The first couple of minutes of the New Hampton-Crestwood girls basketball game went as planned defensively, as far as Chickasaw coach Matt Schult was concerned.     Halfway through the quarter New Hampton had a 1-0 lead, but this time it was C

The road to Des Moines begins Saturday for area wrestlers as they hit the mats for sectional meets that will not only decide which individuals will move onto districts but what teams will keep their dual seasons alive.  Class 2A top-ranked New Ham

    A fun run usually comes during cross country meets.

    Coach Al Frost’s predictions came up a little short Saturday.    “I thought our kids would finish maybe 11th, 12th in the conference,” he said after the Huskies actually were ninth at the meet among the 16 teams.

While team consistency is still not a strength for Nashua-Plainfield’s girls yet, there are plenty of individual accomplishments to talk about.    Like Sierra Fisher’s double-double against Osage, and another for her against Garner-Hayfield/Ventur

Turkey Valley started a stretch of five consecutive road games Friday, the end of which will conclude the regular season for the Trojan girls.

New Hampton boys basketball coach Chad Sweitzer knew his team was in for a challenge Friday night.  Not only were the Chickasaws playing a solid Decorah team, they were doing it 24 hours after recording their biggest victory of the season, a heart

"Tonight we played our most complete game of the year on both ends of the court."  When the season is winding down, that's a good statement to hear from a coach.

Cale Reicks became a repeat Upper Iowa Conference champion pretty much the same way he did last year — by pins.  A year ago Reicks upset the No.

For just a split second during New Hampton's win over Decorah Friday night, the gym was quiet enough to hear the New Hampton bench start laughing.  “Oh, Emma [Nicolaisen] said something about an 'on fire' emoji,” coach Matt Schult e

Twenty-four hours after New Hampton came up short in ending Waverly-Shell Rock’s dominance at the Northeast Iowa Conference tournament, the results still stung.  “I’m not going to lie,” Chickasaw senior Ryan Gorman said Sunday night, “we wanted th

New Hampton trailed 60-59 Thursday night when Keagan John saw Tristan Sweitzer penetrate into the lane.  The Chickasaw junior knew there was a good chance he was going to get a pass so he was ready as Sweitzer spun, saw John in the corner and hit

Chad Sweitzer didn’t like the score, didn’t like it one bit, Tuesday night.  But New Hampton boys basketball coach Chad Sweitzer found some things to like in a 70-39 Northeast Iowa Conference loss to Waverly-Shell Rock.  “That was a good, physical

Matt Schult and his New Hampton girls basketball team aren’t going to push the proverbial panic button.  That doesn’t mean, however, that the Chickasaw girls basketball coach was all that happy with Tuesday night’s 67-31 loss to Waverly-Shell Rock

To say it’s been a long time since New Hampton won a Northeast Iowa Conference wrestling tournament would be an understatement.  Let’s face it, 2004 was a long time ago; in fact, the seniors on this year’s team were preschoolers the last time New