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U.S. Baseball Academy camp to be at Central Lee HS

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Central Lee High School is hosting a six-week baseball camp starting February 16.Central Lee?s head baseball coach, Kenton Benner, will direct the program in conjunction with U.S. Baseball Academy.Classes are available for players in grades 1-12 and are limited to six players per coach. Sessions are offered in advanced hitting, pitching, catching, fielding and baserunning.There is a cost to participate in the ...

WACO swept by Wapello

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WAPELLO ? The WACO boys? and girls? basketball teams dropped a pair of close Southeast Iowa Super Conference North Division games at Wapello on Tuesday night.The boys fell by a score of 56-52, and the girls lost, 36-33.In the boys? game, WACO had a 27-21 lead going into halftime, but their third-quarter struggles gave Wapello an opening.?In the third quarter, we didn?t get anything done,? WACO Coach Bob Hilmer ...

What to watch this week

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Sports Sep. 30, 2018 10:52 pm2686d ago

Tueaday? Mt. Pleasant boys' basketball hosts Centerville, JV starts at 5:15 p.m., followed by varsity? Mt. Pleasant wrestling @ Louisa-Muscatine, JV starts at 6 p.m., followed by varsity? New London basketball hosts Van Buren, varsity girls start at 6 p.m., followed by varsity boys? W-MU basketball hosts Louisa-Muscatine, varsity girls start at 6 p.m., followed by varsity boys? WACO basketball @ Wapello, ...

Aplara goes 5-0, Panther team gets two wins at dual tournament

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Sports Sep. 30, 2018 10:52 pm2686d ago

MARION ? At the Linn-Mar Dual Tournament on Saturday, the Panthers went 2-3 overall. They defeated Marion and Dubuque Hempstead, but fell to Mt. Vernon, Linn-Mar and Clinton.Colton Aplara led the Panthers with a 5-0 record on the day. The 195-pounder pinned four of his opponents and won one match by major decision, 9-1.As a team, the Panthers defeated Marion by a score of 57-18. They came out on top in 10 of ...

Tigers drop double dual at home

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NEW LONDON ? The New London/Winfield-Mt. Union wrestling team fell to Columbus Community, 55-24, and Muscatine, 58-21, in a double dual at home on Thursday.The Tigers won four matches against Columbus.Brody Burns (152) pinned Nick Bloomquist in 1:02, one of three wins by fall for NL/W-MU.Tanner Schneider (160) also pinned his opponent, Zack King, getting the win in 2:30.The Tigers? Tanner Gipple (170) pinned ...

Wolves resume season tonight

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Students are back in school, and soon basketball players will be back on the court.Winfield-Mt. Union travels tonight (Thursday) to Columbus to play a make-up game after their contest against the Wildcats was postponed due to snow on Dec. 21.The JV girls play at 4:30 p.m., and the varsity girls and boys will follow. The JV boys will also play at Columbus tonight; their game will be in the Roundy Elementary gym ...

Muscatine to host middle school girls? basketball tournament

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The Jerry Stark Memorial Youth Basketball Tournament will be held on Saturday, Jan. 12, at the YMCA in Muscatine.Tournament proceeds will benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Muscatine County, a program of the Muscatine Community Y.The tournament, which starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 6 p.m., will include two divisions; seventh-grade girls and eighth-grade girls. Registration is limited to the first four teams in ...

What to watch this weekend

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Friday? New London basketball hosts Harmony, JV boys start at 4:30 p.m., followed by varsity girls and varsity boys? W-MU basketball @ Columbus, varsity girls start at 6 p.m., followed by varsity boys? WACO basketball hosts Pekin, varsity girls start at 6 p.m., followed by varsity boys

Boys? tournament team claims win at Fairfield

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Sports Sep. 30, 2018 10:52 pm2686d ago

The Mt. Pleasant seventh-grade boys? tournament basketball team won the Fairfield Tournament on Sunday, Dec. 16.Mt. Pleasant defeated Ft. Madison, Southeast Iowa Thunder, Holy Trininty and Washington.They improve their record this season to 14-1 with the win.

IWC takes next step toward NCAA DIII membership

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Sports Sep. 30, 2018 10:52 pm2686d ago

A five-member committee at Iowa Wesleyan College is putting the finishing touches on the school's application for NCAA Division III provisional membership."We're really, really close to being done," IWC Athletic Director Mike Hampton said. "We're putting the finishing touches to it. We still have to do a little tweaking on grammar and layout, but in substance, it's completed."Hampton is one of the five committee...

Division I athletes train in Mt. Pleasant

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News Sep. 30, 2018 10:52 pm2686d ago

Mt. Pleasant natives Darian Cotton and Jordan Cotton and Winfield native Jon Gerling, all pictured above from left, were all training at the Mt. Pleasant REC Center on Dec. 23, during their Christmas break from college.Darian Cotton plays football at Iowa State, and Jordan Cotton plays the same sport at the University Iowa. Gerling is on the UNI cross-country and track teams.It?s not very common to see Division ...

Mt. Pleasant basketball, bowling postponed

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The Mt. Pleasant boys? and girls? basketball games and the Panther bowling meet have been cancelled for Thursday evening due to the snow.The boys? and girls? basketball teams were scheduled to host West Liberty tonight.Those games have been rescheduled for Friday night, starting with the girls? game at 6 p.m., weather permitting.Bowling was to travel to Ottumwa; that has not yet been rescheduled.