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With the winter weather causing havoc to the sports schedules the past couple of weeks, the Lady Vikings of Northwood-Kensett at this point in the season have had about as many games cancelled or postponed as they’ve played. The Lady Vikings now stand at 1-2 overall and 1-1 in the Top of Iowa...
The Northwood-Kensett boys basketball team has an unblemished record against the Warhawks of West Fork. The Vikings are 0-28 since the 2009 season against one of the best class 1A basketball programs of the last decade or more in all of Iowa. But despite lopsided losses of 90-16 and 92-12, scores...
The Vikings’ Trent Tiedemann waits for the referee’s hand to slap the mat on his Central Elkader opponent in last Saturday’s Nashua-Plainfield tournament. Tiedemann went 2-2 on the day with both of his wins coming by fall.
As if competing this season with a short roster hasn’t been hard enough for the Northwood-Kensett boys wrestling team, now they’re even more shorthanded with illness and injury taking a huge toll on the team’s ability to be competitive. Luckily for the Vikings, because of the weather last week,...
U.S. Paralympics Track & Field recently announced the 34 athletes who earned spots on its prestigious 2022 High School All-American roster. The list recognizes the top high school track and field athletes who have a Paralympic-eligible impairment based on their performances in the 2022 season....
The North Central Trailblazers, the all-girls wrestling team consisting of young ladies from Northwood-Kensett, Central Springs, Saint Ansgar, Lake Mills and Forest City, competed in their first dual of the season last Thursday night in Greene. The girls took to the mats after a boys quad that...
The Lady Vikings of Northwood-Kensett cruised to an easy victory last Friday night, beating Nashua-Plainfield by 28 points in Top of Iowa Conference East action after pouring in 32 second half points. The Huskies, who have now lost the last two games to N-K by a total of 55 points, came out hot in...
The Nashua-Plainfield boys basketball program ran its record to 24-8 over the Vikings since the 2007 season, including five in a row after last Friday night’s 60-57 win over Northwood-Kensett. The Vikings, who were led by Lamonte Sims and Kooper Julseth, who both scored 13 points, ran out to an...
The Vikings’ Dagen Peterson picks up the team’s first win of the season in last Thursday’s quad at North Butler. Peterson beat North Union’s Kacey Hamsmith in an 11-6 decision.
Anyone who knows high school wrestling also knows that it takes a full roster, and then some, to have any shot at team success in this highly competitive sport, something that the Northwood-Kensett squad, despite the talent that is on the team, just does not possess at this time. The Vikings took...
North Central’s Ava Woltzen does her best work on the mat in last Tuesday’s Riverhawk Girls Invitational. Woltzen went 4-0 on the day and took home a first place medal after winning all of her matches by fall, tops for all wrestlers on the day.
In the North Central Trailblazers’ first meet of the young season they used their sheer numbers to dominate the rest of the field in Decorah, but in last Tuesday night’s second meet of the year, this group of talented female wrestlers from Northwood-Kensett, Central Springs, Saint Ansgar, Lake...
Along with her stifling defensive pressure, N-K junior Morgan Wallin can handle the ball as well. Here she drives the baseline while keeping an eye out for any Lady Vikings cutting to the basket. Wallin scored four points and had a game high eight steals in the Lady Vikings’ 40-39 opening night loss in Buffalo Center.
The Lady Vikings’ Chloe Costello poured in a game high 18 points and grabbed a team high eight rebounds in the team's opening night loss to North Iowa, eventually falling to the Lady Bison by just a single point, 40-39 in non-conference action. Northwood-Kensett, winners of six in a row and 10 of...

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