Sports
A large number of businesses along with Worth Mutual Insurance, who have proudly donated money for all flight payouts for over 30 years and counting, held the annual Worth Mutual Golf Tournament to raise money for the self-financed Northwood Volunteer Fire Company. At this year’s tournament, a...
The Northwood-Kensett boys and girls cross country teams competed in just one meet last week, the Belmond-Klemme Invitational last Tuesday evening.
In the meet, the Vikings’ Thomas Block set the pace for his team, finishing in 33rd place with a time of 20:55. Block was followed across the finish...
With a lot of new faces in critical positions this season, many people wondered what the year would hold for the 2021 version of Vikings football, but after the first two weeks saw the men from Northwood-Kensett rack up two convincing wins over Riceville and Harris-Lake Park, both on the road, the...
Although it won’t count in the final Top of Iowa Conference East standings, the Northwood-Kensett volleyball team exacted a little revenge last Saturday in Manly when it handed Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock a 2-1 (15-21, 21-16, 15-9) loss, this after losing to the Lady Warriors in TIC East action...
Northwood-Kensett’s Megan Ocel and Thomas Block led their respective teams in last Tuesday night’s Mercy Cross Country Meet hosted by Mason City Newman. And while neither the boys nor girls teams have enough runners to qualify for team scores, Ocel placed 37th with a time of 25:26.91 while Block...
After losing the first six matches of her young coaching career, Lady Vikings head coach Mackensie Sauerbrei finally got that first win, a hard fought 3-2 (25-17, 14-25, 18-25, 25-18, 15-12) victory over West Fork last Thursday night in Northwood.
With the first set win (25-17) the Lady Vikings...
Looking at the Northwood-Kensett volleyball roster one would think that it’s full of experienced juniors and seniors, but for the most part, while these girls show promise, most were role players a year ago or just solid JV players. Only a handful, Addy Bachtle, Emma Davidson and Carly Hengesteg,...
It’s what the Vikings under Hall Of Fame head coach Dave Capitani are known for, running the ball down your throat, and then run it some more before, well, running it a little bit more. In last week’s 28-16 win over Riceville the Vikings ran the ball 54 times for 300 yards to help secure the...
The Northwood-Kensett wrestling program held its annual golf tournament last Saturday at the Northwood Country Club. The tournament, held this year on a gorgeous, yet cool Saturday morning, is held every year as a fundraiser to help with the high costs of running of top-notch wrestling program....
With possibly the best season in Northwood-Kensett baseball history in the books it’s now time to look back on the spectacular year the Vikings had, including the prestigious selection to the all-state team by junior first baseman Jace Gentz.
And while Gentz was selected to the IPSWA (Iowa Print...