On New Hampton’s football roster, Keaton Geerts is listed at 5-foot-7 and 153 pounds.Folks, size isn’t everything in high school football.Geerts ran for 194 yards on 23 carries and scored four touchdowns to help second-ranked New Hampton roll to a
When New Hampton’s volleyball team takes on Oelwein Tuesday in the Chickasaw gym, bring the checkbooks and the sweet tooth. The Dig for a Cure cancer awareness night will be taking place, starting at 5 p.m.
Say this for the New Hampton and Turkey Valley football teams: They’ve put up some pretty impressive numbers through the first third of the season.But the most impressive so far is the 3-0 records both the Chickasaws and Trojans hold.Both teams hi
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