Sports
Not only does it benefit Chickasaw athletics, it's fun to play. There are still some good yardlines left for the Touchdown Club fundraiser, and the prize this year is a Chickasaw pullover similar to the one in the photo above. For $25, participants may choose one of the yardlines remaining and that...
Fresh off a five-set win over Ames, in which the final three sets were decided by three points or less, Class 4A Mason City had dealt with some pressure when they came into New Hampton Thursday.The Chickasaws, on the other hand, won their first match by a wide margin in straight sets over Nashua-...
It was fun to watch just how fast Turkey Valley covered turf in their 8-man season opener Friday. Although the first quarter ended with just a four-point Trojan lead, 12-8 over Kee High, Turkey Valley blew the game open with a 40-point second quarter, putting points on the board quickly. ...
Carter Stochl threw two touchdown passes and New Hampton had five different players find the end zone as the Chickasaws rolled to a 35-12 win over Charles City on opening night of “Friday Night Football.”A Stochl-to-Ryan Gorman 43-yard pass on New Hampton’s first possession set up a Drew Boeding 5-...
Turkey Valley runners helped South Winneshiek to a successful, albeit hot, season opening meet of the season on Tuesday.The Warriors claimed the girls title at the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational while the boys took second in the 10-team meet.This is the second year that Turkey Valley runners are...
It wasn’t always pretty, but then again, the goal — win the season opener — was accomplished for the New Hampton volleyball team.“We definitely found some things to work on and it might have been a little ugly in spots,” coach Jess Geerts said after her team swept Nashua-Plainfield 25-18, 25-13, 25...
The sixth annual Al Baxter Memorial Turkey Shoot will be much the same as the fifth annual Al Baxter Memorial Turkey Shoot.“We keep the same stuff because it works,” said Jo [Baxter] Myrsiades.”Keeping the tradition started by her late husband, the annual event will be held at the Fredericksburg...
Bowlaway Lanes owner Maxine Skoda turned to her son Dale and daughters Sue Huffman and Jo Vaala. “Remember how we used to have to oil the lanes? she asked. They all moaned. Apparently they did. “You used a pump sprayer — like the kind they used in barns to spray cows,” continued Skoda. “Then...
Ellie Ewert can tick off the advantages of summer golf in rapid succession.There’s the competition, the chance to play other courses, the ability to fine tune that game and then there’s the best part of summer golf ... the weather.“Let’s be honest,” Ewert said with a laugh, “we don’t always have...
While no Turkey Valley softball player earned first team honors after the 2016 season concluded, the names of two players — Kayla Schaufenbuel and Delaney Lensing — appeared on both the all-district and the all-state lists. The pair made the Iowa Girls Coaches Association Northeast All-District...