By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 22
A run through the high school hoops postseason is hardly possible without a little bit of luck.
The Van Buren boys entered their district final ...
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Feb 22
Van Buren followed up one of its best seasons in school history in 2010-11 with a comparably stellar 2011-12. The Warriors finished with a 21-2 ...
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Feb 22
A sign-up session for all children interested in joining Fairfield Babe Ruth will be held 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Word of Life Lutheran Church, ...
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Feb 22
IOWA CITY (AP) — Perhaps the only thing more surprising than Iowa’s easy win over Indiana last weekend was how many youngsters helped pull off the ...
By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 21
CENTERVILLE — Clank after clank, the Fairfield boys’ basketball team saw its chances of a lengthened season disappear Monday vs. Centerville.
The ...
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Feb 21
The Fairfield eighth-grade boys took two of three games from Fort Madison in the season finale Friday.
Fairfield’s ‘A’ team blasted the Bloodhounds...
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Feb 21
FORT MADISON — The Fairfield seventh-grade girls’ ‘A’ team capped its undefeated season Friday with a 58-6 thrashing of Fort Madison.
The ‘A’ team ...
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Feb 21
HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Milo Hamilton, who had the memorable call on Henry Aaron’s 715th home run, will retire as ...
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Feb 20
DUBUQUE — Numerous area athletes from Agency, Batavia, Eldon and Fairfield won medals in the 2012 Winter Iowa Games Jan. 28-29 in Dubuque.
Schylar ...
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Feb 20
ELSAH, Ill. — Morningside College’s swim team, featuring Lockridge’s Travis Schombert, continued to break school records left and right at the ...
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By LUKE MEREDITH, AP ... - Feb 20
IOWA CITY (AP) — Iowa senior Matt Gatens has often been viewed as the steady though unspectacular leader of a rebuilding Hawkeyes program.
Gatens ...
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Feb 20
DES MOINES (AP) — John Meeks and Cory Clark joined an elite group of Iowa high school wrestlers Saturday night when they became four-time state ...
By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 20
DES MOINES — By the Iowa state wrestling tournament’s conclusion Saturday, Pekin’s Aaron King had accomplished what he sent out to do four years ...
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By MICHAEL LEACH, Ledger ... - Feb 17
Pekin’s King still in contention
DES MOINES — Pekin senior Aaron King (120) rebounded from a first-round loss to keep his consolation run alive ...
By MICHAEL LEACH, Ledger ... - Feb 17
PACKWOOD — Fred Parsons, Van Buren’s boys’ basketball coach, couldn’t remember the last time the Warriors beat Pekin twice in one week.
Next time ...
By MICHAEL LEACH, Ledger ... - Feb 17
DES MOINES — By midday Friday, the bright lights of Wells Fargo Arena and the state wrestling tournament had claimed plenty of new victims.
Among ...
Feb 17
MOUNT PLEASANT — Fairfield senior Stian Hoff was named co-bowler of the year and led the Fairfield boys’ bowling team to its first state tournament...
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Feb 17
The Fairfield eighth-grade ‘A’ team pushed its winning streak to 10 with a 55-12 beatdown of Washington Thursday.
Mikaela Lunsford led the ‘A’ ...
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Feb 17
WEST BURLINGTON — Great River Medical Center is offering a clinic for athletes, age 12 and up, who want to improve their running forms and ...
By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 16
Scoreless droughts have hit the Fairfield girls’ basketball team a handful of times this season, but perhaps none stung worse than the one ...
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Feb 16
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Denver Holmes banked in a 3-pointer with 0.6 seconds left to lift Evansville to a 63-62 win over Northern Iowa on Wednesday...
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Feb 16
LIBERTYVILLE — The Libertyville Little League has announced sign-up dates for the upcoming season.
League sign-up dates are from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ...
By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 15
KEOSAUQUA — The postseason isn’t officially the postseason without a grudge match between Central Lee and Van Buren.
The Warrior girls’ season ...
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Feb 15
672 athletes will wrestle a total of 1,260 matches on eight mats, and at the end of three days, 42 state champions will be crowned.
The Iowa state ...
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Feb 15
The Fairfield eighth-grade boys’ ‘A’ team pushed its winning streak to three games Monday.
