Mt. Pleasant News

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsWAPELLO ? The Winfield-Mt. Union volleyball team finished off its conference schedule on Tuesday night in Wapello. The Wolves battled from a tough loss in the first set to tie it at 1-1 in the second, but the Arrows closed out the final two sets and upended W-MU 3-1 (26-24, 19-25, 25-18, 25-22).Pearl Krieger-Coble had a big game hitting for the Wolves, tallying 14 kills in 39 ...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsSTORM LAKE ? The Iowa Wesleyan soccer teams played at different venues on Wednesday. The women fell, 9-0, at home against Simpson College and the Men dropped their game, 5-0, at Buena Vista University.In the women?s game, a quick Simpson team kept the Tiger defense on their heals all night. The storm outshot the Tigers 44-0, and Caitlin O?Neill was forced to make 17 saves.The...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsIt?s been a week of firsts for Iowa Wesleyan fall sports. On Friday night, the IW men?s soccer team picked up its first win of the year, defeating Central Christian College, 4-3 at home.It looked as though goals would be hard to come by on a rainy Mt. Pleasant afternoon. Through the first 16 minutes, the teams battled back and forth, but struggled to get shots off with a ...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsThe Iowa Wesleyan volleyball team finally got in the winner?s column on Tuesday night. The Tigers won a hard-fought five set game against Hannibal La-Grange University to move to 1-9 overall this season.IW came into the game just three days after finishing up an 0-3 weekend against Spalding and Principia. The Tigers held a 2-0 lead against Principia Saturday before falling in ...

By ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsFT. MADISON ? The Mt. Pleasant volleyball team bounced back from a couple of rough sets on Tuesday night in Ft. Madison, but after a big Panther third set, the Bloodhounds came back and closed out the 3-1 win.Ft. Madison showed why they are the defending SEC champions in the first two sets. The Bloodhounds took games one and two, 25-13 and 25-14. FMCHS did so by feeding their ...

Tomorrow (Friday) night, the Panthers will face the Chariton Chargers in the ?Armed Forces? game in Chariton. The event will be hosted in part by the Iowa National Guard.The teams are inviting all current and past service people in the area, from all branches of the military, to attend and be recognized during the game. The teams ask that current and former military members wear their uniform or some part of it ...

By ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsIowa Wesleyan Volleyball had their first official games of the season on Wednesday, when they hosted Simpson College and Mount Mercy University in a triangular. The Tigers fell in both games, dropping a 4 p.m. showdown to Simpson, 25-20, 25-15, 25-23 and the nightcap against Mount Mercy, 25-18, 25-17, 25-17.The Tigers played Simpson reasonably tight for the first two sets, ...

By ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsThe Iowa Wesleyan women?s soccer team battled with Faith Baptist for the full ninety minutes on Thursday evening, as freshman Cheyenne Neal scored four goals but the Eagles escaped with a 5-4 win.Faith?s Holly Shepard started the game off with a bang when she scored just over a minute and a half into the contest. Neal responded less than thirty seconds later with a goal to ...

By ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsThe Mt. Pleasant and New London volleyball teams will each open up their conference schedule today. The Panthers will travel to Fairfield and the Tigers will host Cardinal.Mt. Pleasant is 2-2 so far this season after a tournament at Clarke last weekend. The Panthers swept Martensdale St. Marys and Clarke during the tournament but fell in three sets to both East Union and ...

Members of the Mt. Pleasant football team warm up before an early practice on Thursday morning. The Panthers are just over two weeks away from their first regular season game against Ottumwa on Aug. 28.

By AARON VINERGolden Triangle News ServiceSoutheast Iowa had some of the best softball in the state in 2015.With Fairfield, New London and Mt. Pleasant each punching their tickets for a coveted trip to Fort Dodge this season, and teams such as Highland and Mid-Prairie enjoying a high spot in the rankings for much of the season, much of that talent came from the Golden Triangle coverage area.With so many ...

By ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsWINFIELD ? The WACO and Winfield-Mt. Union alumni football teams are just hours away from their third annual matchup. The two teams, who split the first two games of the series, kick off at 8 p.m. at Winfield-Mt. Union High School.The Warriors will be looking to make it two-in-a-row after an 18-6 win last year in Wayland, and could get the first road win of the series with a ...