Mt. Pleasant News

Pool 3 in the first round of the SEISC volleyball tournament, will be held at Wapello rather than Columbus.New London is included in that pool, along with Wapello, Columbus, Lone Tree and Highland.Pool play starts tonight (Thursday) at 5 p.m., and the top two teams advance to Satuday?s championship round at Southeastern Community College in Burlington.

The Iowa Wesleyan College soccer teams suffered a pair of big losses on Wednesday at Illinois College. The women were shut out for the third game in a row, 10-0, and the men were shut out for the fourth time this season, 13-0.In the women's game, the Lady Blues wasted no time jumping on top, as they scored just 25 seconds into the match. They never relented, scoring five goals in each half.The Lady Blues ...

In last year?s homecoming game, the Mt. Pleasant football team scraped out a 15-14 win over Ft. Madison.Last week, the Bloodhounds were able to celebrate a homecoming victory over Mt. Pleasant.This week, Mt. Pleasant is looking for another homecoming celebration of its own.It has a tough opponent to tackle in the game ? Centerville.The Big Reds are coached by Mt. Pleasant alum Chuck Evans, the son of longtime ...

The excerpts below ? written by Sports Editor Jim Rose on the pages of the Mt. Pleasant News from 1963 ? go step by step through the Panthers? legendary season. Sept. 14:Panthers rush past North Scott, 19-0"Coach Bob Evans wasn't overly impressed with his team's performance, but thought the Panthers showed signs of being a top-notch club." Sept. 21:Mt. Pleasant shocks C.R. Jefferson, 7-0"It is well known ...

Johnathan Quinn crossed the line in ninth place and the Winfield-Mt. Union boys? cross-country team finished sixth overall in yesterday?s Mt. Pleasant Invite.Quinn completed the race at McMillan Park in 17:38 to lead the Wolves, averaging a 5:40 mile on the 5K course.He was followed by Gavin Bencze, who took 13th of 78 runners in the Class A race with a time of 17:49, and Kollin Lintz was 17th in 18:03.Levi ...

The first five runners across the line in yesterday?s JV boys? cross-country race were all from Mt. Pleasant, earning the Panthers a perfect score of 15.Ben Zihlman led the field with a time of 18:43, followed by Alex Warren (18:56), Brad Martin (19:08), Jacob Holtkamp (19:08) and Josh Stott (19:09).?I don?t remember doing that as an athlete or a coach at any level, so that was fun to do in front of our home ...

The WACO cross-country runners competed at the Mt. Pleasant Invite on Tuesday, led by Cheyenne Sedlacek on the girls? side and Mitchell Shaffer for the boys. The Warriors are focused on improving individual times in their first season back as a cross-country team.Sedlacek led the Warriors with a 37th-place finish in a time of 19:24 at Mt. Pleasant, followed closely by Jennie Greene, 38th, 19:30. Michaela Shaffer ...

Exactly 50 years ago, the Mt. Pleasant football team was in the middle of the greatest season in school history, though no one knew it yet.The Panthers were preparing to open Southeast Six Conference play on Friday, Sept. 27, against Washington.They had defeated North Scott and the formidable Cedar Rapid Jefferson tam, and had yet to allow an opposing point.They would finish the nine-game season undefeated, ...

The Mt. Pleasant girls? cross-country team could hardly have asked for a better finish.Their first runner finished second and their last scorer finished 10th, just 48 seconds between them. All five crossed the line in the 16-minute range and earned Mt. Pleasant a team title at its home meet on Tuesday at McMillan Park.?We?ve been trying to close the gap between our third and fourth runners, so we kind of ...

The Iowa Wesleyan men's and women's soccer teams suffered big losses on Saturday to Central College. The Dutch women defeated IWC by a score of 15-0, and the Tiger men fell 9-1.In the women's match, both teams were scoreless until the Dutch found the back of the net in the 13th minute. When they did, the flood gates opened, and the Tigers couldn't stop the attack.At half, IWC trailed 8-0 and had been outshot ...

As the first runners finished the Class AA varsity boys? race at yesterday?s Mt. Pleasant Invite, the majority of athletes represented just two schools: Ft. Madison and Mt. Pleasant.The rivals had the first nine runners to cross the line, and 12 of the first 13.?It?s pretty much a dual in the conference,? Mt. Pleasant Boys? Coach Mitch Anderson said.Panther Logan Murray finished first, but he was followed by a ...

The Tigers' volleyball team took part in the SLIAC?s second Conference Quad Tourney of the year on Saturday, going 1-1 at the tournament at Eureka College.The Tigers picked up a three set win to start the day, taking down the host team by scores of 25-9, 25-19 and 25-17.Dakota Flesner had a huge match to help the Tigers get the win over Eureka, recording 16 kills, eight digs, and one ace. Logan Chiri, who leads ...