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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 26 points to another Class 4A team, Cedar Rapids...
Early entries must be postmarked today [Tuesday] for the 39th annual Lions Wrestling Tournament to be held this Saturday, Dec. 10. Walk-ins will also be welcome. There will be four age divisions with four-wrestler brackets being determined by weight. The Junior division, 5-6 grades, and the...
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, but their charity stripe effort in the second game was a...
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 winning Indee can only be a stepping stone for his...
Anyone who watches Isabel Leichtman knows how aggressive she is on offense. She never stops. But after the Chickasaws won Friday night, 59-37 over Waukon, what the team's leading scorer wanted to talk about was defense. “Lexi [Rasmussen] and Bethany [Zenk] took Waukon's posts out and made sure...
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 competition. Turkey Valley fell to North Butler 66-12,...
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 realize Sweitzer was not happy. “We played,...
The margin of victory in the Turkey Valley girls’ 81-31 season-opening win over West Central probably wasn’t a big surprise, last year the Lady Trojans played the Blue Devils twice and won by 45-and 49-point margins. Turkey Valley’s boys finished the night Monday with a Trojan sweep as they...
Patience paid off for New Hampton's girls basketball team in their second win in as many games Monday, 57-37 at North Fayette Valley. Even though the Chickasaw girls outscored their TigerHawk hosts in every quarter of the game, it wasn't until the second half that coach Matt Schult was happy...
The final scores were dazzling — downright dominant to be honest — but that wasn’t what impressed New Hampton wrestling coach Nick Hemann the most Tuesday night. “I was happy with the effort, and I really loved the fight,” Hemann said after his team routed Independence 65-9 and blanked Waterloo...
