Mt. Pleasant News

Students are back in school, and soon basketball players will be back on the court.Winfield-Mt. Union travels tonight (Thursday) to Columbus to play a make-up game after their contest against the Wildcats was postponed due to snow on Dec. 21.The JV girls play at 4:30 p.m., and the varsity girls and boys will follow. The JV boys will also play at Columbus tonight; their game will be in the Roundy Elementary gym ...

The Jerry Stark Memorial Youth Basketball Tournament will be held on Saturday, Jan. 12, at the YMCA in Muscatine.Tournament proceeds will benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Muscatine County, a program of the Muscatine Community Y.The tournament, which starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 6 p.m., will include two divisions; seventh-grade girls and eighth-grade girls. Registration is limited to the first four teams in ...

Friday? New London basketball hosts Harmony, JV boys start at 4:30 p.m., followed by varsity girls and varsity boys? W-MU basketball @ Columbus, varsity girls start at 6 p.m., followed by varsity boys? WACO basketball hosts Pekin, varsity girls start at 6 p.m., followed by varsity boys

The Mt. Pleasant seventh-grade boys? tournament basketball team won the Fairfield Tournament on Sunday, Dec. 16.Mt. Pleasant defeated Ft. Madison, Southeast Iowa Thunder, Holy Trininty and Washington.They improve their record this season to 14-1 with the win.

A five-member committee at Iowa Wesleyan College is putting the finishing touches on the school's application for NCAA Division III provisional membership."We're really, really close to being done," IWC Athletic Director Mike Hampton said. "We're putting the finishing touches to it. We still have to do a little tweaking on grammar and layout, but in substance, it's completed."Hampton is one of the five committee...

Mt. Pleasant natives Darian Cotton and Jordan Cotton and Winfield native Jon Gerling, all pictured above from left, were all training at the Mt. Pleasant REC Center on Dec. 23, during their Christmas break from college.Darian Cotton plays football at Iowa State, and Jordan Cotton plays the same sport at the University Iowa. Gerling is on the UNI cross-country and track teams.It?s not very common to see Division ...

The Mt. Pleasant boys? and girls? basketball games and the Panther bowling meet have been cancelled for Thursday evening due to the snow.The boys? and girls? basketball teams were scheduled to host West Liberty tonight.Those games have been rescheduled for Friday night, starting with the girls? game at 6 p.m., weather permitting.Bowling was to travel to Ottumwa; that has not yet been rescheduled.

Cedar Rapids Washington senior Austin Bergstrom has been named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) High School Boys? All-America team.Bergstrom is the only Iowa high school player to receive the honor.He has received numerous all-conference and all-Metro awards over his first three years as a high school soccer player.Bergstrom is the son of Brian and Diane King-Bergstrom, 1981 ...

MELBOURNE, Fla. ? The IWC men?s basketball team took the court on Wednesday night for their second game down in Florida.The Tigers will return home without a win during the trip, as they lost 97-78 to Florida Tech on Wednesday night.The Tigers couldn?t handle the hot shooting by the Panthers? Chris Carter, who had a game-high 34 points.Carter scored 19 in the first half, leading the Panthers to a 45-33 ...

The Mt. Pleasant fifth-grade girls? tournament basketball team went 1-2 at the Fairfield Tournament on Saturday, Dec. 15.They defeated the hosts but lost to Pella and Ottumwa.They are now 1-5 on the season.

The Mt. Pleasant seventh-grade boys? basketball ?A? team completed its season last Thursday by defeating the Washington Demons.The leading scorer was Jordan Magnani with 24 points.The team was undefeated on the season.The ?B? team lost to Washington. The leading scorer was Nick Steffens with eight points for Mt. Pleasant.The ?C? team also lost to Washington, and the Panthers? leading scorer in that game was ...

PACKWOOD ? The Winfield-Mt. Union girls? basketball team started its second trip through the conference on Tuesday night at Pekin, where they came out on top of a 43-23 decision.The Wolves led by a score of 18-11 at halftime and held the Panthers to only one point in the third quarter.W-MU then put up an 18-point fourth quarter to seal the win.Alicia Escher led all scorers in the game with 15 points. Anna ...