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Lady Viking senior Lindsey Moore bumps the ball to teammates in last Tuesday night’s 3-0 loss to Central Springs. Moore on the season has recorded 53 kills, 62 digs and she’s 66-86 at the service line with seven aces for the Lady Vikings.
Despite their four regular season wins this year, the Lady Vikings, after last Tuesday’s 3-0 (7-25, 9-25, 17-25) loss to rival Central Springs, are still in search of that so far elusive first win in the Top of Iowa Conference East. Northwood-Kensett started the match with confidence, but that...
Viking QB Kooper Julseth fights for extra yardage by applying a nice stiff arm to a North Iowa defender in last Friday night’s 42-7 district win over the Bison. Koop led the team with 129 yards rushing and four TDs while connecting with Colby Eskildsen for another in the passing game. Photo provided by Jesus Renteria.
It still might be too soon to totally scrap the Vikings new emphasis on the passing game, but its demise might come sooner than later after the Northwood-Kensett football teams dominating 42-7-win last Friday night over North Iowa. The Vikings for the most part abandoned the new look offense after...
N-Ks XC girls run together at last Thursday’s meet in Clear Lake. Pictured are Lexi Hanson-Brandsoy, Merrin Hanson and Macy Thorson.
The Northwood-Kensett cross country teams ran in two meets last week, on Tuesday at Osage and last Thursday at Clear Lake. And while N-K’s XC teams don’t have enough members to score team points, the entirety of the team, boys and girls, ran their personal bests at the Osage meet. Placing 29th...
N-K’s Alex Tiedemann follows his blockers for some extra yardage in last Friday night’s 59-22 district 2 loss at Bishop-Garrigan. Tiedemann had a nice all-around game, rushing for 20 yards on three attempts and a TD and he caught one ball for 12 yards.  Photo credit to Jesus Renteria.
We’ve all heard the saying, that was a game of two halves, and that’s exactly what happened last Friday night in Algona when the Vikings ended the first half in a 41-0 hole only to respond in the second half of play with 22 points, outscoring the Golden Bears 22-18 in the final 24 minutes of play...
Senior hitter Chloe Costello delivers a crucial point in last Tuesday night’s 3-1 loss to Newman. Costello had seven kills and is now tops on the team with 64 kills on the year.
Although the win column isn’t showing it just yet, anyone that has seen the Northwood-Kensett volleyball team play can tell you that this team is improving, that the team you may have seen early in the season is not the same one you’ll face come tournament time. After beating Newman Catholic 2-0...
After some weather-related cancelations to start the season the cross country teams across the state are in full swing, including Northwood-Kensett’s, who competed at Belmond-Klemme last Tuesday afternoon. Placing 41st for the girls was Merrin Hanson with a time of 26:44.36. The boys had two...
Lady Viking Chloe Costello taps the ball over the outstretched hands of a defender last Saturday in Manly. Costello leads the team on the year with 44 kills.
The Lady Vikings improved to 1-3 in the Top of Iowa Conference East with a 3-0 (25-13, 27-25, 25-16) win over West Fork before the holiday weekend. That same week Northwood-Kensett lost a 3-0 (21-25, 15-25, 22-25) decision at Nashua-Plainfield. N-K started the week at Nashua and hung right with...
Heading to the middle of the field for the coin toss in Ruthven two weeks ago were this season’s captains, Kooper Julseth, Evan Lorenzen and Loghan Nelson.
Long time fans of Northwood-Kensett football are probably having a hard time adjusting to the Vikings’ new emphasis on the passing game. In the past N-K would run the ball 50 or so times a game and pass it, well almost never, resulting in numerous wins, district titles, playoff berths and a coach...
N-K senior D-lineman Justin Mills was causing havoc in the Wildcats backfield all night. Here the talented lineman just misses an early sack. Mills led the Vikings with one sack and 10 tackles on the night.
Spectators watching this season’s version of Northwood-Kensett Viking football might be a bit surprised to see the team’s reliance on the passing game, instead of the one yard in a cloud of dust philosophy that dominated the team for so many years, and by the way, won hundreds of games and put...
Lady Viking Demaris Peterson goes up for a block against a Bearcat opponent last Tuesday night in Northwood. The talented senior led the team with the one block in the 3-2 loss to North Butler.
The Northwood-Kensett volleyball program over the years has struggled not only for wins, but for consistent, long-term coaching. The Lady Vikings’ newest addition is Ashley Haxton, who is the third head coach the team has seen in the past four years. Hoping that this latest addition to the...

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