BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC STAFF PELLA – Saturday night against Pella High School, Fort Madison baseball wrapped up regular season play with a 3-1 win, finishing with a record over the .500 mark for the first [Read More…]
BY BRIAN NEALPepsi Lee County Speedway DONNELLSON – It was Lee County Fair week, Iowa’s oldest running county fair, at the Lee County Fairgrounds in Donnellson, Iowa. And Thursday night was set aside for racing [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The C25K program is a beginners training program that has helped thousands of new runners to get up off their couch and onto the pavement; running three miles in [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS BURLINGTON – Energy. By the time the dust settle on Wagner Field at Burlington High School, energy was the one word both teams used to describe the outcome of Fort Madison [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS IOWA CITY- Fort Madison’s baseball team got to experience something not many will ever get the chance to. Wednesday the Bloodhounds traveled to Iowa City to play on the Iowa Hawkeye’s [Read More…]
Walker takes field in honor of father who died earlier in the day BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON- The little yellow lineup card that holds Fort Madison’s starting roster doesn’t change much, but Tuesday [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A couple of back-to-back errors to start the sixth inning triggered a six run, third inning that the Fort Madison Lady Bloodhounds couldn’t recover from Tuesday night. The [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – New London came away with the 11-7 win against Fort Madison baseball Monday night at Fort Madison High School. On the surface the matchup was just like any [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WEST BURLINGTON – Fort Madison’s Cassie Powers had one of her best outings of the year in a 1-0 make-up win at West Burlington Monday night. Powers retired the first 12 hitters [Read More…]
DES MOINES – The following is the weekly fishing report for southeast Iowa for the week ending July 13, 2019 from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Iowa River (Columbus Junction to Mississippi River)Still remains [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – It happened. With most of the season now in the rearview mirror, Fort Madison’s baseball team pushed one game over the .500 mark on the season, coming out with a 9-4 win [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON- Twenty-four games into the season and Fort Madison baseball is now at the .500 mark, sitting at 12-12 after coming away with both games of a doubleheader Monday night [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Maycee Featheringill lifted a solo home run to lead off the sixth inning in the opening game of a doubleheader Monday night as Fort Madison swept Keokuk 10-0 and [Read More…]
GOOSELAKE – The Fort Madison Lady Hounds salvaged the middle game of a three-game outing Saturday as part of the Northeast High School tournament in Goose Lake, Iowa. The win came against Calamus-Wheatland in the [Read More…]
By BRIAN NEALPepsi Lee County County Speedway DONNELLSON – After having two weeks off, one for a scheduled night off and one lost to mother nature, the Pepsi Lee County Speedway in Donnellson, Iowa got [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Youth traveling league baseball tryouts are being held on July 13th, through the Doherty Baseball Academy in July. Youth ages under 13 should show up at Ivanhoe Park on [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS WAPELLO – The great Rocky Balboa said it best, ‘It ain’t about how hard you can hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.’ Wednesday at [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARD PCC SPORTS DONNELLSON- Coming into Thursday’s doubleheader at Central Lee High School Fort Madison softball was on an eight-game losing streak, with the last win coming against Easton Valley on June 11. [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FAIRFIELD – The first time Fort Madison took on the Southeast Conference baseball powerhouse that is Fairfield, the Hounds got swept 2-0 in the doubleheader back at Fort Madison High School. [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FAIRFIELD – A four-run third inning in the opener and three-run first inning in the night cap led to a sweep on the road for the Fort Madison girls softball team Monday [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WEST POINT – The Holy Trinity girls junior high softball team went 1-1 last week highlighted by a 13-0 win over New London at South Park Tuesday. Mary Hellige was the winning [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – After one year and two wins, Fort Madison Head girls basketball coach Todd McGhghy has resigned his coaching position with the district. McGhghy, who was in his third [Read More…]
BY BRIAN NEALPEPSI LEE COUNTY SPEEDWAY DONNELLSON – For the third time in 2019 mother nature has taken the checkered flag at the Pepsi Lee County Speedway in Donnellson, Iowa. Strong storms and heavy rains [Read More…]
