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SPORTS SHORTS: Thatcher 11th in Bobcats’ All-Dive Invite

Marshalltown senior Harlie Thatcher came in 11th place at the Bobcat All-Dive Invite on Saturday at the Marshalltown YMCA-YWCA, scoring 318.45 points. The event welcomed 40 divers to Marshalltown for a meet that was also a state-qualifier for the top-five finishers. Saturday’s top two ...

Opportunity knocks, ’Cats can’t answer

Waterloo West scored more points, gained more yards and committed fewer turnovers and penalties, so Marshalltown head football coach Adam Goodvin gives the Wahawks all the credit in the world. Even still, he can’t help but wonder what Friday’s home-field finale would have been like if ...

Hawkeyes' Welker wins third-straight gold at Worlds

LAS VEGAS — Fifth-year University of Iowa women’s wrestler Kylie Welker (76 kg) earned her third consecutive gold medal at the U23 World Championships on Thursday night in Las Vegas, Nev. She is the first American and first women’s freestyle wrestler to win three consecutive U23 ...

NCAA sues Ohio governor over eligibility rule order

The NCAA sued the governor of Ohio on Friday, three days after he signed an executive order giving state universities the option of allowing athletes who graduated from high school in 2022 to play a fifth year in college in defiance of the NCAA’s new eligibility rule. NCAA President Charlie Baker called the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Ohio, an “extraordinary step” designed to prevent Gov. Mike DeWine from making it “impossible for all schools to compete on a level playing field.” The lawsuit itself claimed DeWine, a two-term Republican former state attorney general ...

Coleman, Sandvick named first-team all-IAC

The Marshalltown girls’ tennis team entered the fall with a new-look lineup, but the Bobcats more than held their own in the Iowa Alliance Conference. The league’s coaches took notice. Six Bobcats were honored with selection to the all-Iowa Alliance Conference girls tennis squad in a ...

SPORTS SHORTS: No. 17 RedTails hold off Tigers, 2-1

The Marshalltown Community College men’s soccer team fought off No. 17 Hawkeye CC for as long as it could before eventually falling 2-1 to the RedTails on Wednesday on the MCC campus. Hawkeye (9-4-1, 5-1-1) finally broke through the scoreless tie in the 65th minute on a goal from Enis Ziese, and Luke Hobson made it 2-0 RedTails in the 73rd minute on an assist from Ziese. Marshalltown (3-8-3, 1-3-3) cut the deficit in half in the 88th minute on a goal by Enrico Borges, but the Tigers couldn’t find the equalizer before time expired. The goal by Borges came on one of only two shots ...