Obituaries

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News The temperature may not be quite cooperating yet, but the 2018 Mt. Pleasant tennis season has officially started, with games scheduled for this week. Both the boys' and girls' teams were supposed to start on Tuesday but their opener was pushed back due to inclimate weather.The Panther boys return four letterwinners this season: Ethan Weber, Corbin Broeker, Jaxon Hoyle and ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News Last season was a memorable one for Mt. Pleasant golf. The boys' team is coming off of a sixth-place finish at state and the girls' team is coming off of a seventh-place result.The boys' team will return three golfers from last year's state team. Juniors Trace White and Bailey Shelledy will return, along with sophomore Jake Moffett. White, who shot an 84 and an 87 at the ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News GRIMES ? The Iowa Basketball Coaches Assocation held their All-Star games for both boys' and girls' basketball over the weekend at Dallas Center-Grimes High School. The Southeast teams were represented by two Henry County athletes. Mt. Pleasant's Brady Sartorius played for the Southeast boys' team and Winfield-Mt. Union's Lexee Hartsock played for the Southeast girls' ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WEST BURLINGTON ? All four of the Henry County girls' track and field teams were in West Burlington on Tuesday night. Mt. Pleasant came away with a win in Class A, scoring 167 points. New London was second in Class B with 112 points. Winfield-Mt. Union placed fifth in Class B with 69 points and WACO was sixth in Class B with 57 points.Mt. Pleasant dominated Class A with ...

By Andy Krutsinger,Mt. Pleasant News The Iowa High School Athletic Association released it's football schedules for the 2018 and 2019 seasons last week, meaning all four Henry County teams got to see their upcoming matchups for the first time.Mt. Pleasant will play three of their first four games at home in 2018. The Panthers will begin the year on Aug. 24 against Clear Creek-Amana. They'll play at Pella the ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News WASHINGTON ? Three area teams competed in the Steve Roth Relays on Thursday night. The Mt. Pleasant, WACO and Winfield-Mt. Union boys were all in attendance.Mt. Pleasant had the best day of any of the area teams. The Panthers scored 147 points, which led all Class ?A? squads. W-MU and WACO were both in Class ?C.? W-MU scored 70 points and WACO scored 58.The Panthers won ...

By David Holte, Golden Triangle News Service Jayden Stafford's basketball team is going to nationals next month.While he said that the team, the Rolling Panthers, lost every game at the regional meet recently, they still qualified for the event coming up on April 12-15 in Louisville, Ky.In fairness, one team they lost to was the No. 1 seeded team in the nation and the other game was lost in overtime by one ...

Photos by Jim Slosiarek, The GazetteMt. Pleasant senior Brady Sartorius competed in the Eastern Iowa All-Star game on Wednesday night at Kirkwood College. The night's festivities featured some of the best seniors in the state of Iowa in both girls' and boys' basketball. Sartorius competed for the south squad in the boys' game, alongside Muscatine's Joe Wieskamp, Iowa City West's Seybian Sims and Wapello's ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. ? Iowa Wesleyan began conference play Wednesday afternoon against the Griffins of Fontbonne University.IW led early in the first game, but were unable to maintain the lead and suffered a 3-1 loss. They followed with a 19-3 loss in the final game of the day.The Tigers were able to get an early lead in the opening game of the double-header. Serena Almodovar singled to the pitcher with one out and ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. ? The Iowa Wesleyan baseball team opened up conference play Wednesday against the Beavers of Blackburn College. After a slow start, the Tigers were swept by scores of 4-7 and 2-9.The Tiger offense was a little slow to get going to start the day. After a scoreless top of the first, Blackburn took a 4-0 lead after getting four hits and taking advantage of an error by Iowa Wesleyan. The Beavers added ...