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Injuries plus sickness plus too many mistakes is not a good football equation, and it all adds up to an 0-4 start for Nashua-Plainfield.
The latest loss came last Friday as West Fork used a quick start — the Warhawks scored on their first three drives of the game — to roll to a 34-0 non-district...
Nashua-Plainfield got so many things out of its home tournament Saturday that coach Amber McCall didn’t know where to begin.
The Huskies got their first win of the season. They put together their first winning streak of the season. And they got an opportunity to play a “deciding” set, not once, but...
Turkey Valley started their rally against South Winn a little too late Thursday.
After dropping 25-13 and 25-12 sets, the Trojans were breathing down the necks of the Warriors in the third set, but also lost that one, 25-22.
“We had a rough night in Calmar,” coach Ethan Adams said. “We made too...
as soaked with sweat after Turkey Valley’s 54-7 win over Springville Friday night, he said the heat — the temperature was around 80 at the start of the game, and of course, there’s the humidity — didn’t bother him.
“No, you get that adrenaline pumping and you don’t even notice it,” he said after...
Sooner or later, the folks at the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union had to take notice of the New Hampton volleyball team; after all, the Chickasaws are 17-0, have claimed two tournament titles and won 40 of the 44 sets they have played.
And the IGHSAU finally gave New Hampton its due as the...
The New Hampton football team gathered around their coach Friday night, and the disappointment was palatable.
The Chickasaws had just dominated the second half of its game with Waverly-Shell Rock, only to give up a late 80-yard touchdown run and end up on the wrong end of a 13-6 score.
Yet — maybe...
While Turkey Valley’s cross country team sent one more runner onto the course when the Trojans competed at Starmont Tuesday, some of the athletes were running at less-than-optimal health.
Still, a number of times came down in the meet that featured 1A through 3A runners.
Overall, there were 133...
The good news is the folks who run the Osage Invitational cross country meet removed the most dangerous part of the course — a rocky hill that had “ankle sprain” written all over it.
The bad news is they didn’t measure the new course correctly, so as runners made their way into the finish-line...
Anyone looking at volleyball statistics will notice New Hampton’s name. The Chickasaws are third in Class 3A with 467 kills and they’re second with 138 aces, or 3.14 per set. Their 411 assists ranks third in the class, so does 46 solo blocks.
But, echoing what her coach Jess Geerts said last week,...
Nashua-Plainfield’s volleyball team knew the challenge presented by its first Saturday tournament was going to be, in a word, brutal.
It was, and while the Huskies remained winless on the season after dropping five matches at the Aplington-Parkersburg Invitational, coach Amber McCall believes her...
