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The Mid-Prairie volleyball team opened Cedar Valley Conference play with a three-set loss at North Cedar on Thursday night. The host Knights won by scores of 25-18, 25-16 and 25-19.?I thought our girls came out intense and ready to play,? Mid-Prairie head coach Melissa Stumpf said. ?They maintained that throughout the entire match. We started off each game playing with North Cedar point for point, but eventually ...

IMS battled top-ranked Mediapolis on Thursday night inside Hillcrest Union, but the Bullettes prevailed with a three-set victory. Mediapolis won by scores of 25-16, 25-15 and 25-15.?The final scores don?t reflect the kind of hustle and heart the girls gave on the court tonight,? IMS head coach Cindy Miller said. ?Facing a No. 1 ranked 3A team is daunting, but nobody told us and we showed up to play. Ending the ...

If you ignored the number 64 on Craig Lillie?s black and orange jersey, you probably wouldn?t recognize him as an offensive and defensive tackle. At just 5-foot-10 and 170 pounds, the Washington junior isn?t your prototypical lineman.Lillie is smaller than the Demons? quarterback and a couple of the team?s running backs. And he?s routinely going up against linemen who outweigh him by 80 pounds or more.?I faced ...

With rivals Mt. Pleasant and Washington tied at 28 in the second set, Mt. Pleasant sophomore Kelsi Phipps came through with the biggest point in Tuesday?s Southeast Conference volleyball match.Phipps spiked down a kill to give the Panthers a 29-28 lead, and Mt. Pleasant won the set on the next point. The Panthers went on to sweep the Demons by scores of 25-21, 30-28 and 25-23.?I just had to get it over,? said ...

Even though Lone Tree will come to Wayland with an 0-2 record, the Warriors will likely have their hands full with the Lions on Friday night.?They?re a darned good football team,? WACO head coach Chad Edeker said. ?We haven?t even mentioned to the kids that they?re 0-2. If you look at the two teams they?ve played, they?ve had a very tough schedule. Mediapolis is 2-0 and possibly the best team in Class 2A. We ...

Several miscues cost Washington a chance to win Friday?s game at Pella, and the Little Dutch defeated the Demons 16-10 in overtime.With the score knotted at 10-10 late in the game, Washington senior Kyle Roder ran for a long gain on a fake punt. After two runs by junior Tanner Knupp, the Demons had a first down just outside the Pella 10-yard line with just under a minute remaining. But Washington went backward ...

The ride may be a bit bumpy, but the reward at the end will be sweet.For the second year, the Twisted Spokes cycling team is hosting the Iowa State Gravel Championships bike race near Richmond. Cyclists will be racing around a hilly seven-mile loop south of Richmond this Saturday, competing for medals or just trying to finish to get a cinnamon roll.?Landon Beachy?s wife bakes fantastic cinnamon rolls, and ...

Mid-Prairie?s defense made a late stand, and the Golden Hawks edged visiting Clear Creek-Amana 10-7 on Friday night at Doc Sattler Field.Clear Creek-Amana quarterback Konrad Moore ran for a 6-yard touchdown with 6:17 left in the game to trim Mid-Prairie?s lead to three points, but the Golden Hawks put together a drive that took over four minutes off of the clock. The Clippers (1-1) got the ball back at their own ...