Mt. Pleasant News

WILLIAMSBURG ? Both Mt. Pleasant cross-country teams started the season with an improved performance at their opening meet, the Williamsburg Invitational.The girls? team finished third for the third year in a row, but had the lowest score its ever had.The boys? team, despite losing its top five runners from last season to graduation, took fourth overall after finishing sixth last year.They got a lot of help ...

MARION ? The Mt. Pleasant football team started strong in its season opener but faded in Friday night?s 40-0 loss to Marion.?We started making mental errors,? Coach Shawn Striegel said. ?We looked better early, but I think the heat got to us, with the bulk of our kids playing both ways.?The Panthers held their opponents scoreless through the first quarter. However, the Indians got on the board with three ...

Hot weather and a three-day weekend is a recipe for busy rivers and lakes.But this year, low water in most interior rivers will require paddlers and tubers on all but the largest streams to do some walking as water levels are nearly identical as during last year?s drought.Todd Robertson, with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Water Trails program, said paddlers and tubers should check stream flows on the ...

Friday? Mt. Pleasant football @ Marion, 7:30 p.m.? IWC men?s and women?s cross-country @ Mt. Mercy Mustang Gallop in Cedar Rapids, 5:30 p.m.? New London football hosts Pekin, 7 p.m.? WACO football @ Columbus, 8 p.m.*? W-MU football hosts Wapello, 7 p.m. Saturday? Mt. Pleasant volleyball at Clarke Invitational in Osceola, 9:30 a.m.? IWC volleyball @ Monmouth Invitational, 11:30 a.m.? IWC men?s soccer ...

Thoughout southeast Iowa, there are not many anglers out because of the heat. Lake OdessaBoth the outlet and inlets are open for flow through. Water levels are down to summer levels. Channel catfish ? fair: work around the tree falls in the Sand Run area and similar areas. Crappie ? fair: good numbers of crappies can be found around the tree falls and the beaver lodges. Lake Belva DeerBluegill ? fair: work ...

Friday night kicks off what the Mt. Pleasant football players and their coaches are hoping is an improved season.The Panthers have been working hard through some sweltering practices this week in preparation for their season opener at Marion tomorrow night.?The kids are playing hard and handling the heat; they?ve been pretty resilient and are still focused,? Coach Shawn Striegel said. ?It?s all positive for ...

Friday? Mt. Pleasant ?Meet the Players? night at Mapleleaf Athletic Complex: booster club starts serving meals at 6:30 p.m., introductions for football, volleyball, cross-country and cheerleading begin at 7:15 p.m. and football scrimmages begin at 7:50 p.m.? WACO Gatorade game: The football team is hosting a scimmage against Pekin at 7 p.m. Fans can bring a bottle of Gatorade or another sports drink to gain ...

The Iowa Wesleyan College men?s soccer team has been slated to finish eighth in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC).The men?s team garnered 26 points in the preseason poll, enough to top Eureka College (19 points) and MacMurray College (14 points).Just as in the SLIAC women?s soccer preseason poll, Webster University took the top spot.The Gorloks received 79 points in the men?s poll, ...

Hunters looking to places to hunt doves when the season opens Sept. 1 can find these areas and more online at www.iowadnr.gov/hunting.The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has food plots on several wildlife management areas specifically to attract doves during their migration. The list of areas with food plots is under the Migratory Game Birds link. Food plots are generally cover up to five acres and most are ...

Boaters heading out for the Labor Day holiday will likely find busy waterways and lower water levels.Susan Stocker, boating law administrator and education coordinator for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, said boat operators need to operate with caution and to watch for hazards in the water, starting at the boat ramp.?Use caution when loading and unloading the boat. Back in only as far as necessary to ...

Iowa River (Columbus Junction to Mississippi River)Water levels are dropping slowly some of the bigger sand bars are really sticking out now. Channel catfish ? good: the go-to baits continue to be frogs, chubs and crawdads. Work the brush piles and the drop-offs at the edges of the sandbars. Lake Belva DeerBluegill ? fair: work off the edges of the underwater mounds in the lake. The fish are down about ten ...

Hunter interest remains high, heading into Iowa's third mourning dove season. The 70-day season opens Sept. 1, with birds now pouring into Iowa on their southward migration Migrating birds are noticed in the early days of August, building through the late summer. The number of hunters should edge upward, too. expect a little bump up in hunter numbers again, as more of them learn about dove hunting. A few more ...