SOUTHEAST IOWA – The following is the Iowa Department of Natural Resources fishing report for the week ending Sept. 25, 2019 for southeast Iowa. Big Hollow LakeWater temperature is in the mid-70’s. Bluegill – Fair: Anglers are [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Fort Madison’s junior high football teams stayed perfect on the season with 7th and 8th grade wins over West Burlington on Tuesday night. Teague Smith had two touchdown runs [Read More…]
BY JOHN BOHNENKAMPPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – Kent Bailey saw his Fort Madison High School volleyball team down one game, and behind by 11 points in the second. “I figured, ‘Well, it’s going to take [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 PCC STAFF MARION – The Fort Madison High School volleyball team came away with just one win at the Linn Mar tournament near Cedar Rapids on Saturday, but two of the losses went into [Read More…]
Hawks fall 55-7 to Mt. Pleasant and now face school closer in size to Central Lee BY JOHN BOHNENKAMPPCC SPORTS DONNELLSON – Nick Ehret looked over at the celebrating Mount Pleasant football team, and the [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – From the looks of things on the opening kick off, it was gonna be a long night for the Bloodhound football team Friday night. But as it turned [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – The road doesn’t get much easier for Central Lee this week after starting the season 0-2. The Hawks are coming off an 82-14 pounding at the hands of Mediapolis [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Pen City Current is going live…at least they’re trying. Monday marked the first edition of a new afternoon sports talk program that features Fox Sports Radio Kansas City host [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…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison eighth graders downed Fairfield 8-0 Tuesday afternoon on the road. Teague Smith scored from five yards out on the ground for the game’s only touchdown. Smith [Read More…]
Submitted article FORT MADISON – The 7th grade football team opened the season with a home win Tuesday against Fairfield. The Little Hounds won 28-8. Brody Cashman scored two touchdowns along with Logan Pennock and [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison girls volleyball team dropped it’s second straight conference match Tuesday night on the road to Burlington, 17-25, 16-25, 21-25. Head Coach Kent Bailey said the [Read More…]
IOWA CITY — The second pass of Nate Stanley’s day easily dropped into the hands of Ihmir Smith-Marsette for a 58-yard touchdown. Remember when Stanley, Iowa’s three-year starter at quarterback, wasn’t accurate on the long [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WEST BURLINGTON – “Wholly smokes”. Those were the words of Fort Madison Bloodhound head coach Derek Doherty after Friday night’s 26-14 win over West Burlington on the road. Not because the [Read More…]
BY JOHN BOHNENKAMPPen City Current Sports MEDIAPOLIS — Central Lee’s two fourth-quarter touchdowns changed the zero on the Hawks’ side of the scoreboard. But coach Nick Ehret pointed out the reality after Friday’s 82-14 loss [Read More…]
Dennis, Kester, and McVey finished 2-4 in girls run BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR KEOKUK – Anthony Barnes captured eighth place at the Keokuk Cross Country meet on Thursday, but it was a pack of Hounds [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – As has been the case for the past three years, the Fort Madison Bloodhounds will be looking to go 2-0 to start the year. Standing in the way [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FAIRFIELD – Fort Madison took the first set off perennial foe Fairfield Tuesday night, but couldn’t hold off the 13th-ranked Lady Trojans in the final three sets dropping the conference opener [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF BONDURANT – The Fort Madison Lady Hounds dropped three games in pool play and were sent to the consolation bracket where they rebounded to take two of three to end the day. [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 ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON- Heading into the fourth-consecutive season of the Lee County rivalry between the Hounds and the Hawks, Central Lee has a chance to even the series between the two programs [Read More…]
The following editorial is submitted by Karissa Niehoff, executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations, and Tom Keating, executive director of the Iowa High School Athletic Assocation. Inappropriate adult behaviors at [Read More…]
Fullenkamp comes from 9th to take runner-up in Compact feature BY BRIAN NEALPepsi Lee County Speedway DONNELLSON – After taking a scheduled week off, the Pepsi Lee County Speedway in Donnellson, Iowa returned to action [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Rob Sandburg shot a one-under 35 on the final nine holes of Saturday’s Kempker’s Open to win the championship flight. Sandburg shot a sparkling 67 on the first 18 [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – It was just the first day of summer camp, but the enthusiasm and excitement could be felt from the Fort Madison players and their coaching staff. Monday marked [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS DONNELLSON – Many fathers dream that one day their son or daughter will not only follow in their footsteps, but be even better at everything they do in life. Jason Hawk [Read More…]
