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The Vikings’ celebrated six-win season took a turn for the worse in the final week of the season with the team suffering four losses in the final six days of the year, falling to Central Springs, Saint Ansgar, Osage and Riceville in the district playoffs.
The Vikings were competitive in their game...
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Leading by just one run heading into the top of the fifth inning last Monday night in Rockford, the Northwood-Kensett softball team pushed seven runs across the plate in one of its biggest offensive innings of the season, eventually overcoming the Lady Warriors 12-6 in seven innings.
The Lady...
It’s still hard to comprehend that the Vikings, who went 0-21 last season, are now sitting at six wins with 13 losses and after the seeding meetings, came out with the No. 4 seed in substate 2, district 4 and will face five seed Riceville (7-12) this Saturday at 5 p.m. in Saint Ansgar.
The...
With the Northwood-Kensett baseball team winning its fifth game of the year so far, last season’s 0-21 debacle seems like ancient history, and indeed it is to this season’s Vikings squad who just improved to 5-12 overall and 3-9 in the Top of Iowa Conference East with their wins last week over...
Less than a week after the Northwood Anchor reported on the Northwood-Kensett softball program’s woes suffering through its 34-game losing streak, the Lady Vikings have successfully snapped that streak, ending it at 34 games with last Wednesday’s 10-7 come from behind win over Nashua-Plainfield....
The Northwood-Kensett softball program has fallen on some temporary hard times. With last week’s four losses this young Lady Vikings team, who has just one senior and is mostly made up of sophomores or younger players, including three eighth graders, finds itself in the midst of what is now a 32-...
After winning three of its first nine games of the season the Northwood-Kensett baseball team felt like it was on its way to erasing the painful memory of last season’s 0-21 campaign, but then came last week’s tough schedule that put four more games in the loss column, going from 3-6 last week to 3...
The N-K 4x800 relay team was presented with State Participation Certificates at the boys track banquet that was held on Monday, May 29. Pictured are (from left) Kooper Julseth, Treycen Rollene, Dalton Logeman, Lamonte Sims. (photo provided by Amber Julseth)
Award winners included Newcomer of the...
The Vikings trap team completed its season on Saturday at the Stockdale Gun Club. The event was the USA Clay Target Iowa Championships.
Okoboji High School won the event with a score 478, second was Osage with a score of 457 and Northwood-Kensett was third with 450. We did not bring our A game but...