Mt. Pleasant News

Friday? IWC men's golf @ Ashford Spring Invitational in Riverside, 11 a.m.? IWC softball @ Grinnell College Tournament vs. Grinnell, 2 p.m.? IWC softball @ Grinnell College Tournament vs. Westminster College (Fulton, Mo.), 4 p.m.? New London boys' and girls' golf hosts Holy Trinity at Deerwood Golf Club, 4 p.m. Saturday? Mt. Pleasant boys' and girls' track and field @ West Burlington, 11 a.m.? IWC ...

?The Mt. Pleasant Easter Weekend 3-on-3 tournament went very well,? said organizer Ronnie Ashton. ?Lots of people enjoyed it and wanted to know when I would do it again.?The tournament was in the Mt. Pleasant High School gym on Saturday, March 30.On the boys? side of the tournament, there were participants in each age group, which went from third grade up. In the third-grade boys? age group, the winning team ...

OTTUMWA ? The Mt. Pleasant girls? soccer team traveled to Ottumwa on Thursday and came out on top of the match with a 4-0 score, its second shutout in as many games this season.?Holly Long had another excellent game,? Coach Ed Chabal said.Long started the scoring in the 15th minute. Sarah Van Dorin added the second goal in the 35th minute on a putback in front of the Ottumwa goal.The score remained 2-0 at ...

Hannen LakeThe ice is unsafe. Rodgers Park LakeThe ice is unsafe. Iowa LakeThe ice is unsafe. Kent Park LakeThe ice is unsafe. Lake MacbrideThere are large areas of open water (dam area, west of the causeway on the south arm) and the remaining ice should be considered unsafe. The north shore of the north arm is starting to thin now. Currently all boat ramps are iced in. Central Park LakeThe ice is ...

PACKWOOD ? WACO?s Braden Blake finished first in the 800-meter run during the Ruritan Relays at Pekin in Packwood on Thursday night.Blake ran a time of 2:16.4 in the event, almost exactly one second ahead of the next finisher.Blake had the only first-place finish for the Warriors, who took fourth of five teams at the meet. However, the Warriors had five other top-three finishes.Blake added a second-place ...

CEDAR RAPIDS ? The Iowa Wesleyan College softball team traveled to Cedar Rapids on Wednesday and took on Coe College.The Tigers lost in both games of the doubleheader to the NCAA DIII 19th-ranked team.The Tigers fell 7-1 in game one, then were shut out as they lost 8-0 in the nightcap. IWC is now 7-9 and Coe is now 15-1.Next up for IWC is a trip to MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill., on Tuesday, April ...

WEST BURLINGTON ? The 2013 racing season is scheduled to begin at 34 Raceway with the Brockway Mechanical/Doc 360 Sprint Invaders Frost Buster and Roberts Tire Center Modified Special Saturday, March 30.A prize of $1,200 will go to the winner of the Sprint Invaders feature, and the Modifieds will race for the $1,000 prize.Also on the racing card will be the Pepsi Stock IMCA Stock Cars and Mod Lites.There is a ...

Saturday? IWC baseball hosts doubleheader against Monmouth College at Mapleleaf Athletic Complex, 12 p.m. Next weekMonday? Mt. Pleasant girls' tennis @ Centerville, 4:30 p.m.? IWC baseball @ Illinois College in Jacksonville, Ill.

The Winfield-Mt. Union boys? track and field team is bringing back some talent, and they?re adding enough athletes to cover all their events. It?s all there ? now they just need some time to put it all together.?We are still a fairly young team but have a nice core group of runners back,? Coach Cody Wolfe said. ?Max Fricke as a returning qualifier is a great leader for us. Our numbers are still strong so we ...

The Mt. Pleasant boys? tennis team lost a close one to Davis County on Thursday night at East Lake Park.?We played good doubles for not spending much time in practice on it,? Coach Tyler Rodgers said. ?Ovearll, we need to be more consistent.?Chase Higginbotham won his singles match by a score of 8-2; Zach Schmitz picked up an 8-4 win and Tyler Pace also won by a score of 8-2.Higginbotham and Schmitz also ...

The Winfield-Mt. Union girls? track and field team didn?t lose a single athlete to graduation, and they?re bringing back a number of state qualifiers ? including the school?s first individual event winner, senior Cassie Kingery, who was a Class 1A state champion in the 100-meter hurdles.?We didn?t graduate anyone from last year?s team so we have a really strong core of returners,? Coach Allyson McCarty said. ?We ...

Spring turkey hunters in Iowa should notice more birds. Dry conditions in 2012 meant a better hatch and first year of growth for poults. As about 45,000 hunters head to the woods through April and May, that can?t hurt their chances of taking a gobbler.?Across the state, we had about a 25 percent increase. North central and northeast Iowa had great increases in reproduction,? notes DNR forest research biologist ...