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Fort Dodge is the destination every high school cross-country runner in Iowa aims for at the beginning of the season. Having your final meet of the season there means your season ended as a participant at the state meet, and you were able to compete with the best of the best. With the state meet occurring on Saturday, a pair of local cross-country teams made sure to go out with a bang, claiming multiple top ...

The Southeast Iowa Conference announced its top athletes from this past volleyball season, and the Washington Demons were well-represented on the list. Four Demons were listed among the conference?s best competitors, led by one second-team selection. Senior Liv Postl helped lead the 3-23 Demons this season, and earned that second-team slot in the conference, notching 97 kills on the season to lead the team. ...

The season came to a close for Washington sophomore Claire Horak on Saturday, when she finished among the top runners in the state. Horak, who was running in Fort Dodge, representing the Demons at the state cross-country meet, finished her first varsity season in 21st place among the state participants, running a 19:49 on the afternoon. ?Claire had an outstanding race,? Washington cross-country head coach ...

With fall sports at a close for all the area schools, it?s time to start looking forward to the winter sports season, and first on the docket is girls? basketball. Multiple new head coaches (at Washington, Keota and IMS) took the helm in 2015-16, and Washington County saw one of its area teams qualify for the state tournament at Wells Fargo Arena. Take a quick glance and refresh yourself on what happened in ...

MEDIAPOLIS ? Pekin?s Cinderella run in the volleyball postseason came to an end Thursday when the Panthers ran into the Mediapolis Bulldogs in the Class 2A regional semifinal. The Bullettes brought a stout 31-7 record into the match against Pekin?s 12-17 mark. Mediapolis was too much for the Panthers to handle as the Bulldogs rolled to a three-set victory with scores of 25-10, 25-15 and 25-7. Maci Gambell had ...

Andy KrutsingerGTNS News Team FORT MADISON ? No. 12 New London did what they had to do early in their regional semifinal match against No. 5 Holy Trinity on Thursday night but a Crusader comeback in the first set helped propel HTC to a sweep. The Crusaders came back from a four-point deficit late in the first set to take it 25-21 and won both of the next two games, 25-15, to knock out New London. After a ...

Sigourney-Keota knows that when it takes the field on Friday night, it will be the underdog.In fact, the further they advance in the playoffs, the 8-1 Cobras will likely maintain that mantle, and they are OK with that.?We?ve been underdogs in most of our games this year and when that happens someone prints off the sheet saying ?whoever is going to beat us by 24 points,? because they are much better than us,? ...

For each area team that isn?t Sigourney-Keota, Friday night marked the end of the season on the gridiron. However, for four of those teams, the season ended on a high note. Washington blew out Fort Madison (the story can be found in Monday?s Journal), while Mid-Prairie and Columbus ended their seasons with victories. Highland took a loss in their final game, but ended the year above .500, while WACO finished ...