Sports

Local track teams will have to stay home ? again ? with highs projected in the mid-40s today.Both the middle school boys? meet in Mount Pleasant and high school boys? relays in Burlington have been canceled. Fairfield teams were set to attend both meets.

The official list of high school qualifiers for the 104th annual Drake Relays was released on Saturday.Seniors Daniel Schwarz and Jonny Swanson plus the 4x100 will represent the Fairfield boys, while the 4x100 will run for the Trojan girls. Schwarz made the high jump field at 6-feet, 6-inches, and Swanson will be competing on the blue oval in the 110-high hurdles with a 15.07 qualifying time.Pekin freshman ...

Rain and cold has yet to thwart the Pioneer boys? tennis team, which often has found shelter from the weather at its indoor facilities this spring.In fact, the Pioneers have been playing so well lately in the newly named Laurie and Lawrence Eyre Tennis Center, they might want to consider making it their new permanent home.Once again forced indoors by Mother Nature on Thursday, the Pioneer boys improved their ...

Due to the many canceled meets this spring, the Fairfield boys? track and field team has added one to their schedule.The Trojans will now be running at Mid-Prairie Tuesday. Start time is set for 5 p.m.Fairfield head coach Brian Dunlap said he will take every available athlete to the meet, which is allowing extra entries in events.

BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsWAYLAND ? A gas pipe replacement was the hot topic Wednesday night during the Wayland City Council meeting.Barry Leichty, gas superintendent, said there had been a water leak on lot five of the mobile home park on East Railroad Street. When crews began digging down, it revealed plastic PVC pipe. Leichty said a new riser, attachments and shut-off valves would be installed for each ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? Fairfield Middle School?s seventh-grade girls won their first team title of the season April 8, but Saturday was the eighth-graders? turn at the Mount Pleasant Invitational.In just their second meet out, Fairfield?s eighth-graders amassed 138 points and picked up six victories on their way to edging out host Mount Pleasant (132) for the meet victory. Keokuk finished a distant third with 80 ...

For 25 years under head coach Lawrence Eyre, success and Maharishi School tennis went hand in hand.With Eyre?s sudden retirement last spring, it ended one of the most successful head coaching stints in Iowa prep history. Yet it also opened up an opportunity for a new era of Pioneer boys? tennis.In walked Steve Briggs, a long-time Fairfield resident and even longer time tennis player who achieved individual ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? Van Buren finished seventh and Cardinal took 10th in the small school standings of Tuesday?s Panther Relays in Mount Pleasant.Junior Unity Daugherty was the top finisher for Van Buren, which ended up with 38 points. Daugherty opened the night placing second in the 3000-meter run (11:44), and later finished second in the 1500 (5:38) to score nearly half her team?s points.Hanna Haynes also ...