Down 2-0 after the first two sets, New Hampton wasn’t about to give up and go back home Tuesday night as the Chickasaw volleyball team was playing at Decorah. Although the Vikings were on a losing streak, many of their losses came at the ha
Before each cross country meet, the Chickasaw runners discuss their goals for the meet with coach Jamie Quass. This year, instead of competing in the Cedar Falls meet, the team went to Osage, running at the Mitchell County Nature Center Tuesday
Maybe Nashua-Plainfield’s first-year volleyball coach has the right attitude when it comes to last week.“We’re going to learn from it and move on,” Amber Carter said after her team dropped a Top of Iowa East Division tilt to Central Springs and th
Let’s get one thing out of the way first: Nashua-Plainfield football coach Chase Sudol doesn’t like losing to anyone — even if it’s the top-ranked team in the state — 41-7.But there were a couple of reasons — heart and health — Sudol was smiling a
The idea behind getting into the Dunkerton Invitational was simple: Give the Nashua-Plainfield cross country teams a chance to be competitive in a meet with other Class 1A schools.Mission accomplished as both the boys and girls had a fourth-place
Going into Saturday's Crestwood Invitational, the Turkey Valley girls were woefully short on matches for the season.There are teams that had played in Saturday tournaments the first two weeks of the season that have 16 or 17 matches under the
After the Luther cross country invitational was called off due to wet conditions, the South Winn team had a Plan B, which was going to the Monticello meet the same day.“The Luther meet would have been a more competitive meet overall,” said coach K
Coach Jess Geerts called the one New Hampton loss in the Crestwood Invitational over the weekend a "mental hiccup.""We were by far the best team there," she said after the Chickasaws finished third in the tourney.
Field position is an important factor in football games, so they say.But during Turkey Valley's first three possessions Friday night against North Iowa, the Trojans began drives on their own 6-, 18- and 14-yardlines.It helps to only have an 8
The shutout New Hampton posted Friday night was just the proverbial icing on the cake.What really mattered was the win and the margin of victory in that 25-0 whitewashing of Forest City in the Class 2A, District 2 opener.“I’m not saying we didn’t
New Hampton volleyball senior Emma Nicolaisen isn’t looking past any opponent in the Northeast Iowa Conference race, and that included a Crestwood team New Hampton beat 3-1 Tuesday night. “We knew they had a few strong girls,” said the Chickasa
Losing Friday night was tough enough on Nashua-Plainfield coach Chase Sudol and his Huskies.But the injury report following the Huskies’ 22-7 loss to Hudson may have been worse.Already playing without center Tanner Haut, the Huskies’ lost two more
There’s a fine line when it comes to volleyball serving.Be too conservative and an opponent has an easy time setting up its offense; be too aggressive and an opponent can pick up an easy point with a service error.Nashua-Plainfield found the perfe
If there was a surprise last Thursday night for the Nashua-Plainfield cross country team, it was provided by Mother Nature.“It was actually nice out,” coach Jennifer Kalainoff said with a laugh, “and it’s always like 100 degrees there or we don’t
