TuesdayMt. Pleasant wrestling at Mediapolis, 6:30 p.m.WACO basketball vs. Mediapolis, in Wayland, freshman/sophomore girls and boys start at 4:30, followed by varsity girls and boys.W-MU basketball vs. Lone Tree, in Winfield, girls start at 6 p.m.New London basketball vs. Holy Trinity, in New London, girls start at 6 p.m.*UPDATE* The WACO wrestling meet listed in the newspaper today was cancelled, and it ...
On Jan. 6 ? one week from tomorrow ? the Panthers will be back on the basketball court. The boys host Washington, starting with the freshman game at 4:45, and the girls travel to play the Demons, also starting at 4:45.Each of the WACO, W-MU and New London teams has a game at home on Tuesday, Jan. 3. WACO hosts Mediapolis, W-MU hosts Lone Tree and New London will host Holy Trinity. Girls? games start at 6 p.m.
Senior guard Adilene Villalobos, from Tucson, Ariz., has been named the Midwest Collegiate Conference Women?s Basketball Player of the Week, as announced by the MCC on Monday.Villalobos posted a pair of strong performances off the bench last week as IWC split a pair of games at the La Quinta Stritch Holiday Classic hosted by Cardinal Stritch (Wis.) University on Dec. 19 and 20.She averaged 13.5 points and ...
After claiming a win in just over a minute in his first-ever Mixed Martial Arts fight, Mt. Pleasant?s Tyler McGuire, 25, is going back for round two.He will fight in the Extreme Challenge 201, again at Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, on Jan. 14.He doesn?t know yet whom he will be fighting, and he also says that it doesn?t matter ? he?s ready for anything.McGuire?s first MMA fight was on Aug. 27. At ...
MORGANTOWN, W. VA. ? In one week, Mt. Pleasant native and West Virginia University football coach Dana Holgorsen will take his team to the Orange Bowl, becoming one of only seven coaches in history to make a BCS game during his rookie season as a head coach.Holgorsen led the No. 23 Moutaineers to a 9-3 record this year after taking over for former head coach Bill Stewart in June. He was the first-ever WVU ...
The Christmas season brings a break in the schedules for winter sports teams.See what the Mt. Pleasant coaches do to keep their players in shape. Joanna Settles, girls' basketball When do you start practicing again??We start (today). On Saturday, we have a five-team scrimmage at Cedar Rapids Kennedy.? What was the effect of the break on the players??Well, they did some working out on ...
OSKALOOSA ? Seven Panthers scored in a 45-33 Mt. Pleasant win over Oskaloosa on Tuesday night.The boys were ahead 27-16 by the half, leading throughout the game, and went on to get the win.The team is now 7-1 on the season.Cameron Frank led the team with 12 points, followed by Blake Vandenberg with eight and Nick Lyon with seven. Dalton Conrad and Ryan Hanna put up six points each, while Jordan Ashton ...
Pictured is the Mt. Pleasant 7th grade girls? basketball team, which poses with the first-place trophy they won in the West Burlington tournament, going 3-0.Front row, from left: Kaci Ames, Rylee Amos, Kirsten Smith and Allison Buckert. Back row: Sarah Moffett, Ashley Schinstock, Mackenzie Pezley, Kirstin Fry, Genna Cristoforo and Shey Walter.The girls placed third in the New London tournament, going 3-1 ...
WAPELLO ? The Winfield-Mt. Union girls? basketball team traveled to Wapello last night and took a win from their Southeast Iowa Super Conference North opponent, 51-42.Shelby Therme was the leading scorer for the Wolves in the matchup, putting 13 points on the board.Kassidy McLaughlin and Anna Crawford also broke into double figures, scoring 10 points each.Cassie Kingery added nine to the Wolves? total, ...
MILWAUKEE, WIS. ? The Iowa Wesleyan women?s basketball team split a trip to Wisconsin for the La Quinta Stritch Holiday Classic hosted by Cardinal Stritch (Wis.) University.The Tigers won their opening game of the Classic when Adilene Villalobos came off the bench with a career-high 16 points and Danielle Des Jardins hit the go-ahead free throws with 41 seconds left in the game to claim a 53-52 win over the ...
BURLINGTON ? Notre Dame took a big lead early in a 71-20 rout of New London last night, Dec. 20, in the teams? conference matchup.Going up 40-11 early in the game, the Nikes continued stretching their lead after the half, adding 17 points in the third quarter and 14 points in the fourh quarter, while holding the Tigers to only nine points in the second half.Logan Stevens scored a team-high six points for ...
DECORAH ? Melissa Erickson, a 2008 graduate of Mt. Pleasant Community High School, was presented a varsity letter at the annual Luther College cross-country banquet on Dec. 9.It is the tradition of the Luther cross-country teams that only seniors are presented letter awards.Erickson completed her cross-country career as a three-time all-Iowa Conference honoree and is one of seven runners in Luther history ...
The JV boys? basketball team didn?t fare as well as the varsity over the weekend, as they dropped their second game of the year to Ft. Madison on Friday night, Dec. 16, by a score of 48-40.?We got off to a good start and then Ft. Madison made some adjustments and we didn?t adjust,? said Coach Tyler Rodgers. ?We?ll have to get better in practice this week, improve our zone offense, take care of the basketball ...
In both of the New London girls? weekend games, their opponent scored 38 points.The Tigers came up short against Danville on Friday, however, losing 38-14, while stepping up their game for a Saturday win against Harmony, 49-38.Danville swept the Tiger teams Friday at New London, holding the Tiger girls to only two points in each of the first, second and fourth quarters.The Tigers got eight points on teh ...
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