As Melinda Puumala geared up for the 400-meter hurdles at the Drake Relays, she was nervous. She had a big bruise on her good knee from hitting three hurdles the day before in the 100 hurdles. Her nerves were so bad she was struggling to get her sweatpants off over her cleats when her heat ...
Marshalltown Community College named John Kriebs, who has more than 30 years of Division 1 college athletic experience, as its new athletic director. Kriebs’ love of sports started with 4th grade involvement in athletics at the local YMCA. From that moment, he had an attachment and love for ...
WIMBLEDON, England — It was easy to forget that Coco Gauff is still just 15 as she stood on the grass of Centre Court, pounding her chest and shouting, “Let’s go! Come on!” to celebrate a 32-stroke point that forced a third set in her match Friday evening at Wimbledon. Up in the ...
The state’s third-leading goal-scorer was still collecting awards long after the season ended. South Tama County senior midfielder Jonathan Castrejon was named the Iowa High School Soccer Coaches Association’s Class 1A all-state first team, joining the 11-member squad after racking up 40 ...
MASON CITY — The Bobcats that hit are the Bobcats that win. The Marshalltown baseball team improved to 14-2 in games in which it scores at least five runs when it beat Class 4A No. 10 Mason City in Wednesday’s CIML Iowa Conference opener, but then suffered its fourth shutout loss of the ...
MASON CITY — Only once this season has three runs been enough, and that was against a Des Moines North squad that is now 0-25 for the summer. The Marshalltown softball team needed more offense against Mason City in Wednesday’s CIML Iowa Conference doubleheader, but it never came for the ...
VAN HORNE — Hunter Vilez and Garrett Kerber delivered back-to-back run-scoring hits in the top of the sixth inning to help the East Marshall baseball team topple Benton Community, 5-4, in Wednesday’s non-conference contest. The Mustangs (9-14) broke a 3-all tie when Vilez doubled to drive ...
The Marshalltown boys soccer team advanced to the state tournament for the first time in 18 years, and the Bobcats have a few more accolades to add to their Class 3A participant trophy. Marshalltown junior forward Jose Torres has been named to the Iowa High School Soccer Coaches Associations ...
It had been six seasons since the last time the Outstanding Player of the Year came from a team that didn’t win the NICL West Division championship. That’s the kind of season East Marshall senior catcher Madison Farrington is having. Farrington was selected for the conference’s ...
Five runs wasn’t enough, until it was. The Marshalltown baseball team couldn’t make five runs work in the first game of Monday’s CIML Iowa Conference doubleheader with West Des Moines Valley, but that was just enough to get the Bobcats over the top in the second game. Marshalltown ...
PLEASANTVILLE — The Class 2A No. 9 East Marshall softball team continued to make a statement with Monday’s 6-0 triumph over No. 3 Pleasantville in a non-conference showdown. The Mustangs (27-4) won their 13th-straight ballgame behind the sixth shutout of the season for junior pitcher ...
JEFFERSON — Toronto coach Nick Nurse’s improbable path to the NBA title began as a guard for Carroll Kuemper High in the middle of Iowa way back in the 1980s. He returned to his home state this weekend for a celebration of a career — a weekend that included a family reunion on a farm ...
GILBERTVILLE — The Mustangs’ reputation for power hitting proceeds them. But on a diamond designed for more than high school softball, East Marshall was forced to find other ways to win. Consider it done. The Class 2A No. 9 East Marshall softball team wrapped up a 4-0 weekend at the Don ...
GLADBROOK — Whether or not his Rebels are in fact the best two-win team in the state, Gladbrook-Reinbeck head softball coach Collin Arndt wants his players to believe they are. Three days after snapping a 37-game NICL West Division losing streak with a 7-5 win over South Hardin, the Rebels ...
STATE CENTER — It took the Trojans half as long to get twice as many hits as any team has compiled against Gladbrook-Reinbeck right-hander Tyler Tscherter this season. Welcome to West Marshall’s NICL West Division. The Trojan baseball team closed out an undefeated conference slate for the ...
CONRAD — The Class 1A No. 5 BCLUW softball team wrapped up its first unbeaten NICL West Division title since the Comets last won a state title in 2010, finishing off their 12-0 run with Friday’s 4-1 victory over Grundy Center. Bailey Ashton struck out nine and walked one in her ...
The wins have come few and far between for the Marshalltown softball team, but that only makes the Bobcats savor them more. Marshalltown got a strong pitching performance from eighth-grader Ella Grife and scratched out a split against Urbandale on Thursday night, taking a 5-3 victory in the ...
Once Urbandale got the ball rolling, the Bobcats couldn’t get it stopped. The Marshalltown baseball team missed on its chance to take out defending state champion Urbandale and the Class 4A No. 8 J-Hawks hammered out back-to-back victories instead in Thursday’s CIML doubleheader at the MHS ...
LE GRAND — Madison Farrington hit her fourth home run in the last three games as the Class 2A No. 9 East Marshall softball team overcame an early deficit for a 12-2, five-inning victory over Gladbrook-Reinbeck in Thursday’s NICL West Division finale. The Mustangs (22-4, 10-2) trailed 2-0 ...
The clutch hits that never came during the North Polk game have been steadily showing up ever since. The Marshalltown baseball team recorded its third walk-off win in the last 10 days, rallying past Fort Dodge 4-3 in the opening game of Wednesday’s CIML Iowa Conference doubleheader for an ...