By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WINFIELD ? From start to finish, the Winfield-Mt. Union girls' basketball team dominated on Tuesday night.The Wolves scored the first 11 points of the game and never looked back in a 48-15 clubbing of Lone Tree.The W-MU energy was on display in the first quarter. The Wolves pulled down a flurry of offensive rebounds, and rattled Lone Tree on defense to jump out to a ...
By Andy Krutsinger,Mt. Pleasant News DUBUQUE ? Things were going smoothly through the first half for the Iowa Wesleyan men's basketball team on Tuesday night but a rough second half led to a 76-56 loss to an undefeated University of Dubuque team.The Tigers scored the first four points of the game to get things started, and although Dubuque took the lead early, it was IW who was on the advantage for the ...
By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News PELLA ? The Mt. Pleasant girls gave 10th-ranked Pella all they could handle through one half of basketball on Tuesday night, but the Lady Dutch were able to pull away in the second half to hand the Panthers a 58-37 loss.Mt. Pleasant showed the Lady Dutch that they were there to compete early on. The Panthers outscored Pella 14-13 in the first quarter to hold a lead after ...
By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News RIVERSIDE ? Everything was running smoothly for the New London girls' basketball team through the first three quarters in Riverside on Tuesday night, but a fourth-quarter comeback stunned the Tigers in their first game.Highland was able to come back from a four-point deficit to start the fourth quarter, take the lead, and top the Tigers 39-33.New London's best quarter was ...
By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WAYLAND ? It was tough sledding for the WACO girls' basketball team on Tuesday night, as they took on a talented Central Lee squad in the season opener.The Warriors were unable to contain the high-power Hawks, who jumped out to an early lead and walked out with a 74-14 win.Central Lee was on fire early, scoring 18 points in the first seven minutes and shutting the ...
By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WAVERLY ? The Iowa Wesleyan men's basketball team competed at the Buzz Levick Classic in Waverly over the weekend. The Tigers fell 104-84 to Aurora University on Friday and dropped Saturday's game against Crown College 93-61.The Tigers looked good early in Friday's opener. IW led Aurora by as much as six points early in the game, leading 19-13 thanks in part to nine early ...
The St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference has released the first Player of the Week honors for the 2017-18 basketball season. Darby Massner picked up the first award of the season with her play in the team's first two games of the year.Massner led the Tiger offense in the team's games against Coe College and Graceland University. She averaged 23.5 points and 9.0 rebounds per game. In Iowa Wesleyan's ...
By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News There is a new name at the helm for the Mt. Pleasant girls' basketball team this year. Curt Watson, a familiar Henry County coach, is gearing up for his first season as head coach of the team.Watson has plenty of years of experience in the coach's chair, but this season will be his first as the head coach of a varsity girls' team.Watson started coaching in 1994 at ...
By Cole Blair, Gazette Coorespondent CEDAR FALLS ? Northern Iowa now knows who and where it will play in the FCS playoffs.Monmouth (9-2) will travel to Cedar Falls this Saturday for a 4 p.m. first-round matchup at the UNI-Dome.?It's a good day,? UNI Coach Mark Farley said. ?Worked our way into this. Proud of our players and proud of our football team right now. They're excited to be in it. Then, when they ...
By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News CEDAR RAPIDS ? The Iowa Wesleyan men hung relatively close to a high-powered Coe College team on Wednesday night, but the Tigers eventually ran out of steam in a 99-66 loss.The Kohawks led by single digits in the second half but a huge run in the final period led to a 33-point loss for IW.IW started out hot from the field, thanks to a couple of returning stars from last ...
The conclusion of the Fall Championship Season can only mean one thing. It is time for the release of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference to announce the Fall All-Academic teams for 2017. The conference had over 200 student-athletes earn the honors this fall.Iowa Wesleyan was one of nine schools to have double-digit student-athletes make the list. In order to earn All-Academic honors, student-athlet...
By Jeremiah Davis, The Gazette Purdue football has been much better this year than in the last few years, but still, now is a pretty good time for Iowa to welcome the Boilermakers to Kinnick Stadium.Amid a rebuild under Jeff Brohm, Purdue still is a little ways from being deep or consistent enough to compete at high levels of the Big Ten. While Saturday's performance by the Hawkeyes doesn't really suggest the ...
The conclusion of the Fall Championship Season can only mean one thing. It is time for the release of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference to announce the Fall All-Academic teams for 2017. The conference had over 200 student-athletes earn the honors this fall.Iowa Wesleyan was one of nine schools to have double-digit student-athletes make the list. In order to earn All-Academic honors, student-athlet...
By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News CEDAR RAPIDS ? The Iowa Wesleyan women got off to a rough start in Wednesday night's season opener. A 26-point first quarter for Coe College put the Tigers in a hole early, and they couldn't battle back, falling 66-48.The Tigers looked good early. IW started the game off on a 6-2 run thanks to two points each from Darby Massner, Allie Massner and Ahlia Tai.From that point ...
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