Sports

Despite playing in cold, rainy and windy conditions, the IMS girls? and boys? golf teams both improved their scores in their second meet of the season on Thursday at the Kalona Golf Club.The IMS girls carded a nine-hole score of 268, which was three strokes better than their season-opening score, but lost to visiting Louisa-Muscatine by 45 strokes. Junior Michaela Prihoda shot a 61 to lead IMS, improving her ...

When Kyle Collins became the Washington girls? soccer coach four years ago, he had a large group of freshmen on his 2009 squad. Last spring, that group of 10 players graduated, leaving the Demons with a young squad once again.?Losing 10 seniors, that?s a lot of girls,? said Collins, whose team finished 6-9 last season. ?We pretty much have a lot of new girls.?Washington lost players who scored 27 of its 30 ...

After a slow start, the 15th-ranked Mid-Prairie girls? soccer team rolled to a 10-0 win at Columbus on Friday night.On the heels of back-to-back hat tricks, Mid-Prairie senior Meghan Redlinger scored four goals in Friday?s contest. She also had three assists.Twin sister Kattie Redlinger added a pair of goals for the Golden Hawks (3-1), and junior Kira Kerkove scored her first two goals of the season. Team ...

The Mid-Prairie girls? soccer team won its fourth straight match by a 10-0 score, as the 15th-ranked Golden Hawks blanked Monticello at home on Monday night.Senior Meghan Redlinger had another monster game for the Golden Hawks (4-1), scoring five goals and passing out three assists. Twin sister Kattie Redlinger added a hat trick of three goals, and she also had two assists. Sophomore Alison Riggan scored a pair ...

The Highland middle school girls? track and field team won six events and scored 148 points at the Lone Tree meet on April 4 to win the meet for the fifth year in a row.The Huskies finished 32 points ahead of second-place WACO.Kelsey Hora won four individual events for the Huskies, and they came in a wide variety of events. She won the 100-meter dash in 14.20 seconds, but also won the 800-meter run in 2:44.18 ...

The Highland middle school boys? track and field team took second place at a meet in Lone Tree on April 4, making it five years in a row that the Huskies have finished in the top two spots at the meet.Highland won three events and scored 94 points, but the host Lions ran away to win with 166 points.Jake Wood won the 800-meter run in 2:28.90, and he also led off for the Huskies? first-place 4x800 relay. The ...

Even though the Washington boys? track team was competing with two of its best sprinters during Tuesday?s Wapello Indian Relays, the Demons still took third place at the meet.?[Alex] Coker tweaked his hammy in the first jump of the long jump, so I sent him home, and Carl [Sivels] has a tweaked hammy, so he didn?t run,? Washington head coach Steve Roth said. ?So I switched things around as the night went on, and ...

Even though Washington lost to No. 14 Mid-Prairie 5-0 on Tuesday night, Demon head boys? soccer coach Steven Caulk wasn?t too upset with the defeat.?As strange as it may sound, I was generally pleased with our performance,? Caulk said. ?They have a pretty strong team, and we?re still trying to find out what works for us.?Caulk is in his first season as head coach of the Demons, a team that lost all 10 of its ...