PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Lee County Democratic Party awarded a $1,000 scholarship to a Lee County senior Carlos Degadillo from Fort Madison High School. Degadillo had to write a 500-word essay from a selection [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Senior Taylor Shannan put up four more goals on Friday as the Bloodhounds fell to Holy Trinity Catholic 5-4 at the Baxter Sports Complex. Dezire Kline had two assists [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DES MOINES – With personal records falling all over the place and medals being thrown around people’s necks, it’s been a pretty darned good day for Fort Madison at the [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DES MOINES – Fort Madison senior Leigh Johnson’s wearing a medal around the grounds at Drake Stadium with a big smile on her face. With a 37′ throw, which bested [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FAIRFIELD – Fort Madison’s top girls double tennis team breezed through the bracket at Fairfield Middle School Wednesday to advance to the girls state tennis meet on May 30th and 31st in [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – They were born on July 30, 2003…both of them and 15 years later they’re headed to the Iowa High School boys state tennis tournament on May 25 [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison High School Alumni Hall of Honor was established to recognize alumni who have distinguished themselves based upon elements of academic excellence and achievement, career accomplishments, community [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Lady Hounds were bounced from regional team tennis action Monday, but took Notre Dame to the limit in the second round. FMHS took five [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Junior goalkeeper Javier Trejo had 16 saves in a 5-1 Bloodhound loss to Mt. Pleasant Friday night. The Hounds held the Panthers to a 1-0 lead with the only [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF BURLINGTON – Kearstyn Johnson continued her hot tennis for the Fort Madison Bloodhounds as she won the title at No. 3 singles at the Burlington Invitational on Saturday at Dankwardt Park. But [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WAYLAND – The Fort Madison boys and girls high school track team picked up a meet in Wayland on Thursday night, and picked up eight first place finishes for their efforts. On [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF MT. PLEASANT – The Fort Madison boys tennis team fell in a tight match that came down to the No. 3 doubles match. Blake Feuerhammer and Gage Hind, who play at Nos. [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison boys soccer team fell to Iowa City Liberty Friday at home 2-1. The Hounds gave up two goals in the first half as they fell to the Lightning and [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhound girls swept Mt. Pleasant Friday night for the second sweep of the season for the tennis team. The Hounds also went 9-0 against Davis County back on April [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Holy Trinity Catholic’s Brett Schneider runs track for Fort Madison High School. Next year she’ll run for UNI, but this Saturday, she’s running at Drake University in [Read More…]
PCC STAFF KEOKUK – FMHS’s Brett Schneider had the best finish at Tuesday’s Keosippi Relays at Keokuk’s Calvert Stadium. Schneider’s 2:29.30 mark in the 800-meter run was less than one second off the pace of [Read More…]
ANIAH ROSS PCC INTERN FORT MADISON – Last Friday a couple dozen FMHS students walked out of their classrooms at 10:00 am. They stood outside the building for 26 minutes and 13 seconds, 26 minutes [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FAIRFIELD – The Fort Madison boys tennis team won their second match in two days and are now over .500 for the season at 4-3 with a 5-4 win over Fairfield on [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison boys tennis team edged Mt. Pleasant 5-4 in a make up game from the wintry weather a couple weeks ago. The Bloodhounds got four wins in [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WASHINGTON – The Fort Madison boys soccer team went into OT for the second straight match, but this time came out on the wrong end of a 2-3 decision at Washington. Carson [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF BURLINGTON – The Fort Madison girls tennis team got back on the winning track Friday night with a 7-2 win over Burlington on the road. The Hounds were close to a full [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – No. 1 seed Sam Avery won in singles and doubles as the Bloodhounds hosted West Burlington-Notre Dame on Thursday, but FMHS fell 3-6 in the meet to fall to [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FAIRFIELD – Kearstyn Johnson was the only Bloodhound to get a win in singles in Tuesday’s girls high school tennis meet at Fairfield as the Hounds bowed out 2-7. However, [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Carve out a little time this Saturday for the annual Lincoln and Richardson Elementary School Fun Fest being held from noon to 3 p.m. at the Fort Madison High [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MT. PLEASANT – The Fort Madison boys track team brought home two first-place events en route to an 18th-place team finish at the Denny White Relays in Mt. Pleasant on [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Fort