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HTC girls ending season on high note
BY PCC STAFF KEOKUK – The Holy Trinity girls soccer team is ending the season on an uptick winning four of their last five including a 6-2 win over Keokuk Monday night. Elle Rashid and [Read More…]
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HTC junior high girls get six top 5 spots at meet
FORT MADISON – Holy Trinity Catholic’s Raquel Schneider captured second place in the 800-meter run at the Southeast Iowa Superconference junior high track meet on May 8th and the Crusaders garnered six top five finishes. [Read More…]
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Fort Madison girls fall to HTC
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…]
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Hounds looking for improvements at 2018 state meet
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Three of five of the Fort Madison Bloodhounds participating in the Iowa girls and boys high school state track meet are looking to improve on last year’s [Read More…]
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HTC freshman twins headed to state
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…]
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Crusaders break two-game skid
WEST POINT – Five different Crusaders scored Tuesday as the Holy Trinity Catholic upended Keokuk 5-2 in high school boys soccer action. Junior Audrea Vincent scored and had an assist. Sophomores Reed Fehseke and Wyatt [Read More…]
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HTC girls slip to 5-8 on the season
BY PCC STAFF WEST POINT – The Holy Trinity Catholic girls soccer team slipped to 5-8 on the season with a 6-2 loss to Burlington on Friday at South Park. Senior Maya Rashid, a large [Read More…]
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Thornton advances to districts with 90 at Twin Lakes
BY PCC STAFF WINFIELD – Holy Trinity Catholic senior Collin Thornton is playing some of his best golf of the year at the perfect time. The three-sport athlete qualified for state district golf action with [Read More…]
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Results in from HTC junior high track meets
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Holy Trinity girls junior high track team competed at three meets over the past week. Individual and relay results are listed below. At Lone Tree Junior High meet, [Read More…]
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Schneider runs 400 hurdles at Drake
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…]
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HTC’s Alfred earns James Madison fellowship
BY AVA PEITZ HTC Intern/PCC FORT MADISON – Ryan Alfred, Holy Trinity Catholic’s 2018 Teacher of the Year, has been tapped to receive another award, a James Madison Graduate Fellowship. A James Madison Graduate Fellowship [Read More…]
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HTC girls off to 4-1 start
BY PCC STAFF COLUMBUS JUNCTION – The Holy Trinity Catholic girls soccer team got four goals from Elle Rashid en route to a 4-2 win over Columbus Junction on the road. Rashid was assisted on [Read More…]
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Schneider takes two first at junior high meet
BY PCC STAFF WEST BURLINGTON – The Holy Trinity junior high girls track team brought home some first place finishes and scored 31 points at the Falcons Co-Ed relays on Friday. The Crusaders Raquel Schneider [Read More…]
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Thornton cards 44 in HTC loss
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Holy Trinity Catholic boys golf team fell to Van Buren in a dual meet on Thursday at Sheaffer Memorial Golf Course in Fort Madison. Cole Thornton shot an [Read More…]
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HTC reflects on ‘Wizard’ performance
BY AVA PEITZ HTC Intern FORT MADISON – As Dorothy would say, “There’s no place like home.” After speaking with Sabrina Fullhart, who played Dorothy in Holy Trinity Catholic’s production of the Wizard of Oz, [Read More…]
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2nd HTC/Marquette alumni baseball game planned
BY PCC STAFF WEST POINT – The 2nd Annual HTC/Marquette/Aquinas alumni baseball game has been set for Saturday, April 28 beginning at 6 p.m. at South Park in West Point. All proceeds from the event [Read More…]
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HTC boys drop two straight
BY PCC STAFF WEST POINT – The Holy Trinity Catholic boys soccer team dropped two games to start the week after cold weather wreaked havoc on high school sports schedules last week. On Monday, Adam [Read More…]
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Schneider leads HTC junior high girls
BY PCC STAFF HARMONY – The HTC junior high girls track team competed at the Van Buren Junior High Co-Ed Invitational track meet on Thursday at Harmony High School in Farmington. Raquel Schneider ran to [Read More…]
