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Northwood-Kensett held its basketball banquets on Tuesday, February 27. Retiring coaches Daryl Love and Marty Cotter presented awards for the final time.
Saving their best for last, the Vikings of Northwood-Kensett made a tournament run that not many people saw coming, knocking off Saint Ansgar by one point in the quarterfinals before finally falling to Bishop-Garrigan in the district semifinals.
Facing the Saints last Monday night in the class 1A...
The Northwood-Kensett wrestling team sent two sophomores to the state wrestling championships last week and while they didn’t come away with any hardware, the experience and knowledge gained will help them both for years to come.
At 113 pounds, the Vikings’ Linca Scarlett survived the district...
The Northwood-Kensett girls basketball team wrapped up the regular season and took an early exit in the regional tournament, all in a matter of just a few days, closing out what was once a promising season, instead ending it in an early defeat and a 7-15 overall record.
The Lady Vikings, flush...
Talking to other sports writers and photographers before last Saturday’s class 1A, district 4 state qualifying meet in Lake Mills, my predictions for Northwood-Kensett were that the Tiedemann brothers have a shot, but after that, “You just don’t know what can happen.”
Well, one of the Tiedemann...
Bursting with young talent, the Northwood-Kensett boys basketball team struggled with the tough competition in the Top of Iowa Conference East to begin the season, but as the year wore on and the team got more experience under their belts, the winning ways came back.
Once looking at a 5-12 overall...
Last week, the final full week of the regular season schedule was busy and emotional for the Lady Vikings of Northwood-Kensett who beat the No. 1 team in the conference at the time, Saint Ansgar, celebrated senior Chloe Costello surpassing the 1,000-point mark and then cried while saying goodbye to...
The Northwood-Kensett wrestling team wrapped up its regular season schedule last week at the Viking Quad, competing against GTRA, North Union and West Bend-Mallard before a packed house in Northwood.
In the first dual the Vikings trailed the Titans 22-0 before picking up their first win, an Alex...
The Northwood-Kensett boys basketball team won two out three games last week, celebrated the retirement of longtime and beloved head coach Marty Cotter, and put junior Colby Eskildsen in the record books after surpassing the 1,000-point milestone for his career.
The Vikings’ busy and emotional...