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 CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR MT. PLEASANT – It was a bittersweet day on Friday afternoon for the Fort Madison Bloodhound boys and girls track team…but a bit more on the sweet side. The Hounds qualified [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Bloodhounds chased and nipped at the heals of the Washington Demons Monday night in Class 3A substate boys basketball, but couldn’t come up with the right play [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – It was shaping up to be another buzzer beater between the Bloodhounds and the Mt. Pleasant Panthers Friday night. Just before the holiday break, Fort Madison’s Logan Rashid [Read More…]
PCC STAFF FAIRFIELD – Fairfield won all three games against the Little Hounds’ 8th grade boys team on Tuesday. Nathaniel Swigart led Fort Madison with eight points, two of which came from three-point land in [Read More…]
PCC STAFF MT. PLEASANT – You had to go back to Miles Wentzien’s senior year in 2015 to find a Fort Madison boys basketball win over Mt. Pleasant. And the streak almost continued Friday night, [Read More…]
PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds downed Mt. Pleasant 45-31 Thursday night prior to Friday and Saturday’s Fort Madison Invitational Tournament at FMHS. Senior Sam Hayes down the Tigers’ Trevor Wellington in [Read More…]
PCC STAFF HAMILTON – The Fort Madison Bloodhound girls basketball team is still searching for its first win of the year after dropping a 51-27 loss on the road to West Hancock on Tuesday night. [Read More…]
PCC STAFF FAIRFIELD – The Fort Madison 8th grade girls downed Fairfield Thursday night 34-15. The leading scorer for the Bloodhounds were Isabella Boeding and Camille Kruse with 13 points each. Rounding out the scoring [Read More…]
PCC STAFF CENTERVILLE – Bloodhound freshman Dayton Davis had a season high 14 and junior Jayden Fedler poured in 18 as the Hounds got back to winning ways with a 61-52 win over Centerville on [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR KEOKUK – It certainly wasn’t scripted that way, but an 18-foot jumper by FMHS center Jayden Fedler with :09 on the clock in overtime, gave Fort Madison it’s first win [Read More…]
PCC STAFF QUINCY, Ill. – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds started the season on a winning note edging Quincy High School on the road 40-35 Wednesday night. Senior Sam Hayes, who was rated as high as [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Despite the loss of two first-team all-conference picks last year, the Fort Madison Bloodhounds boys basketball team may be in a better position to compete for a [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR KEOKUK – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds survived what can only be described as the goofiest first two minutes of football most of the spectators had ever seen, to wrap up [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison 7th grade team finished the season 2-3 with a 6-14 loss to Keokuk Tuesday night at home. Teague Smith and Ike Thacher teamed up for the [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF CENTERVILLE – FMHS freshman Katelyn Dennis captured third place overall at the Centerville Big Red Redette Cross Country Invitational on Tuesday, leading the Bloodhounds to a 3rd place team finish as well. [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – At 2-4, the Hounds will be hard pressed to find a winning season in Head Coach Tony Shiffman’s second year. The pass-happy Bloodhounds who only have about [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Last year a winning season for the Bloodhound football team may have hinged on a homecoming game against a 1-5 Fairfield team on Oct. 7. But prior [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF OTTUMWA – The Fort Madison 7th graders downed Ottumwa Tuesday night 50-0. Teague Smith and Henry Wiseman went nuts for FMMS combining for 300 yards on the ground. Smith rushed for 157 [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The best thing that can be said about Friday’s Bloodhound football game is that the Solon Spartans are on a bus headed out of town. It was [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF MT. PLEASANT – The Fort Madison Bloodhound volleyball squad rebounded from a 2-2 performance at Monday night’s Holy Trinity Classic with a straight set win over Mt. Pleasant on the road Tuesday [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A six-run first inning proved to be too much Thursday night as Fort Madison’s Lady Bloodhounds bowed out of Class 4A regional softball action with a 14-2 [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds dropped a pair of games to Fairfield at home Monday night on senior night. Senior Tony