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Despite its 3-1 (18-25, 25-23, 19-25, 14-25) loss on Tuesday night to the Huskies the Northwood-Kensett volleyball team has shown vast improvement in just two weeks of play. The Lady Vikings tied the match at 1-1 after a 25-23 win in the second set and then lost the next two, 25-19 and 25-14. N-K...
The Bison of North Iowa have been taken to the woodshed for a beating many times by the Northwood-Kensett football team, losing their last three games to the Vikings by a combined score of 155-6, including last year's 40-0 shutout.
But with those beatings come experience and a desire for revenge,...
With masks, social distancing and frequent ball washing the 2020 volleyball season got underway for the Lady Vikings of Northwood-Kensett last Tuesday night when they opened the season with a 3-2 (23-25, 25-16, 22-25, 28-26, 15-13) non-conference win over Riceville.
N-K struggled in the first set...
It was another successful Jerry Olson-Worth Mutual-NVFD Golf Tournament a few weeks ago with a total of 6,532.29 raised and donated to the Northwood Volunteer Fire Department.
Taking the title this year was the trio of Jayson Olson, Trent Midtgaard and Tyler Julseth who shot a 64, beating the next...
Hoping to start the 2020 season off with an opening night win the Vikings of Northwood-Kensett were instead pushed around and manhandled by North Iowa in the 38-21 loss. The Vikings trailed 18-0 at the halftime break but got back in the game in the third quarter when they scored three TD's,...
The Lady Vikings fell to 1-1 on the season after their 3-0 (18-25, 17-25, 17-25) loss to North Butler Thursday night in Greene. Northwood-Kensett fell in three straight sets to the Bearcats and have now lost five consecutive matches to its Top of Iowa Conference East rival. Kayla Senne dished out a...
With the Vikings' win on Friday night over Clarksville, Northwood-Kensett’s Hall of Fame coach Dave Capitani joined the ranks of Iowa coaches that have achieved what most will only dream of, winning 200 football games.
Cap is starting his 32nd year as head coach of the Vikings and is now 200-111...
The Northwood-Kensett volleyball team opened the 2020 season with a 3-2 (23-25, 25-16, 22-25, 28-26, 15-13) win over Riceville on Tuesday night in Northwood. N-K started slow, earning its first lead of the match in the second set at 5-4 and went on to even the match at 1-1 with the 25-16 win....
There seemed to be a lot of firsts in this COVID-19 shortened baseball and softball season, like temperature checks, hand sanitizing, no one but the players allowed to touch a foul ball, social distancing in the dugouts, when they were allowed to be in use and an extremely light schedule.
But for...
Stat of the Week: Although the Lady Vikings didn’t quite have the season they were hoping for as far as wins go, they did have at least one player that not only stood out on the team, but made her name known throughout the TIC East and West. N-K’s Kayla Senne did it all on the field this season. At...