Sports

Trojan senior golfers Ashley Henkel and Kristen Terrell were both recently selected to the Southeast Conference?s all-academic team for 2013, head coach Joe Kruzich said Thursday.To be eligible for the all-academic team, 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.

Cancellations and postponements around the Iowa sports world continued into Thursday and Friday, affecting softball and baseball games for Fairfield as well as all other area schools.The Fairfield baseball team experienced its second straight postponement Thursday. Its JV-varsity doubleheader at Pella Christian was called off due to the inclement weather, with a makeup date pending.Also for Fairfield, Thursday?s...

Athletes from Team Fairfield competed in biking and track and field events at the 2013 Special Olympics Summer Games May 23-24 in Ames.The local team was very successful, and the 12 total competitors combined to win sixth first-place medals as well as six runner-ups.The biggest winner for Team Fairfield was Joe Blain, who tallied half of the team?s victories. Blain was first in the 250-meter bike race, 50-meter ...

Head coach Brian Dunlap doled out awards to members of the Fairfield boys? track and field team at its end-of-season banquet Tuesday. Award winners are pictured, from left, front row: Justin Hammes (Captain Award), Dillon Fry (Captain Award), Jonny Swanson (Most Valuable Performer, Dan Burnett Award, Captain Award), Austin Francisco (Most Improved), Zach Martin (Top Newcomer); back row: Daniel Schwarz (Best in ...

Awards were given out Tuesday at the Fairfield girls? track and field team?s end-of-season banquet at Fairfield High School. Winners are, from left, Taylor Ferrel (Top Newcomer), Hannah Sobaski (Captain Award), Sage Richmond (Most Improved), Jessica Lamb (Captain Award), Sydney Howard (Most Valuable Performer) and Mackenzie McClure (100 Percent Award).

WASHINGTON, Iowa ? A few big innings in each game of Wednesday?s softball doubleheader proved to be the difference for Washington as it picked up a Southeast Conference sweep of Fairfield.In the conference opener for both teams, the fifth-ranked (Class 4A) Demons scored 10 runs in the bottom of the third inning to win game one 12-4. They then scored three runs in both the fifth and sixth innings of the nightcap, ...

BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsSummer is slowly slipping away.The leaves are beginning to change color, there is a crispness in the air and decadent holiday treats are right around the corner. With the shorter, cooler, busy days ahead, it can be easy to let a summer fitness regimen fall away like the golden leaves off a tree, but Jordyn Dingman, program director at Mt. Pleasant REC Center, says that doesn?t ...

The Fairfield freshman softball team managed to pick up two wins while also wrapping up a rain-suspended game Wednesday night vs. Mount Pleasant.The Trojans held on for a 5-3 win in the postponed game. The home team also won game one 9-3 before dropping the second by a 4-3 score.In the suspended game, the Trojans resumed play with a 5-3 lead in the fifth inning. Mount Pleasant started the frame with a runner on ...