Fortado took the loss in a 20-0 five-inning first game for Fort [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF DAVENPORT – The Fort Madison Lady Hounds softball team dropped a doubleheader on the road Wednesday night at Davenport North 11-3 and 12-2. FMHS looked to make a game of the opener [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Fort Madison head baseball coach Ken Steeples was sort of lost as to how many years it’s been since his Bloodhound baseball team has won a doubleheader [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Junior Brody Rung threw a hat trick at Washington Monday in boys high school soccer action at the Baxter Sports Complex, but the Hounds couldn’t hold on for the [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…]
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…]
BY PCC STAFF MEDIAPOLIS – The Fort Madison boys track team took fourth place at the Mediapolis Invitational on Tuesday evening, but several Hounds brought home titles. The Bloodhounds captured 113 points. Mediapolis won the [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – At Wednesday’s banquet for the Fort Madison Bloodhound wrestling team, the program said goodbye to four seniors including from left, Ryan Steffensmeier. Ryan was 1st team all-conference in the [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 PCC STAFF CARTHAGE – A slow start for the Hounds was enough for Illini West to hold off Fort Madison in a 42-38 loss in Tuesday night’s regular season finale for the Hounds. Seniors [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DES MOINES – A nearfall right in front of Head Coach Ryan Smith was all Hound wrestler Harlan Steffensmeier needed to advance to the Class 3A semifinals in tonight’s evening [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 PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Lady Hounds wrapped up their regular season Friday night unceremoniously with a 67-23 loss at the hands of Southeast Conference front-runner Fairfield. But seniors Taylor Shannon, Katie Larson [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF BLOOMFIELD – Fort Madison senior Kaleb Cresswell hit eight 3-pointers to tie an FMHS record as the Hounds dropped Davis County 79-43 in boys high school basketball action Wednesday night. Cresswell and [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison girls got their first win of the season in a 48-34 win over Davis County behind sophomore Sara Bernhart’s 15 points. The win moves [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – Some tenacious defense from the Fort Madison Bloodhounds gave Central Lee some fits in a 35-26 Hawks win Saturday at Central Lee. The Hounds held MacKenzie Northup, the [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds got seven points from Sarah Bernhart and five each from Taylor Shannon, Anna Kester, and Braxtyn McGhghy in a 26-45 loss in girls Southeast Conference action Friday night [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MT. PLEASANT – A 19-0 run in the 2nd quarter shut the lights on the upset-minded Fort Madison boys basketball team as Mt. Pleasant downed the Bloodhounds 61-29 Friday at [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Bloodhound boys basketball team has lost seven straight to Southeast Conference rival Mt. Pleasant since the 2014-15 season. Earlier this year, the Panthers handed Fort Madison [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – FMHS senior wrestler Harlan Steffensmeier broke the school record on Thursday night with a forfeit win and a pin over Luca Tornatore of Kirksville in just 1:04 to lead [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds surrendered just three losses in a 61-18 win over the Fairfield Trojans on Tuesday night’s Senior Night in a makeup dual held at the Fort [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – After finishing 3rd at last year’s state wrestling tournament, Central Lee senior Harlan Steffensmeier, who wrestles for Fort Madison High School, said he finished 7th as a [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A balanced scoring attack and some solid team defense proved to be too much for visiting Burlington as Fort Madison dumped the Grayhounds 53-36 Tuesday night at [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF CENTERVILLE – The Fort Madison Bloodhound junior varsity wrestling team brought home five first-place finishes at this weekend’s Centerville JV tournament. Dawson Hunt, Quinton Ross, Will Larson, Martin Vineyard and Lennon Barker [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF KEOKUK – Fort Madison got eight points from Braxtyn McGhghy in their 40-20 loss to Keokuk Friday night on the road. The Chiefs jumped out to a 12-8 lead in the first [Read More…]
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