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N-K senior Tyler Mills takes down Kolben Miller of North Butler in last Tuesday night’s action in Northwood. Mills, who is 8-1 on the year, lost a narrow 6-4 decision to Miller, suffering his only loss of the year.

Seventh ranked Tiedemann starts year with six falls, now 9-0 Experienced but still short on numbers Vikings start the year 1-8

Despite this year’s Northwood-Kensett wrestling team boasting a high number of returning veterans, including six seniors, the team is still susceptible to losses because of forfeits. That was the case in the team’s first week of action, where it came away with just one dual win while suffering...

Leonard leads balanced attack in Lady Vikings’ opening night win

The Northwood-Kensett girls basketball team continued its domination over the Lady Bison of North Iowa, winning its opening night game last Monday in Northwood, 43-32. The win gives the Lady Vikings a six-game win streak against North Iowa and gives N-K wins in 10 of the team’s last 11 games played...

The N-K Stunt Group poses with its fifth-place trophy at the state fairgrounds in Des Moines. The team had to compete against 13 other teams in a one-minute routine and earned fifth place. Team members include Ashlyn Rollene, Haddie Hanson, Hayley Wallin, Lindsey Moore and Emily Hannemann.

N-K cheerleaders take home fifth place trophy at state championships

After a few years’ absence at the state championships the Northwood-Kensett cheerleaders once again made their presence known in Des Moines when this talented group of five placed fifth at the ICCA State Cheerleading Championships. Ashlynn Rollene, Haddie Hanson, Hayley Wallin, Lindsey Moore and...

Davidson earns Honorable Mention All-Conference honors

Suffering through a 4-19 season, not many people expected that the Lady Vikings would end up with many players on the Top of Iowa Conference East, All-Conference teams. But one Northwood-Kensett player did make the prestigious team. Senior Emma Davidson earned Honorable Mention All-Conference...

Facing two of the Saints’ top blockers N-K’s Chloe Costello tries to push the ball over the defenders in last Monday’s 3-0 (17-25, 6-25, 11-25) first round regional loss in Saint Ansgar. Costello ended the year with 60 kills and 27 blocks and she went 132-146 at the service line (90.4).

Lady Vikings tournament run comes to an end with 3-0 loss at SA

The Northwood-Kensett volleyball team started regional tournament play last Monday night in Saint Ansgar and before the tournament run could even get started, it came to an abrupt end with a 3-0 (17-25, 6-25, 11-25) loss to the Saints, who will take their 18-9 record to the next round of the...

N-K cross country teams compete at district meet

The 2021 cross country season came to end for the Northwood-Kensett XC team in last Thursday afternoon’s district state qualifying meet held at Newman Catholic in Mason City. For the boys, the Vikings’ Thomas Block made a strong showing with his 25th place finish in a time of 19:05.86. Another...

N-K head coach Dave Capitani and his longtime assistant Daryl Love prowl the sidelines before last Friday night’s playoff game at Kee. Cap just completed his 31st year at the helm of the Vikings. He now has a 210-117 overall record and is 50-28 since N-K started playing 8-man football.

Vikings lose heartbreaker to Kee in opening round playoff game

Although the Northwood-Kensett football team has an overall winning record of 50-28 in its time spent playing 8-man football, the playoffs have not been kind to the Vikings since they started the 8-man game, going 2-5 in postseason play, including last Friday night’s 50-45 loss at the hands of Kee...

N-K hitter Addy Bachtle scores a point against Lady Bison defenders last Tuesday night in Northwood. Bachtle had four kills against NI and now has 41 kills on the year, ranking her fourth on the team.

Lady Vikings fall to North Iowa in regular season finale

There was a time in the past that the Northwood-Kensett volleyball team dominated its rival from North Iowa, winning 13 matches in a row from 2008 to 2016. But that time seems to have passed as the Lady Bison have swung the scales back in their direction, winning eight consecutive over N-K,...

N-K’s Megan Ocel runs with a pack of runners in last Thursday’s TIC Meet in Mason City. Ocel earned Honorable Mention All-Conference honors with her 21st place finish.

Ocel finishes 21st at TIC Meet, earns Honorable Mention All-Conference

With its low numbers the Northwood-Kensett cross country teams this season took a bit of a backseat to the more prosperous teams in the area, but despite the lack of bodies, N-K’s kids improved and had a strong showing at the Top of Iowa Conference meet held last Thursday in Mason City. Running...

Ocel, Block and Moore place in top 20 at Lake Mills Invitational

As the season wears on with its end in sight now, the Northwood-Kensett cross country team is seeing some of the benefits of the hard work the team has put in this season. In last Monday’s Lake Mills Invitational N-K’s Megan Ocel had her best finish of the year when she crossed the finish line in...