Sports

Columbus hosted an early-season girls? track meet on Monday afternoon, and top placings were abundant for the Wildcats and the Highland track team, who also was in attendance. Highland took first in two events, while Columbus took the crown in five events at the early season tuneup. Full results for both teams are below. Highland100-meter dash5. Sydney Black, 14.0612. Breanna Popham, 14.85 200-meter ...

Many Iowa track and field teams flocked to Pella on Saturday for the Indoor Invitational held at Central College. With so many schools there, the Washington girls? track and field team went in with one goal: To see where they measure up. ?Saturday our goal was just to let everyone compete and see how much improvement we have made since our last indoor meet,? Washington girls? track and field head coach Stefanie ...

Over the weekend, many area schools went to compete at the Central College High school indoor track meet. In the girls? meet, IMS, WACO and Washington had participants, while IMS, WACO, Mid-Prairie were all participating in the boys? portion of the meet. For Washington?s girls? results, check out Monday?s issue of The Journal. Iowa Mennonite The Iowa Mennonite School track and field team went to Pella and ...

It was a day when everything just seemed to go right. Bowling as a member of Iowa City West, Highland junior Patrick Wood just had everything feel right during the Class 3A state tournament in February. ?It was a goal for me,? Wood said. ?I knew I had a good chance coming into the season, but I had to qualify and do my thing. I knew I had it in me. Every ball coming off my hand just felt perfect. It came down ...

With spring sports set to get into full swing in the coming weeks, the schedule will fill up for covering events.As a one-man sports section, it won?t be possible for me to get out to every event with track, golf and soccer all going on, though I would like to.With that in mind, I would like to ask for help from people in our coverage area. If you are out at a sporting event that I can?t be at, and happen to ...

With a young squad, Washington boys? track and field head coach Steve Roth knows there is some work ahead for his team. However, with the youth comes a lot of athleticism, which Roth hopes to harness coming into the new track season. ?We are green, as you can see,? Roth said. ?We are learning. The weather has been cooperative, so that?s made things a lot easier. I have some versatile kids who can move around ...

All 68 teams have been selected, and unlike Selection Sunday, we won?t learn any outcomes early from here on out. This NCAA basketball season, ?parity? has become a household word, and it has led to one of the more exciting and competitive seasons I can remember. No top team is infallible, with a record 23 losses among the No. 1 seeds, and much debate as to who is deserving of those top spots. In the days ...

DEAR ABBY: Recently my 80-year-old mother was admitted to the hospital, gravely ill. She had been undergoing chemotherapy and caught double pneumonia. My 36-year-old niece went to visit Mama, took pictures of her lying in her hospital bed and emailed the photos to everyone.It was shocking and upsetting seeing my mother this way. Many of the people who received the photos had not been able to visit her. Abby, ...