Mt. Pleasant?s Wanda Ford, who lives in the north-central part of the community, has been decorating the exterior of her home since 1967. Each year, she adds to her display and the display is so large now that it does not fit in one picture.
KEOKUK ? Playing its first game in more than a week, the Fairfield girls? basketball team still wasn?t able to keep pace with 12th-ranked Keokuk Friday night.The Chiefs (15-3, 8-0) never missed a beat on their way to an 80-30 blowout that finished off an undefeated run through the Southeast Conference.Tori Ogden led Fairfield with 12 points and Serena Ward scored eight to go along with four rebonds and two assists.
Class 1A and 2A boys? basketball district pairings have been announced with tournament action set to begin Feb. 14.Area rivals Cardinal and Van Buren are set to square off in a District 13 matchup in Keosauqua. Pekin is on the other half of the District and opens with a game vs. Albia on its home court.Davis County vs. Wayne and Pella Christian vs. Eddyville-Blakesburg complete the bracket. The winner will advance
PELLA ? Fairfield found itself overmatched on the road against No. 10 Pella and suffered a 78-32 loss to the Dutch Saturday afternoon.The Trojans (3-15) was once more the victim of a slow start and Pella (12-3) never let things get interesting.Brent Buch, Davis Lowenberg and Max Johnson each scored six points to lead Fairfield while Grant Curran and Dillon Fry tallied four apiece.Next up for Fairfield is Tuesday?s
Fairfield?s boys? basketball game at Mid-Prairie has been postponed to Feb. 10.The girls? contest at Centerville scheduled for tonight will be made up as a home game Feb. 10.Ninth-grade, JV and varsity teams are still set to play at both sites.Fairfield Middle School basketball games scheduled for tonight against Fort Madison have been rescheduled for Feb. 11.Pekin?s boy-girl doubleheader at Highland has been
EDDYVILLE ? Following a 12-0 deficit early, Fairfield played as well as it has all season according to head coach Tyler Miklo and blew past Eddyville-Blakesburg (5-11) for a 68-53 win in non-conference action Monday night.Davis Lowenberg led Fairfield with 17 points and Grant Curran neared a triple-double with 15 points ? 13 scored in the second half ? 13 rebounds and eight assists. Curran also assumed ball-handling
MEDIAPOLIS ? Van Buren?s Zach Corman took the 215-pound title at the SEISC wrestling tournament Saturday in Mediapolis, but the short-handed Warriors fell to last out off 11 teams in the final team standings.Corman pinned Wapello?s Jacob Kerr in 3:53 to claim the title.285-pound Ryan Kruse added a sixth-place finish for Van Buren, which scored a total of 40 points.Cardinal ends up fifthMEDIAPOLIS ? The Cardinal
MOUNT PLEASANT ? The Mount Pleasant bowling team had just enough at the end to beat the Fairfield girls and more than enough the whole way to upend the Trojans boys Saturday.On their home lanes, the Panthers squeaked out a 2397-2386 victory in the girls match while the boys rolled to a 3152-2507.Nicci Mellott rolled her first every 200 game on her way to a 336 series and Sam Ruckman added a 318 series thanks to a
Iowa City Regina scored on nine of its first 10 possessions and put the game away early on its way to a 62-25 victory at Fairfield Thursday night.Zoe Dutchik scored on five of those trips to tally 10 early points for the Regals (15-3) while the Trojans (5-10) didn?t hit from the field until more than five minutes in. Serena Ward broke the ice for Fairfield with a jumper, but Regina had already opened an 18-3 lead
A JV tournament Friday and the Stars and Stripes Wrestling Club youth tournament Sunday are just the undercards around Saturday?s main event ? the Southeast Iowa Classic ? that will make wrestling fans feel at home in Fairfield this weekend.Just one week before sectional tournaments commence, a Fairfield Invite title will be up for grabs amonst a field of 13 teams including the host Trojans. Fairfield?s trio of
After seeing Iowa City Regina jump out to a 21-3 first quarter lead in the girls? contest, the Regals pushed a similar fate on the Fairfield boys.6-foot, 7-inch big man Braden Lehman scored nine of his game-high 18 points in the first quarter and helped make Regina (12-5) a 72-26 winner by the end of the night.?We just didn?t play very hard, and it?s frustrating to be this late in the season and roll over and take
Full-court pressure has been an Achilles heel for Fairfield for much of the season, but the shoe was on the other foot Monday night vs. Maharishi School.The Trojans (2-12) came with pressure from the get-go and picked up their second win of the season with a 58-22 victory.?They were very aggressive and put a lot of pressure on our ballhandlers,? said MSAE head coach Mitch Haas. ?It really affected our ability to
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