Mt. Pleasant News

Friday? IWC softball vs. Robert Morris College at the Spring Fling in Joliet, Ill., 11:45 a.m.? IWC softball vs. Mt. Mercy University at the Spring Fling in Joliet, Ill., 4 p.m.? IWC track and field at Multi-Event Championships in Clinton.? IWC golf at MCC Championships in Riverside.? New London golf at Mediapolis, 4 p.m. Saturday? Mt. Pleasant boys? golf at Washington Invitational, 8:30 a.m.? IWC ...

The Mt. Pleasant Middle School Girls? Relays were held Saturday, April 14, and the Panther girls? track and field team placed second.Mt. Pleasant had six first-place finishes at the meet: the shuttle hurdle team of Kirsten Smith, Rylee Amos, Sheyanne Walter and Allison Buckert (1:23.37); the distance medley team of Bailey Johnson, Jocelyn Steenblock, Catherine Prough and Lindsay Moeller (5:21.08); Jenna Ludwig ...

OSKALOOSA ? Just two outs from being swept in a doubleheader, the Iowa Wesleyan College baseball team scored five runs for a 5-1 win over William Penn University in the second game of a Midwest Collegiate Conference twinbill Wednesday.The Tigers rebounded from a 2-1 loss to the Statesmen in the first game, staying just ahead of Penn in the conference standings at the end of the day. IWC is now 10-10 in the MCC ...

NEW LONDON ? The New London golf teams continued their undefeated seasons with wins over Winfield-Mt. Union on Tuesday. The Tiger boys won by a score of 180-185, and the Tiger girls won, 204-231.The medalist for the boys was New London?s Micah Alden, who shot a 41 on his par-36 home course, Deerwood. He was followed by Taylor Bucholz with a 44, Tristan Kadel with a 47 and Logan Stevens with a 48.For W-MU, Brody ...

WELLMAN ? The Mt. Pleasant boys? track and field team went to Mid-Prairie for the Hawk Co-Ed Relays, and they came away with a win in the team scores, as well as first-place finishes in six events.The Panthers scored 141 points on the night, leading their next closest competitior, host Mid-Prairie, by 50. The Golden Hawks scored 91 points for second place, followed by Washington with 78; Grinnell, 68; West ...

The Iowa Wesleyan College softball team split a doubleheader with Clarke University but missed a chance to gain some leverage in the Midwest Collegiate Conference standings Tuesday night at the Mapleleaf Athletic Complex.The Tigers overcame a slow start to defeat the Crusaders 8-0 in six innings in the opener, but could never get on track offensively in the second game and lost 2-1. Iowa Wesleyan is now 21-26 ...

Mt. Pleasant Basketball Coach Paul Rundquist has been named the Iowa Basketball Coaches? Association?s (IBCA) Coach of the Year for Class 3A.Rundquist was named first as the Class 3A Substate 6 Coach of the Year, as chosen by the coaches in the substate. Each substate did the same, and from that list of eight substate coaches, the IBCA board members selected the state coaches of the year.Rundquist led the ...

WEST DES MOINES ? On Sunday, April 29, 442 high school seniors across Iowa will be honored at the Tenth Annual Governor's Scholar Recognition Ceremony at Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines, starting at 1:00 p.m.Five Henry County students are among those honored: Jackson Bell and Kevin Nguyen from Mt. Pleasant; Grant McPheron from New London; Brennan Haymond from Winfield-Mt. Union; and Christian Roth from WACO.The ...

The Mt. Pleasant Panthers 10U baseball team won the Cedar Rapids Washington Spring Tournament last weekend. They went 3-0, defeating Cedar Rapids Cougars Green, 6-0; Quad City A's, 6-1; and the Burlington Mudd Dawgs, 4-3, in the finals.The team is coached by Matt Lowery, Jason Bender and Tim Keldgord.The boys on the team are pictured above. Back row, from left: Brody Bender, Tucker Johnson, Jacob Stukerjurgen, ...

WEST BRANCH ? Leslie Taylor won three individual events and ran the leadoff leg of the winning 4x100 relay to aid the Mt. Pleasant girls? track and field team in a first-place team finish at West Branch last night.The Panthers scored 170 points as a team, beating out the second-place host team, West Branch, which scored 144. Solon took third place with a score of 126.Taylor took the gold in the 100-meter dash ...

Forward Holly Long scored on a goal kick with just over three minutes left in the game to break a scoreless tie and give the Mt. Pleasant girls? soccer team a 1-0 Southeast Conference win over Keokuk at East Lake Park on Thursday.It was the third match in four days for the Panthers girls, who defeated Fairfield in the conference opener on Monday and were dealt their first loss of the season by Burlington Notre ...

WASHINGTON ? The Mt. Pleasant boys? golf team beat Ft. Madison but fell to the home team at a triangular in Washington yesterday.The Panthers were led by Patrick Zelinski?s 40, while Quinn Daniel, Kiley Miller and Kyle Kauffman each shot a 41 to give the Panthers a team total of 163.Washington scored 157 as a team and Ft. Madison finished with a 202.Medalist Alex Thode from Washignton shot a 36 on the par-35 ...