Sports

Canned goods will take the place of an admission fee at the Mt. Pleasant Community High School girls? basketball games against Williamsburg on Friday, Nov. 16.All three levels of girls? basketball will be participating in the Hall of Pride scrimmage, a game granted to Iowa high schools that participate in a community project to help others.The freshmen play at 6 p.m. at the middle school. At the high school, JV ...

Friday ? Mt. Pleasant girls' basketball hosts Williamsburg, JV starts at 6 p.m., followed by varsity, Hall of Pride game? W-MU girls' basketball hosts Pekin, JV starts at 6 p.m., followed by varsity? WACO girls' basketball hosts Louisa-Muscatine, JV starts at 6 p.m, followed by varsity Saturday? WACO basketball hosts Washington, varsity girls start at 6 p.m, followed by varsity boys, Hall of Pride game? ...

Iowa Wesleyan College has announced that four Tiger soccer players received postseason honors.For the women?s team, sophomore Hannah McElroy received United States Collegiate Athletic Association All-American award. McElroy, who is from Glenn Carbon, Ill., led the Tigers with 12 goals on the season, including four games with multiple goals.Also for the women?s team, Mt. Pleasant?s Sindy Carillo, a junior at ...

The Tri-State Gun Club in Montrose is hosting a 50 Claybird Derby on Sunday, Nov. 18, to support the Wounded Warriors Retreat.Practice opens at noon, and the competition starts at 1 p.m. It will include 25 targets from 16-yard line and 25 handicap according to Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA) classes or known ability.Part of the entry fee goes to payback, and the top four finishers will take home a ...

The Mt. Pleasant seventh grade boys? basketball ?A? team defeated Keokuk in its first game of the year and improved to 2-0 with a win over Ft. Madison last night.The Panthers? A team ran away with a 60-28 win in their season opener, and Jordan Magnani led the scoring with 17 points.Brady Sartorius added 12 points and Colin Mulford had 10.The ?B? team also defeated Keokuk, and its leading scorer was Nick ...

PELLA ? Mt. Pleasant graduate Zach May is preparing for the start of his first season as a member of the Central College wrestling team.May is a freshman at Central this season and is wrestling at 141 pounds for the Dutch, who are ranked 29th in the National Wrestling Coaches Association preseason poll.Central opens its 2012-13 campaign with a home dual on Wednesday, Nov. 7, against No. 19 St. Olaf College ...

Three Mt. Pleasant Community High School athletes competed at the Senior All-Star Boys? 5K cross-country meet on the Des Moines Area Community College campus in Ankeny on Saturday.Drew Perry led the Panthers with a time of 18:07 for 73rd place. Brach Prough ran a time of 18:26 to take 78th, and Tommy Thorne finished 80th with a time of 18:46.?It was a nice honor for those boys and a good finish to their ...

Lake Belva DeerCooler weather is dropping the water temperature to around 53 degrees. Crappie ? fair: on warmer days anglers are still catching some crappies in front of the beach. Lake of the HillsLake of the Hills is the only lake in West Lake Park where live minnows can be used as bait. The best time to catch most fish species is mid-afternoon. Rainbow trout ? excellent: rainbows have settled down from ...