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Pictured are the Worth Mutual Insurance Golf Tournament champions, Nathan Buehrer, Cody Strand and Mitch Hanson. The trio shot a 63 to take top honors at this year’s tournament to raise money for the NVFC. A record $9,121 was raised at this year’s event.
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...
Viking defenders Treycen Rollene (12), Josiah Kliment (22), Drake Tiedemann (34) and Tyler Mills (35) pursue a Harris-Lake Park ball carrier in the 32-29 district win.
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...
N-K’s Marli Backhaus gets the ball past two Lake Mills defenders in last Saturday’s tournament action in Manly. Backhaus, a senior, leads the team on the year with 38 kills and 24 blocks.
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...
N-K’s Marli Backhaus goes up against two Huskie defenders in last Tuesday’s 3-2 TIC East loss. After seven matches this season Backhaus leads the team with 34 kills and 14 blocks.
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...
N-K’s Chloe Costello goes up against a Riceville defender in last Tuesday night’s 3-2 loss to the Wildcats. Costello and her other sophomore teammates were making their varsity debuts for the Lady Vikings. Costello ended the night with five kills and one block.
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,...
Once the linemen get engaged on running plays the only line of defense before the ball carrier reaches the security of the secondary is the linebacker, in the 8-man game, one of the most important positions on the defensive side of the ball. Fortunately for the Vikings they have one of the best ones in the district this season in Dante Sims. The 185-pound junior led the Vikings with eight tackles in last Saturday’s 28-16 win over Riceville.
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...
Aaron Carman gets the fun started teeing off on the first hole in last Saturday’s N-K Wrestling golf tournament.
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...

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