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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...