After packing up and leaving Postville Monday — with a 9-2 lead over the Pirates in the fourth inning — Turkey Valley dodged the raindrops Tuesday long enough to travel to Oelwein.

What started out to be a hectic week has turned into one in which the Chickasaw girls may only play on Monday and Saturday.

New Hampton junior Max Babcock and Chickasaw coach Cory McDonald were on the same page when they were asked about New Hampton’s 8-3 win over Crestwood on Monday.

Levi Miller isn’t going to lie, he was a bundle of nerves as his Nashua-Plainfield baseball team clung to a 4-3 lead last Wednesday against Forest City.

Nashua-Plainfield softball coach Hannah Holthaus put it bluntly: Her Huskies couldn’t let this one get away.

The New Hampton girls golf team, fresh off a second straight runner-up finish at the state golf tournament, is reaping a host of postseason awards.

New Hampton’s girls picked up relatively easy Northeast Iowa Conference wins last Wednesday and Thursday, but this Wednesday and Thursday will be a different story.

The seniors on the New Hampton baseball team have literally played hundreds of games since they first became teammates on a travel team back when they were elementary school students.

New Hampton used three different pitchers to hold their collective opponents to a total of six runs in 21 innings of play during the Chickasaw Softball Invitational Saturday, and while a good defense went a long way toward winning their home tourn

Even though Turkey Valley lost their first softball conference games of the season Monday to MFL, the Trojan girls hit the ball well in the doubleheader.
But not as well as they did against Decorah Tuesday.

Remember the old commercials “this is what your brain looks like on drugs?”
Turkey Valley Dan Stepan used a similar approach when he sent box scores on the Trojan baseball team’s early-week games.

Paige Wisner may have summed up the last three games for the New Hampton softball team with her statement.

As New Hampton coach Cory McDonald talked about Monday’s 9-4 win over Charles City on Monday night, he used the words “Chickasaw baseball” on numerous occasions.
And just what it is that?

As Hannah Holthaus prepared for Tuesday night’s game against New Hampton, the Nashua-Plainfield coach was asked about the extended run of “off days.”

The annual New Hampton Invitational will definitely have a local feel to it this year, as in addition to the host Chickasaws, Turkey Valley and Nashua-Plainfield are in the field for the tournament that will be held at Mikkelson Park on Saturday.<