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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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FMHS boys win on the road at Fairfield
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…]
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Fort Madison boys are 3-3 after win over Mt. Pleasant
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…]
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Hound kickers lose to Washington in OT
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…]
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FMHS girls drop Burlington 7-2
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…]
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FMHS boys fall to unbeaten WB-ND
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…]
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FMHS girls suffer loss at Fairfield
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…]
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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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FMHS girls get dramatic win over undefeated MP
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison girls soccer team moved to 1-1 on the year after knocking off previously unbeaten Mt. Pleasant 2-1 Monday on a cold pitch at Baxter [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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FMHS boys serve up loss to Burlington
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…]
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Schneider, Mendez, Lampe lead Hounds at Pen City Relays
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…]
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FM girls roll Davis County 9-0
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…]
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Lower seeds key to FMHS boys tennis win
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…]
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FMHS girls win season’s first tennis meet
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…]
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FMHS boys take 5th at Demon Relays
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…]
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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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FMHS falls 3-6 in cold Muscatine opener
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…]
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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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FMHS gets five firsts at MP Co-Ed
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…]
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Twelve Hound senior athletes sign with area colleges
Not pictured is Central Lee’s Harlan Steffensmeier who has signed to wrestle for the United States Air Force Academy. Steffensmeier wrestled for the FMHS Bloodhounds. Pen City Current will be uploading these pix to [Read More…]
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Barnes, Hellige take top spots at Roth Relays
BY PCC STAFF WASHINGTON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds track and field team took 10th place out of 20 teams at the Steve Roth Washington Relays on Thursday night. The Hounds got first-place Class B [Read More…]
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Girls 4×800 team takes 3rd at Galesburg Indoor meet
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…]
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Baxter Foundation sponsors youth leagues
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Baxter Family Foundation will be the title sponsor of the Youth Baseball/Softball League at Fort Madison’s Baxter Sports Complex this year. The Baxter Sports Complex staff will now [Read More…]
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Barnes throws shot 50′ again; takes 3rd at ISU meet
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…]
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Gus Macker brings 3-on-3 to Burlington
BURLINGTON – Gus Macker, the world’s Largest 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament will make its first trip to Burlington, Iowa on August 4 – 5, 2018. The “Woodstock of Basketball” started in the drive way of Gus [Read More…]
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Barnes hurls shot 50 feet to win at Cornell
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…]
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FMHS girls compete at Washington Indoor
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…]
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Mohrfeld earns two 1sts at state YMCA meet
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Jacob Mohrfeld of Fort Madison, who competed on the Burlington High School swim team this past year, took two first-place finishes in the state YMCA swim meet on Saturday. [Read More…]
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Youth wrestlers medal; PeeWee on to state meet
BY PCC STAFF – Two Fort Madison sixth grade wrestlers earned medals at the AAU Iowa grade school championships in Des Moines last weekend and three elementary school wrestlers from Fort Madison will compete in [Read More…]
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Unsafe ice at many southeast Iowa fishing holes
BY PCC STAFF DES MOINES – The following is the fishing report released the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for the week ending Feb. 28, 2018. DNR officials are reporting unsafe ice in most locations [Read More…]
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Panthers put stamp on Hounds season
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…]
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Cresswell, Rashid carry 4th for Hounds in bracket win
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…]
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Steffensmeier to wrestle for state title Saturday
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…]
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Steffensmeier advances with win in quarters
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…]
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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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Four of five Hounds ousted on first day of tourney
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…]
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Washington ends Lady Hounds hoops season
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…]
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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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Settles’ wrestle back sends five Hounds to state
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…]
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Fairfield spoils senior night for Hounds
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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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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Houston, Martinez elected to FMHS Athletic Hall of Fame
Victor Martinez: Martinez claimed Southeast 7 Conference titles in 1991 at 112 lbs, and then again in 1993 and 1994 at 125 lbs, being named to the All-Hawkeye wrestling team both years. Martinez won [Read More…]
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Area boys qualify for AAU state wrestling meet
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Ten Fort Madison youth wrestlers have qualified from the 2018 State AAU Wrestling tournament in Des Moines’ Wells Fargo Arena on Feb. 24th and 25th. The wrestlers had to [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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Cresswell ties school mark in rout at Davis County
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…]
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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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Hounds chase off Mustangs for season’s first win
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…]