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Stats of the Week #43

Carter Severson: While the quarterbacks and defensive linemen usually get all the press, take a look at any successful team and you’ll find kids that make a huge impact, not by being great at any one thing, but being good at everything they do. For the Vikings that player is Carter Severson....

Samantha Tindall tries to stay in contact with the runners in front of her in last Thursday’s TIC cross-country meet at NIACC. Tindall showed a lot of guts out on the course and finished with a time of 29:11.

Davidson takes second place at TIC meet, earns all-conference honors

Northwood-Kensett’s Lindsey Davidson took home her third Top of Iowa Conference second place medal in last Thursday’s event held in Mason City among the corn and bean fields at NIACC. Davidson ran the course in 20:38, about 16 seconds faster than her sophomore year but 13 seconds slower than last...

The Lady Vikings' biggest opponent down the stretch is their schedule

It happens every year to the Northwood-Kensett volleyball team. Just as they start to play well and come together as a team, the Lady Vikings hit a stretch in their schedule that has them playing one match a week, for weeks on end, resulting in just a handful of matches over the final month of play...

N-K’s Carter Severson earns his team excellent field position with this 40-yard return in last Friday night’s 41-19 win over Janesville. Severson has returned 11 kicks this season for 197 yards, an average of 17.9 per return.

Nichols’s 223-yard, three touchdown night leads N-K to win over Janesville

The Northwood-Kensett football team traveled to Janesville last Friday night still solidly in the playoff hunt and although it would need some help, also still in the district title picture. The Vikings were coming off one of the worst losses in the 31- year career of headcoach Dave Capitani,...

The Vikings Kael Julseth lays a picture -perfect shoulder tackle on Don Bosco’s Cael Frost in last Friday night’s 56-6 loss to the Dons. Frost and the Dons scorched the Vikings defense for 429 yards and seven touchdown’s on the ground.

N-K suffers first district loss, blown out by the Dons 56-6

By Mike Simmons Sports Editor Last season the Northwood-Kensett football team traveled to Gilbertsville to face the No. 1 ranked Dons on their home turf and came away with a historic 18-0 win, the first time Don Bosco had been shut out in 8-man football, ever. The team up to that point had not...

N-K’s Natalie Cordle gets triple teamed at the net in last Tuesday’s 3-1 loss to the Saints. Despite all the attention Cordle received from the Saints defense the talented hitter still managed five kills while going 15-15 at the service line.

Lady Vikings play best match of the season despite 3-1 loss to Saint Ansgar

Despite the struggles this season and the loss of six matches in the last seven played, the Northwood-Kensett volleyball team, staring a dismal end to it season in the face, pulled itself together and played perhaps its best match of the season in the 3-1 loss to Saint Ansgar last Tuesday night in...

N-K’s cross country star Lindsey Davidson continued her pursuit of the state's top runners with a second place finish at last Monday’s Garner-Hayfield-Ventura CC Invitational in Garner. Davidson started this season with a third place finish at Mercy but since that day the talented senior has earned a second and three first place medals, including last week when she ran her season best of 20:13. Davidson finished less than a second behind first-place finisher Abby Christians of G-H-V in last Monday’s meet.

Stats of the Week October 9, 2019 #41

N-K’s Nathan Hanneman runs just behind the leaders in last Monday’s XC meet in Garner. Hanneman placed 13th in Garner with a time of 19:31, one of two Vikings to break the 20-minute barrier. (Drake Tiedemann was the other)

N-K cross-country teams hitting their stride as season winds down

The numbers are turning up exactly the way you would want them for the Northwood-Kensett cross country teams this late in the season. Everyone is improving. In last Monday afternoon’s meet in Garner, the Vikings' Lindsey Davidson continued to be one of the runners to beat in northern Iowa when she...

Davidson’s hot streak continues with two more wins for N-K XC

Although she hadn’t finished any farther back than third place at any meet yet this season, up until the Osage meet two weeks ago Northwood-Kensett long distance runner Lindsey Davidson hadn’t taken home a coveted first place medal. But with that win in Osage the floodgates to Davidson’s success...

Lady Viking Hallie Varner delivers a serve in last Tuesday night’s 3-0 (13-25, 6-25, 19-25) loss at Central Springs. Varner has missed on just three serves all year, going 56-59 with a team leading .949 serving percentage.

Viking place kicker Logan Mayberry connects on a 26-yard field goal attempt in Friday’s 41-30 win over Riceville. Mayberry is a weapon most teams would love to have, he’s 2-3 on field goal attempts and 21-24 on extra points and he has 17 touchbacks in 36

So far this season the Top of Iowa Conference East has not been kind to the Lady Vikings of Northwood-Kensett, who dropped to 2-4 in conference play with their 3-0 (13-25, 6-25, 19-25) loss last Tuesday night in Manly to Central Springs. N-K hung close to the Panthers to begin the first set,...