The ‘A’ team dominated Mount Pleasant by the final ...
By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 14
KEOSAUQUA — Chants from Van Buren’s student section of “We’ve got Weaver!” resonated through the Van Buren High School gym in the closing minutes ...
By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 14
The Fairfield boys’ bowling team, in just its third year as an official program, won its first Southeast Conference Tournament on Saturday while ...
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Feb 14
EDDYVILLE — The Cardinal boys’ basketball team concluded its season Monday with a 68-32 loss to Eddyville-Blakesburg.
The Comets struggles from ...
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Feb 14
The Fairfield JV boys’ basketball team finished its season on a roll, bringing its winning streak to six games by blasting Fort Madison 59-37.
Land...
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Feb 14
MOUNT PLEASANT — It was business as usual for the seventh-grade ‘A’ girls Monday in Mount Pleasant.
The Trojan ‘A’ team kept its undefeated season ...
By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 13
■ Shaner, Stoner earn district titles for Trojans.
Coming into the 2011-12 season, the Trojan wrestling program hadn’t produced more than three ...
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Feb 13
Two to represent Pekin at state
EDDYVILLE — Pekin junior Thomas Slaney and senior Aaron King are still standing as the high school wrestling field ...
Feb 13
It took the Fairfield boys’ basketball team 21 games to get on a winning streak, but their first of the season is coming at the best possible ...
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Feb 13
FORT MADISON — With the Trojans trailing headed into the fourth quarter Friday, senior Tori Ogden found her can’t-miss spot 15 feet from the ...
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Feb 13
KEOSAUQUA — The Van Buren girls’ basketball team moved one step closer to a state tournament bid with a 57-46 win over Davis County to open ...
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Feb 13
DONNELLSON — The Cardinal girls’ basketball team saw its season come to an end Saturday, but not before rewriting a portion of the record books.
Ca...
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Feb 13
Van Buren 67, Pekin 60
KEOSAUQUA — In what could be their first of two matchups in under a week, Van Buren bested area rival Pekin 67-60 in SEISC ...
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Feb 13
The Fairfield eighth-grade boys’ basketball team took two of three games from Mount Pleasant on Feb. 2.
The ‘A’ team came away with an easy 41-22 ...
Feb 10
Whitney Hastings (pictured), son-in-law to Sheri Haupert-Betz of Fairfield, displays his first-ever trophy mountain lion this winter.
Hastings, of ...
Feb 10
The Fairfield seventh-grade ‘A’ girls weren’t the only dominant team in town Thursday.
Fairfield’s ‘A’ team kicked off the day with a 53-17 win ...
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Feb 10
The Fairfield eighth-grade boys’ basketball team is pictured, from left, front row: Cam Baumann (manager), Drew Stever, Cody Mathis, Trae Van ...
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Feb 10
The final Associated Press Iowa high school girls basketball poll for Class 1A and 2A has been released just in time for regional play.
Rightfully ...
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Feb 09
Class 2A postseason girls' basketball begins Saturday. The winners of eight regions will advance to the state tournament in Des Moines.
The Van ...
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Feb 09
The Fairfield seventh-grade girls’ ‘A’ team won their seventh straight game to open the season Tuesday, topping Keokuk by the final score of ...
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Feb 09
CHARITON — Fairfield’s JV girls dropped a 33-20 contest to Chariton on Tuesday.
Erica Winslow led the Trojans with nine points followed by Marisa ...
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Feb 09
The Fairfield freshman boys’ basketball team won its fourth game of the season Tuesday, rolling past Chariton by the final score of 50-23.
Alex ...
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Feb 09
The Trojan JV boys’ basketball team continued its late-season roll with a 50-34 victory vs. Chariton Tuesday.
Fairfield’s Vince Horras scored 20 ...
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Feb 09
Jeffrey Stone, owner and trainer of Boom Fitness in Fairfield, placed second in the men’s division at the Iowa City-Cedar Rapids Corridor CrossFit ...
By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 08
As usual, the Fairfield boys’ basketball team saved its best for last Tuesday.
The Trojan boys erupted for 18 points in the final four and a half ...
