Sports

It was a different Iowa City team but the results were the same for the Pioneer boys? tennis team, which downed City High 6-3 Thursday on the M.U.M. tennis courts.Much like Tuesday when they earned a 6-3 victory over Iowa City West, the Pioneers won using a balanced singles game and clutch play from a pair of their doubles teams.Sam Stickels, Raphael Gelfand, Chandre Morales and Surya Sawhney each opened the ...

Many student-athletes from Cardinal, Maharishi School and Van Buren have earned recognition on the Southeast Iowa Super Conference all-academic list for winter sports in 2012-2013.Eligible students must be a junior or senior athlete or support person who earned a 3.25 grade point average for the most recent grading period. Pekin did not submit a list. CARDINAL ? Hannah Belzer, Schylar Conger, Leea Ostrander, ...

WASHINGTON, Iowa ? Claudia Sloat poured in three goals, and the Fairfield girls? soccer squad returned to the win column by claiming a 3-1 victory over Southeast Conference rival Washington on Thursday.Sloat scored two goals in the first half and another in the second half to complete her first hat trick of the season.Kayla Septer added an assist for Fairfield, which hadn?t won since it claimed a 4-0 victory ...

BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsIt was the city council?s turn Wednesday to hear from the Matrix Design Group.The Maryland group, retained by the Iowa Economic Development Authority to find tenants and uses for the former Mt. Pleasant Mental Health Institute buildings, hosted a community forum Tuesday evening.Wednesday?s presentation was an abbreviated form of the one from the previous night with a few new ...

MOUNT VERNON ? A strong start in the field events paved the way for a big day out of the Pekin girls? track team Monday at the Cornell Co-Ed at Cornell College in Mount Vernon.The Panther girls had top-three finishes in all four field events and turned in several top performances on the track, as well. Overall, Pekin scored 150 points to claim the meet title over several much larger schools, including runner-up ...

BLOOMFIELD ? The Van Buren girls? track and field team finished third out of six teams Tuesday at the Mustang Relays hosted by Davis County.The Warriors scored 80 points and received victories from Hanna Haynes in the 100-meter hurdles and Unity Daugherty in the 3000-meter run.Second-place finishes came from Haynes in the long jump, as well as the distance medley relay team of Haynes, Kadie Meek, Rachel Warrick ...

OTTUMWA ? The Fairfield Middle School girls kicked off the season Monday with a team title in seventh-grade action and a runner-up finish at the eighth-grade level at the Ottumwa Invitational.The Trojan seventh-graders claimed wins in a whopping 10 events to score 130 points and finish eight ahead of runner-up Mount Pleasant (122). Centerville finished a distant third with 72 points.Leading the way for the ...

FORT MADISON ? Junior Marisa Repp won the high jump and senior Sidney Baumann placed second in the discus throw Tuesday for the Fairfield girls at the always difficult Timm Lamb Pen City Relays in Fort Madison.Repp tied a personal high mark on her way to the Trojans? only win, clearing the bar at 5-feet, 1-inch to top a field of eight other jumpers. Baumann, meanwhile, set a season-best of 115-feet, 5-inches in ...