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The Fairfield and Pekin football teams grabbed two spots apiece on the all-state football teams selected by the Iowa Newspaper Association.Fairfield?s Jake Mineart, a senior, was named to the Class 3A second team, and senior teammate Spencer Peterman was selected to the Class 3A third team.Mineart fills an offensive line position on the squad after having a standout season on both sides of the ball. His hard ...

WINFIELD ? The Pekin girls? basketball team started its season early with a 50-39 loss to Winfield-Mount Union in Southeast Iowa Super Conference North action Friday evening.?It took us a while to get going,? said Pekin head coach Davis Eidahl. ?Being our first game and only one player back from last year that played, it wasn?t until the second half that we really began to play as a team.?McKenna Gambell led ...

Amanda Chatfield of Fairfield points to the screen showing her perfect 300 game during Squaw League action Wednesday night at Flamingo Lanes. Chatfield is the second female to ever score a perfect game at the Fairfield bowling alley; Heather Swan was the first on Dec. 21, 1994. Chatfield is the first bowler of either gender to bowl a 300 at Flamingo Lanes since Ray Karbacka accomplished the feat three years ago.

CEDAR FALLS (AP) ? Josey Jewell led Decorah?s power running game with 160 yards and three touchdowns and the Vikings beat Sioux City Heelan 49-21 Thursday night to win the Class 3A state championship.Holt Johansen added two touchdowns for Decorah, while Jacob Kvale scored one and passed for one as the Vikings (14-0) won their first state title since 1989 and their fifth overall.Heelan (12-2), which has won ...

Eight-year-old River Hastings, granddaughter of Sheri Haupert-Betz of Fairfield, poses with a nine-point buck she shot and killed Nov. 3 in Missouri. River, of De Soto, Kan., was on her first hunting trip ever with her father Whitney Hastings when she downed the buck. ?She was so excited. She still is,? her grandmother said. ?Her father is going to mount it for her.?

BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsWith no business items on the agenda, the March 17 meeting of the Henry County Board of Supervisors was relegated to subcommittee updates by the supervisors.Marc Lindeen had the lone update, briefing his peers on a recent meeting of the Southeast Iowa Link (SEIL) board, the eight-county regional mental-health services provider.Lindeen said that SEIL paid Johnson County a ...

CEDAR FALLS (AP) ? Deon Mitchell and Seth Tuttle scored a combined 48 points and Northern Iowa held off Toledo 84-81 in overtime Wednesday night.Mitchell was 8 of 11 from the field with 27 points. Tuttle was 6 of 9 from the field, with 21 points. He also had a team-high 10 rebounds. Marc Sonnen added 11 points for the Panthers (2-0).Northern Iowa had a 41-38 lead at halftime, but Toledo was not done.Julius ...

AMES (AP) ? Iowa State has signed four basketball to letters of intent in a recruiting class ranked 24th in the nation by ESPN.High school stars Matt Thomas and Monte Morris and junior college teammates Dustin Hogue and Richard Amardi will be eligible to play starting in 2013-14.Thomas is a 6-foot-4 guard who is considered among the best shooters in the nation. Morris is a 6-foot-1 point guard from Flint, ...