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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 Association.
Players must meet four criteria — be a senior...
They’re called quarters for a reason, mainly because their are four of them in a basketball game.
And New Hampton’s boys basketball team learned that lesson the hard way as one bad quarter cost the Chickasaws dearly in a 69-54 loss to Northeast Iowa Conference rival Crestwood.
“When we put four...
Nashua-Plainfield coach Sam Brown isn’t going to lie; he wasn’t exactly ecstatic about his team’s shot selection on Friday night.
But he loved the way his team crashed the boards and that extra effort helped the Huskies snap a two-game losing streak with a 52-25 victory over Northwood-Kensett.
“We...
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.
Nelson had let Hardy go to try to get another takedown, and with 10 seconds left, he...
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.
Start with the bench players, who scored 20 points in a 52-36 loss to Rockford.
“We definitely got some solid production off the bench,...
When Jared Nicolaisen wrapped up his freshman season of college basketball at Luther College in February 2016, his career point total stood at 87.
Now, he’s a 1,000-point scorer for the Norse as he reached the milestone in an excruciating 83-81 loss to Central on Saturday evening.
“I probably...
If Turkey Valley’s boys were going to have an off night, a non-conference game is a good time. After losing to Tripoli Thursday, the Trojans had a chance to get their confidence back the next night, which they did with a 61-30 win over West Central.
After going up 19-7 at one point in the second...
Coach Carla Nymeyer was very proud of her Turkey Valley basketball team after a Thursday night win over Tripoli.
They turned around a quick start by the Panthers — one in which the Trojans trailed 20-11 after a quarter — to win 55-52, then sailed to a win over West Central the next night, 60-22.
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Taking everything into consideration, Saturday’s Stewartville Invitational felt like a win for the New Hampton/Turkey Valley wrestling team.
Yes, the Chickasaws finished second in the team standings as Linn-Mar won the Minnesota tournament with 200 points, 16 more than New Hampton-Turkey Valley....
Although New Hampton held Waukon below its scoring average of 50 points per game Friday, that’s not as good as it sounds.
First of all, the Indians also held the Chickasaws nearly 20 points below their average of 48 points per game and second, when Waukon had their lead, they went into a stall.
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