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Feb 08
Matchups have been set for the 2012 Southeast Iowa Super Conference boys’ basketball shootout.
The shootout, scheduled Friday, pits teams that ...
By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 08
CHARITON — If there’s ever been a time to start winning, it’s now.
The Fairfield girls came away with their first of what they hope snowballs into ...
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Feb 08
Pioneers tie season-high point total in loss
WEST BURLINGTON — Improved shooting kept the MSAE boys’ basketball team in Tuesday’s game, but West ...
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By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 07
■ Saturday’s conference tournament coming to Fairfield.
WASHINGTON, Iowa — The Fairfield boys’ bowling team finished off a season sweep of ...
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Feb 07
ELDON — The Cardinal girls’ basketball team held off a furious rally from Davis County to win its regular season finale Monday.
The Mustangs ...
Feb 07
James Madison proved to be the Fairfield seventh-grade girls’ toughest opponent yet, but the Trojans were up to the challenge Monday.
The Trojan ...
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Feb 07
The Fairfield JV boys’ basketball team shared the wealth and dished out 20 assists Saturday to come away with a 60-57 win over Pella.
Joe Hietpas ...
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Feb 07
A day after scoring 20 points vs. Keokuk, the Fairfield JV girls reclaimed their offense vs. Pella.
Marisa Repp and Seaira Drish scored 15 and 13 ...
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Feb 07
The Fairfield freshman boys’ basketball team took a 48-34 loss to Keokuk in conference action Thursday.
Fairfield’s Nick Jackson and Cody Craff ...
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Feb 07
OTTUMWA — Ottumwa Baseball is holding a pitching camp for ages 10-14 from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at Ottumwa High School.
The camp will feature ...
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Feb 07
ELDON — A Little League baseball camp hosted by Cardinal High School will be held March 17-18 in the school gymnasium.
All children in fifth ...
By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 06
TIFFIN — Four Fairfield wrestlers were crowned champions and another two were runner-ups to kick off the postseason Saturday at Clear Creek-Amana.
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By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 06
MEDIAPOLIS — Last year’s massive snow storm effectively cancelled the SEISC girls’ title game between Van Buren and Mediapolis, and the Warriors ...
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By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 06
KEOSAUQUA — Pekin brought eight wrestlers to Saturday’s sectional tournament in Keosauqua, and half of them wrestled their way through to the ...
By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 06
The Fairfield boys’ basketball team appeared in line for one of its patented comebacks Friday night, but conference rival Keokuk had other plans ...
Feb 06
The Fairfield girls’ basketball team was a team akin with Keokuk for nearly 30 of the contest’s 32 minutes Friday.
The Trojan girls matched ...
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Feb 06
PACKWOOD — The upset-minded Pekin girls couldn’t shake a slow start Friday and dropped a 68-56 contest to Burlington-Notre Dame.
The Panthers ...
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Feb 06
RIVERSIDE — An unforgiving Highland defense kept the Cardinal girls’ basketball team quiet over several stretches Friday to win the SEISC shootout ...
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Feb 06
Maharishi School suffered from 21 first-half turnovers and fell into a 27-4 hole after one quarter Friday vs. Burlington-Notre Dame.
The visiting ...
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By JOE KAY, AP sports writer - Feb 06
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tom Brady let his final pass fly toward the scrum of players in the end zone, hoping for an incredible finish.
Uh-uh, Tom. Not ...
By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 03
KEOSAUQUA — As the basketball season enters the homestretch, Van Buren senior Makenzie Zeitler understands the importance of leaving it all on the ...
By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 03
KEOSAUQUA — If the rim seemed extra wide to Harmony Thursday night, there’s no telling how big it appeared to the Van Buren boys.
Despite Harmony ...
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Feb 03
WAPELLO — The Pekin boys’ basketball team nearly doubled Wapello’s point total in a 63-34 drubbing Thursday.
The Panthers (16-3, 14-3 SEISC north) ...
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Feb 03
DONNELLSON — The Cardinal girls’ basketball team struggled through a cold shooting night and fell to Central Lee 74-55 on Thursday.
The Comets ...
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By MICHAEL LEACH/Ledger ... - Feb 02
The high school wrestling field is about to become a lot less crowded.
