Mt. Pleasant News

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WASHINGTON ? Three area teams competed in the Steve Roth Relays on Thursday night. The Mt. Pleasant, WACO and Winfield-Mt. Union boys were all in attendance.Mt. Pleasant had the best day of any of the area teams. The Panthers scored 147 points, which led all Class ?A? squads. W-MU and WACO were both in Class ?C.? W-MU scored 70 points and WACO scored 58.The Panthers won ...

By David Holte, Golden Triangle News Service Jayden Stafford's basketball team is going to nationals next month.While he said that the team, the Rolling Panthers, lost every game at the regional meet recently, they still qualified for the event coming up on April 12-15 in Louisville, Ky.In fairness, one team they lost to was the No. 1 seeded team in the nation and the other game was lost in overtime by one ...

Photos by Jim Slosiarek, The GazetteMt. Pleasant senior Brady Sartorius competed in the Eastern Iowa All-Star game on Wednesday night at Kirkwood College. The night's festivities featured some of the best seniors in the state of Iowa in both girls' and boys' basketball. Sartorius competed for the south squad in the boys' game, alongside Muscatine's Joe Wieskamp, Iowa City West's Seybian Sims and Wapello's ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. ? Iowa Wesleyan began conference play Wednesday afternoon against the Griffins of Fontbonne University.IW led early in the first game, but were unable to maintain the lead and suffered a 3-1 loss. They followed with a 19-3 loss in the final game of the day.The Tigers were able to get an early lead in the opening game of the double-header. Serena Almodovar singled to the pitcher with one out and ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. ? The Iowa Wesleyan baseball team opened up conference play Wednesday against the Beavers of Blackburn College. After a slow start, the Tigers were swept by scores of 4-7 and 2-9.The Tiger offense was a little slow to get going to start the day. After a scoreless top of the first, Blackburn took a 4-0 lead after getting four hits and taking advantage of an error by Iowa Wesleyan. The Beavers added ...

By K.J. Pilcher, The Gazette CLEVELAND ? Expectations for Spencer Lee have been sky high from the moment he announced he wanted to wrestle at the University of Iowa.The prospect of a three-time World champion, training with Tom and Terry Brands at a school with recent lightweight success was accompanied with Lee's potential to be one of college wrestling's best ever.Lee demonstrated why he garnered so much ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News TITUSVILLE, Fla. ? Iowa Wesleyan softball dropped two games on Thursday to close out their spring break trip to Florida. The Tigers fell 8-0 against Missouri Baptist in the morning game and then lost a back-and-forth battle 8-5 against Marywood University later in the day.The IW offense couldn't get off the ground against Missouri Baptist. The Tigers were one-hit in their ...

By Jeff Linder, The Gazette IOWA CITY ? Lisa Bluder and Jim Flanery will meet Saturday in Los Angeles.They have collided before in Chicago. Literally.It's Bluder's story, so we'll let her tell it:?It was Nike Nationals (an AAU summer tournament) in 2016, and (assistant) Jan (Jensen) and I were taking a cab to a restaurant in Chicago. Our cab smashed into another car.?That car belonged to Flanery, the coach ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News AUBURNDALE, Fla. ? The Iowa Wesleyan baseball team finished off their spring break trip in Florida on Friday. The Tigers struggled to contain an offensive explosion from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, falling 20-3.RPI scored runs in each of the first four innings to jump out to a commanding lead early. The Tiger defense gave up four runs in the first inning, three in ...

By K.J. Pilcher, The Gazette CLEVELAND ? Only two teams have been in the national title discussion this season.Top-ranked Ohio State and defending champion Penn State have been in a category of their own with little conversation of challengers to the top-two spots.The talk of a fierce team battle between the two remains the same, leading up to the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, beginning Thursday at ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News Sign-ups for New London Little League T-ball, baseball and softball will be on Tuesday, March 20, and Thursday, March 22 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. There will also be a sign-up period on Saturday, March 24, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.These sign-ups are for all girls and boys in pre-k through sixth-grade. They will take place at the New London Fire Station. A parent must accompany ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News AMES ? The Mt. Pleasant boys' track team took part in the Iowa State Indoors on Tuesday night. The Panthers walked away with four top-15 placements against a packed field of teams.The best result of the day again went to Cody Mertens. Mertens took ninth place in the 3200-meter run, crossing the tape in just over 10 minutes, at 10:01.87.The Panthers had two runners place ...