The Mt. Pleasant Athletic Booster Club will host its annual ?Meet The Players Night? on Friday, Aug. 17 at the Mapleleaf Athletic Complex.The Athletic Boosters will be serving meals, selling memberships, and introducing the players, cheerleaders and coaches of the Mt. Pleasant Community High School fall sports teams, followed by a scrimmage of the 9th-12th grade football teams.The community is invited to ...
Seventh and eighth graders who plan to play Mt. Pleasant football this fall but were not able to come to the Panther Football Camp can come to the west locker room at Mapleleaf Athletic Complex at 3:30 p.m. Thursday or Friday, Aug. 16 or 17, to get their equipment.There will be coaches present to assist the players.Middle school practice will begin on Monday, Aug. 20. and will be at Mapleleaf from 4-6 p.m. ...
More than 70 runners and walkers showed up to ?Do the Hustle? at the Crooked Creek Days? 5K and one mile Fun Run sponsored by the Winfield Rec League.The Rec League?s goal is to enhance the lives of the youth in the community through athletics. Involving the youth in working at fundraisers such as the Fun Run also promotes volunteerism, community support and good citizenship. The youth helped man race turns, ...
Former Iowa Wesleyan College athletes Fred Jacobeit (class of 1950) and Fred Parsons (class of 1957) will be inducted into the IWC Athletic Hall of Fame on Oct. 5 as part of Homecoming weekend.Parsons was a basketball and baseball player at Iowa Wesleyan College.A catcher and an outfielder, he started for three straight seasons on the baseball team.Parsons was also a memeber of Phi Delta Theta as a student at ...
As the IWC football season kicks off, the team is working on meshing its new players with its veterans and adjusting to a new coaching staff.?Practice is going good; we?ve got a lot of new guys that are getting in, but we have a lot of returners, too, so it?s going pretty smoothly,? Ridge Hobbs said.Hobbs, an IWC junior from New London, is one of those returners.The wide receiver led IWC with 42 receptions for ...
There will be an informational meeting for parents of football players in grades 10-12 on Thursday, Aug. 9, at 6 p.m. in the home stands at Mapleleaf Stadium.Practice will follow the meeting and parents are invited to stay and observe the team at work.
IOWA CITY ? The Hawkeyes have a new offensive system this season, and former Mt. Pleasant football players Jordan Cotton and Henry Krieger-Coble are ready to do anything they can to help it out.Krieger-Coble, a 2011 Mt. Pleasant graduate and a redshirt freshman at Iowa, is playing at tight end for the Hawkeyes this season.?I?m looking forward to working hard for another year,? he said.He?s not on the depth ...
WEST BURLINGTON ? Four drivers picked up their first season wins at 34 Raceway on Saturday, while two drivers made repeat trips to the winner?s circle.Chuck Hannah of Moline, Ill. (late models), Darin Duffy of Hazelton (modifieds), Abe Huls of Carthage, Ill. (stock cars) and Craig Bangert of Golden, Ill. (four cylinders) each claimed the checkered flag for the first time at 34 Raceway this season, while Ryan ...
On Friday, the Winfield-Mt. Union community celebrated the opening of the newest part of the athletic complex ? a patio. Community members came out to the patio for lunch on Friday while W-MU superintendent Pat Coen, pictured at left, talked about the patio?s value for the community. Located behind the baseball field, near the practice football field, the patio will be used by W-MU athletic teams as well as ...
A one-mile, dirt road race will raise money for the Mt. Pleasant cross-country teams.The run is on Monday, Sept. 3, on Mile Ave., which gives the race it?s name.The Mile Mile will begin at 210th Street at 9 a.m. and end one mile later at Nebraska Ave.There is a fee to enter this Labor Day event, and all the proceeds will benefit Mt. Pleasant cross-country.Parking for the race is available near the finish ...
The Extreme Challenge Super Fight Series Heavyweight Tournament mixed martial arts finale will be at Memorial Auditorium in Burlington on Saturday, Aug. 11, with Mt. Pleasant?s Parnell Davis facing Jason Huebbe.?I am ready,? Davis said.The heavyweight fighter is currently spending some time training at the Alliance MMA gym in Chula Vista, Calif. ? the same gym that UFC fighters like Dominick Cruz, Phil Davis ...
FAIRFIELD (AP) ? Don?t tell Matt Stutzman he can?t do something. Because, chances are, you?re wrong.The 29-year-old Fairfield father of three was born without arms and rejected prosthetics at a very young age. Instead, he learned to do nearly everything with his feet. He eats, drives, brushes his teeth and even changes his sons? diapers with his toes.He also can hit a target dead center with a bow and arrow ...
WASHINGTON ? After WACO?s cross-country program was cut as part of an effort to slash the budget, the school will send its runners to Washington this fall.?Our board dropped our cross-country program, so we were looking for a program to take on our girls,? WACO athletic director Chad Edeker said. ?It gives our upperclassmen a chance to compete, and the younger kids can run JV or maybe step up and help the ...
Registration materials for the Mt. Pleasant fifth and sixth grade tackle football league this fall will be available to pick up registration at the Mt. Pleasant Middle School on Thursday, Aug. 2.
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