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After a hardfought volleyball season the coaches of the Top of Iowa Conference East have made their all-conference selections. Earning those honors from Northwood-Kensett this year were senior Natalie Cordle and junior Brylee Hoeppner.
Cordle collected a team high 88 kills for the 6-16 Lady...
Although the Lady Vikings played one of their best matches just a few weeks ago in a 3-1 loss to the Saints, it was still a bitter pill to swallow suffering a 3-0 regional loss at the hands of the Saints last Tuesday night.
Northwood-Kensett started the first set, like it did all three, securing...
For the second year in a row the Northwood-Kensett football team lost its regular season finale to the Warriors of Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock. And while last season’s 26-20 loss only meant the two teams would share a district title in a three-way tie with Don Bosco, last Friday night’s 44-12...
The Northwood-Kensett boys and girls cross-country teams traveled to Cedar Falls last Thursday afternoon to compete in the class 1A state qualifying meet held at Birdsall Park.
With the team's most decorated runner failing to finish, it was Rachel Hill who took top honors for the girls team,...
Stat of the Week: Every now and then roaming the sidelines of an N-K football season you see an undersized kid that makes you think that if he were six foot and 200 pounds it would almost be illegal to put him on the field with other kids. This is Brandon Varner, who runs much bigger than his 5...
With new rules in effect this season dictating who goes to the playoffs and who stays home, there will be no hope of a tie at the top of the district standings for the Northwood-Kensett football team.
With its 56-6 loss to Don Bosco, the Vikings have no chance at sharing a district title this...
The Northwood-Kensett volleyball team snapped a nine-match losing streak with a 2-0 (21-18, 21-17) win over West Hancock last Saturday at the Garner-Hayfield-Ventura tournament held in Garner.
The Lady Vikings, with the win over the Eagles, broke a streak that saw them win just two sets out of the...
Carter Severson: While the quarterbacks and defensive linemen usually get all the press, take a look at any successful team and you’ll find kids that make a huge impact, not by being great at any one thing, but being good at everything they do. For the Vikings that player is Carter Severson....
Northwood-Kensett’s Lindsey Davidson took home her third Top of Iowa Conference second place medal in last Thursday’s event held in Mason City among the corn and bean fields at NIACC.
Davidson ran the course in 20:38, about 16 seconds faster than her sophomore year but 13 seconds slower than last...
It happens every year to the Northwood-Kensett volleyball team. Just as they start to play well and come together as a team, the Lady Vikings hit a stretch in their schedule that has them playing one match a week, for weeks on end, resulting in just a handful of matches over the final month of play...