When Nashua-Plainfield’s girls basketball season came to an end last Thursday with a 48-29 loss to North Butler in the Class 1A regional tournament, Huskies coach Josh Smith had two messages for his team.
Even though Turkey Valley’s win over West Central in the regional first round was over for about 20 minutes, Katlyn Baumler’s face still showed a flush from the hard workout.
Turkey Valley needed certain things to happen to win their third straight Upper Iowa Conference title outright, and when South Winn beat North Fayette Valley Friday night by two points, that went a long way toward the goal.
Mason Cleveland’s record in early January stood at 26-11, which may have been pretty solid for a lot of wrestlers but didn’t come close to the standards the New Hampton/Turkey Valley senior had for himself.
Coach Chad Pemble didn’t think his girls were intimidated by Crestwood’s 6-foot-3 junior Sharon Goodman, who has already committed to attend and play basketball at the University of Iowa.
Nashua-Plainfield girls basketball coach was asked in an email about his team’s practice schedule the past couple of weeks because of the winter weather and array of makeup games.
His response: “It. Has. Been. A. Struggle.”
He may have liked to have seen a little bit better shooting percentage, but make no mistake about it, Nashua-Plainfield boys basketball coach Sam Brown loved watching his team march to the free-throw line Saturday.
The goal for the Nashua-Plainfield wrestling team was simple Saturday: Win a Class 1A sectional team title.
The Huskies accomplished their mission, although it didn’t go quite the way coach Al Frost envisioned.
Nashua-Plainfield’s dual meet season came to an end Tuesday night, but the Huskies put up a respectable showing in a 47-25 loss to MFL-Mar-Mac, which came into the Class 1A regional duals as the eight-ranked team in the state.
When South Winn hit a 3-point shot with 28 seconds left in Friday’s game against the Trojans, the Warriors cut a Turkey Valley lead — which had been as much as eight points earlier in the quarter — to three points.
After Turkey Valley’s 66-52 win over South Winn Friday, Trojan junior Breanna Busta thought her team passed the test of having back-to-back games — they won 49-42 over Central Thursday — with flying colors. She still had some energy left.
