Sports

The Mt. Pleasant football team had its banquet on Monday night at the high school. Many players and cheerleaders received varsity letters, participation awards, recognition as scholar athletes and special awards.The special award winners are pictured at left. From left: Dalton Conrad, MVP; Lee Davis, Coaches? Award; Carson Remick, Defensive Player of the Year; Connor Shull, MVP and 1,000-Yard Club; Justin Dunn, ...

The Mt. Pleasant Panthers' fifth and sixth grade football team finished second in the Ft. Madison Football Inc. tackle football tournament this past Saturday and Sunday.The team is pictured at left.Front row, from left: Braden Denning, Jeremiah Weeks, Charles Chapman, Kalib Wilson, Brayden Ackles and Cody Mertens.Second row, from left: Keegan Kohorst, James DeMeyer, Jacob Stukerjurgen, Nate Wallace, Chase ...

Mt. Pleasant?s Jamy Ball has been inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Lifetime Service Honoree.?That?s pretty exciting,? Ball said. ?When you coach that long, it?s icing on the cake.?It?s a tribute to all the good kids I?ve had ? it doesn?t happen on its own,? he added. ?I?ve been in a couple good schools: Lake Mills and Mt. Pleasant.?Ball was a wrestling head coach for 22 years. He started ...

FAIRFIELD ? The 19th annual Southeast Iowa Volleyball Classic, featuring the area?s top high school senior volleyball players, has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday at Fairfield High School gymnasium.Selected players were first nominated by their coach, placed on a ballot and then voted on by the varsity volleyball coaches of the Southeast Conference, the Southeast Iowa Super Conference and Burlington High ...

The cross-country team had its awards banquet on Thursday, Oct. 25, at Mt. Pleasant Community High School. Pictured at left are the award winners: Front row, from left: Brach Prough (Most Improved), Chloe Haffarnan (Panther Award), Tommy Thorne (Panther Award) and Drew Perry (Panther Award). Back row, from left: Ally Davis (Most Improved), Megan Shumaker (Newcomer Award), Ellie Conrad (Most Potential), Natalie ...

Lake GeodeWater temperature remains in the lower 50s. The back and forth weather pattern is changing the bite from day to day. Crappie ? slow: the crappies are in about eight feet of water around the cedar tree piles. Work the ledges on the north side of the lake. Lake Belva DeerCooler fall weather has dropped the water temperature to around 53 degrees. Crappie ? fair: on warmer days, anglers are still ...

The Iowa Wesleyan College men?s soccer team picked up its fifth win of the season on Thursday night, 2-0, as it faced the Principia College Panthers.The teams started the game 30 minutes ahead of schedule to try to beat out the monsoon-like weather that hit the area, but the first 30 minutes was played in a driving rainstorm.The Tigers didn?t let the rain affect them as they struck early to take a 1-0 lead. ...

Kevin McConnell, an IWC senior from Kansas City, Mo., and Ridge Hobbs, a junior from New London, continue to change the football record books for the Tigers.With a huge offensive game last week against the Waldorf College Warriors, McConnell and Hobbs moved themselves in multiple categories on the Tigers? all-time lists.McConnell has put together one of the best careers in Tigers? history at quarterback. His ...