Sports
By Mike Simmons
Sports Editor
Starting around 10 years ago the Northwood-Kensett girls basketball team went on what was at the time, a historic run considering the programs past struggles.
But in 2012, all that changed when N-K cracked the 10-win mark, going 17-8, starting a five-year period...
With the wrestling season slowly inching its way towards Wells Fargo Arena and the state wrestling tournament, the Northwood-Kensett boys wrestling team is busy mending injuries and overcoming illness.
The Vikings, whose roster had dwindled to as low as just two athletes at a recent weekend...
The Northwood-Kensett boys basketball team won one of three games on the schedule last week, losing to North Butler and Newman Catholic in Top of Iowa Conference East action while registering the team’s fifth win of the year in the 61-60 non-conference victory over the Bison of North Iowa.
With...
It has been a season that has been filled with firsts for Iowa High School girls wrestling: the first sanctioned season, the first super regionals and of course the inaugural all girls state tournament, and the first ever North Central Trailblazers.
This team, made up of young ladies from Saint...
As their inaugural season nears its end the North Central Trailblazers, the all-girls wrestling team consisting of athletes from Northwood-Kensett, Saint Ansgar, Central Springs, Lake Mills and Forest City, wrapped up their regular season schedule with two meets last week in Emmetsburg and Decorah...
The Northwood-Kensett girls basketball team continued to hold onto third place in the Top of Iowa Conference East standings after winning one of four games last week, a 55-20 blowout in Rockford that lifted the Lady Vikings to 7-4 in the conference.
N-K’s week got started last Monday when it...
Hoping to pick up a few more wins before the postseason rolls around the Vikings of Northwood-Kensett had a busy schedule last week despite losing a game to the weather.
The Vikings played four games last week and came away with one win, an 80-59 Top of Iowa Conference East win over Rudd-Rockford-...
The North Central Trailblazers were in action twice last week, a 54-27 dual loss to Clear Lake last Tuesday night in Forest City and last Friday night at Denver, where the team crowned just one champion, N-K’s own Jessika Ausborn, who went 3-0 on the day with all three wins coming by fall.
In last...
With smaller schools now having trouble fielding a complete wrestling team, unable to come close to filling the 14-man roster, teams are frequently looking beyond the team score and instead just concentrating on improving the individuals in the program.
That seems to be where the Vikings are at...
Winners of three in a row and five of their last seven, the Lady Vikings, despite a 6-5 overall record, are making some noise in the Top of Iowa Conference East after winning three consecutive conference games last week to improve to 6-2 in the TIC East, putting them solidly in third place behind...