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Lady Viking hurler Lauren Heiken delivers a pitch in last Monday’s 14-1 loss to class 2A’s No. 2 ranked Central Springs. Heiken, just an eighth grader, has worked 35 innings in the circle and has 25 Ks to go along with a 13.60 ERA.

N-K works to snap losing streak that’s at 32 games and counting

The Northwood-Kensett softball program has fallen on some temporary hard times. With last week’s four losses this young Lady Vikings team, who has just one senior and is mostly made up of sophomores or younger players, including three eighth graders, finds itself in the midst of what is now a 32-...

N-K’s freshman second baseman Brady Christianson makes a nice play on a groundball last Monday in Northwood. Christianson and the Vikings fell to CS 14-1 in TIC East action.

Vikings run up against tough schedule last week, now 3-10 overall

After winning three of its first nine games of the season the Northwood-Kensett baseball team felt like it was on its way to erasing the painful memory of last season’s 0-21 campaign, but then came last week’s tough schedule that put four more games in the loss column, going from 3-6 last week to 3...

Northwood-Kensett boys track banquet

The N-K 4x800 relay team was presented with State Participation Certificates at the boys track banquet that was held on Monday, May 29. Pictured are (from left) Kooper Julseth, Treycen Rollene, Dalton Logeman, Lamonte Sims. (photo provided by Amber Julseth) Award winners included Newcomer of the...

N-K Trap Team - June 6, 2023

The Vikings trap team completed its season on Saturday at the Stockdale Gun Club. The event was the USA Clay Target Iowa Championships. Okoboji High School won the event with a score 478, second was Osage with a score of 457 and Northwood-Kensett was third with 450. We did not bring our A game but...

Lady Vikings fall to 0-6 after three losses last week

After losing all three of its games on the opening week of the 2023 season to North Butler (10-0), Nashua-Plainfield (10-0) and West Fork (12-0) by a combined 32-0, the young Lady Vikings team was able to put together some offense last week, scoring 10 runs in the three games played against Rudd-...

N-K senior Grady Buenzow misses out on a single by a step and snow cone catch by the Bulldogs’ first baseman in last Saturday’s 12-7 loss in Lake Mills.

Freshman hurler Bowan Behne snaps Vikings 22 game losing streak

After suffering through an 0-21 campaign in 2022 the Northwood-Kensett baseball program was hoping for the best come the start of the 2023 season, and so far, the young team has not disappointed, winning three of its first five games this season. The Vikings started the season with a 10-0 loss at...

N-K Trap Team - May 31

Last Monday the Vikings Trap team attended the Cardinal Classic at the Ventura Gun Club. Schools participating were Garner-Hayfield-Ventura, Osage, Mason City, Lake Mills, St. Ansgar and Northwood-Kensett. Osage won the event with a score of 234, second was Mason City with 229 and third was N-K...

N-K golfers recognized at banquet

The Northwood-Kensett boys and girls golf teams held their annual awards banquets last week. This year’s award winners include Caden Helgeson (Newcomer), Nick Hanson (MVP), Ella Leonard (MVP), Peyton Wilder (MVP) and Marisa Halbach (Most Improved). Not pictured is Carter Anderson, who also received...

Lady Viking Macy Thorson runs her leg of the shuttle hurdle relay in last Thursday morning’s prelims. The team of Thorson, Emma Hengesteg, Morgan Wallin and Lindsey Moore placed first in the 1A prelims with a time of 1:07.66.

Hengesteg, Thorson, Wallin and Moore place second at state

0The Northwood-Kensett boys and girls track teams had a pretty successful state track meet last week, The boys had just one event to run, the 4x800-meter relay on the meet’s opening day. Placing 11th in class 1A were Lamonte Sims, Dalton Logemann, Kooper Julseth and Treycen Rollene. The Lady...

N-K’s Emma Hengesteg explodes out of the blocks in last Thursday’s district meet. Hengesteg was competing with teammates Chloe Costello, Marris Peterson and Megan Ocel in the distance medley relay.

Lady Vikings qualify in five events; Moore competes in four of the five

While hopes of winning a district title were not in the conversation last Thursday evening at Northwood’s district 8 state qualifying track and field meet, the Lady Vikings had what could be described as a more than successful day, sending five girls down to Drake’s Blue Oval and the Iowa State...