Sports
The North Iowa weather played havoc with the spring sports schedule last week, leaving the Northwood-Kensett boys track with just one meet. Last Tuesday with winter due back in the picture on Wednesday and the rest of the week, the Vikings traveled to Belmond to compete in the Belmond-Klemme Boys...
The Northwood-Kensett boys and girls golf team got one match in last week before the snow, sleet and rain started and washed away the remainder of the week’s spring sports schedules.
Last Tuesday afternoon in Nashua, competing against Central Springs and the Huskies, N-K’s Nick Hanson, who was...
This past Thursday the Vikings attended a Quad shoot host by Lake Mills at Florence Park. Teams participating were NK, Lake Mills, Central Springs and Garner/Hayfield/Ventura. In spite of the strong winds the Vikings won the event with a score 190, second was Lake Mills with a 171 and third was...
The Northwood-Kensett boys and girls golf teams hit the links last week and while all of them had a fine day on Monday in Greene, it was on the two teams’ home course last Tuesday where they both shined.
Coming off a successful day last Monday at Round Grove in Greene where the girls placed second...
The Northwood-Kensett boys track program is well known across the state of Iowa for one thing, other than Tom Yezek, its relay teams, who have been the dominant force behind the Vikings’ success on the oval since before I started covering them almost 20 years ago.
But this current group of young...
Lady Viking hurdlers Lindsey Moore and Morgan Wallin set the standards pretty high for the rest of the team last week after the talented duo took home three first place medals and three second place medals in the 100-meter hurdles in as many meets.
Moore now ranks fourth in class 1A in the event...
On Tuesday the Northwood-Kensett trap team competed in a dual shoot with the Osage team at the Mitchel County Trap Range.
Osage won the event with a score of 210. N-K put up a score of 204.
The top five N-K team scores were Collin Houg 44, Iver Girouard 43, Aidan Moretz 40, Loghan Nelson 40 and...
After suffering through the first two weeks of the spring sports season and its crazy weather, the Northwood-Kensett boys track team finally had a chance to compete in some nice conditions last week at West Hancock and Clarion-Goldfield.
The Vikings got the week started last Monday at West Hancock...
The Northwood-Kensett girls track and field team was able to get in two meets last week for the first time this season as the weather finally cooperated with northern Iowa spring sports.
The Lady Vikings traveled to Britt last Monday afternoon to compete in the annual Bob Sanger Coed Relays, where...
The Northwood-Kensett boys track team, which usually relies on its relay teams to fuel its success on the oval year after year, instead had to rely on a few individual performances to squeak out a fifth place finish in last Tuesday afternoon’s opening track and field meet of the spring season, the...