BY COLIN MAGNUSONRADIO KEOKUK Sports Director DES MOINES – On the 30th anniversary of the Central Lee Hawks winning a baseball state championships, hopes for a feat repeat were dashed in a matter of moments [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS CENTRAL LEE – Fans throughout the Central Lee community came out in droves to send off their Hawks as they head to compete in the first-round of the state tournament Monday. [Read More…]
Bloodhounds Cordray, Vasin Thurman, and Chiefs Dalton Boecker selected for 2nd team BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS The 2019 Southeast Conference all-conference teams have been released and Fort Madison and Keokuk were well represented across the [Read More…]
Hawks dismantle Wilton pitching as Weirather tosses shutout to head to state baseball tournament Monday. BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS WASHINGTON- Coming into Tuesday night’s Class 2A Substate championship game, Central Lee knew it was going [Read More…]
BURLINGTON – Registration for the only Gus Macker 3-on-3 basketball tournament in Iowa in 2019 has been extended until Sunday, July 21. The tournament will be held on August 3 & 4 in downtown Burlington, [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds finished the regular season 16-14 on the year, the first winning season in more than a decade and a half. Bloodhound players and coaching [Read More…]
BY COLIN MAGNESUNRADIO KEOKUK SPORTS DIRECTOR DONNELLSON – Throughout the 2019 season they’ve got the job done in just about every way possible. They’ve won mercy-rule shortened games. They’ve come from behind. They’ve pitched their [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC STAFF PELLA – Saturday night against Pella High School, Fort Madison baseball wrapped up regular season play with a 3-1 win, finishing with a record over the .500 mark for the first [Read More…]
BY BRIAN NEALPepsi Lee County Speedway DONNELLSON – It was Lee County Fair week, Iowa’s oldest running county fair, at the Lee County Fairgrounds in Donnellson, Iowa. And Thursday night was set aside for racing [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – New London came away with the 11-7 win against Fort Madison baseball Monday night at Fort Madison High School. On the surface the matchup was just like any [Read More…]
DES MOINES – The following is the weekly fishing report for southeast Iowa for the week ending July 13, 2019 from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Iowa River (Columbus Junction to Mississippi River)Still remains [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – It happened. With most of the season now in the rearview mirror, Fort Madison’s baseball team pushed one game over the .500 mark on the season, coming out with a 9-4 win [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Maycee Featheringill lifted a solo home run to lead off the sixth inning in the opening game of a doubleheader Monday night as Fort Madison swept Keokuk 10-0 and [Read More…]
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 ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FAIRFIELD – The first time Fort Madison took on the Southeast Conference baseball powerhouse that is Fairfield, the Hounds got swept 2-0 in the doubleheader back at Fort Madison High School. [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FAIRFIELD – A four-run third inning in the opener and three-run first inning in the night cap led to a sweep on the road for the Fort Madison girls softball team Monday [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…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – After one year and two wins, Fort Madison Head girls basketball coach Todd McGhghy has resigned his coaching position with the district. McGhghy, who was in his third [Read More…]
DES MOINES – The following is the weekly fishing report from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for southeast Iowa. Big Hollow LakeWater clarity continues to improve, but is still cloudy. Largemouth Bass – Fair: Anglers are [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS DAVENPORT- For the first time this season, Fort Madison baseball dropped three games in a row after falling in game one of a doubleheader 8-1 to Davenport North. The Bloodhounds then [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON- For those that aren’t aware, high school baseball and softball games are always scheduled for seven innings. After game one of a doubleheader Thursday night at Fort Madison High [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – The 22nd Annual Fort Madison Wrestling Camp of Champs is set for July 14-16th at the Fort Madison wrestling room. The camp this year will feature Nelson Brands, a 3-time state champion, [Read More…]
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