Mt. Pleasant News

On Friday, Jan. 25, the Mt. Pleasant Community High School?s girls? basketball games against Ft. Madison will start with the freshman game at 6:15 p.m., followed by a varsity game.There will be no JV game.

The Mt. Pleasant seventh-grade girls? ?A? team remained undefeated after traveling to Ft. Madison last week and defeating the Bloodhounds, 38-6.The ?B? team was dealt its first loss, and the ?C? team fell in its season opener.In the A game, the Panthers went up 16-0 in the first quarter, getting all they would need to win the game.They were leading 28-4 at halftime and 34-6 at the end of the third quarter ...

Shawn Striegel has been named head football coach at Mt. Pleasant, pending board approval.A teacher in the Mt. Pleasant Community School District, Striegel accepted the position after serving as head JV coach and an assistant varsity coach in the Mt. Pleasant football program since 2005.He also comes with some experience as a varsity head coach; Striegel served in that position for two years in the Tri-County ...

URBANA ? Kyle Davis, Brody Burns and Avery Jacobs each went 5-0 for the New London/Winfield-Mt. Union wrestling team during the Center Point-Urbana duals on Saturday.As a team, the Tigers finished 2-3 on the day. They defeated Solon, 42-38; and Clayton Ridge, 54-24; but fell to Mid-Prairie, 57-24; Oelwein, 40-34; and the hosts, Center Point-Urbana, 48-30.Against Solon, the Tigers got three wins by forfeit and ...

The Mt. Pleasant girls scored 43 points in both of their games this weekend, but it was only good enough for the win once.The Panthers split the weekend with a big conference victory at Keokuk on Friday night, 43-38, followed by a loss to Class 4A No. 13 Oskaloosa on Saturday afternoon, 56-43.The Panthers had a big first half on Friday night against the Chiefs, out-scoring Keokuk 9-7 in the first quarter and ...

Tuesday? New London basketball @ Holy Trinity, varsity girls start at 6 p.m., followed by varsity boys? W-MU basketball hosts Lone Tree, varsity girls start at 6 p.m., followed by varsity boys? WACO basketball @ Mediapolis, varsity girls start at 6 p.m., followed by varsity boys Wednesday? IWC basketball @ Clarke University in Dubuque, women start at 5:30 p.m., followed by the men at 7:30 p.m. Thursday? ...

The Mt. Pleasant seventh-grade girls? tournament team won its second tournament in a row at Muscatine on Saturday. They beat Davenport Assumption, 24-17, and Columbus Junction, 21-17, before winning the championship game against the host team, Muscatine, by a score of 40-10.The team is pictured above. Front row, from left: Delaney McDowell, Taylor Murray, Kelsey Notestein, and Audre Barnes. Back row, from left: ...

MUSCATINE ? The Mt. Pleasant JV boys? basketball team struggled at the start of its Friday night game against Muscatine and couldn?t come back from an early deficit, losing by a score of 68-46.?We didn?t start the game well and Muscatine shot well,? Coach Tyler Rodgers said. ?They put us in a hole we couldn?t ever get out of.?Nike Phillips led the Panthers with 13 points and Nathan McConnell added eight.The ...

The Mt. Pleasant seventh-grade girls? basketball team picked up a huge win in their season opener on Tuesday in Burlington.The Panthers defeated Aldo Leopold by a score of 65-7 in the ?A? game.The Panthers posted a 27-point first quarter while shutting out their opponents in the first few minutes of the game.They went on to allow only one point over the next two quarters, and allowed six in the final minutes ...

Friday? Mt. Pleasant boys? basketball hosts Keokuk, freshmen start at 4:45 p.m., followed by JV and varsity? Mt. Pleasant girls? basketball @ Keokuk, freshmen start at 4:45 p.m., followed by JV and varsity? New London basketball hosts Cardinal, JV girls start at 4:30 p.m., followed by varsity girls and varsity boys? W-MU basketball hosts Wapello, JV girls start at 4:30 p.m., followed by varsity girls and ...

The Mt. Pleasant fifth-grade girls? tournament team avenged a one-point loss to Ft. Madison a week ago by defeating them in the Danville Tournament championship game by 10 points. Mt. Pleasant also defeated Carthage, Ill. and Clark County for its first tournament win.The team is pictured above. Front row, from left: Lexie Magnani, Ashley Elmore, Hailey O?Donnell and Kenna Smith. Back row, from left: Coach Diane ...

The Mt. Pleasant freshman basketball team played against two Trojan teams over the weekend: the Panthers defeated Fairfield handily on Friday night, but both the ?A? and ?B? teams fell to Iowa City West on Saturday.Against Fairfield, the Panthers had only a narrow lead at the end of the first quarter, 7-6, and were down 15-11 at halftime.However, they came back with a huge second half, scoring 14 points in the ...