Mt. Pleasant News

FT. MADISON ? Down a number of injured players, the Mt. Pleasant football team struggled to get back into an offensive rhythm and came up short in its efforts to spoil Ft. Madison?s homecoming game on Friday. The Panthers fell by a score of 16-0.Running back Josh Larson, lineman Alec Skubal and defensive back Tony Cristoforo are all out for the season due to injuries, and the Panthers are struggling to fill the ...

KEOSAUQUA ? In a battle between Warriors, Van Buren came out on top.The WACO Warriors football team fell to the Van Buren Warriors in a district match up in Keosauqua on Friday, 26-8.The score was close for most of the game, but WACO let the match up get out of hand late in the fourth quarter.?With only four minutes to go in the game, we?re down 14-8 and we have a shot, but we gave up a couple late touchdowns,?...

Friday? Mt. Pleasant football @ Ft. Madison, freshmen start at 5 p.m., followed by varsity.? New London football hosts Lone Tree, 7 p.m.? WACO football @ Van Buren in Keosauqua, 7 p.m.? W-MU football hosts Highland, 7 p.m. Saturday? Mt. Pleasant volleyball @ Ottuwma Tournament, 8:30 a.m.? IWC volleyball @ Eureka College in Eureka Ill., Conference Quad Tourney, 10 a.m.? IWC volleyball vs. Greenville ...

The Iowa Wesleyan College volleyball contest tonight (Thursday) against Monmouth will be a black-out game, and fans are encouraged to wear black to show support for the Tigers. The match begins at 7 p.m. in Ruble Arena.Fans can then switch to their purple IWC apparel for Saturday?s football home opener against University of Minnesota-Morris. The game begins at 12 p.m. at Mapleleaf Athletic Complex.

By ASHLEE DE WIT Mt. Pleasant News FT. MADISON - The Mt. Pleasant girls' cross-country team took the top spot at the Ft. Madison Invitational on Thursday, with three runners finishing in the top four and all five scorers in the top 11. The Panthers were led by runner-up Ellie Conrad, who finished the 4K race in 18:13, just over a second behind the winner, Kaylee Alvarez of Ft. Madison. Right behind Conrad was ...

The Iowa Wesleyan College men?s golf team finished 11th out of 13 teams at the Clarke Fall Invitational.The Tigers were led in the two-day tournament by Patrick Zielinski, who finished in a tie for 23rd overall, shooting 80 in the first round and 77 in the final round.Blake Mitchell finished two strokes behind Zielinski, tying for 30th overall in the tournament.The women?s golf team competed this week at the ...

The Mt. Pleasant JV football team fell by a score of 35-0 to Solon on Monday.Zoom Gwamna led the team in rushing with eight carries for 45 yards. Joseph Hess was 5-for-14 passing for 25 yards; Jack Davis had an 11-yard reception and Anthony Carrasco caught a 9-yard pass.Keegan Pullis had a team-high seven tackles for the Panthers. Cale Christner added five and also recovered a fumble. Noah Brown had four ...

Saturday, Sept. 21, will be Mt. Pleasant Community School District Elementary Day at the Iowa Wesleyan College football game.All elementary school students in the Mt. Pleasant school district will be given free admission to the Tigers? home game against the University of Minnesota-Morris Cougars.The game will begin at 12 p.m. at Mapleleaf Stadium in Mt. Pleasant.

DUBUQUE ­? The Iowa Wesleyan College volleyball team had its two-game win streak snapped by Clarke University on Tuesday night.The host Crusaders made quick work of the Tigers, defeating IWC in three sets: 25-13, 25-9, 25-14.Marissa Bozik and Dakota Flesner led the Tigers' attack, each recording five kills in the match. Lindsey Johnson had 11 assists and six digs on the night.The Tigers struggled offensively, ...

RIVERSIDE ? The Highland volleyball team beat WACO in three sets, Tuesday, but head coach Chris Rath said her team has yet to reach its full potential.?[The win doesn?t feel] as good as it should,? Rath said. ?We had a lot of hitting and serving errors. We had more errors than we should have allowed.?The Huskies had 25 killing errors to just 23 successful kills.Highland was sluggish out of the gate in the ...

ELDON ? No. 6 New London upped its record to 7-1 with a Southeast Iowa Super Conference South Division sweep of Cardinal on Tuesday night.The Tigers won by scores of 25-14, 25-15 and 25-9, and are now 3-0 in the SEISC South.Emily Parks had a team-high 16 kills in the match and Jorgi Krieger added 11. Sarah Holtkamp had 23 assists.Parks also led the team with 13 digs on the night, while Sami Koontz chipped in ...

KALONA ? The Winfield-Mt. Union volleyball team forced five sets but ultimately fell to Iowa Mennonite in a Southeast Iowa Super Conference North Division match on Tuesday.The Class 1A No. 7 Wolves took the first set from IMS, 25-22, but fell in the next two, 25-20 and 25-23.The teams battled in the fourth until the Wolves managed to end it at 29-27, but IMS came back in the final set to take the game, 15-5, ...