Mt. Pleasant News

WAYLAND ? Both WACO and Winfield-Mt. Union will be sending athletes to Des Moines next weekend for the state track and field meet.The Warriors qualified in three boys? events and three girls? events at the district/sectional meet, which they hosted in Wayland.The W-MU teams qualified in one boys? event and six girls? events.Max Fricke is the lone Wolf to represent the W-MU boys on the blue track at Drake ...

The seventh grade girls? track and field team participated in the Southeast Association of Middle Schools Conference Meet on May 7 in Burlington and placed third out of eight teams, led by Jenna Ludwig?s first-place finish in the 800 with a time of 2:38.02.The Panthers also had a number of top-six finishes.Ludwig took the silver medal in the 200 with a time of :29.65, as well as the 400 with a time of 1:07.5.Tw...

Iowa Wesleyan College golfers Blake Mitchell and Kayla Bishop have been named honorable mention all-Midwest Collegiate Conference selections, as the conference released its men?s and women?s golf awards this week.Mitchell, a sophomore from Loveland, Colo., received MCC men?s golf honors for the first time in his first season after transferring to IWC from Front Range (Colo.) Community College. He finished the ...

Track and field athletes across the state will compete in sectional and district meets at 4 p.m. today, looking for a berth at the state meet in Des Moines on May 17-19.Mt. Pleasant and WACO will host their respective qualfiying meets.The Panthers will see a lot of familiar competition, as the other four Southeast Conference teams ? Fairfield, Ft. Madison, Keokuk and Washington ? will each make the trip to Mt. ...

Thursday? Mt. Pleasant boys? and girls? track and field at district/regional meet in Mt. Pleasant, 4 p.m.? Mt. Pleasant boys? tennis at district tournament in Fairfield, 9 a.m.? Mt. Plesasnt girls? tennis vs. Davis County, 4:30 p.m.? Mt. Pleasant boys? soccer vs. Washington, 4:30 p.m.? Mt. Pleasant girls? soccer at Washington, 4:30 p.m.? New London, W-MU and WACO at regional/district meet in Wayland, 4 ...

The Mt. Pleasant 10U baseball team competed in the Diamond Dreams Invitational last weekend in Iowa City and won the tournament with an undefeated, 4-0 record on the weekend.The Panthers beat the Muscatine Tribe in the semi-finals, 19-4, and shut out the Iowa City Little Hawks, 8-0, in the finals.The Panthers are coached by Matt Lowery, Jason Bender and Tim Keldgord.The team is pictured above. Front row, from ...

OTTUMWA ? The Mt. Pleasant girls? golf team placed seventh of 12 teams at the Ottumwa Invite on Thursday, where Lindsay Dorn was named senior medalist of the tournament.Dorn shot a 94 on the day to lead the Panthers. She was followed by Natalie Booton, 96; Courtney Mabeus, 109; and Emily Cox, 123. Danika Christner shot a 127.The Panthers scored a team total of 422. Waukee won the meet with a score of 345.Valley...

Davis County traveled to East Lake Park for a 7-1 rout of the Panther boys? tennis team on Thursday.Mt. Pleasant?s lone win came from Caleb Zimmerman in a singles match against Damen Dixon. Zimmerman won the close contest by a score of 9-7.The Panthers are now 3-7 on the season.They will play again at the Southeast Conference tournament in Ft. Madison on Monday. The tournament begins at 9 a.m.

The Mt. Pleasant Little League opening day has been postponed.The event was planned for Saturday morning at the fields on Cherry Street. It has not been rescheduled.

FT. MADISON ? Jake Edwards led the Winfield-Mt. Union boys? golf team to a second-place finish at the Southeast Iowa Super Conference tournament at Sheaffer Memorial Golf Course on Thursday.Edwards was the runner-up medalist at the tournament, scoring 77 on the day. After 18 holes, he was tied with Tanner Travis of Columbus, but Edwards shot a birdie on the first playoff hole to claim the runner-up title.The ...

FT. MADISON ? Bo Vitale scored all three of the Panthers? goals in a 3-2, overtime win against Ft. Madison on Thursday.The Mt. Pleasant boys? soccer team got revenge on the Bloodhounds in the away match. Earlier this season, Ft. Madison came to East Lake Park and defeated the Panthers by the same score, 3-2.This time, Mt. Pleasant was determined to turn the tables.The Panthers scored first, and maintained a ...

Salem?s John Wagner didn?t even know he was entered in the contest that won him ?the hunting trip of a lifetime.? Now, he?s looking at a spot in the Safari Club International record books for an aoudad sheep that he shot in Texas, and he has no plans to stop there.It was just a couple weeks ago that Wagner got the phone call: he was told that a really nice sheep had been spotted near Alpine, Texas.On Saturday, ...