New Hampton had plenty of reason to celebrate Friday night as the Chickasaws not only celebrated homecoming but came away with a 13-6 win over Waverly-Shell Rock.
The Turkey Valley cross country team faced plenty of competition at the All-American Invitiational on Saturday, as nearly 30 schools of all different sizes across three different states (Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin) competed at Luther College.
Scott Frerichs is never going to like a loss — especially a blowout one — yet New Hampton’s veteran football coach found some positives Friday night despite the fact that the Chickasaws were on the wrong end of a 38-6 score with Waukon.
It was a highly anticipated matchup between two ranked teams to start Northeast Iowa Conference play, as Class 3A No. 9 New Hampton took on Class 4A 15th ranked Charles City last Tuesday.
After setting a personal record by over a minute in her first meet of the 2019 campaign last week, Turkey Valley’s Jalyssa Blazek continued her hot start to the season at the Trent Smith Invitational in Charles City on Thursday.
Turkey Valley took advantage of a couple Gladbrook-Reinbeck mistakes early in the ball game to grab a lead and used this momentum to cruise to 48-14 blowout victory on Friday night in their home opener to move their record to 2-0.
New Hampton got a huge game from running back Carter Ferrie and came up with several big second half plays to rally for a 25-23 victory over Charles City on Friday night.
After a 36-6 record and a state tournament appearance in 2018, the expectations are high for the Class 3A 10th-ranked New Hampton volleyball team this fall.