When Marcus Herold left the game with an injury late in the first quarter of the Turkey Valley-North Iowa football game Friday, the Trojans lost their leading rusher, No. 1 receiver and the top defensive player. Oh, and their punter.
Go back two months and tell Carter Ferrie and his New Hampton football teammates that they would finish 2-5, and trust us, they would have laughed you back into your time machine.
There were a lot of story lines to choose from when it came to Saturday’s Crestwood Invitational.
There were the champions — New Hampton’s Dylan Usher and Turkey Valley’s Jalyssa Blazek.
New Hampton’s four-game losing steak — in which two of the losses came by a point — is over, but it took a lot of work Friday night for the Chickasaws to overcome Oelwein and earn a 14-8 victory in a Class 2A, District 4 game.
New Hampton’s four-game losing steak — in which two of the losses came by a point — is over, but it took a lot of work Friday night for the Chickasaws to overcome Oelwein and earn a 14-8 victory in a Class 2A, District 4 game.
Working on the weekend?
Heck, Dylan Usher even put in a little overtime this week and in the process earned his first career victory out on the cross country course.
Turkey Valley’s football team will get a Friday night off this week as its opponent has decided to cancel its football season.
And it has nothing to do with COVID-19.
It was the first time in many, many years the Turkey Valley girls were able to score as a team as the cross country invite at North Fayette Valley took place Thursday.
Maybe New Hampton didn’t have Waukon right where they wanted the Indians, but the Chickasaws, after putting together a magnificent 99-yard drive, capped by Ryan Pickar's 11-yard touchdown run, were feeling pretty good about themselves late in
Hobbled, then humbled.
Iowa Falls-Alden kept knocking Friday night versus the favored New Hampton Chickasaws.
It didn’t take long for the upstart Cadets to cave the door in and bust their way into the win column.
The Chickasaw volleyball team didn’t have any trouble dispatching MFL-Mar-Mac Tuesday night, opening the first match of a triangular meet at Turkey Valley with a 2-0 win.