Madison got in their first home meet of the year Thursday night and came away with an 8-1 win over Burlington. The Bloodhounds’ only loss came [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Future University of Northern Iowa runner, Brett Schneider, took first in the 800-meter run at the Pen City Relays on Tuesday evening at Richmond Field. The senior [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison girls tennis team downed Keokuk Monday 6-3 and then turned around and shut out an overmatched Davis County squad Tuesday night. The wins have [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR KEOKUK – The Fort Madison boys tennis team moved to 1-1 on the season with a close 5-4 win over Keokuk on the road Monday night. Two freshman brothers, Jason [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – In frigid temperatures, the Fort Madison girls tennis team sneaked in a meet with Keokuk Saturday morning. What was originally scheduled to be an Invitational, turned out [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WASHINGTON – The Fort Madison boys and girls track and field squads combined for seven titles at Thursday’s Washington Demon Relays. Elijah Barnes threw 50′-1″ in the shot put to continue his [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – In what Fort Madison High School Head tennis Coach Dean Hogan called one of the top three coldest matches he’s ever been part of, the Hounds dropped [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhound boys soccer team outscored three opponents 11-7 in Saturday’s FMHS Invitational, but came away with just one win. Sophomore Austin Sexton scored four [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC STAFF MT. PLEASANT – FMHS senior Elijah Barnes took home another first place in the shotput on Thursday night, while the FMHS girls Distance Medley team also captured a first-place finish [Read More…]
ANIAH ROSS PCC FMHS INTERN FORT MADISON – Fort Madison High School’s Marching Bloodhounds returned Sunday night from Chicago. The parade was a long wait but a quick march. A lot of people were at [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF MONMOUTH – The Fort Madison girls 4×800 relay team of Lauren King, Sierra Howardson, Brett Schneider and Kamryn Bailey had the highest finish of the day Saturday at the Galesburg Last Chance [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON- It’s tall and wobbly and has seen better days. And aside from its part in the history of the Fort Madison High School football program, its time has [Read More…]
BY ANIAH ROSS PCC FMHS INTERN FORT MADISON – Fort Madison’s very own Marching Bloodhounds have the privilege of marching in a national parade once again this coming weekend. 90 students will be marching in [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF AMES – Fort Madison High School’s Elijah Barnes continues to break the 50′ mark in his final year on the Bloodhound Track and Field team. Barnes threw the shot for 50′ 1/2″ [Read More…]
BY ANIAH ROSS PCC FMHS Intern FORT MADISON – In the wake of the recent school shootings that have taken the lives of many students, local officials continue to drill lock-down procedures at Fort Madison [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MT. VERNON – Fort Madison High School senior Elijah Barnes set a personal best throw in the shot put at 50.1 and took first-place in a 71 person field. Barnes’ [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF MT. VERNON – Senior Sierra Howardson led a young group at the Fort Madison girls track team at the Washington Indoor meet Thursday at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon. Howardson finished in [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Aside from a 3-3 tie in the first quarter, the Mt. Pleasant Panthers showed Fort Madison why they’re one of the best, if not the best, Class [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MOUNT PLEASANT – FMHS senior Kaleb Cresswell said he didn’t want anyone else to be responsible for losing the game in the Hounds’ 50-47 win over Iowa City Liberty, but [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DES MOINES – Harlan Steffensmeier likes to count by twos. Whether it’s a takedown, or a reversal, or a near fall….or moving up the podium in increments of two at [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DES MOINES – Bloodhound wrestling will add one more name to the list of grapplers who’ve wrestled for a state title. On Friday night, senior Harlan Steffensmeier, who wrestles for [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DES MOINES – It was a rough start for the contingency of wrestlers from FMHS Thursday afternoon as four of the five state qualifiers from Fort Madison lost in opening [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR WASHINGTON – In reality, the season ended for the FMHS girls basketball team about eight minutes into their regional opening 49-12 loss to Washington at Washington Wednesday night, After committing [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A dramatic 5-4 decision in a match for second place by sophomore Danen Settles wrapped up a day that saw five Fort Madison Bloodhounds earn trips to [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Fairfield junior Austin Simpson put up 28 points and ruined FMHS’s senior and Hall of Fame night as the Trojans eeked out a 58-56 win in the [Read More…]
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