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…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – RSVP/United Way of the Great River Region is looking for volunteers to fill several volunteer positions at Baxter Sports Complex. The open positions are the following; Hawker (runs golf [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…]
Big Hollow LakeWater clarity continues to improve, but is still cloudy. Largemouth Bass – Fair: Anglers are picking up a few bass in 5 to 6 feet of water around the flooded timber. Bluegill – Good: Anglers had been [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WASHINGTON – The Fort Madison Bloodhound softball team suffered it’s firsts losses in six games dropping a doubleheader to Washington Thursday on the road. The Lady Hounds fell short in the nightcap [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF DAVENPORT – The Fort Madison Lady Hounds tallied three wins in less than six hours on Tuesday as part of a Quad Cities tournament. The Hounds got the best of Davenport Central [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON- Coming into Tuesday’s contest against Washington, Fort Madison’s baseball team was riding high on a three-game win streak. The Bloodhounds were originally set to take on the Demons May [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds put up 13 runs in the top of the fourth inning in Game 1 of a double header in Keokuk on Monday night, to [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS KEOKUK – Coming into Monday night’s matchup against Lee County and Southeastern conference foe Keokuk, Fort Madison softball sat three games under the five hundred mark at 3-6. After Monday’s double-header [Read More…]
BY BRIAN NEALPEPSI LEE COUNTY SPEEDWAY DONNELLSON- Finally mother nature provided the Pepsi Lee County Speedway in Donnellson, Iowa with some beautiful weather for a night of racing. The Morrow Brothers Ford Midwest Open Wheel [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 SPORTS FORT MADISON- Fort Madison’s softball team came into Wednesday’s home contest against Wapello having lost four of its previous five games and looking for a hero. They found that person in the [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS MEDIAPOLIS- Since the 2014-2015 season when Fort Madison and Mediapolis starting playing on a seasonal basis, the Bulldogs have got the best of the Bloodhounds, winning all six contest. That half [Read More…]
BY COLIN MAGNESUNRadioKeokuk News/Sports Director DONNELLSON – Typically, when a baseball team wins a game via a walk-off, it means that it’s been a thrilling affair. A game-ending RBI to break a tie or a [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – Burlington may have recorded the first run of Tuesday’s nights softball contest between Fort Madison and the Grayhounds, but it was the Bloodhounds who would get the runs [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS FORT MADISON – Fort Madison baseball hadn’t been swept in a double header yet this season. Monday at home against Fairfield, the Bloodhounds looked to continue that trend as they took [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison softball team dropped two games on Monday night to visiting Fairfield. In game 1, the Hounds got an RBI single from Ivy Geerdes in the fifth [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WEST POINT – The Holy Trinity girls junior high and junior varsity girls softball teams won three and lost two last week in local softball action. On Friday, the junior high girls [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds have put three players on the Southeast Conference, all-conference squad released today. Seniors Justin Bowker and Reuben Eid both made the squad as did junior [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF Wilton High School scored the first run of the game Friday against Fort Madison’s softball team. Wilton also scored the last run, picking up the 6-1 victory over the Bloodhounds. Fort Madison [Read More…]
MOWA Sprints return for first time since 2010 on Friday BY BRIAN NEALLEE COUNTY SPEEDWAY DONNELLSON – For the second week in a row mother nature tried to put a damper of the Friday night [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF MT. PLEASANT – Fort Madison dropped two games of a double header on the road at Mt. Pleasant Thursday night 6-4, 9-2 in girls softball action. In the first game, Maycee Featheringill [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…]
I’m From Dallas City, Il, so I knew where Fort Madison was and could actually navigate the city with relative ease. What I could not do however, was tell you how good the football team [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WATERLOO – Jason and Vasin Thurman are just shots away, literally, from an eventual medal at the Iowa State Doubles Tennis tournament. The two sophomores from Holy Trinity Catholic, who play [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WATERLOO – Sam Avery had about as tough a path to try and place at the Iowa State Tennis Tournament as any unseeded player in the draw. But the senior from [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS WEST BURLINGTON – Three games into the 2019 baseball season and Fort Madison already has almost half the wins it had over the course of a 25-game season last year. The [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC SPORTS WEST BURLINGTON – Fort Madison’s staved off a seventh inning rally to get their first win of the season on the road at West Burlington, 7-6. West Burlington recorded three runs [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…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR CEDAR RAPIDS – It was a short-lived affair and the Fort Madison Bloodhound keepers had their hands full as Cedar Rapids Xavier ended the Bloodhounds season 10-0 in Class 2A District [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WEST POINT – The Holy Trinity Girls finished the regular season with a 9-1 win over Keokuk Tuesday night at a game that was moved to South Park in West Point due [Read More…]
BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC Sports FORT MADISON – It took Fort Madison’s baseball team seven games last season to score 16 runs. Monday night during the Bloodhounds’ season-opening double header against Burlington at Fort Madison High [Read More…]
FMHS’s Hellige takes 12th in the mile run BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR DES MOINES – Keokuk’s Miracle Ailes and Fort Madison’s Matt Hellige wrapped up the final day of the 2019 Iowa State Track meet [Read More…]
Sophomore clears 5’7″ on 3rd attempt for schools first state title in a track and field event BY ETHAN LILLARDPCC Sports DES MOINES – Keokuk’s Miracle Ailes is the best Class 3A girls high jumper [Read More…]
Ten area athletes to compete in Thursday’s opening session of the 2019 State Track Meet at Drake Stadium in Des Moines BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR DES MOINES – Here’s what on tap at Drake Stadium [Read More…]
PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Middle School Red team won 10-1 on the road at Keokuk in the Little Hounds final game of the season. Xander Wellman, and Nathen Bowen both recorded [Read More…]
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