New Hampton basketball coach Ryan Rausch thinks the growth of his team this season could be seen crystal clear on Friday night in Decorah.
The host Vikings had closed the first quarter with a 14-2 run to take an 18-11 lead.
Carter Reicks didn’t celebrate when he became the third New Hampton/Turkey Valley wrestler — joining Max Babcock and Evan Rosonke — to earn a Northeast Iowa conference championship Saturday at the NEIC meet in Charles City.
It says something about the depth on the New Hampton/Turkey Valley wrestling team that just a few days before the Northeast Iowa Conference tournament, the Chickasaws lineup wasn’t quite set.
It’s a simple fact when it comes to high school basketball games; when a team shoots better than 60 percent from the floor, it’s going to win … and usually by a large margin.
New Hampton/Turkey Valley’s wrestling team got more than just four relatively easy dual wins on Saturday at the Cat Duals in Riceville, a tournament the Chickasaws hopped into after the Ankeny Duals were cancelled because of Friday’s winter storm.
Seven New Hampton football players — (from left) Keegan Kane, Austin Flugum, Max Babcock, Wyatt Stochl, Mason Cleveland, Max Schwickerath, (not pictured) Dillon Roberson — were recently named academic all-state by the Iowa Football Coaches Associa
No one — not the five managers or the three coaches — had a clue what the team score was last Thursday as Nashua-Plainfield’s Trey Nelson was taking on North Butler/Clarksville’s Cade Hardy in a 120-pound match.
The Nashua-Plainfield girls basketball team may not have gotten wins last week, but the Huskies found some positives in losses to Rockford and Northwood-Kensett.