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On a quest to avoid a winless season in the Top of Iowa Conference East this year, the Lady Vikings of Northwood-Kensett gave it everything they had in their two games last week, unfortunitly both games once again went in the loss column.
The Lady Vikings didn’t start their week until Thursday...
Drake Tiedemann: While his two ranked teammates get all the attention N-K’s Drake Tiedemann meticulously goes about his business, and that business, winning, is going great this year. Tiedemann, whose calm demeaner on the mat defies his desire to win, has racked up an incredible 31-2 record this...
The season long struggles continued for the Northwood-Kensett girls basketball team last week when it dropped all three games played, including losses to West Fork (60-31), Rockford (40-34) and Lake Mills (58-24). With the losses to West Fork and Rockford the Lady Vikings remain winless this season...
The bad news for the Vikings in their three losses last week was that they got beat by an average of 56.7 points per game, including a 73-point loss to West Fork, a 44-point loss to Rockford and a 53- point loss to Lake Mills.
Now there might not be a lot of good news you can take from getting...
As far as a wrestling quad goes, it really doesn’t get much tougher for a 19-10 Northwood-Kensett team than to face off against previously ranked Lake Mills, No. 6 ranked West Hancock and a scrappy Belmond-Klemme team, but that’s what the Vikings had to face last Thursday night in Northwood on...
The Northwood-Kensett wrestling team ran its season dual record to a very impressive 18-8 last week with dual wins over Garner-Hayfield/Ventura (42-39) and Saint Ansgar (42-27), suffering its lone loss to Forest City, 45-36.
Because of the blizzard at the end of last week, the Vikings were able...
It took it awhile but the Northwood-Kensett boys’ basketball team finally picked up its first Top of Iowa Conference East win last Tuesday night when it traveled to Greene and came home with the 51-48 win over North Butler.
Playing this game without its top two scorers and rebounders, Caden...
T.J. Whitelow: Putting together one the best games of his short varsity career, N-K’s TJ Whitelow recorded just his second double-double of the year last Tuesday night to lead the Vikings to just their second win of the second and first in the TIC East. Whitelow saved his best for when the Vikings...
Lady Viking Ruthie Conlin poured in a team high 12 points, 10 of those coming in the first half of play in last Tuesday night’s Top of Iowa Conference East matchup at North Butler. But despite Conlin’s big game, Northwood-Kensett couldn’t hold onto a first half lead and let the Bearcats slip away...
When you’re as young as this Vikings team is, with just one senior and a constantly shrinking lineup because of injuries, it’s tough to come out every night and be competitive, but that’s just what this team does night in and night out.
The Vikings showed that same competitive streak in their...