davis County scored two runs of their own in the bottom ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News NEW LONDON ? Rainy skies interrupted New London's SEISC South Division showdown with Van Buren on Tuesday night. Both the softball and baseball games were underway, but the games were postponed to a later date after the field got too wet.Both Tiger teams were leading when the inclimate weather came. The softball game was moving along a little faster than the baseball game. ...

Rain falls down in New London shortly before the postponement of both games on Tuesday night. As always, inclimate weather has done its damage to the 2018 baseball and softball season, leaving teams to decide weather to make up games or let them go as the postseason approaches quickly. In the Tigers' and Warriors' case, they have no choice. Conference games are put on the fast-track, especially when league ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News The Southeast Conference season is heading down the homestretch and still there is no clear winner in either sport. Fairfield still holds the one-game advantage on the baseball fields but the softball standings are tighter than ever.The Trojans are 10-2 in baseball after splitting with Washington this season. Fairfield leads both Mt. Pleasant and Washington by one game, as ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News NEW LONDON ? The New London softball team flexed its muscle with a mercy-rule win on Monday night. The Tigers ran over Central Lee 13-2 in a game that went just five innings.Central Lee scored first with a run in the second inning but New London took over with six in the third to take a 6-1 lead. The Hawks added another run in the fourth inning but the Tigers added two in ...

By Douglas Brenneman,Golden Triangle News Service WINFIELD ? It is said that there are no moral victories in sports. While that may be true for professionals, it is not necessarily so at the prep level.Winfield-Mt. Union, with a record of 1-18, took Southeast Iowa Super Conference foe Highland High School into extra innings Monday before losing 6-5.?It definitely was a moral victory for us,? W-MU coach ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WINFIELD ? The Winfield-Mt. Union softball team suffered a 6-0 loss to Highland in SEISC North Division play on Monday night. The Wolves committed seven errors in the game and the offense couldn't get rolling.Madie Anderson gave up just two hits over seven innings of work. She struck out 13 batters. Anderson had two hits of her own, going 2-3 to record half of W-MU's four ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News BURLINGTON ? The ninth-ranked New London boys continued to zero in on a South Division championship with another win on Monday night. The Tigers grinded out a 5-4 win in Burlington over Notre Dame to move one game away from clinching at least a share of the conference crown.The two teams battled back and forth all night long. New London and Notre Dame each scored one run ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News KEOKUK ? The Mt. Pleasant softball team had a much better outing in their second doubleheader with Keokuk this season. After scoring just eight runs and getting swept by the Chiefs last month, the Panthers scored 19 runs in a split on Thursday night.Keokuk was able to squeak out a 10-9 win in game one, but Mt. Pleasant worked back to earn the split in game two, with a 10-6 ...