Obituaries

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WACO ? The WACO girls' track and field team finished fourth place in their home meet on Tuesday night, scoring 47 points to tie with Highland. Winfield-Mt. Union scored 77 points for third.Mediapolis just edged out Van Buren to win the Warrior Invitatioal. The Bullettes scored 95 points to take home first, and VB finished with 94.W-MU won three individual events on the ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News The Iowa Wesleyan softball team wrapped up their 2018 schedule on Monday night, falling 3-1(8) and 12-0 to Webster University. This comes one day after hosting St. Ambrose University, where they were defeated 6-1 and 15-1(5).Game one was a pitcher's dual between Webster's Morgan Mansur and Iowa Wesleyan's Samantha McIlwain. McIlwain had a great outing, giving up just three ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News BURLINGTON ? The Notre Dame boys' golf team held their yearly invitational tournament on Tuesday morning and both Mt. Pleasant and Winfield-Mt. Union were in attendance. The Wolves placed second with a team score of 333, which was 15 strokes back from first-place Central Lee. Mt. Pleasant finished fourth with a score of 344.Kaleb Hagge topped the field to lead W-MU to the ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News It was all Mt. Pleasant all day long in Monday's Southeast Conference showdown at East Lake Park. The Panthers buried Keokuk 9-0 in their biggest blowout win of the season.The Panthers didn't waste much time, scoring two goals in the first eight minutes. Jadyn Vongsavath put Mt. Pleasant on the board with a goal off the far post in the fourth minute. Cade Warner sent a ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News KEOKUK ? The Mt. Pleasant boys' golf team had a busy day on Tuesday. The Panthers came back from the Burlington tournament, which started at 9 a.m., and went straight to Keokuk for a conference road meet. In Keokuk, Mt. Pleasant dominated 159-215 to pick up a Southeast Conference win.Trace White had a fantastic meet, finishing at 34, which was one-under par. He picked up a ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News FT. MADISON ? The New London girls' golf team simply dominated the SEISC tournament on Monday, April 30 ,in Ft. Madison. The Tigers scored a 360, winning the meet by 51 strokes. Winfield-Mt. Union tied for second with Columbus Community with a score of 411.The Tigers were led by Casey Noble, who flew to a conference championship with a score of 80, winning the meet by ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News FAIRFIELD ? The Mt. Pleasant track and field teams took both team titles in Fairfield on Monday night at the Brookhart-Crew Relays. The boys' team had the top score with 187 points, topping second-place Washington by 91 points. The girls' team won with 157 points, besting second-place Fairfield by 31.The boys' team took home 10 wins on the night, including three wins in ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News KEOKUK ? Mary West and Mellanie Vargas returned to action on Monday evening after being sidelined due to concussion protocol, and ironically that created plenty of headaches for the Keokuk Chiefs. West had a hat trick and Vargas picked up an assist as the Mt. Pleasant girls' soccer team handed Keokuk just their second Southeast Conference loss this season.The game was a ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News ALBIA ? The Albia boys' soccer team came into Friday night's game with Mt. Pleasant 8-3 and riding a three-game winning streak, but they left their home field with a sour taste in their mouths. The Panthers beat up on the Blue Demons 4-0 on the road.The Panthers scored three goals in the first half, two of which came from Payton Kelly. Kelly picked up both his goals off ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News DES MOINES ? The Drake Relays wrapped up their annual event on Saturday, April 28. After the area's field athletes showed off their skills on Thursday, the track qualifiers had their turn on Friday and Saturday.Saturday morning saw the boys' 110-meter hurdle heats with Mt. Pleasant's Jake Lowe advancing to the finals later that day. Lowe's time of 15.02 seconds was ...