Our spotlight on area athletes continues this week as we continue with the All-Golden Triangle area boys basketball players.Today?s look is at smaller schools in the area.The sports editors from the Mt. Pleasant News, Fairfield Ledger and Washington Journal came together recently to make their choices.As with the girls last week, selecting today?s players wasn?t easy.While only one school made a brief ...
IOWA CITY ? Lisa Bluder called Megan Gustafson ?one of the best posts in the Midwest.?By the time Gustafson is done here, that may be a major understatement.The sophomore logged her best effort yet as an Iowa Hawkeye, notching a career-high 33 points (on 15-of-16 shooting from the floor) and 13 rebounds as Iowa bumped defending-champion South Dakota, 78-73, in a second-round WNIT women?s basketball game in ...
Washington boys track coach Steve Roth has informed the Washington Evening Journal that the Roth Relays originally scheduled for Thursday, March, 23, will be held two days earlier, March 21. The start time for the event has also changed. The Relays start at 3:30 p.m.
By Bill Gatchel, Sports Editor When three sports editors come together to ?talk shop? it?s usually about how their area athletes are doing or have done for the season.That was the case when I met with Andy Krutsinger from Mt. Pleasant and Allan Mandell from Fairfield recently to discuss who should be chosen for the All-GTNS wrestling team.I didn?t have to do much convincing as who to nominate from the ...
Girls basketball players from smaller schools in the Golden Triangle area were recognized by the sports editors from the Mt. Pleasant News, Fairfield Ledger and Washington Journal yesterday.Today, girls from the three large schools are in the spotlight.While picking yesterday?s honorees was a challenge, today it was a little easier for the three sports editors.While no team was present in the state tournament, ...
IOWA CITY ? If the Iowa Hawkeyes could have a mulligan, they would have taken it in late December.?I would love to take the Illinois game back,? women?s basketball coach Lisa Bluder said.That was the only really bad loss this season for the Hawkeyes (17-13). And it might be the loss that ultimately keeps them out of the NCAA tournament for the second straight year.The NCAA women?s field will be announced at 6 ...
MILWAUKEE ? Deonte Burton, Donovan Jackson and Darrell Bowie are back in the city that raised them.They know this homecoming won?t be like any other.The fifth-seeded Iowa State men?s basketball team is here to face No. 12 Nevada in the first round of the NCAA tournament at the Bradley Center. This trip, they said, isn?t for leisure and to relax with family.As long as Burton, Jackson and Bowie are back in their ...
The winter sports season has concluded and now is the time where Andy Krutsinger, the sports editor for the Mt. Pleasant News, Al Mandell from the Fairfield Ledger and myself choose the cream of the crop for the Golden Triangle area.Today?s focus is for girls? basketball from the area, looking at the smaller schools first.While none of the teams made a trip to the state tournament, it was still a great year for ...
Henry County Deputy Sheriff Rich McNamee said he will be a candidate in the Republican Primary Election for Henry County Sheriff.He said his platform includes conscientious fiscal budgeting, an aggressive and proactive approach to criminal and drug activity, improved relations with local law enforcement agencies and prosecutors, and increased patrols in rural areas and smaller communities.McNamee, a Maquoketa ...
It?s one of those sports that isn?t talked about much until it?s time for the Summer Olympics.But for two high school students from Washington, the sport means quite a bit.Noah Bruns and Ben Berhow are two swimmers on the Iowa City West High School team and the two decided to join the team for a different kind of competition.?I, personally, wanted to take it to the next level,? Berhow said. ?I was swimming at ...
A mixture of rookies and experience is what people will see on this year?s Washington Demons boys track team.?We?re young, we have some young kids, but we also have some veterans who have been there,? says coach Steve Roth.?I have one returning that was in the state meet last year, Caleb Bex. We?re going to build on that?s the plan.?In terms of specific events, ?the shuttle hurdle should be a very important ...
Area sports conferences recently released the All-Conference teams and several southeast Iowa basketball players were selected.Three Washington boys were chosen in the Southeast Iowa Conference.On the second team is junior Jaivonn Willis.Honorable Mention nods went to senior Mason Rich and junior Dalton Myers.Those receiving Academic All-Conference honors are juniors Brennan Horak and Jacob Van Osdol along ...
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