Wrestling practice started this week at Mt. Pleasant Community High School, and the team is getting adjusted for the upcoming season.?The kids came in working hard,? said Head Coach Anthony Blint. ?Right now, we?re trying to figure out what weight everyone will be at.?According to Blint, the team is focusing on the basics for their early practices.Yesterday, they worked on a number of drills, including ...
Tarin Phillips is gearing up with the rest of his team for the biggest football game of its season.Phillips, son of Tony Phillips and Bobbi (Parks) Phillips of the Des Moines area, and grandson of Ron and Jan Crow of Mt. Pleasant, is a starting middle linebacker and special teams football player for West Des Moines Valley High School.The senior has 97 tackles this season, and will compete with his team ...
Last season, Winfield-Mt. Union received one of the state?s five Outstanding Service Awards for the basketball teams? visit to the Morning Sun Care Center, a project they did for the Iowa Hall of Pride.This year, though the teams ? along with the band and choir ? are returning to the care center, they will be doing a different Hall of Pride service project.The student council will be collecting items for ...
Iowa Wesleyan College will try to do something it hasn?t accomplished in 13 years when the Tigers close out the 2011 season against Concordia (Mich.) University on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Mapleleaf Stadium.The Tigers will be attempting to go into the offseason with a win in their season finale for the first time since defeating St. Francis (Ind.) 41-35 on Nov. 14, 1998.Last week, the Tigers lost to ...
The Mt. Pleasant High School Competition Cheer Squad completed its fall season last weekend at the Iowa State Cheer Championships, competing against 3A and 4A schools.The cheer/dance squad scored a second place finish, but ended up taking home a third-place finish due to a sign deduction.Two stunt teams placed in the largest competiton category: a fourth-place trophy went to Shelby Gillis, Chelsey Stark, ...
FridayIWC women?s basketball vs. Briar Cliff University, Grand ViewShootout, Des Moines, 4 p.m. IWC men?s basketball vs. Graceland University, Mt. MercyBosch Financial Shootout, Cedar Rapids, 6 p.m. SaturdayIWC cross-country at MCC Championship, Dubuque IWC football vs. Grand View University, Mapleleaf Stadium, 1 p.m. IWC women?s basketball vs. Kansas Wesleyan, Grand ViewShoo...
Iowa Wesleyan College will face its fourth ranked opponent of the season when the Tigers host No. 23-ranked Grand View University Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Mapleleaf Stadium in Mid-States Football Association Midwest League play.Wesleyan will once again attempt to get a win over a ranked opponent for the first time since 1984, and also will be seeking to bounce back after a 52-31 loss to Olivet Nazarene ...
The Southeast Iowa Super Conference released the coaches? choices for this volleyball season?s All-Conference First and Second Teams.Making the First Team list in the North Division as a hitter was W-MU?s Alicia Escher.Escher, a junior, led the team with 188 kills, despite missing a couple matches due to injury. She also claimed 205 digs, averaging 2.47 per set, behind only libero Kassidy McLaughlin.McLau...
Five volleyball players from Mt. Pleasant, Winfield-Mt. Union and New London will compete in the 18th Annual Southeast Iowa Volleyball Classic on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 7 pm.The match will be played at Fairfield High School, and it features the top high school senior volleyball players from southeast Iowa.Selected players were first nominated by their coach, placed on a ballot, and then voted on by the varsity ...
Carlos Lopez, left, and Jay Olson joined friends at Press Box on Friday night to watch game seven of the World Series between the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals.Lopez, a Rangers fan from Pasadena, Texas, and Olson, a Cardinals fan from Agency, Iowa, are both Iowa Wesleyan students. Despite the competition between their favorite baseball teams, the two remained friendly as they exchanged banter.At ...
The Tigers were stopped in their tracks by the state?s third-ranked Holy Trinity volleyball team.New London lost the regional semifinal match to the Crusaders in three sets on Friday night: 25-16, 25-13 and 25-11.Caitlin Chiri had six digs in the match and went 10-of-10 on serves with one ace.Bria Mears had 13 assists, eight digs and went six-of-eight on serves with one ace.Caitlin Rice added 13 digs ...
The Mt. Pleasant sixth grade boys? tournament team has won another tournament. This time, it was the All-American Sports sixth grade tournament, which was over the past weekend in Ames.The team went 3-0 in the competition.Team members and coaches posed for a photo while at the tournament.Front row, from left: Kyle Medina, Isaac Kuster, Paul Rundquist, Maison Ashton, Jake Lowe and Jordan Magnani.Back ...
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