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The Northwood-Kensett volleyball team completed its portion of the Top of Iowa Conference East schedule last Tuesday night against Osage, falling to the Green Devils 3-0 (7-25, 7-25, 20-25) and ending the regular season with an 0-8 record in the conference.
As happened many times this season, the...
Staring down the barrel of a second consecutive shutout loss last Friday night in Northwood, the Vikings rallied in the second half to put 26 points on the board after ending the first half scoreless and trailing 34-0.
Early in the first quarter against St. Edmond the Vikings found themselves...
If your cross country numbers are low, as is the case with the Northwood-Kensett teams, especially the girls, then it can help tremendously if two of those girls are quality runners like N-K’s Megan Ocel and Macy Thorson.
Ocel and Thorson continued to make a name for themselves in the XC world...
The miscues, penalties and turnovers came early and often for the Vikings of Northwood-Kensett in their 78-0 non-district loss last Thursday night at Wartburg at the hands of the now 6-0 Gladbrook-Reinbeck Rebels.
After turning the ball over on its first possession of the opening quarter, the...
The Northwood-Kensett volleyball team fell to 2-14 overall and 0-7 in the Top of Iowa Conference East after losing to Saint Ansgar last Tuesday night, 3-0 (8-25, 12-25, 19-25)
The Lady Vikings got blown out in the first set, losing to the Saints 25-8 before recovering a bit in the second set, a 25...
After a bit of a slow start to the season, Northwood-Kensett’s Megan Ocel is now running in top form, placing third last week at West Fork with a time of 22:28.64 and fifth at Central Springs, completing the course in an even better time of 21:19.22.
In the West Fork meet last Monday, because of...
The Northwood-Kensett volleyball team fell to 2-13 overall and 0-6 in the Top of Iowa Conference East after losing to Central Springs 3-0 (8-25, 11-25, 19-25) last Tuesday night in Northwood.
In the first set last Tuesday the Lady Vikings were able to hang with their class 2A opponents early on,...
Using the special teams play to their advantage last Friday night in Northwood, the Vikings were able to slip past North Iowa 28-24 thanks in large part to its kick return teams and specifically returner Lamonte Sims, who returned a punt 65 yards for a TD and had a 77-yard kickoff return for a TD...
Northwood-Kensett’s current long-distance specialist, junior Megan Ocel, placed 15th in a starting field of 66 runners last Tuesday afternoon in Osage at the Mitchell County Nature Center.
Ocel completed the course in 23:07.47 while her teammates, Macy Thorson and freshman Merrin Hansen crossed...
Showing improvement every week of the season so far, the Lady Vikings nonetheless are still looking for that elusive first Top of Iowa Conference East win, something they will have to wait at least another week to achieve after falling to the Knights of Newman Catholic 3-1 (25-23, 17-25, 17-25, 17-...