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Just six games into this COVID-19-shortened season the Lady Vikings of Northwood-Kensett found themselves happily at the .500 mark at 3-3, but as the season wore on and the competition got tougher, the team could manage just two more wins with one of those coming when it matters most, the first...
Throughout the season there were COVID-19 contract tracing procedures that could sideline a team for a week or more while waiting on test results to come back as most county health departments were calling for no games until it was once again deemed safe.
But the later it got into the season the...
By Mike Simmons
Sports Editor
The Northwood-Kensett softball team was sidelined for the final week of play in the regular season, not because of COVID-19 concerns, but because of the weather.
The Lady Vikings had games on Monday and Thursday, both non-conference games, cancelled due to bad...
By Mike Simmons
Sports Editor
The Northwood-Kensett baseball team rallied from an early 3-0 deficit to beat West Hancock 12-4 in district 3 tournament action on Saturday.
With storms entering the area right before game time the first pitch was moved from 4:30 to a little after 8 p.m. in...
Trailing 7-4 heading into the bottom of the seventh inning the Lady Vikings were just three outs from being elliminated in this year's regional first round but rallied with four runs, the last two courtesy of Lady Bison wild pitches to win 8-7. N-K produced its eight runs on just five hits with...
The Vikings overcame an early 3-0 deficit in last night's district 3 first round tournament game to defeat West Hancock 12-4 in Sheffield. The Eages (4-7) took an early 3-0 lead in the top of the second only to see N-K explode for its 12 runs over the next fve innings. Junior Kael Julseth led the...
The Northwood-Kensett baseball team snapped a three game losing streak last night with a come from behind 7-6 win over North Union. The Warriors led 2-0 before N-K pushed seven runs acorss the plate in the fourth and fith innings to secure the non-conference win, its first in its last four games....
The Vikings traveled to Forest City last night hoping to get back to their winning ways but the Indians instead handed them a 16-5, six innings loss, Northwood-Kensett's third in a row. The Vikings have now lost three of thier four games since shcoking the baseball world with their upset win over...
On the brink of losing to Lake Mills last night, trailing 10-0 heading to the bottom of the sixth, the Vikings rallied to push 11 runs across the plate over the next two innings to beat the Bulldogs 11-10. Caden Schrage, Cade Hengesteg and Kael Julseth collected two hits each while Carter Severson...
The Lady Vikings took advantage of a seven run third inning to beat Lake Mills last night in Northwood 11-6. N-K managed just 3 hits but it took adavanatge of 12 walks allowed by Bulldog pitching to score 11 runs with Carly Hengesteg scoring three of those runs. In the circle Kayla Senne picked up...