Mt. Pleasant News

By Douglas Brenneman, Golden Triangle News Service WASHINGTON ? When coaching against the school one played at, there is always extra incentive to win. Washington boys soccer head coach Sally Hart has yet to enjoy that feeling and after Mt. Pleasant High School took a 3-1 Southeast Conference victory Monday at Washington.?That's my alma mater, so it is always interesting to see the maroon on the other side ...

This week, the Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber Alliance and the Mt. Pleasant Middle School are working together to take away hunger. On April 24-26, middle school students and business people will work together in a meal packaging event. This is a great opportunity to teach students to be community minded and for them to engage in volunteerism inside and outside of our community.The goal this year is to package ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News The Mt. Pleasant girls had to use every last shot to hold off Muscatine in their home Triangular on Friday. The 10th-ranked Panthers won the meet with a score of 203, nipping Muscatine's 204. Burlington finished third with a score of 262.Anni Liechty led the way for Mt. Pleasant with a score of 43, which was good enough for individual runner-up honors. Elli Liechty ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WASHINGTON ? The Mt. Pleasant boys' golf team picked up a fourth-place finish on Saturday in the Washington Demon Invitational. Seven teams competed in the event. Mt. Pleasant shot a 352, finishing behind Washington (317), Pella (324), and Oskaloosa (337).Trace White had the best day for the Panthers, shooting a 75 on the day. He shot a 40 on his front nine and a 76 on his ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WASHINGTON ? The Mt. Pleasant girls' track and field team competed in Washington on Thursday night. The Panthers scored 65 points for second place, falling only to Benton-Van Horn's 78.The Panthers had one win on the day. The 4X800 team of Maggie Cristoforo, Maggie Jennings, Cristina Carthey and Taylor Murray dominated the 4X800 with a time of 10:01.24.Mt. Pleasant also ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News The Mt. Pleasant girls' soccer team faced their toughest opponent yet on Thursday evening at East Lake Park. The Panthers fell 4-0 against a very tough Holy Trinity Catholic squad.The Panthers were on their heels in the first half, battling a strong Crusader offense. Mt. Pleasant was able to hold HTC for almost 15 minutes before HTC's Elle Rashid broke the 0-0 tie with a ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News OSKALOOSA ? The Mt. Pleasant girls' golf team competed at a touranment in Oskalooas on Thursday. The Panthers finished sixth out of 11 teams with a score of 414.Mt. Pleasant was led by Anni and Elli Liechty, who each shot sub-100 rounds. Anni finished at 95 to lead the team, and Elli finished two strokes behind her, scoring a 97.Tori Witthoft shot a 107 for the third best ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News FAIRIELD ? The Mt. Pleasant boys' golf team picked up another Southeast Conference win on Thursday, taking down rival Fairfield 171-183.The team was led by Jake Moffett, who finished at 39 for the only sub-40 round of the night. Rhett Zeglen finished two strokes behind Moffett with a 41 to earn runner-up honors.Trace White tied for third-place overall with a 42. Fairfield'...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News CENTERVILLE ? The Mt. Pleasant boys' tennis team had no troubles on Tuesday evening in a non-conference road matchup with Centerville. The Panthers swept the Big Reds 9-0 to move to 3-1 on the season.The Panthers domianted the first three singles matches. Ethan Weber swept his opponent in the No. 1 match, 8-0. Corbin Broeker took the No. 2 match 8-1 and Jaxon Hoyle picked ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WELLMAN ? The Mt. Pleasant boys' track and field team added another win to the record books on Tuesday night, taking the Mid-Prairie meet by 65 points. The Panthers scored 148 points to lead the 17-team field, and Mid-Prairie finished second with 83 points.Mt. Pleasant won nine events on the day, including eight victories in individual events.Rylan Seberg was a double-winn...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News Jake Lowe is a senior at Mt. Pleasant High School and a member of the Panther boys' track and field team.Lowe has been a sprinter and hurdler for Mt. Pleasant all four years and is a member of the 2015 state champion shuttle hurdle relay team. He made the 110-meter high hurdle finals last year after returning from injury just in time for the state qualifiers.Lowe met with ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News EDDYVILLE ? It was another dominant night for the Mt. Pleasant boys' track and field team on Thursday. The Panthers scored 151 points to top the field at the Eddyville-Blakesburg relays, topping second-place Pekin by 56 points.The Panthers won seven events on the day. Chase Lamm won two of those, taking the 400-meter hurdles in 58.43 seconds and winning the 110-meter high ...