Mt. Pleasant News

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News In what has become a yearly tradition since the new millennium, the Mt. Pleasant track and field teams celebrated two more Southeast Conference championships on Thursday night.Both Panther teams eclipsed 100 points during the SEC meet, which was held at Mapleleaf Athletic Complex in Mt. Pleasant. The boys won with 141 points and the girls topped the field with 101 points.M...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News It was the tale of two meets for the Mt. Pleasant tennis teams on Thursday evening against Fairfield Maharishi.The girls? team put on a dominating performance, defeating Maharishi, 9-0, on the road. The boys? team dropped their matchup, 8-1, at home.The girls dominated in about every match at their meet in Fairfield. Maharishi was held to two sets or less in seven of the ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News After a thrilling match earlier this year that didn?t quite go their way, the Panther boys got their revenge Thursday night over SEC-rival Fairfield.The Panthers shut out the Trojans, 2-0, flipping the script from a loss in penalty kicks the last time these two teams took the field.Dallas Peebler had the first quality chance of the game when he forced Panther keeper ...

By Andy krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News DES MOINES ? The Drake Relays in Des Moines are officially underway and a school record has already been broken one day into the event.Logan Murray set a new Mt. Pleasant record in the 3200-meter run on Thursday night and put himself in good standings for the race to the state title.Murray placed 11th overall in the event with a time of 9:34.16. Coming into the day he had ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News BURLINGTON ? The Mt. Pleasant girls? tennis team was in Burlington on Thursday night for a showdown with Notre Dame-West Burlington.The Panthers were defeated, 6-3, in the matchup. They won two singles matches and one doubles match.Quin Whaley had the highest win individually for the Panthers. She won the No. 3 matchup, 8-4. Sheyanne Walter took the No. 6 match in a tight ...

By Andy Krutsinger,Mt. Pleasant News The Mt. Pleasant boys? tennis team picked up another win on Tuesday, defeating Notre Dame-West Burlington at Dankward Memorial Park in Burlington, 6-3.The Panthers went 4-2 in singles matches. Ben Zihlman took the No. 1 match 10-7. Ethan Weber won the No. 2 match 1-2. Corbin Broeker took the No. 5 match, 10-5, and Nick Sandeen won the No. 6 match 10-3.Falling in singles ...

By Allan Mandel, Golden Triangle News Service Fairfield?s Emma Rosner scored all five goals in a 5-0 home win over Mt. Pleasant on Thursday.The Panthers had a solid first half, trailing only 1-0 at the break.?I think our play in the first half went well,? said Panther forward Catherine Prough. ?We got our legs going. We held possession most of the first half. I think that was the best defensive half we?ve had ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News The ball just couldn?t get on net for the Mt. Pleasant boys? soccer team on Thursday evening.The Panthers took on non-conference foe Burlington at East Lake Park in a defensive battle that ended with Mt. Pleasant going scoreless and falling 1-0.The wind at East Lake was howling in the first half and teams had trouble with longer shots towards the goal, but Burlington did ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News EDDYVILLE ? The Mt. Pleasant boys? track and field team was back in the winner?s column on Thursday night in Eddyville.The Panthers won six events and scored 187 points to take the meet. Pekin was second with 136 points.Mt. Pleasant won both the 100-meter dash and the 200-meter dash. Keegan Rich won the 100-meter race in 11.54 seconds and Rylan Seberg took the 200-meter ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WASHINGTON ? The Mt. Pleasant girls? track and field team took second place in Washington on Thursday night.The Panthers won three events and scored 122 points, 17 behind first place Benton and 21 in front of third place Washington.Bailey Johnson had a big day for the Mt. Pleasant throwers. She won the discus competition with a 110-07 and took second in the shot put with ...

By Andy Krutsinger,Mt. Pleasant News The Mt. Pleasant tennis teams split their matches against Fairfield on Thursday evening. The Panther boys won 7-2 on the road and the girls lost 7-2 at home.In Fairfield the Panther boys took down the Trojans 4-2 in singles matches and swept the doubles matches.Ben Zihlman won the No. 1 singles match, 6-4 and 6-4 over Gannon Courtright. Ethan Webber dropped Logan Williams,...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News The Mt. Pleasant tennis teams made it close against Fairfield on Thursday, but both teams fell in a couple of tight matchups.The boys? team hosted the Trojans and fell, 5-4, and the girls? team dropped their game 6-3 on the road.In the boys? meet, Ben Zihlman and Ethan Weber continued their success at the top.Zihlman took down top Trojan Navin Martin, 8-2, in the No. 1 ...