Mt. Pleasant News

The Mt. Pleasant eighth-grade boys? basketball ?A? team came up with recent wins over Fairfield, Keokuk and Edward Stone (Burlington).The Panthers defeated Fairfield last week by a score of 25-20, led by Zach Ebeling?s seven points. Patrick Canby scored six points for Mt. Pleasant, while Brock Wilson and Ryan Moutrie chipped in four points apiece.The ?B? team was defeated by Fairfield, 17-11. Tyler Davis and ...

The Mt. Pleasant seventh-grade girls? ?A? team defeated Aldo Leopold handily on Tuesday, 59-9, and the ?B? team also picked up a win in the home contest.In the A game, Mt. Pleasant jumped out to a 16-0 lead in the first quarter, and the Panthers were up 34-4 at halftime. They cruised through the second half on their way to victory. The team is now 4-0 on the season.Kalynn Batey scored 18 points to pace Mt. ...

WINFIELD ? After going down by as many as 16 points in the third quarter, the Winfield-Mt. Union boys? basketball team made a huge comeback to claim a win over Pekin, 54-49, and stop a seven-game skid.The Wolves trailed 31-20 at halftime, and it only got worse as the third quarter started and Pekin scored the first six points of the second half.But four minutes into the quarter, the Wolves started making up ...

MARION ? Not a single Mt. Pleasant wrestler was pinned by his Marion opponent as the Panthers claimed a 64-12 win over the host of Thursday night?s double-dual.The Panthers also wrestled against Pleasant Valley and fell to the Spartans by a score of 50-25.Against Marion, the Panthers took maximum points in the first seven matches to go up 42-0.Colton Aplara (220) pinned Kenneth Kiene in just 27 seconds to open ...

Iowa?s deer harvest declined for the seventh straight year as hunters adjust to the smaller herd, and to fewer antlerless tags. Hunters reported 115,606 deer to the harvest reporting system for the 2012 season, a decline of nearly 5 percent. The harvest is down 23 percent from its high in 2006.Deer hunters purchased 378,447 licenses, nearly 14,500 fewer than in 2011, due to the elimination of the three-day ...

The Mt. Pleasant Middle School wrestling team competed Monday at Ottumwa against Ottuwma, Davis County, Eddyville-Blakesburg and Fairfield. Results for Panther wrestlers are listed below. ? Garrett Detrick (MP) pinned Jones, 3:51.? Garrett Detrick (MP) pinned Corram, 2:23.? Garrett Detrick (MP) pinned Courtright, 2:35.? John Rose (MP) pinned Corram, 2:51.? John Rose (MP) pinned Courtright, 1:24.? John Rose ...

34 Raceway honored its drivers for the 2012 racing season at an awards banquet on Saturday, Jan. 26, in Burlington. Receiving special recognition were the 2012 Track Champions in each of the eight divisions, who are pictured at left.Front row, from left: Scott Hogan, Vinton (Coors Silver Bullet IMCA Modifieds); Nate Beuseling, Silvis, Ill. (IMCA Late Models); Donnie Steward, West Burlington (W.T. Gabeline and ...

The Iowa High School Athletic Association has announced the boys? basketball district tournament and substate pairings for Class 1A and 2A.Three Henry County teams will play in the Class 1A district tournament: New London, WACO and Winfield-Mt. Union.The New London boys? basketball team hosts its first-round game. The Tigers will play Harmony on Monday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m.New London has not yet seen Harmony, a ...

A slow start on Tuesday night led to a loss for the IWC women's basketball team as they took on Ashford University on the road.The Tigers warmed up in the second half, but it was too little, too late as the Tigers fell, 62-47, to the Saints.IWC struggled early as the Saints used full-court pressure to get the Tigers out of sync.With 13:08 remaining in the first half, the Tigers trailed 13-3. The Tigers went on ...

RIVERSIDE ? It wasn?t their highest-scoring game of the season, but the Winfield-Mt. Union girls? basketball team finished Tuesday night?s contest at Highland with two players in double figures and a nine-point victory.The Wolves, who average 47.5 points per game, won last night?s Southeast Iowa Super Conference North Division game by a score of 40-31.Cassie Kingery put up 12 points to pace W-MU, and Shelby ...

The Southeast Iowa Super Conference girls? basketball ?shootout? matchups have been decided.The games pair the first-place team in the North Division against the first-place team in the South Division, the second-place teams against each other, and so on down the line.All games are to be played on Friday, Feb. 1, at the South Division schools. A JV game will kick off the night at 6 p.m., with the varsity game ...

The Mt. Pleasant girls? basketball team scored more than 50 points in each of their games this weekend, good enough for a pair of wins.The Panthers defeated Ft. Madison, 52-28, on Friday, and came up with a 62-48 win over Burlington on Saturday.The Panthers (10-6 overall, 5-2 SEC) took a 10-3 lead in the first quarter of their SEC game against Ft. Madison, and they never looked back.?We were playing without ...