Scott Frerichs is never going to like a loss — especially a blowout one — yet New Hampton’s veteran football coach found some positives Friday night despite the fact that the Chickasaws were on the wrong end of a 38-6 score with Waukon.
It was a highly anticipated matchup between two ranked teams to start Northeast Iowa Conference play, as Class 3A No. 9 New Hampton took on Class 4A 15th ranked Charles City last Tuesday.
After setting a personal record by over a minute in her first meet of the 2019 campaign last week, Turkey Valley’s Jalyssa Blazek continued her hot start to the season at the Trent Smith Invitational in Charles City on Thursday.
Turkey Valley took advantage of a couple Gladbrook-Reinbeck mistakes early in the ball game to grab a lead and used this momentum to cruise to 48-14 blowout victory on Friday night in their home opener to move their record to 2-0.
New Hampton got a huge game from running back Carter Ferrie and came up with several big second half plays to rally for a 25-23 victory over Charles City on Friday night.
After a 36-6 record and a state tournament appearance in 2018, the expectations are high for the Class 3A 10th-ranked New Hampton volleyball team this fall.
A convicted felon who illegally possessed a gun was sentenced last month to one year in federal prison, and the lesson is this: When committing a crime, it’s probably a good idea to leave the dog at home.
The stats said New Hampton won this game; the scoreboard, unfortunately, didn’t as the Chickasaws saw an 18-7 lead evaporate in a 22-18 loss to Aplington-Parkersburg Friday night.
There are question marks, no doubt about it, but veteran New Hampton football coach Scott Frerichs liked a lot of the answers he saw when his Chickasaws traveled to Decorah this past Friday for their annual scrimmage with the Vikings.
Turkey Valley’s cross country teams won’t show up in the team standings this year, but it’s a good bet that the Trojans will make some noise when it comes to the individual standings at meets.
