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With a number of competitive teams vying for a state championships berth in Des Moines this week, the Northwood-Kensett boys track team, while staying competitive in most events, were only able to get one relay team through the tough district 8 and onto Drake’s Blue Oval.
The Vikings, who came...
The Northwood-Kensett boys and girls golf teams wrapped up the regular season last week with the Top of Iowa Conference East Meet and then jumped right into the postseason with regional and sectional play.
The girls placed eighth in the conference with a team score of 467 last Monday at Highland...
The Northwood-Kensett boys and girls golf teams got in just one round of golf last week, playing last Monday on a windy day that saw multiple schools cancel track meets despite the 56 degree weather.
Facing wind gusts of up to 40 mph with a steady wind blowing at over 30 mph, Sunny Brea County...
As everyone knows who follows high school sports, some years your team is up, some they are down, it all depends on graduation and class size, but the reality of high school track is, some years you’re on top, others you’re near the bottom.
Unfortunately for the Northwood-Kensett boys track team,...
When all the scores and tabulating were done last Thursday night at Nashua-Plainfield, the coaches of the Top of Iowa Conference East voted for the Coach of the Year Award.
In all my years of covering northern Iowa sports, you can count on one hand the number of times the award doesn’t go to the...
On Saturday, April 22, the Vikings attended the St. Ansgar Invitational at the Mitchell Co. Trap Range.
Schools attending were Osage, Southland, Glenville-Emmons, Lake Mills, Northwood-Kensett and Garner-Hayfield-Ventura. GHV won the event with a score of 220, second was Osage with 216, third was...
With the end of the spring sports season nearing its end in just a few short weeks, the Lady Vikings took to the oval last week and had some exciting things to talk about when it was all over.
As a team, the Northwood-Kensett girls track team placed third and first in its two meets last week,...
The Northwood-Kensett boys and girls golf teams had a busy, yet very successful week on the links last week, with the boys earning a first and two seconds, and the girls a second and two third place finishes.
The golf teams last Monday played at Buffalo Run Golf Club in Nora Springs with both...
With the number of athletes on any given high school track team it’s a little difficult for any one individual to dominate the event, but when you have a competitive runner with the talents of the Vikings’ Treycen Rollene, then it’s a different story altogether.
In last Monday’s Viking Boys Relays...
While there isn’t a whole lot to report on as far as last week’s sports are concerned after the whole week was canceled save just one day, there is some good news coming out of the Lady Vikings track program.
Junior Lindsey Moore, the smoothest, most technically sound hurdler I’ve seen in my 20...