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Both the experienced and the not-so-experienced dotted the All-Golden Triangle News Service map this fall. Out of the 14 cross-country runners chosen to the All-GTNS team, five harriers are repeat selections while six others stepped foot on the courses for the very first time.Two teams, however, rose above the rest at the end of the season in Fort Dodge. On the girls? side, defending Class 1A champion Pekin ...

Washington limited Aldo Leopold to just three points in the fourth quarter of Thursday?s eighth-grade girls? basketball game in Burlington, but the host squad held off the Demons for a 25-23 win.Alexi Evans scored 11 points to lead the Demons (0-3), while Lexi Redlinger and Michaela Roder both added four points. Bella Giardino and Brenna Weidman chipped in two points apiece.Redlinger pulled down a team-high six ...

Three Washington County athletes competed for the Iowa City West High School girls' swim team this fall. The Women of Troy went 9-1 this season, winning the Mississippi Valley Division and regional championships. West High placed 10th at the state meet.Lyndsay Adrian is a senior at Washington High School and earned her varsity letter this year.Megan Buitendorp is a junior at Washington High School and a ...

The Washington boys? and girls? middle school cross-country teams both took fourth place at their home meet at the Washington Golf and Country Club on Sept. 25.The Demon girls tallied 125 points and finished fourth out of five teams. Fairfield won the meet with 31 points.Eighth-grader Mariah Howard took eighth place in 11:02 to lead the Demons. Seventh-grader Meredith Raber came in 16th in 11:43, and eighth-grad...

After spending the entire volleyball season on the sidelines in street clothes, Washington senior Johannah Vittetoe was excited to be wearing a practice jersey and participating in non-contact drills during the girls? basketball team?s first practice on Monday evening.?After sitting out of volleyball, I?m ready to be doing something and ready to be contributing to my team,? said Vittetoe, who tore a ligament in ...

Visiting Edward Stone outscored the Washington eighth-grade girls? basketball team 14-2 in the second quarter and went on to defeat the Demons 28-18 on Tuesday night.Alexi Evans, Michaela Roder and Brenna Weidman scored four points apiece to lead the Demons (0-2), while Jessie Buchholz, Bella Giardino and Lexi Redlinger chipped in two points apiece. Buchholz, Giardino and Redlinger grabbed three rebounds apiece, ...

IMS senior Cody Miller was a member of the winning Southeast team at Saturday?s Iowa Association of Track Coaches Senior All-Star cross-country meet on the Des Moines Area Community College campus in Ankeny.Miller finished 45th out of 91 runners at the meet, crossing the finish line in 17:15.The Southeast squad, led by Fort Madison senior Isaac Steffensmeier?s second-place finish, won the meet with 33 points. ...

The Washington seventh-grade boys? basketball team opened its season by winning three games over visiting Fairfield on Wednesday.The Demon A team edged the Trojans 32-30. Dalton Myers led Washington with 16 points and nine rebounds. Blake Hartzler added eight points, and Jaivonn Willis had four points to go with five rebounds. Zeb Roos had two points and three rebounds, and Jack Redlinger also had two points. ...