BY JOHN BOHNENKAMPPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – Fort Madison High School’s defense wanted the shutout. But Friday’s 28-6 win over Burlington at Richmond Stadium was more than good enough. “We were so close (to the [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Burlington Grayhounds fired off a lot of canons in 2018 and shut out the Bloodhounds 31-0 at Bracewell Stadium But this year, the Grayhounds (1-2) won’t have [Read More…]
BY JOHN BOHNENKAMPPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – Kent Bailey saw his Fort Madison High School volleyball team down one game, and behind by 11 points in the second. “I figured, ‘Well, it’s going to take [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Fort Madison has been here before. For the last two years, the Hounds have come out of the gate 2-0 with hopes of finding a winning formula against [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison girls volleyball team dropped it’s second straight conference match Tuesday night on the road to Burlington, 17-25, 16-25, 21-25. Head Coach Kent Bailey said the [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WEST BURLINGTON – “Wholly smokes”. Those were the words of Fort Madison Bloodhound head coach Derek Doherty after Friday night’s 26-14 win over West Burlington on the road. Not because the [Read More…]
Dennis, Kester, and McVey finished 2-4 in girls run BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR KEOKUK – Anthony Barnes captured eighth place at the Keokuk Cross Country meet on Thursday, but it was a pack of Hounds [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – As has been the case for the past three years, the Fort Madison Bloodhounds will be looking to go 2-0 to start the year. Standing in the way [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FAIRFIELD – Fort Madison took the first set off perennial foe Fairfield Tuesday night, but couldn’t hold off the 13th-ranked Lady Trojans in the final three sets dropping the conference opener [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF BONDURANT – The Fort Madison Lady Hounds dropped three games in pool play and were sent to the consolation bracket where they rebounded to take two of three to end the day. [Read More…]
Lozano goes for 140 yards and a score in 17-0 win over Central Lee BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – Had it not been for an untimely fumble out of the back of the [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON- Heading into the fourth-consecutive season of the Lee County rivalry between the Hounds and the Hawks, Central Lee has a chance to even the series between the two programs [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – It was just the first day of summer camp, but the enthusiasm and excitement could be felt from the Fort Madison players and their coaching staff. Monday marked [Read More…]
Bloodhounds Cordray, Vasin Thurman, and Chiefs Dalton Boecker selected for 2nd team BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS The 2019 Southeast Conference all-conference teams have been released and Fort Madison and Keokuk were well represented across the [Read More…]
Former Central Lee and Stritch varsity coach picks up program in rebuilding mode BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON- Typically a coach that has a coaching record of 144-42 with a program is someone that [Read More…]
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…]
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