The New Hampton Running Club has hosted a successful 5K each of the past four years. This year, they were excited to hold their fifth annual 5K run/walk on Saturday, April 4. However, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, it has been called off.
The Coronavirus pandemic has made a drastic impact worldwide. One area in-particular is in the sporting world, as many professional and collegiate sporting events have been suspended or canceled.
A record-breaking season, one in which Turkey Valley’s boys basketball team won a school-record 22 games, has netted the Trojans plenty of postseason recognition.
After a season in which it finished third place in the Upper Iowa Conference with a record of 12-4, the Turkey Valley girls basketball team had six players, the most in the conference, honored as all-UIC players.
During the regular season, Turkey Valley won each of two the meetings against South Winneshiek fairly easily, defeating them by an average of 19 points.
Free throw shooting down the stretch can often times be the difference in winning and losing the ball game, and it was for the Turkey Valley boys basketball team in the district final playoff game on Thursday night held at New Hampton High School.
In the Northeast Iowa Conference this season, only two players ranked inside the top 10 individually in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks per game.
One was New Hampton’s Drake Wemark.
The Northeast Iowa Conference implemented five-on-five girls basketball in the 1994-1995 season. Up until this year, there hadn’t been a single freshman honored as a Northeast Iowa Conference first-team player.
With 12.3 seconds left in Turkey Valley’s regional contest against Kee last Tuesday, the Trojans’ Jalyssa Blazek was at the free throw line and the TV girls owned a slim 54-52 lead.
It wasn’t where they wanted to end the 2019-20 season, but the fact of the matter is New Hampton/Turkey Valley’s Carson Babcock and Jacob Reicks both knew there were literally thousands of wrestlers in Iowa who would have loved trading places with
