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
Nashua-Plainfield coach Justin Eiffler’s oft-stated goal for his team this year is to get 1 percent better each day. For the most part, the Huskies have achieved the goal. There have been blips — a cold start last Thursday night in a loss to Mas
A third Reicks wrestled this week as Turkey Valley's limited team took on Postville and MFL Thursday and Jesup, Sumner-Fredericksburg and host East Buchanan at the Steinkamp Duals Saturday. Along with Cale and Kelby, Carter joined the group,
At times, it's hard to come up with a lead for a sports story. After all, what do you say about yet another Upper Iowa Conference game — this one against West Central Friday — that the Turkey Valley girls completely dominated? But this time
Chad Sweitzer didn’t like his New Hampton’s loss to MFL-Mar-Mac on Saturday, but he wasn’t going to lose sleep over it, either. “We’ve got to play better, no doubt about that,” he said after his team lost 86-79 to the Bulldogs, a day after the Ch
Since Denver only had two wins coming into a non-conference game against New Hampton Friday, the 9-3 Chickasaws were the undeniable favorite. But no one told Denver.
Nick Hemann admitted his emotions got the best of him Thursday night. Yes, there’s plenty of wrestling still to be done this season, but when New Hampton hosted Decorah and Osage in a triangular that night, it was, in some ways, a goodbye to eigh
Brad Schmitt is ready for some “quiet” weather. Sunny skies and warm temperatures would be perfect, but he’ll settle for dry — as in no snow or ice — weather for a while. It has been, to put it mildly, a harsh winter for activities directors lik
