Sports

Mt. Pleasant football began with camp this week. In the photo, Coach Bob Jensen watches as senior quarterback Ross Heitmeier hands off to senior running back Donnie Johnson in team offense drills.Official practice for the Panthers begins on Aug. 8. The team, while not particularly young, is inexperienced. ?There are not a lot of returning starters,? Jensen said. ?In the first couple games, we?re going to find ...

Mt. Pleasant girls? basketball went 4-1 in Division III play this past weekend at the Drake University Team Camp in Des Moines.Fourteen Mt. Pleasant girls attended and all made significant contributions during the weekend, according to Coach Joanna Settles.?All of the girls played hard and they love the game," Settles said. "They will all continue to get better and I?m looking forward to working with them ...

The all-star team from Mt. Pleasant won its first game on Friday in the Cal Ripken 10-Under Regional Tournament, but was eliminated after a loss to Kansas later that day."I think we were tired," said Coach Matt Lowery. "The sun beat on us a little bit (in our first game)."The temperature hit 90 on Saturday in Kalona, where the Mt. Pleasant team started playing against tournament host TCS East at 3 p.m.Bry...

Anytime Fitness in Mt. Pleasant, along with the Iowa National Guard, will be hosting its first annual 5K fun run/walk on Saturday, July 30, starting at 8 a.m.Activities and events will include a rock climbing walk, kids obstacle course, a 5K run/walk and raffle and prizes. All money raised will benefit the Wounded Warrior Program to help veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts recover from wounds received ...

The New London vs. Lone Tree district baseball game at Kalona last night was postponed and rescheduled for tonight.Game time is still set for 7 p.m. in Kalona. The winner of tonight's game will face Iowa Mennonite School tomorrow night in the district semi-final game, also at 7 p.m. in Kalona.

Washington head baseball coach Nathan Miller modestly says that Friday?s Class 3A District 11 semifinal between his Demons and rival Mt. Pleasant is just another district game. Yeah, it?s important, he said, but not any more important than any other district game. ?I think in the eyes of the fans it?s a bigger game because it?s a Mt. Pleasant-Washington match-up, but I think our kids are just focused that ...

The Mt. Pleasant baseball team finished up the regular season Tuesday evening with a 9-6 loss to Burlington in a non-conference match-up held at Community Field. The Panthers (25-8 overall) took an early 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning on an RBI single by Korbin Taylor, which was followed by a two RBI double by Ross Heitmeier. Burlington took a 4-3 lead in the top of the second before Brian Pflum ...

Gary Whittenbaugh of Oelwein will present ?The Year Around Garden? from 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Jefferson County ISU Extension office.This event is free and open to the public.Attendees can learn how a year-round garden provides much to see even in late fall, winter and early spring.Whittenbaugh is an Iowa native well-known in the Midwest for his presentations on gardening subjects, especially conifers.W...