MASON CITY — Wyatt Himes drove in the only run in the first game and scored the go-ahead run in the second, helping the Marshalltown baseball team sweep Mason City by scores of 1-0 and 5-3 on Monday night in CIML Iowa Conference play. The Bobcats (7-5, 4-0) got a three-hit shutout in the ...
ACKLEY — Samantha Ubben surrendered only one hit and the BCLUW softball team improved to 3-0 in NICL West Division play with a 3-1 victory against Class 1A No. 12 AGWSR here Monday night. Ubben struck out eight, walked one and allowed only one Cougar hit. It was an Anna Jaspers home run, ...
HOUSTON — Connor Wong hit a tiebreaking homer in the ninth inning and Houston advanced to the final round of its home Houston Regional with a 7-5 victory over Iowa in a rain-delayed elimination game late Sunday night. Wong’s leadoff homer was followed by a two-out RBI double from Grayson ...
GILBERT — Kallie Malloy tossed a three-hit shutout in the first win and 6 1/3 innings of one-hit relief in the nightcap as the West Marshall softball team remained unbeaten with a pair of wins Saturday at the Gilbert Tournament. The Trojans improved to 8-0 with wins of 7-0 against Gilbert ...
Marshalltown High School has announced that Adam Goodvin is the Bobcats’ next head varsity football coach. Goodvin moves up from an assistant coach role with the team. He is also a special education teacher at MHS. Goodvin, an Ottumwa native, played football at Upper Iowa University and ...
GLADBROOK — The Redhawks had the resiliency to respond to all challenges to start the season, winning their first seven games in a span of nine days. After three losses in four games since, the North Tama softball team is searching for the answers. The Redhawks hammered tournament-host ...
HOUSTON — Cole Bedford hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning, Corbin Martin struck out nine in seven innings and Texas A&M advanced to the final round of the Houston Regional with a 3-2 win over Iowa on Saturday night. Kaylor Chaffin retired Chris Whelan on a game-ending popup with ...
HUXLEY — The BCLUW softball team bowed twice to opponents at the Ballard Tournament on Saturday, splitting their weekend trip with losses to the host Bombers as well as Class 4A No. 11 Boone. Ballard beat the Comets 10-0 in five innings in BCLUW’s first game on Saturday, scoring in each ...
Jordan Smiley had an unbeaten Waukee baseball team chasing pitches, beating balls into the ground and frustrated by its lack of offensive production. By the time the Warriors had chased Smiley from the mound, his counterpart had a lot more run support than the Bobcat ...
The Class 5A No. 6 Waukee softball team needed five innings in both games of Friday’s doubleheader to dispatch Marshalltown, beating the Bobcats 11-0 and 15-1. Bridget Carroll had one hit in each game and scored Marshalltown’s only run in the nightcap, coming across after consecutive ...
HOUSTON — Mitchell Boe, Iowa’s No. 9 hitter, had a pair of run-scoring hits and the Hawkeyes knocked off top-seeded Houston 6-3 in the first round of the Houston Regional on Friday night. Robert Neustrom broke a 2-2 tie with an RBI single in the fifth for the No. 4 seed Hawkeyes (39-20), ...
The Marshalltown High School athletics fundraiser golf outing will be held June 13 at the American Legion Memorial Golf Course. It is a four-person best shot tournament with both morning and afternoon sessions. The morning session tees off at 8 a.m. with the afternoon session teeing off at ...
Marshalltown Community College graduate Reggie Gradwell recently signed a National Letter of Intent to play basketball at Midland University for next season. Gradwell, a West Marshall High School graduate and two-year member of the MCC men’s basketball squad, noted a number of factors that ...
When I saw Joe Smoldt sitting on the bench as the clock expired on his final basketball season at Gladbrook-Reinbeck, I’ll admit, I got a little emotional, too. Not because the Rebels had lost the state title game and that I was going to have to write a sobering piece on the final chapter ...
DES MOINES — A lawsuit filed by a former star player against Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly has been settled for $60,000. Nikki Moody had sued Fennelly, the university and the state of Iowa for racial discrimination and retaliation, saying she was repeatedly called a ...
CONRAD — Samantha Ubben pitched two perfect innings and Lauren Anderson tossed three hitless frames as the BCLUW softball team tallied its third-straight win, a 10-0, five-inning victory against South Hardin in Thursday’s NICL West Division contest. Ubben struck out all six batters she ...
GRUNDY CENTER — West Marshall senior Cody Mead tossed a five-inning no-hitter as the Trojans took down Grundy Center, 10-0, in an NICL West Division game Thursday night. Mead struck out three, walked one, and the West Marshall defense made just one error behind him. The Trojan bats racked ...
Bobcat golf fundraiser approaching The Marshalltown High School athletics fundraiser golf outing will be held June 13 at the American Legion Memorial Golf Course. It is a four-person best shot tournament with both morning and afternoon sessions. The morning session tees off at 8 a.m. with ...
AMES — It wasn’t the rounds of golf Marshalltown’s Kassy Vest had envisioned for herself at the Class 5A state golf meet at Coldwater Golf Links, but they’re days she can pocket that are full of fuel and experience. The junior Bobcat qualified individually a week ago and carded a 94 ...
ANKENY — An initial scoring chance for the Marshalltown girls’ soccer team came up empty, and Class 3A No. 14 Ankeny filled it up from there. The Hawks hammered out four quick goals en route to an 8-0 triumph in the semifinals of Region 4 play, ending the Bobcats’ season abruptly. ...