Maybe first-year head football coaches are jinxed at Nashua-Plainfield; after all, in 2015, Chase Sudol went through an injury-plagued debut season, and the same thing is happening to Nick Lamphier this year.
New Hampton seniors Alexis and Adrian Rings didn’t mind that the cross country meet, for a short distance, turned into a mud run Saturday at Luther College.
New Hampton remained perfect on the season as the Chickasaws rolled to another volleyball tournament title, this time winning the Crestwood Invitational.
Turkey Valley made sure Midland Wyoming’s size advantage didn’t come into play — at least at the start — and built a 38-14 halftime lead on its way to a 46-36 victory over its opponent Friday.
There was a brief stretch — spanning the last minute of the first half and the first couple of the second — when New Hampton appeared like it was going to climb back into Friday night’s game against Waukon.
Turkey Valley lost the first two sets against Kee High in an Upper Iowa Conference volleyball match Thursday. They trailed 9-6 in the third set.
Darned if they didn’t come back and win the thing.
This wasn’t the script Nick Lamphier had in mind when he took over as Nashua-Plainfield’s head football coach.
Oh, he knew the schedule wasn’t easy so the 0-2 record may not be palatable but it is understandable.
The forecast — especially late Friday night — isn’t the best so New Hampton and Charles City will not only try to beat each other, but they also try to beat Mother Nature.Officials have decided to “move up” the starting times for the non-district
Even though Turkey Valley’s win over Lansing Kee Tuesday wasn’t a conference match-up, coach Ethan Adams hopes the confidence his team gathered will help when they do play the Upper Iowa Conference match, which is actually next on the schedule.
