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Mt. Pleasant JV football lost a close game to Centerville on Monday, 26-21.Zoom Gwamna scored on a 95-yard touchdown run and on a 3-yard touchdown run, while Alex Carrasco caught a 6-yard touchdown pass from Joseph Hess in the game.Korte Maddy?s PAT attempt was good after each Panther score.Hess finished the game 13-for-21 passing for 168 yards.Cole Phillips had four catches for 83 yards and Jack Davis made ...

Pool 3 in the first round of the SEISC volleyball tournament, will be held at Wapello rather than Columbus.New London is included in that pool, along with Wapello, Columbus, Lone Tree and Highland.Pool play starts tonight (Thursday) at 5 p.m., and the top two teams advance to Satuday?s championship round at Southeastern Community College in Burlington.

The Iowa Wesleyan College soccer teams suffered a pair of big losses on Wednesday at Illinois College. The women were shut out for the third game in a row, 10-0, and the men were shut out for the fourth time this season, 13-0.In the women's game, the Lady Blues wasted no time jumping on top, as they scored just 25 seconds into the match. They never relented, scoring five goals in each half.The Lady Blues ...

In last year?s homecoming game, the Mt. Pleasant football team scraped out a 15-14 win over Ft. Madison.Last week, the Bloodhounds were able to celebrate a homecoming victory over Mt. Pleasant.This week, Mt. Pleasant is looking for another homecoming celebration of its own.It has a tough opponent to tackle in the game ? Centerville.The Big Reds are coached by Mt. Pleasant alum Chuck Evans, the son of longtime ...

The first five runners across the line in yesterday?s JV boys? cross-country race were all from Mt. Pleasant, earning the Panthers a perfect score of 15.Ben Zihlman led the field with a time of 18:43, followed by Alex Warren (18:56), Brad Martin (19:08), Jacob Holtkamp (19:08) and Josh Stott (19:09).?I don?t remember doing that as an athlete or a coach at any level, so that was fun to do in front of our home ...

The WACO cross-country runners competed at the Mt. Pleasant Invite on Tuesday, led by Cheyenne Sedlacek on the girls? side and Mitchell Shaffer for the boys. The Warriors are focused on improving individual times in their first season back as a cross-country team.Sedlacek led the Warriors with a 37th-place finish in a time of 19:24 at Mt. Pleasant, followed closely by Jennie Greene, 38th, 19:30. Michaela Shaffer ...

Exactly 50 years ago, the Mt. Pleasant football team was in the middle of the greatest season in school history, though no one knew it yet.The Panthers were preparing to open Southeast Six Conference play on Friday, Sept. 27, against Washington.They had defeated North Scott and the formidable Cedar Rapid Jefferson tam, and had yet to allow an opposing point.They would finish the nine-game season undefeated, ...

The Mt. Pleasant girls? cross-country team could hardly have asked for a better finish.Their first runner finished second and their last scorer finished 10th, just 48 seconds between them. All five crossed the line in the 16-minute range and earned Mt. Pleasant a team title at its home meet on Tuesday at McMillan Park.?We?ve been trying to close the gap between our third and fourth runners, so we kind of ...