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Although the Fairfield varsity wrestling squad struggled to find wins Thursday, its JV wrestlers had no trouble earning victories.Fairfield?s JV team went 3-0 against Fort Madison wrestlers Thursday, both opening and closing the meet with victories in front of its home crowd at Fairfield High School.Max Spalla won by fall in 1:17 and Austin Francisco earned a pin in 2:37 to open the meet. Alex Hahn pulled out a ...

EDDYVILLE ­? Mackenzie McClure and Taylor Ferrel both hit clutch free throws down the stretch Thursday to send the Fairfield JV girls to a 53-48 overtime win at Eddyville-Blakesburg.McClure scored a team-high 10 points and Ferrel had six points with five boards. Other leading scorers included Karley Williams with nine points and nine rebounds, and Mackenzie Flattery scoring nine.Also for Fairfield, Delaney Neil ...

ALBIA ? The Pekin wrestling team left Albia with two dual wins in three tries Thursday at a quadrangular vs. Albia, Moravia and Clarke.The Panthers blasted Moravia 45-14 and Clarke 39-21, but they lost to the seventh-ranked (Class 2A) Blue Demons 52-27.Thomas Slaney (182), Trenton Conger (195/220) and Michael Hadley (285) all finished the day with flawless 3-0 marks. Brandon Baayen went 2-0 at 113 pounds.Panthe...

NEW LONDON ? Van Buren girls? basketball coach Matt Zeitler will take an ugly win over a pretty loss any day of the week.That?s what he got in his team?s return from the holiday break Tuesday. The Warriors scored their second lowest point total of the season, yet they still managed to pull out a 39-26 road win over New London.?We couldn?t hit the broad side of a barn in the first half. It was your typical deal ...

BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsWAYLAND ? The Wayland City Hall and Community Center will be receiving a new roof in the immediate future.The council approved the low bid of $15,000 from Manning Construction, of Wayland, to re-roof the city building. The measure was approved in a 4-0 vote, with Councilman Chet Fort abstaining as Fort Carpentry also bid on the project.Lyle Manning, owner of Manning Construction,...

Six Trojan middle-schoolers went out double-winners at their final home wrestling meet of the season Tuesday at Fairfield Middle School.Michael Fritz, Trenton Hanen, Zach Barnes, Bailey Jones and Bailey Kemp all won by fall twice for Fairfield. Teammate Dallas Peebler earned won pin and also won by 14-2 major decision.Fairfield?s Derek Beasley, Chris Hanson, Simon Spalla, Mitch Taglauer, Jose Rojo, Trenton ...

Some days you just can?t miss.For Fairfield junior Matt Carr, that day was Tuesday.Carr connected on four 3-pointers and scored a career-high 18 points to steer the Fairfield boys to their most dominant performance of the season, a 54-28 rout of Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont at FHS Gymnasium.?Offensively it?s what we expect out of Matt. Everybody on the team expects him to do what he did tonight, we?re just ...

Fairfield High School will be holding its fourth annual ?Trojans vs. Cancer? night Jan. 24 as part of the girls/boys basketball double-header vs. Iowa City Regina.A fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, ?Trojans vs. Cancer? will consist of several activities ranging from a soup supper to duck toss.The soup supper, sponsored by the FHS Student Council, will begin prior to the varsity contests. Cost will be ...