The long Christmas break, in which the Chickasaw girls only compete with each other in practice, was cut shorter by a day when the Border Battle game from last Saturday was postponed to Tuesday, a day after New Hampton played at Independence.
New Hampton boys basketball coach Chad Sweitzer sat in Charles City’s new gymnasium Tuesday night and put it bluntly. “We’ve shown we can play with these teams,” he said after the Class 3A eighth-ranked Comets pulled away from New Hampton for a 7
The wins for the Nashua-Plainfield wrestling team were nice, but the losses and the lessons they taught may be just as important. In the end, coach Al Frost will take the first half of the season that came to an end with a 2-1 night at the Huskie
Neither team scored in the first couple minutes of a Turkey Valley-Tripoli clash last Thursday night, before the Panthers took a 2-1 lead.But an 18-3 run by the Lady Trojans closed out the quarter and pretty well assured the TV girls of their seve
Turkey Valley's overall shooting percentage was nothing to write home about as the Trojans were defeating Tripoli Thursday, 51-35. In all shots taken, the winners made baskets at a 33 percent clip.
Keegan Tenge and his New Hampton wrestling teammates share one common bond with Chickasaw coach Nick Hemann. They hate losing. “But you know what, take away five or so matches, and I’m totally happy with this weekend,” Hemann said the day after
Turkey Valley won’t finish in the upper half of many tournaments with only two wrestlers in action, but then again, they weren’t last in the Chris Davis Invitational at Wapsie Valley Saturday. With only Cale Reicks and Kelby Reicks competing, Tur
The margin was worse, but Chad Sweitzer saw at least some progress Thursday night when his New Hampton boys basketball team fell to 0-2 with a 79-46 loss to Mason City. The loss came two nights after the Chickasaws dropped their season opener by
The term free throw is a bit of a misnomer, as they're not free and, in fact, at times the shots are very hard to sink. Although Turkey Valley's boys won their first game of the season, they did so with a paltry 13 percent at the line,
Yeah, New Hampton is pretty good at wrestling. Just ask the other 24 teams that took part in the inaugural Independence Invitational Friday and Saturday. Yet, Chickasaw coach Nick Hemann, as happy as he was with winning a team title, knows winni
The stories for the Turkey Valley wrestlers may be a bit on the short side this season. There are seven out for the sport, but a couple that are new to the sport didn’t wrestle in the South Hardin quadrangular Tuesday as the Trojans started compe
Chad Sweitzer stood in the hallway at New Hampton High School and shook his head. He knows one game does not make a season — especially when it comes against a Class 4A school with a Division I recruit — but it didn’t take a rocket scientist to r
