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The 10-and-under Fairfield Cougars baseball team earned a first-place finish at the Clear Creek-Amana Classic this past weekend. Team members are pictured, from left, front row: Brecken Courtright, Kyle Jeffrey, Josh Brewington, Brody Angstead, Landen Schafer; middle row: coach Jeremy Jeffrey, Dagen Burnett, Nick Schillerstrom, Bradley Smithburg, Drake Rippey; back row: coaches Jack Schafer, Larry Angstead and ...

MIAMI (AP) ? LeBron James was at his best this season, and the voters tasked with selecting the NBA?s Most Valuable Player took notice.Every voter except one, that is.The NBA still does not have a unanimous MVP, though no one has come closer than James did this season. The Miami Heat star was presented with the Maurice Podoloff Trophy for the fourth time in his career on Sunday after collecting 120 of the 121 ...

The high school girls? soccer games between Fairfield and Ottumwa scheduled Friday, May 10, in Fairfield have been canceled. Instead, the Trojan girls will travel to Oskaloosa that day to play the make-up games that were called off Thursday.The JV game will start at 5:30 p.m., followed by the varsity contest around 7 p.m. The games will be played at Oskaloosa?s new stadium with field turf.According to Fairfield ...

FORT MADISON ? Mickey DeAngelis earned runner-up meet medalist status to lead Maharishi School to a fourth-place finish at the SEISC South golf tournament Monday and Tuesday at Sheaffer Memorial Golf Course in Fort Madison.DeAngelis claimed the honor with a 7-over-par 79, finishing just four strokes behind meet medalist Nick Pundt of Central Lee. Prasad Monk (95), Davin Titus (96) and Tomas Bousquet (98) also ...

Fairfield seniors Haylee Gilpin and Kim O?Carroll won the most lopsided match of the evening Tuesday, but it was hardly enough as the Trojans fell to Maharishi School 8-1 on the Punj Tennis Center courts.Gilpin and O?Carroll rolled to a surprisingly quick win, winning eight games and surrendering none vs. Maharishi School?s Dia Huggins and Alina Knight. The victory not only prevented the team sweep Tuesday but ...

Both the Fairfield Middle School seventh-grade boys and the eighth-grade team finished fourth in the team standings Tuesday at their home Fairfield Relays.Fairfield?s eighth-graders scored 85.5 points to fall behind champion Mount Pleasant (142), Ottumwa (119) and Washington (115.5). The seventh-graders tallied 84 points to trail champion Mount Pleasant (147), Washington (101) and Keokuk (85).The host eighth-gra...

PELLA ? Pekin jumped out to a quick lead in the field events Friday and hardly slowed down from there on its way to picking up a Tulip Time Relays championship.The Panther girls scored three wins in the field and another eight on the track, finishing with a 212-point total for their sixth outdoor meet title of the season. In fact, Pekin was so dominant that they doubled up runner-up North Mahaska?s total of ...

BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsNEW LONDON ? It was a relatively short meeting for the New London School Board on Monday, with early retirement perhaps the most discussed topic of the evening.With the district gearing up for another year, board secretary Jessica Boyer brought New London?s early retirement policy to the board?s attention for approval and to seek any changes the board wanted. Eligibility for ...