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KEOKUK ? The Maharishi School girls? tennis team rallied in doubles play Tuesday to take a 5-4 victory over Keokuk in a rescheduled meet.The Pioneers, who trailed the host Chiefs 4-3 headed into doubles matches, picked up victories from doubles teams Jacqueline Leete and Sophia Medvedeva as well as Flower Shreck and Isabel Reed to secure the meet win.Leete and Medvedeva earned an 8-6 win at No. 2 doubles, while ...

Fairfield?s 8-and-under Cougar baseball team won its tournament Sunday, earning a 12-2 victory over Clear Creek-Amana and an 8-0 win vs. the Cedar Rapids Reds. Hunter Cecchini was named MVP in the first game and Nate Smithburg was the second game?s MVP. Members of the team are pictured, from left, front row: Dallan Rippey, Cecchini, Austin Lisk, Dalton Drish, Sam Weaton; middle row: Max Weaton, Evan Haines, Tate ...

FORT MADISON ? Sam Fritz and Kenady Waugh had a hand in all five of the Fairfield eighth-graders? victories during Monday?s meet in Fort Madison, leading their team to its second consecutive conference title in the process.Fritz claimed first place in the 400 with a winning time of 1:04.82, topping the runner-up runner by more than four seconds, and she claimed the meet?s top finish in the 800 with a 10-second ...

WASHINGTON, Iowa ? Thanks to another outstanding effort in the field, the Fairfield eighth-grade boys? track and field team wrapped up its season Tuesday with a third-place finish at a meet in Washington.In a field of five other teams, Michael Fritz won both the discus (125? 7.5?) and shot put (42? 2?), while teammate Cam Baumann finished third in the discus throw (119? 1?). Brayden Miller added a win in the ...

The race for the Southeast Conference crown is far from over, and the Fairfield boys are doing their best to ensure it goes down to the wire.In front of a home crowd and on senior night, the Trojan boys kept the defending SEC champ Chiefs silent and supplied just enough of their own offense to claim a 1-0 victory. The Trojans scored their one goal within the game?s first 10 minutes and silenced Keokuk (5-5, 4-3 ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? Records, the saying goes, are meant to be broken. No one ever said they were meant to be shattered.But that?s exactly what Fairfield Middle School?s Michael Fritz did in the discus throw during Monday?s conference track and field meet in Mount Pleasant. The eighth-grader?s throw of 145-feet, 4-inches broke the 18-year-old conference record by six feet and accounted for the Trojan eighth-graders? ...

The boys? individual district tennis meet hosted by Maharishi School has been moved from today to Friday due to forecasted thunderstorms.The Class 1A meet, which will include Fairfield and the host Pioneers, is still set to begin at its original time. A coaches meeting is scheduled at 8:30 a.m., with play to follow.Jeff Courtright, Fairfield activities director, explained the teams will play ?rain or shine? on ...

COLUMBUS JUNCTION ? For the third straight season, the Pekin boys? track team was denied a Southeast Iowa Superconference North championship at the hands of Mediapolis.Instead, the Panthers again settled for second place at the SEISC North meet Monday hosted by Columbus. Led by freshman Chase Copeland, the Panthers won three events on the track and another in the field to score 131 points to Mediapolis? 156.Thir...