FORT MADISON ? The Fairfield boys? JV basketball squad dropped a 48-39 game to Fort Madison Thursday in Fairfield.Tanner Deao led the Trojans with 12 points, and Landen Greiner and Alex Simpson scored eight points each. Both Alex Crile and Keagan Drish tacked on four points apiece.Fairfield will be back at home Tuesday vs. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont.
The Fairfield JV girls? basketball team used a balanced offensive attack to get past both Fort Madison and Danville in a pair of weekend road games.The Trojans topped Fort Madison 35-26 on Friday before rolling to an even more dominant 50-27 win against Danville Saturday. A total of 10 girls scored in at least one of the two games for Fairfield.In Friday?s game, Mackenzie Flattery led the way with nine points, ...
FARMINGTON ? Thomas Fitzsimmons scored a game-high 18 points to lead the Van Buren boys to a 68-27 rout of Harmony in an intra-county rivalry game Friday.Sophomore Garrett Saunders added 13 points for the Warriors, who are currently riding a three-game win streak. Robby Laughlin and Brandon Plecker totaled 10 points apiece, and Tanner Smith and Noah Whitten tallied five each.The 5-4 Warriors have a makeup game ...
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsSALEM ? With a few chickens, some sheep, a horse and 64 head of cattle surrounding the farmhouse, Darrell Moeller jokingly refers to his farm as ?just like Old McDonald?s Farm.?The livestock variety is largely for the 11 grandchildren, who visit frequently, to enjoy, said Darrell?s wife, Joyce.But it?s the cattle that earned Darrell the 2016 Henry County Cattleperson of the ...
ELDON ? Rust? What rust?In just their first game on the hardcourt since Dec. 18, the Cardinal boys rolled to their most dominant victory to date: a 75-32 shellacking of Moravia on Thursday night.As a team, the sharpshooting Comets shot 64 percent from the field and grabbed a decisive 18-4 lead after the first quarter. Up 35-18 at halftime, the Comets poured in 26 more points in the third quarter and cruised ...
KEOKUK ? A total of seven points ? or a few bonus points here and there ? was the difference between a pair of wins and a couple losses for the Fairfield wrestling team Thursday.The Trojans, who were coming off a three-point loss to Oskaloosa before the holiday break, once again struggled to close out their opponent. The Trojans fell to Mid-Prairie 36-33 and then dropped their second dual to Keokuk 31-27. The ...
BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsThe Fellowship Cup?s Summer Sacks program is gearing up for another summer, and Fellowship Cup director, Ken Brown, says it?s all hands on deck in preparation for the program?s roll-out.?We are now in full swing,? said Brown of the program?s preparation, ?We expect to average about 230 kids a day once we get started on May 31, so yeah, we are expecting another full summer with ...
Two Mt. Pleasant Middle School students ? Aurora Vansickel and Claire Holtkamp ? won the National History Day in Iowa contest, hosted earlier this week, in the junior group exhibit category.With the win, Vansickel and Holtkamp will advance to the National History Day National Finals in June at the University of Maryland.Vansickel and Holtkamp?s exhibit was entitled ?Marie Curie: Exploring Radiation, Encountering...
NFL teams have no fear of playing in the wild-card round.Recent history shows the playoff bye isn?t such a big deal anymore. In six of the last seven years, one of the Super Bowl participants didn?t get a bye to begin the postseason. And five of those teams wound up winning the NFL title.So Green Bay?s blowing the bye by losing to Minnesota last Sunday might not be such a setback. Same for Houston, which had an ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ? Iowa State and Tulsa don?t necessarily think of the Liberty Bowl as a rematch, even though they faced each other Sept. 1 in the season opener for both teams.So much has changed since Iowa State?s 38-23 victory over Tulsa that both teams feel as though they?ll be facing an entirely new opponent Monday in a game sponsored by AutoZone.?Obviously they look like a completely different team, as ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? No. 5 Indiana will have freshman forward Jeremy Hollowell back Monday night at Iowa.Athletic director Fred Glass issued a statement Sunday saying the NCAA has cleared Hollowell of any potential infractions. On Friday, Glass said Hollowell and his family notified the school of a potential ?compliance issue.? Glass says those details will be released later.Glass thanked the NCAA for making a ...
Lions Club International held a dinner event on Monday, April 18, celebrating the organization?s newest charter, Iowa Wesleyan University Lions Club. The event consisted of the new 29 members receiving their Lions pins and certificate and signing the charter document, which will be framed and displayed on campus. Above, the 100 Centennial Club Coordinators (left to right) Marianne Pattyson, of Wayland?s Lions ...
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