Sports

The final tally is in, and the Fairfield girls? track team will be represented by eight athletes in seven events at the upcoming 2012 state meet.In addition to automatic qualifiers Sydney Howard in the 100 and 200, Jessica Lamb in the 800, as well as the 4x200, three more Fairfield events were among the top 24 in Class 3A.Junior Sidney Baumann made the final cut and grabbed the No. 14 seed in the discus with a ...

NEW LONDON ? Maharishi School senior Paul DeAngelis extended his season with a fourth-place individual finish at the Class 1A sectional meet in New London Friday.DeAngelis shot an 82 on Deerwood Country Club?s golf course and will continue his season at the district tournament scheduled Thursday at Pleasant Valley Golf Course in Iowa City.?As a senior, he is peaking at just the right time for this season and ...

CLEVELAND (AP) ? Kyrie Irving began his first pro season as the top pick and ended it as the top rookie.Cleveland?s smooth, playmaking point guard has been chosen as the NBA?s Rookie of the Year, a person familiar with the voting told the Associated Press on Sunday.Irving?s selection is hardly a surprise since the 20-year-old led all first-year players in scoring ? 18.5 points per game ? and renewed hope for ...

Area families flocked to the jam packed Mt. Pleasant Fire Department's annual open house on Wednesday, Oct. 7. Festivities included fire safety obstacle courses for the kids. Children also had a chance to try on real firefighting gear and tour various fire trucks. Staff of the fire department were also on hand to meet with the public and answer questions about fire safety.

WAYLAND ? The Pekin boys? track team rose to the occasion at its district track meet hosted by WACO Thursday and will once again be well-represented at the state meet.In all, the Panthers tallied an astounding 199 points to crush the 12-team field thanks to victories in 11 of 18 events. WACO finished a distant, distant runner-up with 75 points, and Lone Tree came in third with 71.?One characteristic of our team ...

The Keokuk boys? tennis team showed its depth and knocked Fairfield out of the postseason Saturday in Fairfield.Just days removed from the Southeast Conference meet, the SEC champion Chiefs took a 5-2 victory over Fairfield in the preliminary round of substate play.Freshman Alexander Punj and junior Sean Soupiset won as expected for the Trojans, though the team couldn?t find a win elsewhere.Punj maintained his ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? With state berths on the line Thursday in Mount Pleasant, the Fairfield girls? track squad squeezed four events through to Des Moines, but there?s no telling how many more may follow suit.Fairfield juniors Sydney Howard and Jessica Lamb ran as advertised and will be making return trips to the state meet, and both will run with Erin Thompson and Cierra Bielinski in the 4x200. Several of the ...

BURLINGTON ? The Van Buren boys? golf team saw its season come to an end Friday at the sectional golf tournament on Flint Hills Golf Course in Burlington.The Warriors totaled a score of 381 to finish seventh out of eight teams, beating Mediapolis by 24 strokes. Central Lee won the tournament with a score of 334, and Notre Dame advanced as well with a 344.Noah Whitten, a freshman, led the Warriors with a front ...