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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...
With two wins in three games played last week it looks like things might finally turn around for this talented group of players, who, despite all the basketball skills, have had a tough go of it so far this season, struggling to get close to the .500 mark, now four wins below that at 3-7 on the...
North Central’s Emma Hall battles to get Jerexy Vega of Postville to the mat last Friday night in Elkader. Hall finally accomplished her task, winning this match by fall in just 38 seconds.
The Trailblazers’ Abby Beaty, in the orange headgear, takes down Waukon’s Faith Cooper last Friday at the...