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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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The word of the day on Friday for the New Hampton boys basketball team was patience.
And it paid off for the Chickasaws, who survived a slow start to roll to their biggest Northeast Iowa Conference victory of the season.
“We knew against Charles City that we probably rushed some shots,” senior...
Up until Tuesday, North Fayette Valley was alone atop the Upper Iowa Conference, but Turkey Valley nudged them out of the spot, avenging one of the two conference losses the Trojans have had this season with a 57-48 win over the TigerHawks.
The TigerHawks now have one conference loss — the same as...
Both teams had a nice 1-2 punch as Turkey Valley’s girls played at North Fayette Valley Tuesday.
But Turkey Valley’s was bigger.
With 20 points by Katlyn Baumler and 14 by Kara Reicks, the Trojan girls trumped the best scores by North Fayette of 17 and 15 points — just barely — but that’s the type...
New Hampton boys basketball coach Ryan Rausch sat in the locker room Tuesday night, put his face into his hands and deeply sighed.
“Yeah, this one stings a little; actually, it stings a lot,” the first-year coach said after his team fell to Charles City 69-62. “Save for two, three minutes, we did...
New Hampton/Turkey Valley’s wrestling team got just what it needed Tuesday night as the Chickasaws bounced back from a rough weekend to post two impressive dual meet victories.
“It was a good night, no question,” New Hampton/Turkey Valley coach Nick Hemann said after his team beat Union 45-24 and...
Among the areas coach Chad Pemble said his team did well in during a Tuesday night 56-26 win over Charles City was defense and sharing the ball. Lauren Frerichs had a big hand in both.
One of the senior leaders on the team, Frerichs worked her way into the starting line-up as a sophomore and has...
Josh Smith knows the record — or even the recent scores — might not say it, but the Nashua-Plainfield girls basketball coach sees progress in his team, despite an eight-game losing streak that has dropped the Huskies to 1-10 overall and 1-7 in Top of Iowa Conference East Division play.
“I think we...
If there is a rule when it comes to high school wrestling, it is this: Time speeds up after Christmas.
“Three weeks from this Saturday, we’re wrestling at sectionals,” Nashua-Plainfield coach Al Frost said earlier this week. “You get to Christmas and all of a sudden, it’s go time.”
The good news...
The win was nice, but the loss Nashua-Plainfield suffered last week may have shown just how far the Huskies have come this season.
A night after beating Central Springs 70-61, the Huskies saw their four-game winning streak come to an end but not until after they gave Top of Iowa Conference East...