New Hampton’s JV softball team closed out their season with three wins, concluding a superb season.
The girls defeated North Fayette Valley, Decorah and South Winn to finish the season with a 16-1 record.
The Chickasaw Booster Club wanted to do something “different” and Angel Antonio wanted to bring some “energy” the athletic programs that fans receive at various New Hampton High School sporting events.
New Hampton schools will start in exactly 10 days, and as construction on the new school kicks into high gear, we caught up with some families and teachers to see how they are preparing for the first day.
Anyone who drove past Stolz Park on the night of July 11 would have seen why Lauren Frerichs has been such a special player for the New Hampton softball program.
After a season in which New Hampton won its fifth consecutive conference title and made their first state tournament appearance in school history, a quintet of Chickasaws were honored by the Northeast Iowa Conference as all-league selections.
Although Turkey Valley didn’t have a great year as a team, a few of their players’ performances throughout the season did not go unnoticed by the coaches in the Upper Iowa Conference (UIC).
When Cory McDonald took over as head coach of the New Hampton baseball program in 2009, he told his five seniors at the time — Matt Samec, Garrett Shekleton, Ryan Kramer, Tanner Weigel and Blayne Willadsen — that the Chickasaws were going to play
West Sioux scored three first-inning runs and then got a two-run inside-the-park home run in the second inning, and that hole proved too deep for the New Hampton baseball team in its first-ever appearance at the state tournament as the Falcons cam
The Chickasaw JV girls continued to run wild over their opponents in mid-season, as they defeated Waukon in a doubleheader, beat Charles City and took both ends of a twin bill over Osage.