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HTC strikers get back on winning track
BY PCC STAFF WAPELLO – HTC snapped a two-game losing skid with an 11-1 pasting of Wapello Thursday night on the road to highlight high school soccer action. Adam Rauenbuehler led the way for the [Read More…]
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HTC golfers drop second match to New London this week
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – HTC senior Collin Thornton paced the Crusaders with a 44 at a par-36 nine-hole match against New London Thursday night, but the Crusaders fell 169-194 for the second straight [Read More…]
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HTC boys golfers fall to New London
BY PCC STAFF NEW LONDON – The Crusaders boys golf team dropped a dual meet with New London at Deerwood Golf Course on Tuesday evening 180-209. Collin Thornton led the way for HTC with a [Read More…]
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HTC boys drop two matches to fall to 3-3
BY PCC STAFF KALONA – The Holy Trinity Catholic boys soccer team has dropped two consecutive road losses to move to 3-3 on the season. The Burlington Grayhounds shut out the Crusaders 4-0 on Saturday, [Read More…]
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Rauenbuehler goal gives HTC overtime win
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR WEST POINT – The Holy Trinity boys soccer team is getting in their conditioning early this year. For the second time in three matches, the Crusaders found themselves in overtime, [Read More…]
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Hounds go 1-2 at FMHS soccer invite
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…]
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Holy Trinity links past, present, future at ground-breaking
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR WEST POINT – After nearly 14 months of fundraising and planning, Dorothy and other Wizard of Oz characters helped usher in a new era of learning at the Holy Trinity [Read More…]
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Alfred named HTC Teacher of the Year
BY AVA PEITZ PCC HTC Intern FORT MADISON – The annual Holy Trinity Blue and Silver Celebration was held Saturday night, and was full of Irish dancing and delicious desserts. After the festivities had concluded, [Read More…]
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Avery named “Outstanding” at All-State speech
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Sam Avery, a junior on the Holy Trinity speech team, has been selected as an “All State” Outstanding Performer by Iowa High School Speech Association judges in the area of [Read More…]
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HTC puts on Wizard of Oz musical
BY AVA PEITZ PCC HTC INTERN FORT MADISON – Follow the Yellow Brick Road on down to the Shottenkirk Gymnasium next weekend to see Holy Trinity Catholic High School’s musical production of The Wizard of [Read More…]
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HTC TAPS 8th Annual Bunny Hop Event – March 31st, 2018
WEST POINT – HTC Bunny Hop 5K Run/Walk or 10K Run event. Saturday, March 31st beginning at the West Point Library. Registration begins at 8:00a.m. The race begins at 9 a.m. Pre-registration before March 23rd [Read More…]
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HTC students spend evening talking science
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The HTC newly renovated hallways were packed Monday night with a wide range of students peddling some very interesting science projects. The annual science fair at the [Read More…]
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HTC qualifies nine for state speech
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Holy Trinity Speech team delivered stellar performances at the Iowa High School Speech Association’s District Contest on Saturday at Tri-County High School, earning nine “Superior” ratings along with [Read More…]
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Montezuma stops HTC’s regional run
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTEZUMA – Again it was just a single quarter that sent the Holy Trinity girls basketball team home with a loss. But this one, a 70-48 regional semi final loss [Read More…]
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Holy Trinity boys end season with valiant run at IMS
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR KALONA – Holy Trinity’s boys basketball team ended their season after giving 18-3 Iowa Mennonite all they could handle Thursday in Kalona, but faltered in the final :30 and fell [Read More…]
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HTC wins wild one in Winfield
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR WINFIELD – Sometimes you just can’t make sense of it, but whatever, what matters is the Holy Trinity Catholic girls basketball team advanced to the Region 5 semifinals with a [Read More…]
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Holy Trinity get first round sectional win
