Sports

The Mt. Pleasant girls' golf team tied with Keokuk on Tuesday afternoon, 211-211, at the Keokuk Country Club as Natalie Booton turned in her lowest score of the season for the Panthers. Booton shot a 5-over-par 41 to win medalist as Keokuk's Shelsey Stanley was the runner up medalist with a score of 44. "A tie is pretty unusual but as we talk about all the time, every stroke counts so you have got to ...

Kali Hills and Jill Ginder had run-scoring hits in the second inning and the Iowa Wesleyan College softball team defeated Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.) University 3-2 in the second game of a non-conference doubleheader Tuesday afternoon at the Mapleleaf Athletic Complex.??The Tigers bounced back from a 10-1 loss in the first game of the doubleheader, splitting two games with the Trojans to move to 9-26 overall this ...

The Mt. Pleasant girls' track team finished third at the Pen City Relays on Tuesday afternoon, behind first place Iowa City West and Burlington. Kaitlin Jones turned in a season best time in the 400 meter hurdles at 67.73 seconds, winning the event. Sierra Wyse, Rebekah Kimzey, Taylor Shull, Jones also won the 4x200 meter relay in 1:51.31. Also picking up a season best time was the 4x400 meter relay ...

Fairfield and Mt. Pleasant trudged through 79 minutes of scoreless soccer Monday evening, but lucky for the Panthers, the game clock was set for 80 minutes. David Litchfield broke away from the Trojan defense and found the net with 49 seconds to play to break a 0-0 tie and give Mt. Pleasant (1-2) its first win of the season. The score was actually the first breakthrough in 179 minutes for Mt. Pleasant,...

Entering the 2011 season, Mt. Pleasant girls' soccer coach Ed Chabal wasn't sure what to expect in his first season as coach. But after the Panthers improved to 3-0 with a 4-1 win over Fairfield Monday afternoon, Chabal likes what he sees from his team. "I'd like to say I expected it [being 3-0 to start the season] but they're playing really well. I don't think we came out with quite as much intensity ...

For the 13th consecutive year, the Mt. Pleasant girls' track team won the Centerville Redette Relays on Friday, April 8. The Panthers won the meet decisively over Davis County (Bloomfield), 164-101. The Panthers won 12 events, including 11 of the 15 running events as Rebekah Kimzey and Kaitlin Jones were a part of four winning events with Jones winning the 400 meter hurdles in 68.6 seconds. Mt. ...

FORT MADISON ? Holy Trinity shut out the Mt. Pleasant girls' tennis team on Monday afternoon, 9-0, to drop the Panthers to 1-3 overall on the season. Kirsten Snyder took her first loss of the season, 8-6, against Emily Lewis of Holy Trinity. Snyder and Britanny Medina were also handed their first doubles loss, 8-2, by Colby Hoyer and Ashley Tinguely. Abby Skubal picked up the lone win of the night for ...

I had another Iowa vs. Missouri discussion with one of my best friends last night. No, it wasn't about how she needs to go to graduate school closer to me, which I think she should, or how pointless it is for her to sporadically bring up the 1985 World Series again because neither one of us was even thought of in 1985. Instead, the discussion revolved around something both of us wish we had more time to ...