Save for the scoreboard, Tuesday night’s New Hampton/Waverly-Shell Rock baseball game was pretty much a dead heat.

New Hampton softball coach Jack Seelhammer isn’t about to panic, despite the fact that his team dropped three straight games this week.

Nashua-Plainfield’s softball team — thanks to two wins recorded in the last week — has already tripled its 2017 win total.
That’s the good news. The bad news is the Huskies still have a ways to go.

For Mason Hyde, the equation goes something like this: Two games = two dominating performances.

As usual, it was an impressive season for the New Hampton trapshooting team, now down to the final meet of the season — the state competition this coming weekend.

New Hampton may not have gotten a sweep on Thursday, but the Chickasaws certainly showed they belonged.

In its first six games of the season, Turkey Valley’s baseball team had a combined 21 hits. During a Saturday tournament at Crestwood, the Trojans — while defeating the host Cadets — added 20 hits. In one game.

It might have been its ugliest win of the winning streak, but Cory McDonald believes Saturday’s 10-3 win over North Fayette Valley showed something about his team.

New Hampton’s valiant comeback came up just three shots short Wednesday as the Chickasaws had to settle for a second straight second-place finish at the state golf meet.A year after taking second in the Class 3A tournament, the Chickasaws entered

New Hampton remained within striking distance of the lead after the first round of the Class 2A state girls golf tournament on Tuesday.

With a score of 339, New Hampton will advance to the state girls golf tourney, which starts a week from Tuesday in Lake Panorama. 

Three teams qualified for state from the Dike-New Hartford district Friday, but New Hampton was not one of those teams.

Most of New Hampton’s golfers put up career-best 18-hole scores as the Chickasaw girls were in the process of winning their regional first round Monday.With a 341, the margin of victory over their Dike-New Hartford hosts was by 46 strokes.

Allison Nuss used a highly technical golf term while describing the grounds at the Cresco Golf Club Monday.“They were a little squishy,” she said after finishing as the medalist in the Northeast Iowa Conference meet.

From time to time — when New Hampton’s trapshooters really get clicking — they will have five squads finish with a score of 200 or better.When Osage came to New Hampton Thursday the Chickasaws upped that number to six.It’s never happened before, a