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CEDAR FALLS ? Fairfield girls? track coach Ron Hunerdosse took just eight runners with him to Monday?s Dickinson Relays in Cedar Falls, but the small group produced more than its fair share of standout performances.Junior Marisa Repp and senior Sydney Howard earned a pair of top-five finishes, and the Trojans worked their way into the top 20 in five other events.Repp eclipsed the 5-feet mark in the high jump ...

CEDAR FALLS ? Freshman Sophia Goodale earned 55th place in the 400 and the Maharishi School girls? track squad tacked on a 29th-place finish in the 4x200 Monday at the Dickinson Relays in Cedar Falls.Goodale crossed the finish line of the 400 in 1:11, just ahead of junior teammate Katya Sheridan, who finished 65th in the race with a time of 1:15.Also competing for the Pioneers were freshman Phoebe Carter, who ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? The Iowa State women?s basketball team is headed to the NCAA tournament for the seventh year in a row.The Cyclones are a No. 5 seed, but they will have to face 12th-seeded Gonzaga on the road on Saturday.The winner will play either fourth-seeded Georgia or Montana.Iowa State has won 23 games so far this year. The Cyclones finished second in the Big 12 regular season standings and in the ...

PACKWOOD ? Fairfield?s seventh-grade girls? traveling youth basketball team won its final outing of the season March 9 at Pekin.The Trojans cruised past both Wapello and Tri-County in the opening rounds to advance to play host Pekin in the championship game.The two Jefferson County squads produced a friendly rivalry a season ago as the teams split a pair of matchups, and this year?s rematch picked up right ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Iowa State has earned a No. 10 seed in the NCAA tournament and will face Notre Dame in Dayton, Ohio, on Friday.The Cyclones (22-11), led by third-year coach Fred Hoiberg, have earned back-to-back NCAA tournament bids for the first time in 12 years.Iowa State solidified its spot in the field by sweeping Oklahoma State and West Virginia to close out the regular season. The Cyclones then rallied ...

Iowa is a No. 3 seed in the National Invitational Tournament and will host Indiana State on Wednesday.The Hawkeyes (21-12) missed out on their first NCAA tournament bid in seven years after losing to Michigan State 59-56 on Friday night. Though Iowa won 10 Big Ten games, its lack of quality non-conference and road victories proved to be its undoing.Iowa is back in the NIT for the second year in a row. The ...

PELLA ? Fairfield picked up one victory Thursday at the Pekin Indoor in Pella, and head coach Ron Hunerdosse lauded who he called his team?s ?usual suspects.?The lone win came in the 4x200 relay, where Mackenzie McClure, Sydney Howard, Marisa Repp and Cierra Bielinski topped the field with a 1:54.52 time. Howard anchored the team to victory, as Fairfield nipped second-place Ottumwa by nearly three-tenths of a ...

Although only one girls? basketball team in the Golden Triangle News Service area made the state tournament this postseason, several area teams and the individuals who led them saved their best for last.Mid-Prairie was the lone team to reach Wells Fargo, but both Fairfield and Washington were on the tourney?s doorstep with deep runs through their respective regional brackets. The Demons made the regional final ...