The road to Des Moines begins Saturday for area wrestlers as they hit the mats for sectional meets that will not only decide which individuals will move onto districts but what teams will keep their dual seasons alive. Class 2A top-ranked New Ham
Coach Al Frost’s predictions came up a little short Saturday. “I thought our kids would finish maybe 11th, 12th in the conference,” he said after the Huskies actually were ninth at the meet among the 16 teams.
While team consistency is still not a strength for Nashua-Plainfield’s girls yet, there are plenty of individual accomplishments to talk about. Like Sierra Fisher’s double-double against Osage, and another for her against Garner-Hayfield/Ventur
New Hampton boys basketball coach Chad Sweitzer knew his team was in for a challenge Friday night. Not only were the Chickasaws playing a solid Decorah team, they were doing it 24 hours after recording their biggest victory of the season, a heart
"Tonight we played our most complete game of the year on both ends of the court." When the season is winding down, that's a good statement to hear from a coach.
For just a split second during New Hampton's win over Decorah Friday night, the gym was quiet enough to hear the New Hampton bench start laughing. “Oh, Emma [Nicolaisen] said something about an 'on fire' emoji,” coach Matt Schult e
Twenty-four hours after New Hampton came up short in ending Waverly-Shell Rock’s dominance at the Northeast Iowa Conference tournament, the results still stung. “I’m not going to lie,” Chickasaw senior Ryan Gorman said Sunday night, “we wanted th
New Hampton trailed 60-59 Thursday night when Keagan John saw Tristan Sweitzer penetrate into the lane. The Chickasaw junior knew there was a good chance he was going to get a pass so he was ready as Sweitzer spun, saw John in the corner and hit
Chad Sweitzer didn’t like the score, didn’t like it one bit, Tuesday night. But New Hampton boys basketball coach Chad Sweitzer found some things to like in a 70-39 Northeast Iowa Conference loss to Waverly-Shell Rock. “That was a good, physical
Matt Schult and his New Hampton girls basketball team aren’t going to push the proverbial panic button. That doesn’t mean, however, that the Chickasaw girls basketball coach was all that happy with Tuesday night’s 67-31 loss to Waverly-Shell Rock
To say it’s been a long time since New Hampton won a Northeast Iowa Conference wrestling tournament would be an understatement. Let’s face it, 2004 was a long time ago; in fact, the seniors on this year’s team were preschoolers the last time New
Crunch time has arrived for the Nashua-Plainfield wrestling team, but the question is this: Will good health do the same? The Huskies battled through a tough final week of the “regular season” last week as they split a pair of duals at North Butl
Persistence finally paid off for Nashua-Plainfield’s Britney Holthaus last week as she pulled herself out of a season-long offensive funk and scored 36 points in a pair of games. While the Huskies came up short in both games — losing to Mason Cit
