Sports

BURLINGTON ? Five area athletes finished first in their respective divisions at the district-level Special Olympics Iowa Basketball Skills Competition held Saturday in Burlington.Students from Pence Elementary and Fairfield Middle School who finished first were Andrew Peiffer, Wesley Polson, Justin Cross and Nathan Mathis. Tate Jordan earned a second-place finish.Fairfield High School student Ross Robinson also ...

In Tuesday?s home game vs. Keokuk, Fairfield?s ?A? girls stormed back from a six-point deficit to earn a 48-36 victory.Trailing 17-11 with three minutes to go in the first half, the Trojans erupted on a 9-2 run to lead 20-19 at the half. Fairfield led 27-25 with one minute remaining in the third period, but a 22-11 run sealed the victory.Nicole Buch scored 20 points and Ashtyn Drish netted 16 to pace the ...

? All four Fairfield seniors keep their seasons alive in Mediapolis. MEDIAPOLIS ? As the wrestling fields were more than halved at sectional tournaments across the state Saturday, Fairfield beat the odds to send five of its eight competing wrestlers to the next round.Jake Mineart led the way with a sectional title at 220 pounds, and four other Trojans finished second to qualify for next weekend?s district ...

KEOKUK ? Less than a week after scoring just 24 points against Keokuk, Fairfield once again faced the Chiefs in an away game Friday.This time, there would be plenty of offense from the visiting Trojans, just not enough as they fell to Keokuk 67-53.The Trojans shot a much-improved 19-for-40 from the field, including 10 of 15 from 3-point land. In the two teams? first meeting last Monday, the Trojans shot ...

Van Buren girls win overtime thrillerKEOSAUQUA ? Van Buren battled through foul trouble and overtime to pull out a 57-54 victory over Columbus Friday night in the Southeast Iowa Super Conference Shootout.Sophomore Kaitlyn Johnson hit her free throws in the final minutes and Hanna Haynes scored a game-high 29 points to lead the Warriors on their home court. Four Warriors had at least four fouls in the game, and ...

New London and Maharishi School played a close game through two quarters, and then the visiting Tigers caught fire.With a six-point lead headed into the second half Thursday, New London scored 17 unanswered points in the third quarter to dart away with a 62-32 win in Fairfield.Freshman Jayden Flowers led New London in scoring with a career-high 17 points on 3-for-3 3-point shooting, and senior teammate Dalton ...

Thursday night?s ninth-grade boys? basketball game in Oskaloosa has been canceled due to weather. No makeup date has been planned.

BURLINGTON ? Southeastern Community College is hosting spring training baseball skills camps for ages 7-15 in February.A camp for children ages 7-10 will be from 1-4 p.m. Feb. 9. Camp for ages 11-15 will run from 1-4 p.m. Feb. 10.Cost for either session is $45 per child with preregistration, or $55 for anyone registering the day of the camp.For information, contact Southeastern coach Justin Schulte at 319-208-5...