DES MOINES – The following is the weekly fishing report from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for southeast Iowa. Big Hollow LakeWater clarity continues to improve, but is still cloudy. Largemouth Bass – Fair: Anglers are [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS DAVENPORT- For the first time this season, Fort Madison baseball dropped three games in a row after falling in game one of a doubleheader 8-1 to Davenport North. The Bloodhounds then [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON- For those that aren’t aware, high school baseball and softball games are always scheduled for seven innings. After game one of a doubleheader Thursday night at Fort Madison High [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – The 22nd Annual Fort Madison Wrestling Camp of Champs is set for July 14-16th at the Fort Madison wrestling room. The camp this year will feature Nelson Brands, a 3-time state champion, [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARD PCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – The following link is a video preview of tonight’s FMHS girls softball game against Washington at home. First pitch is at 5:30 p.m. The Lady Hounds suffered [Read More…]
7 p.m. wrestling event will help raise funds for Fort Madison baseball team BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORT FORT MADISON- Many current adults grew up watching wrestling and still follow it to this day. And why [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – Fort Madison softball played a double header earlier in the season against Mount Pleasant. The two contest were actually the first two losses on the season for the [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – Fort Madison baseball had only been shut out once in the 15 games leading up to Monday’s double header against Mount Pleasant. The Bloodhounds had already faced Mount [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Notre Dame’s Mitchell Brent came into Saturday’s game with Fort Madison sporting a perfect 3-0 record and a 0.00 earned run average, but the Bloodhounds smeared his perfection [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – The Holy Trinity girls junior varsity squad downed Columbus Junction 5-3 Thursday to improve to 10-1 on the year. Mary Hellige got the win going seven innings striking out eight batters. Hellige [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Holy Trinity Catholic’s Claire Pothitakis put a nice cap on her 2019 soccer season with a couple of post season honors. Pothitakis, just a sophomore for the Crusaders, was [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC STAFF WASHINGTON- Fort Madison has lost the first game of a doubleheader five out of the six times this year. The good news is in half of those games, the Bloodhounds have [Read More…]
Big Hollow LakeWater clarity continues to improve, but is still cloudy. Largemouth Bass – Fair: Anglers are picking up a few bass in 5 to 6 feet of water around the flooded timber. Bluegill – Good: Anglers had been [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WASHINGTON – The Fort Madison Bloodhound softball team suffered it’s firsts losses in six games dropping a doubleheader to Washington Thursday on the road. The Lady Hounds fell short in the nightcap [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF DONNELLSON – The Holy Trinity Catholic junior varsity girls softball team moved to 8-1 with a 7-6 win over Central Lee Tuesday night on the road. Mary Hellige got the win pitching [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF DAVENPORT – The Fort Madison Lady Hounds tallied three wins in less than six hours on Tuesday as part of a Quad Cities tournament. The Hounds got the best of Davenport Central [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON- Coming into Tuesday’s contest against Washington, Fort Madison’s baseball team was riding high on a three-game win streak. The Bloodhounds were originally set to take on the Demons May [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds put up 13 runs in the top of the fourth inning in Game 1 of a double header in Keokuk on Monday night, to [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS KEOKUK – Coming into Monday night’s matchup against Lee County and Southeastern conference foe Keokuk, Fort Madison softball sat three games under the five hundred mark at 3-6. After Monday’s double-header [Read More…]
BY BRIAN NEALPEPSI LEE COUNTY SPEEDWAY DONNELLSON- Finally mother nature provided the Pepsi Lee County Speedway in Donnellson, Iowa with some beautiful weather for a night of racing. The Morrow Brothers Ford Midwest Open Wheel [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – As the numbers of students playing organized sports appears to be shrinking, open enrollment taking it’s toll on almost every school, and school budgets get squeezed, shared programs [Read More…]
WEST POINT – The Holy Trinity girls junior varsity softball team has moved to 6-1 on the season after scoring three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning on Thursday for a comeback 7-6 [Read More…]
Big Hollow LakeWater level has returned to close to normal, but the water remains fairly muddy. Largemouth Bass – Fair: Anglers are picking up a few bass in 5 to 6 feet of water around the flooded [Read More…]
BY PCC SPORTS FORT MADISON- Fort Madison’s softball team came into Wednesday’s home contest against Wapello having lost four of its previous five games and looking for a hero. They found that person in the [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS MEDIAPOLIS- Since the 2014-2015 season when Fort Madison and Mediapolis starting playing on a seasonal basis, the Bulldogs have got the best of the Bloodhounds, winning all six contest. That half [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WEST POINT – The Holy Trinity Catholic junior varsity softball team got a 6-5 win over West Burlington/Notre Dame 6-5 Tuesday night. The win avenges the only junior varsity loss this year [Read More…]
BY COLIN MAGNESUNRadioKeokuk News/Sports Director DONNELLSON – Typically, when a baseball team wins a game via a walk-off, it means that it’s been a thrilling affair. A game-ending RBI to break a tie or a [Read More…]
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