The win-or-go-home sectional tournaments are scheduled Saturday, and more ...
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Feb 02
Matchups have been set for the 2012 Southeast Iowa Super Conference girls’ basketball shootout.
The shootout, scheduled Friday, pits teams that ...
Feb 02
Members of the seventh- and eighth-grade Fairfield Middle School wrestling team are, from left, front row: Trenton Nelson, Charles Heisel, Dallas ...
Feb 02
During Saturday’s Southern Iowa Classic wrestling tournament, the 11th annual family recognition award was presented to the Holmes family of ...
Feb 02
SIOUX CITY — Travis Schombert, a Fairfield High School graduate and Lockridge native, swam on Morningside College’s winning 200-yard freestyle ...
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Feb 02
The Fairfield eighth-grade boys’ basketball team was back in action Tuesday vs. Ottumwa. The Trojans won the ‘C’ contest but dropped the two ...
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Feb 02
CENTERVILLE — The Fairfield ninth-grade girls came up one basket short of a win Tuesday, falling to Centerville 25-24 in overtime.
MacKenzie ...
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Feb 02
IOWA CITY (AP) — For about 37 minutes, Iowa and Minnesota played a weird game that leaned slightly toward the Gophers.
Then Devyn Marble took ...
By MICHAEL LEACH, Ledger ... - Feb 01
The Fairfield wrestling team is hitting its stride, and the timing couldn’t be any better.
The Trojans achieved their midseason goal of a .500 ...
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Feb 01
CENTERVILLE — Though the Trojans’ defense was operating at full capacity Tuesday, their offense appeared to be running on empty.
The Fairfield ...
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Feb 01
WEST BURLINGTON — With Van Buren’s normally potent varsity lineup ineffective Tuesday, head coach Matt Zeitler turned to his second team.
“In the ...
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Feb 01
PACKWOOD — The Pekin boys’ basketball team scored 28 points in the second quarter and breezed to a 68-37 victory over Highland on Tuesday.
Trey ...
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Feb 01
FARMINGTON — Liz Nichols sank seven treys to lead the Cardinal girls’ basketball team to its seventh win of the season, a 58-37 victory over ...
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Feb 01
The Fairfield eighth-grade boys’ basketball team won one of three games Monday against Burlington’s Aldo Leopold.
Jordan Reid scored 22 points and ...
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Feb 01
The Fairfield seventh-grade ‘A’ girls pushed their win streak to five with a 47-10 win over Ottumwa on Tuesday.
With the Trojans up 18-8 at ...
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Feb 01
WEST BURLINGTON — Elliott Remick scored a game-high 24 points to lead the Van Buren boys’ basketball team past West Burlington 67-41 Tuesday ...
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Feb 01
Top-ranked Danville scored the first 25 points in a contest with Maharishi School and never stumbled Tuesday night.
The visiting Bears rolled by a ...
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Feb 01
WELLMAN — Three Trojans scored in double figures Saturday but the Fairfield ninth-graders were denied the away win, falling 48-44 to Mid-Prairie.
A...
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Jan 31
MOUNT PLEASANT — The Fairfield bowlers took to the lanes Saturday in a conference rematch vs. Mount Pleasant.
At the Iris Bowling Center in Mount ...
Jan 31
ELDON — Cardinal senior Courtney Smith signed a letter of intent to play volleyball at Waldorf College in Forest City Wednesday.
Smith was ...
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Jan 31
KEOSAUQUA — The Van Buren girls’ basketball team pushed its winning streak to 11 games Friday with a 55-46 win vs. Fort Madison in non-conference ...
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Jan 31
SIGOURNEY — The Pekin boys’ basketball team followed up a Friday loss with a big win over rival Sigourney Saturday.
Up by only two points headed ...
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Jan 31
SIGOURNEY — Pekin’s Leslie Stone scored the go-ahead bucket with two seconds remaining Saturday to lead the Pekin girls past rival Sigourney, ...
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Jan 31
BURLINGTON — The Fairfield Middle School seventh-grade girls’ basketball teams swept Burlington’s Aldo Leopold on Monday.
In ‘A’ team action, the ...