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Holy Trinity Crusaders got 17 points from sophomore Quentin Schneider and advanced in Class 1A, District 9 sectionals with a 60-50 win over Winfield-Mt. Union at [Read More…]
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HTC 1st semester honor rolls announced
BY PCC STAFF Holy Trinity Catholic middle and high schools have announced their honor rolls for the 2017-2018 1st semester. Pen City Current joins our family of advertisers in congratulating these hard working students for [Read More…]
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Holy Trinity Catholic Schools announce 2nd quarter honor rolls
BY PCC STAFF Holy Trinity Catholic Schools has announced its 2nd quarter honor rolls for its middle and high school students for the 2017-2018 school year. Pen City Current and our family of advertisers congratulate [Read More…]
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Lone Tree rolls Holy Trinity in SEISC Shootout
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Holy Trinity boys basketball team ended the regular season with a 56-78 loss to Southeast Iowa Superconference North Division’s Lone Tree on Friday. The 9-11 Lions got 32 [Read More…]
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Crusaders advance in regionals with win over Nikes
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Holy Trinity got another strong performance from junior Taylor Boeding as they rolled over Burlington Notre Dame 49-16 in the first round of Iowa High School girls [Read More…]
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HTC’s slow start stalls boys at Notre Dame
BY PCC STAFF BURLINGTON – A sluggish 6-point first quarter was enough to keep the Holy Trinity Catholic boys basketball team at bay Tuesday night in a 57-42 loss at Burlington Notre Dame in boys [Read More…]
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Boeding goes for 22 as HTC falls Friday to Highland
BY PCC STAFF WAPELLO – Junior Taylor Boeding fired in 22, including four 3-pointers, but Holy Trinity couldn’t hold off a late Highland rally and fell 62-57 in the Southeast Iowa Superconference Shoot-out Friday at [Read More…]
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Mohrfeld, Wyrick qualify for state swim meet
BY PCC STAFF MARION – Two area swimmers qualified for state Saturday at the Iowa High School Athletic Association district meet in Marion at Linn-Mar High School. Central Lee’s Blake Wyrick qualified in three different [Read More…]
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HTC boys give Tigers too many chances
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Holy Trinity boys basketball team had upset on its mind Thursday night when the 14-4 New London Tigers came calling. But the Crusaders gave up too [Read More…]
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Box scores 24 in HTC rout of New London
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Seniors Brett Schnieder and Madison Mohrfeld each scored in double figures in Holy Trinity’s win over New London Thursday in girls Southeast Iowa Superconference basketball action. Schneider [Read More…]
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Despite four in double figures, HTC falls to Indians
BY PCC STAFF WAPELLO – The Wapello Indians kept Holy Trinity scoreless through the first five minutes of play and rolled to a 90-57 win in boys basketball action Tuesday night. Wapello’s Trenton Massner put [Read More…]
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HTC $250K short on new elementary building
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Holy Trinity Catholic new elementary school fundraising efforts are still a bit short of the goal and officials are looking to raise $250,000 to finish off [Read More…]
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HTC girls fall short at Danville
BY PCC STAFF DANVILLE – Junior Taylor Boeding had 15 points and sophomore Ashlyn Haas scored 12 for the HTC Crusaders in a 54-61 loss to Danville in Southeast Iowa Superconference South division girls basketball [Read More…]
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Fehseke puts in 29 as HTC knocks off Danville
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DANVILLE – The patience and steady growth of a young HTC team was rewarded Friday night as the Holy Trinity boys basketball team knocked off Danville 82-73 on the road [Read More…]
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Central Lee boys run past Crusaders
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Central Lee boys got 17 points from senior Evan Doyle in a 72-42 win over Holy Trinity Catholic Friday at Shottenkirk Gymnasium. The Hawks rushed to a 14-7 [Read More…]
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Fourth quarter slump kills HTC girls’ upset bid
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – It was about this time last year when Head Coach Tony Johnson’s Holy Trinity Crusaders went down to Central Lee and became the talk of the town [Read More…]