Mt. Pleasant News

The REC Center's Glowing Pumpkin Fun Run has been scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 19, at East Lake Park.The event is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. with packet pickup, registration, games, face painting and an obstacle race. The run is set to start at 7 p.m.Participants with the most creative, scariest, funniest, or best homemade costumes will get a prize before the race begins.Runners will have the choice of doing ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News Ashlee Menke is a senior at Mt. Pleasant High School and a member of the Panther volleyball team.Menke has been the starting setter for the last three years and is coming off a year where she made both All-Conference and All-GTNS.Menke met with The News on Wednesday before practice. The questions are in bold with her answers following.Did you grow up here in Mt. Pleasant?...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News All five area football teams are in action this weekend as gut-check time approaches in the third week of district play. Mt. Pleasant and Winfield-Mt. Union continue to search for their first district win. New London looks to stay unbeaten. WACO holds their homecoming and Iowa Wesleyan tries to bounce back in their second straight road game.Mt. Pleasant is 2-2 overall and ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News FT. MADISON ? The Mt. Pleasant volleyball team had a tough time containing Ft. Madison in a Southeast Conference showdown on Tuesday night. The Panthers fell in three straight to the Bloodhounds, who have yet to lose even one set in an SEC game.Mt. Pleasant had their closest game of the night in the first set. The Panthers put a little pressure on the Bloodhounds but wound ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News All four of the county's high school volleyball teams have bolstered their schedules with some tournament games in the last few days. Mt. Pleasant was in Ottumwa on Saturday while WACO played in New Sharon. No. 6 New London picked up a win in the Keokuk tournament on Saturday and the Tigers went to the Holy Trinity tournament on Monday where Winfield-Mt. Union was also ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News MONTEZUMA ? Another quick start led to another New London win on Friday night as the Tigers topped Montezuma 36-20 in district play.New London exploded in the first half offensively and led 30-12 at halftime, and the Braves couldn't stage a comeback as the Tigers began district play with a win.Junior quarterback Isaac McSorley rushed for three touchdowns in the win. ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News SPRINGVILLE ? The WACO football team simply ran right over Springfield on Friday night. The Warriors scored 29 points in the first quarter and ran away with a 64-40 victory.Elijah McGhoan started the scoring off with a 65-yard run in the first quarter. The WACO defense got a safety and then scored again with a 14-yard Colton Horak run to take a 15-0 lead.Hunter Donaldson ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WAYLAND ? WACO and Van Buren went the distance on Thursday night as the battle of Warriors came down to a deciding fifth set. When the dust settled it was Van Buren who stood tall, clipping WACO 25-12, 15-25, 25-19, 25-14, 15-12.Van Buren cruised in the first set, seemingly setting the tone for the rest of the match. They took game one 25-12 for the biggest margin of ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News FT. MADISON ? The Mt. Pleasant cross-country teams made quite the statement in Ft. Madison on Thursday night, sweeping a meet which included all other SEC teams, plus Burlington.Cody Mertens and Kyle Vanderham went one-two to lead the boys? team to a dominant win and the girls placed three in the top eight to take the top spot despite competing without lead runner Abby ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News The Iowa Wesleyan men?s soccer team simply wore down Cornell College in its non-conference home game on Wednesday evening. The Tigers outlasted the Rams 3-1 behind three second-half goals.The first half was quiet as neither team was able to get quality rushes at the net. After 45 minutes of play the Tigers and Rams were all knotted up at 0-0.In the second half, however, ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News Four of the five Henry County teams will open league play this week as district and conference play begins in high school and NCAA Division III football.Mt. Pleasant will begin its district play on the road. WACO will be at home for the second straight week. Winfield-Mt. Union will be celebrating homecoming and Iowa Wesleyan will host its first home game of the season. New ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News It was an exciting day for Henry County volleyball on Thursday. Three of the four teams picked up wins on the night and the only loss came in an all-Henry County game.Mt. Pleasant finished the first half of the Southeast Conference season at .500 when they topped Keokuk 3-1 on the road.Keokuk won the first set 25-23 but Mt. Pleasant bounced right back to take the next ...