FORT MADISON – Holy Trinity Catholic volleyball coach Melissa Freesmeier is the 2019 volleyball recipient of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union’s Golden Plaque of Distinction. Freesmeier will be honored before the start of [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WEST POINT – Donnellson resident, and founder of Rebuild Nepal Education Foundation, Ernie Schiller is putting together an art exhibit to display and sell art work from Nepalese children. Schiller has made [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Ten in a row… and counting. This year’s squad of Holy Trinity Crusaders, almost to a person, said at the beginning of the season they didn’t know what [Read More…]
HTC opens Nov. 13 as 7th seed vs No. 2 Council Bluffs St. Albert BY JOHN BOHNENKAMPPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – The 10th consecutive trip to the state tournament for Holy Trinity’s volleyball team is [Read More…]
BY PCC SPORTSWINFIELD MT. UNION – Holy Trinity girls junior high basketball team split in it’s season opener The 8th grade girls won 40-18 behind 16 points from Natalie Randolph. Mary Kate Bendlage had 13. [Read More…]
With the final results being tallied and most everyone at the Lakeside Municipal Golf Course at Kennedy Park in Fort Dodge heading for their car, a kid in a blue windbreaker, and blue and white [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR KEOSAUQUA – It’s was about 48 minutes of volleyball and suddenly Seymour’s season was over. The Lady Warriors put up very little struggle as the 8th-ranked Holy Trinity Crusaders rolled to [Read More…]
BY JOHN BOHNENKAMPPCC STAFF FORT MADISON – There is a different level, even with inexperience, for Holy Trinity’s volleyball team once it gets into the postseason.It showed in Monday’s 25-12, 25-19, 25-20 win over Notre [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Lucy Graham, of Holy Trinity Catholic High School, has attained the highest individual honor available to Iowa high school musicians by being selected as a member of the 2019 [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR IOWA CITY – Holy Trinity Catholic Cross Country Coach Matt Mohrfeld watched his Crusaders go by off the start and then turned and predicted senior Matt Hellige would finish sixth and [Read More…]
Holy Trinity to face Burlington-Notre Dame on Monday at Shottenkirk Gym at 7 p.m.; Lady Hawks take on West Liberty Tuesday on the road BY PCC STAFF WEST BURLINGTON – Central Lee advanced in Class [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF MEDIAPOLIS – The Lady Hounds struggled with some stiff competition at Thursday’s quadrangular at Mediapolis. The girls fell to Class 2A’s second-ranked Mediapolis 12-25, 11-25 and then lost to Class 1A No. [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR MEDIAPOLIS – The Mediapolis volleyball team had given up just seven games all year and has amassed a 35-1 record. The Class 2A 2nd-ranked Bulldogs moved to 39-1 on the year [Read More…]
FAIRFIELD – Holy Trinity Catholic’s Matt Hellige was 19 seconds off the pace at the Southeast Iowa Superconference meet Monday at Fairfield’s Waterworks Park. The senior, who’s ranked 16th in Class 1A, as of the [Read More…]
Lady Hawks open Class 3A Region 8 play on Oct. 23 at West Burlington against Lady Falcons BY PCC STAFF MT. PLEASANT – Holy Trinity Catholic lost in a 13-15 tiebreaker surrendering the championship of [Read More…]
Bloodhounds at home in Round 1, No. 4 North Scott looms in bracket, but no CR Xavier BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – If the Holy Trinity Catholic girls are to make a return [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WEST BURLINGTON – The Holy Trinity Catholic girls volleyball team is, once again, beginning to peak at just the right time. The Class 1A 8th-ranked Crusaders swept West Burlington on the road [Read More…]
IOWA CITY – Holy Trinity senior Matt Hellige was just 13 seconds off the pace at the Hillcrest Academy Invitational held at Iowa City Regina Monday night. The Invitational features some of the area’s bigger [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Holy Trinity Catholic’s girls volleyball team moved to 18-7 overall and 5-2 in the Superconference with a sweep of WACO on Thursday night at home. The Crusaders are ranked [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WINFIELD – HTC senior Matt Hellige was just two seconds off the paced at Twin Lakes Golf Course in Winfield on Thursday night. Hellige finished 2nd overall with a time of 16:28, [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC SPORTS BURLINGTON – The Holy Trinity Crusaders just missed taking Class 2A’s 4th-ranked Van Buren Warriors to a tiebreaker at the Southeast Iowa Superconference volleyball tournament Saturday at SCC. The Crusaders, ranked [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WAVERLY – Holy Trinity Catholic’s Matt Hellige continues his stellar final high school cross-country year at the Wartburg College Steve Johnson Invitational Saturday. The 28-team, 186-runner event featured some of the [Read More…]
