Sports

The Mt. Pleasant girls? golf team scored 203 during their meet against an incomplete Keokuk team at Mt. Pleasant Golf and Country Club on Tuesday afternoon.Haley Booton was the medalist with a score of 48, followed by Elle Schleisman?s score of 50.Courtney Mabeus shot a 51 for the Panthers.Both Brianne Holtkamp and Emily Cox finished the course in 54 strokes, and Ally Lowe scored a 69.?We lowered our team ...

Tory Beaver, a senior from North Liberty, was named the USCAA Softball Player of the Week this week.Beaver had a strong week for the Tigers to help lead the team to a 5-3 week overall and get them to .500 on the season at 12-12.Beaver hit .625 (15-for-24) for the week and had an on-base percentage of .719. She crushed the ball for two home runs, recorded 11 RBIs in the Tigers? eight games and scored 15 runs.The...

Announcer Mike Jay of Columbus Junction, who calls a number of high-profile track meets, will be coming back to Mt. Pleasant once again for the Denny White Relays on Thursday.Jay recently called meets at Alabama and Stanford, as well as the NCAA Indoor Championships. He is also the lead announcer at the Drake Relays.The Mt. Pleasant meet is named for Coach Denny White, who served for 38 years in the Mt. ...

NEW LONDON ? The New London boys? golf score of 166 was good enough for a win in a meet against Notre Dame and Danville on Monday night.The Tiger girls, with a score of 212, also claimed victory in the triangular.On boys? side, Tristan Kadel?s 39 was the low score on the day, earning him medalist honors. Hagin Gillis shot a 40, Quincy Porter scored 42 and Cody Bartels finished the course in 45 strokes to ...

The Mt. Pleasant boys? tennis team picked up a 7-2 win over Southeast Conference opponent Fairfield to up its season record to 2-1 (1-0 SEC), and the girls? team defeated the Trojans 5-4, remaining undefeated at 2-0 (1-0 SEC).The boys got singles wins at East Lake Park from Zach Schmitz (8-1), Matt Zihlman (8-6), Tyler Pace (8-2) and Blake Wickham (8-2). In the doubles matches, all three Mt. Pleasant pairs won: ...

The Mt. Pleasant girls? golf team placed third of five teams at the Keokuk Tournament on Thursday, and the Panther boys opened their season with an SEC win over Washington at Washington.The boys? team was led by medalist Kiley Miller in the win, who scored 38 on the nine-hole course. He was followed by Kyle Kauffman (40), William Kinney (42), Quinn Daniel and Jordon Phomsouvandara (46) and Jacob Smith (50). The ...

The Iowa Wesleyan College baseball team moves one game over .500 for the first time this season after picking up two big wins over Graceland University on Thursday night. The Tigers traveled to Lamoni for a doubleheader against the Yellowjackets.The Tigers had to fight hard for both wins, picking up an 8-4 win in extra innings in game one and holding on despite a late Yellowjackets? attack in game two to get the ...

The WACO boys? and girls? track and field teams competed in the Demon Relays in Washington on Thursday night, where the girls? placed fifth of six teams and the boys placed seventh in a field of seven. The Warriors didn?t take home any first-place finishes, but the girls had one silver medal and the boys placed second three events.Pictured is Rosemary Skriver in the girls? high jump; she placed third at 4-10.The...