Obituaries

PACKWOOD ? WACO used just about everything in its arsenal in an attempt to put points on the scoreboard Thursday, but host Pekin seemed to always have an answer in the Class 1A District 9 quarterfinal contest.The Panthers held the visiting Warriors to under double digits in all four quarters and turned a 26-15 halftime lead into a 62-34 playoff victory in Packwood.?We tried everything we had, but we couldn?t ...

The Mt. Pleasant JV boys? basketball team ended its season with a 42-35 win against Marion to improve to 9-9 on the year.?We won our last four games and were really playing good basketball,? said Coach Tyler Rodgers. ?It was nice to get back to .500 and end the year feeling good about things.?Zach Mulford led all scorers with 17 points, followed by Dustin Amos and Carson Remick with 14 and nine points, respectiv...

Iowa Wesleyan College alumna and current women's assistant basketball coach Anna Jones will be honored with the unveiling of a ?fathead? of herself in the Howe Student Union Building at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday.Jones was a two-time All-American at IWC during a four-year career that made her one of the greatest players in the school's long and distinguished history of women's basketball.She was just the second ...

RIVERSIDE ? It wasn?t their highest-scoring game of the season, but the Winfield-Mt. Union girls? basketball team finished Tuesday night?s contest at Highland with two players in double figures and a nine-point victory.The Wolves, who average 47.5 points per game, won last night?s Southeast Iowa Super Conference North Division game by a score of 40-31.Cassie Kingery put up 12 points to pace W-MU, and Shelby ...

The Southeast Iowa Super Conference girls? basketball ?shootout? matchups have been decided.The games pair the first-place team in the North Division against the first-place team in the South Division, the second-place teams against each other, and so on down the line.All games are to be played on Friday, Feb. 1, at the South Division schools. A JV game will kick off the night at 6 p.m., with the varsity game ...

The Mt. Pleasant girls? basketball team scored more than 50 points in each of their games this weekend, good enough for a pair of wins.The Panthers defeated Ft. Madison, 52-28, on Friday, and came up with a 62-48 win over Burlington on Saturday.The Panthers (10-6 overall, 5-2 SEC) took a 10-3 lead in the first quarter of their SEC game against Ft. Madison, and they never looked back.?We were playing without ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. ? The Iowa Wesleyan College men?s basketball team came close but couldn?t quite get ahead, falling to Viterbo, 74-70, on Saturday afternoon. The IWC women also fell to Viterbo, 65-42.In the men?s game , IWC had a narrow lead, 65-64, with just over four minutes left in regulation when Jordan Laufenberg hit his second 3-pointer of the game to give the V-Hawks an advantage that they never gave ...

BURLINGTON ? The New London boys? and girls? basketball teams fell to a pair of powerful Burlington Notre Dame squads in their Friday night Southeast Iowa Super Conference South Division games.The Tiger boys lost by a score of 84-26, and the girls fell to the Class 1A No. 4 Nikes by a score of 80-42.In the girls? game, the Nikes scored more than 20 points in each of the first three quarters to take a big ...

Tuesday? Mt. Pleasant girls' basketball hosts Iowa City West, JV starts at 6 p.m., followed by varsity? IWC women's basketball @ Ashford University in Clinton, 7 p.m.? W-MU basketball @ Highland, varsity girls start at 6 p.m., followed by varsity boys? W-MU boys' basketball hosts Pekin, JV starts at 6 p.m., followed by varsity? WACO basketball hosts Lone Tree, varsity girls start at 6 p.m, followed by ...

FAIRFIELD ? A pair of first-place finishes ? one from its lightweight and one from its heavyweight ? led the Mt. Pleasant wrestling team to the tournament title at the Southern Iowa Classic on Saturday.Colton Mertens (106 pounds) and Emmett Wester (285 pounds) each won his weight class at the Fairfield tournament.Mertens went 3-0 on the day, winning by major decision over Gage Hawkins of Keokuk (11-1) and ...