BY JOHN BOHNENKAMPPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – The journey Holy Trinity’s volleyball team takes in the next few weeks may have had the path determined by the final points of Thursday’s SEI Superconference Tournament play. [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – It’s an odd feeling for a Fort Madison volleyball team to not be on the floor for the championship match of the annual Holy Trinity Classic. But that’s [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF KEOKUK – Knoxville proved to a be thorn in the side of Lee County schools at the Keokuk Invitational volleyball tournament Saturday. Holy Trinity Catholic advanced to the championship match against the [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF VAN BUREN – Van Buren, ranked No. 4 in the state in Class 2A knocked off Holy Trinity Catholic Thursday night in three games. Sophomore Kassi Randolph led the 9th-rated Class 1A [Read More…]
Submitted article FORT MADISON – Jason Woodley, principal of Holy Trinity Catholic High School announced today that Wyatt Hellman and Samantha Pothitakis have been named Commended Students in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program. A [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – “These girls are better than they think they are,” said Holy Trinity Catholic girls volleyball coach Melissa Freesmeier Tuesday night. Freesmeier was all kinds of fired up after [Read More…]
BY JOHN BOHNENKAMPPCC SPORTS NEW LONDON — Hit after hit was sailing out of bounds, and Holy Trinity volleyball coach Melissa Freesmeier felt helpless. The Crusaders’ four-game loss to New London on Thursday night was [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF VAN BUREN – Holy Trinity Catholic’s Matt Hellige ran a 17:18.78 5K Tuesday night for second place overall at the Van Buren Invitational Tuesday evening. Hellige was the Class A champion all [Read More…]
Two-time state qualifier kicks off final year of cross country BY PCC STAFF IOWA CITY – Holy Trinity Catholic’s Matthew Hellige started the season on a brisk note with a third-place finish at a roley-poley [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF BONDURANT – The Holy Trinity Crusaders won four of six matches at Saturday’s Bondurant-Farrar tourney with one of the losses coming to Class 4As 7th-ranked Waverly-Shell Rock. The Crusader’s, ranked 6th in [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – After shaking off the typical first game jitters, the 6th-ranked Holy Trinity Catholic Crusaders glided to a sweep of visiting Danville in the season opening volleyball action at [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – With a 2018 Class 1A state-runner up volleyball banner on the wall at Shottenkirk Gymnasium, Holy Trinity Catholic is reloading for another run at at state. The Crusaders [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC STAFF WEST POINT – Without a cloud in the sky on a perfect summer morning, the bummer of heading back to school was wiped away with a blessing, a song and welcome [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR KNOXVILLE, Tenn, – Her dream job would be to host a travel show on television simply because, well….she loves television and loves to travel. That makes perfect sense, but a lofty [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – “This is the greatest show.” The affable HTC Elementary Principal Michael Sheerin compares Holy Trinity Catholic’s transition to split leadership at the HTC High School and brand-new elementary [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – Holy Trinity Catholic Schools has announced its fourth quarter and second semester honor roll for the 2018-2019 school year. Pen City Current joins our advertisers and readers in congratulating these students on [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…]
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 CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A Fort Madison school official has expressed concerns about the effectiveness of the district’s shared baseball program with Holy Trinity Catholic High School. Fort Madison Superintendent Dr. Erin [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…]
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 CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WEST POINT – Sam Pothitakis is a rock star. There’s really no other way to describe her play Friday night in Holy Trinity Catholic’s 1-0 gut wrenching loss to Pella Christian [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WEST POINT – Lightning struck, figuratively, with six minutes left in the first half of 9th-ranked Holy Trinity Catholic’s girls regional soccer game when senior Taylor Boeding blistered in a shot [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF NEW LONDON – The Holy Trinity girls softball team started the season with a 16-2 win over New London in just five innings Monday night. Mary Hellige got the win for the [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS MEDIAPOLIS – Holy Trinity Catholic boy’s soccer team was held scoreless in just four games over the course of the regular season. Meanwhile, the Crusaders’ second-round substate opponent in West Liberty [Read More…]
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