BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FAIRFIELD- Never underestimate your opponent, a saying that has been engraved in the minds of any person who has every competed in athletics. For a Fairfield squad that wrapped up the [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds finished the regular season 16-14 on the year, the first winning season in more than a decade and a half. Bloodhound players and coaching [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…]
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…]
Finish 24th out of 50 without even touching plumbing segment of national competition BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The best building trades students in the country lined up in the West Wing of [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 CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LOUISVILLE, Ken. – Four of Fort Madison High School’s finest are in Louisville right now getting ready to represent Fort Madison and the state of Iowa in US Skills competition against [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…]
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…]
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…]
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 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 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…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – Fort Madison baseball hadn’t been swept in a double header yet this season. Monday at home against Fairfield, the Bloodhounds looked to continue that trend as they took [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison softball team dropped two games on Monday night to visiting Fairfield. In game 1, the Hounds got an RBI single from Ivy Geerdes in the fifth [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds have put three players on the Southeast Conference, all-conference squad released today. Seniors Justin Bowker and Reuben Eid both made the squad as did junior [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF Wilton High School scored the first run of the game Friday against Fort Madison’s softball team. Wilton also scored the last run, picking up the 6-1 victory over the Bloodhounds. Fort Madison [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS MT. PLEASANT – Having baseball practice in a Shopko parking lot isn’t the ideal situation, but when every other piece of ground is submerged by water, you don’t really have a [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WATERLOO – Jason and Vasin Thurman are just shots away, literally, from an eventual medal at the Iowa State Doubles Tennis tournament. The two sophomores from Holy Trinity Catholic, who play [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WATERLOO – Sam Avery had about as tough a path to try and place at the Iowa State Tennis Tournament as any unseeded player in the draw. But the senior from [Read More…]
FMHS’s Hellige takes 12th in the mile run BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR DES MOINES – Keokuk’s Miracle Ailes and Fort Madison’s Matt Hellige wrapped up the final day of the 2019 Iowa State Track meet [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC Sports FORT MADISON – For the third time in a four game stretch, the Fort Madison Bloodhounds shut out an opponent and came away with the win, this time taking down Davenport [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF DANVILLE – Austin Sexton and Brody Rung each scored goals Monday night as Fort Madison edged Danville on the road 2-1 to move the Bloodhounds back to even play on the year. [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR KEOKUK – The clouds opened up after Fort Madison swept all six singles matches at Keokuk Thursday night, cancelling any doubles action. But the Bloodhounds took all six singles matches from [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC Sports KEOKUK – Football players are known to get into a warrior-esque mindset when they step on the field. Playing on a football field Thursday, Fort Madison’s girls soccer team adopted that [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS Fort Madison’s girls soccer team (4-3) had averaged 2.33 goals scored per game on the season coming into Monday’s home match against Iowa City Liberty (4-3). That average dipped to an [Read More…]
FAIRFIELD – The Fort Madison Bloodhound boys tennis team continues to plow through opponents with a 7-2 win Tuesday night in Fairfield. The Bloodhounds top five players have not lost in singles or doubles action [Read More…]
PCC STAFF BLOOMFIELD – The Lady Hounds girls tennis team struggled in blustery conditions on Friday night in rural Davis County and dropped their first dual meet of the year 4-5 to Davis County. Fort [Read More…]
PCC STAFF WEST BURLINGTON – The Fort Madison High School building trades program continues to stack up awards. On Friday, the Bloodhound Construction won the SCC regional skills competition with a team consisting of Elton [Read More…]
PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds recorded two third-place finishes and finished 14th overall at the 44th Annual Timm Lamb Pen City Relays. Freshman Raquel Schneider finished the 400-meter hurdles with a [Read More…]
PCC STAFF MONMOUTH – The Fort Madison Bloodhound boys track team made a rare outdoor trip to Illinois to compete in the 14th Annual Monmouth-Roseville Titan Invitational Monday night. The Bloodhounds took 4th place out [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds boys tennis team stayed hot with a 6-3 win over Burlington Notre Dame Friday in a makeup of a postponed Thursday match. The [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison girls tennis team swept six singles matches to open the season Tuesday night on Fort Madison’s courts. The Lady Hounds took down Burlington-Notre Dame 8-1 [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison boys tennis team is off to an impressive 2-0 start after knocking off visiting Muscatine 7-2 Monday night at the Fort Madison High School tennis [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – With Fort Madison Head Football Coach Tony Shiffman announcing his resignation on social media this morning, school officials are already in full recruitment mode. Fort Madison High School [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Holy Trinity Crusaders opened the season with a win on a long day of soccer Saturday at the Baxter Sports Complex, but finished the day 1-2 for [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WEST BURLINGTON – A depleted Bloodhound track team captured 3rd place at the Falcon Relays Monday night. Co-Head Coach Mike Schneider said the squad was without eight or nine runners due [Read More…]
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