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Jan 31
Three Trojans scored in double figures Monday to help the Fairfield JV boys to a 53-40 win over county rival Pekin.
Matt Carr and Landon Gamrath ...
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Jan 31
Marisa Repp scored a game-high 19 points, but it wasn’t enough Monday as Fairfield’s JV girls lost 48-45 to Pekin.
Repp also had seven boards and ...
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Jan 31
OTTUMWA — The Fairfield Middle School wrestling team concluded its season Monday with 10 wins in Ottumwa.
Seventh-graders Michael Fritz and ...
By MICHAEL LEACH, Ledger ... - Jan 30
Fairfield’s Jake Mineart experienced a whirlwind week, uncertain of when — or if — he’d be able to wrestle again in 2011-12.
The Trojan junior was ...
By MICHAEL LEACH, Ledger ... - Jan 30
NEW LONDON — The Panthers only brought eight wrestlers to Saturday’s SEISC wrestling tournament in New London, but half a Pekin team still proved ...
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Jan 30
WELLMAN — The Fairfield boys’ basketball team scored 18 points in the fourth quarter Saturday to cap a comeback win over Mid-Prairie.
The Trojans ...
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Jan 30
WELLMAN — The Fairfield girls played even with Mid-Prairie through three quarters Saturday, but a turnover-laden third quarter proved the differenc...
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Jan 30
KEOSAUQUA — Elliott Remick and Dalton Stine scored 20 points apiece and the Van Buren boys rolled Maharishi School 77-15 in SEISC action Friday ...
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Jan 30
ELDON — The Cardinal boys dropped a grueling 63-60 double-overtime thriller to West Burlington Friday in SEISC south action.
Cardinal’s Jonathan ...
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Jan 30
IOWA CITY — The Fairfield boys’ basketball team hit a rough patch of shooting Thursday and took a 37-31 loss at Iowa City Regina.
Top scorers for ...
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Jan 30
ELDON — The Cardinal girls’ basketball team flipped the script on West Burlington Friday, besting the Falcons 65-46 in Eldon.
Comet sisters Laci ...
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Jan 30
FORT MADISON — The Fairfield eighth-grade boys’ basketball team was back in action at Fort Madison Friday.
The Fairfield ‘A’ team rolled past the ...
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Jan 30
MOUNT PLEASANT — Four Trojan wrestlers were two-match winners Friday vs. host Mount Pleasant, Keokuk, Washington and Fort Madison.
Both Chris ...
By MICHAEL LEACH, Ledger ... - Jan 27
KEOSAUQUA — When the Van Buren wrestlers were winning Thursday, they were pinning.
Van Buren won by fall seven times on its way to its biggest ...
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By MICHAEL LEACH, Ledger ... - Jan 27
IOWA CITY — To stop Iowa City Regina Thursday night, the Trojan girls knew they’d have to stop star senior Zoe Dutchik.
While the Trojans accomplis...
Jan 27
IOWA CITY — A year removed from a 74-26 loss to Iowa City Regina, the Trojans came into Thursday’s rematch with the past where it belongs — in the ...
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Jan 27
PACKWOOD — The Pekin wrestling team was victorious in one of two duals at its final home meet of the season Thursday.
The Panthers opened the ...
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Jan 27
LETTS — The Cardinal wrestling team competed in one final tune-up Thursday before the SEISC meet, falling to Wapello 48-27 and Louisa-Muscatine ...
Jan 26
BURLINGTON — Five area athletes finished first in their respective divisions at the Southeast Iowa Basketball Skills competition hosted by Special ...
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Jan 26
Members of the Fairfield Middle School seventh-grade girls’ basketball team are, from left, front row: Maggie Ferrel, Katie O’Brien, Madalyn ...
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Jan 26
Two Pekin basketball tournaments, for girls entering grades four through eight in 2012-13, will be held in February and March.
A tournament for ...
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Jan 26
The Fairfield JV boys’ basketball team lost a close contest, 48-43, to conference rival Washington Friday.
The Trojans shot 42 percent from beyond ...
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Jan 26
EDDYVILLE — Alex Simpson scored 21 points and Logan Fleeman added another 14, but the Trojan ninth-graders couldn’t get past Eddyville-Blakesburg ...
