Sports

Fairfield High School varsity tennis coach Bill Sheppard will be leading group tennis lessons on the Fairfield Middle School courts Monday-June 29.A session for children in kindergarten through fifth grade is scheduled from 9-9:50 a.m., and children in grades six through eight will meet from 10-10:50 a.m. each day. A session for high school students will be from 11-11:50 a.m.In addition, an adult session for ...

Fairfield High School head volleyball coach Nancy Diers will be leading three girls volleyball camps this summer.Two camps have been scheduled June 18-22, and yet another will be Aug. 6-8 at Fairfield High School.A camp for girls going into grades four and five will be held from 3-4 p.m. the week of June 18. The skills for forearm passing and serving and setting will be addressed, and general rules, terminology ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? The Fairfield JV softball team took a pair of wins against Southeast Conference rival Mount Pleasant on Monday.The Trojans rallied to score seven runs in the final two innings of the opener for an 8-5 win, and they held on for a 3-1 victory in game two.?These girls are really starting to play together well as a team,? said Fairfield coach Lisa Greenig. ?They are minimizing their errors and ...

A momentum-solidifying home run by Carson Remick was the beginning of a few gargantuan innings for Mount Pleasant during a doubleheader sweep of Fairfield Monday.Remick?s two-run dinger in the nightcap presented Mount Pleasant with a 5-2 lead in the fifth inning, and the runs snowballed from there. The Panthers scored five more runs in the fifth inning and another nine in the sixth to earn a 19-2 rout over ...

KALONA ? The Pekin baseball team trailed IMS 4-3 headed into the seventh inning Friday, but head coach Jeff Eeling was confident with the heart of the lineup due up.?I feel like if we?re in that situation we have a chance to score some runs, and they?ve proved it time and time again,? Eeling said of seniors Tater Clubb, Bailey Donovan and Derek Morales.Friday night was no different. Clubb opened the seventh ...

The Pekin softball team experienced a little bit of everything in games against IMS and Cardinal last week.The Panthers buried an understaffed IMS squad 18-5 on Thursday before finding themselves on the other side of the rout in a 16-2 loss to Cardinal Friday.Thursday, Pekin?s Cheyann Lankford was 3 for 3 with a double and four runs scored, while Leslie Stone finished 1 for 2 with a homer and five runs batted ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Hooray for Hockeywood.The Los Angeles Kings? 45-year quest for an NHL title ended Monday night with an early flurry of power-play goals, followed by two periods of unbearable anticipation ? right up to the moment when Dustin Brown snatched the Stanley Cup from Commissioner Gary Bettman.Brown skated to center ice and thrust the 36-pound silver trophy skyward, the captain never flinching under ...

Henry County?s Veterans Day observance will be on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 10:30 a.m. The observance, sponsored by the Avenue of the Flags, will be at Veterans Hall, 300 W. Monroe St., Mt. Pleasant. There is parking available on all four sides of the building.Dean King, Avenue of Flags chairman and honor guard commander, will be the master of ceremonies.All commanders or their representatives of the Veterans of ...