Mt. Pleasant News

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News Jordan Magnani is a senior at Mt. Pleasant High School and a member of the Panther boys' basketball team.Magnani has been a four-year starter for the Panthers and has been the second-leading scorer for Mt. Pleasant all four years.Magnani is also a member of the Panther football, track and baseball teams. He met with The News on Tuesday before practice. The questions are ...

The Iowa Wesleyan women's basketball team faced Greenville University for the second time this season on Saturday. The Tigers were hoping to avoid a season sweep, but the Panthers proved to be too much once again as IW fell 73-51.Allie Massner led the Tigers with 14 points with the help of four three-pointers. Darby Massner added 12 points and grabbed six rebounds for Iowa Wesleyan. Both Josie Zerrusen and Slack ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WAYLAND ? The WACO girls couldn't get off the ground against a pesky West Burlington defense on Tuesday night. The Warriors struggled to get the ball up court against an intense Falcon press, which resulted in a 63-35 home loss.WACO had five girls score in the first half, but nobody was over three points individually. West Burlington raced out to a 16-6 lead after one ...

GREENVILLE, Ill. ? The Iowa Wesleyan men's basketball team traveled to Greenville University Saturday afternoon for a St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference contest. Iowa Wesleyan was looking to build off a win at home, but they had their hands full as the Panthers are one of the top teams in the SLIAC standings. Greenville proved to be too much as the Tigers fell 113-140.Brock Butler just missed a ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WINFIELD ? The Winfield-Mt. Union boys played what was perhaps their best game of the season on Tuesday night, knocking off Pekin 52-43 in overtime.B.J. Rodgers had another big game, hitting five three-pointers in the win to lead the team with 27 points. Daunte Oepping scored seven points. Cody McCreight had six. Christian Gerot scored five. Jared Arnold had three and both ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News COLUMBUS ? The Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union wrestling team played host to the Southeast Iowa Super Conference championship on Saturday and Henry County took home five of the 14 championships.Pekin topped the team scores with 170 points. New London placed third with 124 points, Columbus/W-MU was seventh with 106 lbs. and WACO was eighth with 85 points.New London won two ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WAYLAND ? The WACO basketball teams each went 1-1 on back-to-back days this weekend. On Friday, the girls' team topped Iowa Mennonite 54-42, while the boys' team lost 57-42. The script was flipped the next day when the boys topped Sigourney 67-41 and the girls fell 53-32.The girls' team was led by Kiana Miller on Friday night. Miller had 17 points and four steals in the ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News FAIRFIELD ? The Mt. Pleasant wrestling team was in Fairfield on Saturday for the Southern Iowa Classic. The Panthers finished third place in the tournament, scoring 157 points.Ft. Madison placed first out of the 12 teams competing. The Panthers did finish higher than the rest of the SEC, with Washington finishing 4th with 126 points, Keokuk placing seventh with 90 points ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News DONNELLSON ?The New London boys' basketball team fell just short on Friday night in a road game against Central Lee that could end up deciding the SEISC South Division. The Hawks knocked the Tigers back one game in the standings with a 56-53 comeback win.New London had a nice start, jumping out to a 15-11 lead. The Tigers led 22-20 after two quarters and 37-34 after ...

Mt. Pleasant boys' basketball coach Paul Rundquist picked up his 300th career win on Saturday, Jan. 20, and he was honored with the plaque before the varsity game Friday night. Rundquist is pictured here in the middle with Vice Principal Mike Wilson on the left and Bob Jensen on the right, both of whom presented Rundquist with the plaque.

Submitted photoSeven Mt. Pleasant football players were named to the Academic All-State team for the 2017 season. Players named to the team are senior starters with a GPA of 3.7 of higher. They must be involved in other extra-curricular activities and must be recommended by their coach. Recipients of the Academic All-State award, pictured left to right: Front row: Jake Lowe, Caleb Potts and Colby Potts. Back ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News The Mt. Pleasant girls' basketball team has won three games in a row after running away from Ft. Madison 45-26 on Friday night and storming back to beat Burlington 57-52 on Saturday.The Bloodhounds kept things close through the first three quarters on Friday night. Mt. Pleasant outscored Ft. Madison in each period but had a hard time getting seperation.The Panthers led ...