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With four senior starters, Kee High may have had the upper hand this time around, but not by much.
When Turkey Valley coach Carla Nymeyer said her team lost on a last-second shot, she was serious. There was one second remaining on the clock when Lansing Kee got off a shot that won Tuesday night’s...
Ryan Rausch may be less than a month into his boys basketball head coaching career, but he’s been around the sport long enough to know that shooting 26.2 percent from the floor just isn’t going to cut it.
New Hampton went ice cold Tuesday night, and the result was a 60-29 loss to Waverly-Shell...
The first, third and fourth quarters were just fine for the New Hampton girls basketball team Tuesday night, but unfortunately, they’re called quarters for a reason; in other words, there are four of them.
“We take away that second quarter and we’re right there with them,” Chickasaw coach Chad...
Even though Turkey Valley had its best shooting percentage of the season, it was the defense Chris Sullivan talked about first after his Trojans brought home a win from Lansing Tuesday.
“Tonight, we played extremely hard on the defensive end for four quarters,” he said after the 65-21 win over the...
Nick Hemann was on to something Wednesday morning.
The night before, his New Hampton/Turkey Valley team rolled by Maquoketa Valley 76-3 and survived a less-than-inspired performance to beat North Fayette Valley 42-28, and while the veteran coach wasn’t ecstatic — heck, he wasn’t even close – with...
Sam Brown is really going to appreciate the fact that his Nashua-Plainfield players love to play the game of basketball, because after a relatively quiet stretch in the schedule, things are about to heat up for the Huskies.
Nashua-Plainfield heads to Osage on Friday to kick off a four-game, seven-...
For Nashua-Plainfield’s girls basketball team to turn the proverbial corner, the Huskies have to overcome one issue — the number of turnovers they commit.
Those miscues cost Nashua-Plainfield dearly in its most recent two games a it fell to Mason City Newman 55-17 last Tuesday and to St. Ansgar 51-...
The fact of the matter is that it didn’t look like Al Frost was going to get that milestone win last Thursday night.
The Huskies had beaten Eagle Grove and West Fork earlier in the night to give the veteran coach 399 career wins, but Northwood-Kensett looked like it was going to spoil the party as...
New Hampton senior Tristan Sweitzer admits that he’s always gotten just as much of a kick as making a pretty pass as hitting a key 3-point shot, but what the Chickasaws have shown early in the season is that Sweitzer isn’t the only one loves gift-wrapping an assist on the basketball court.
And the...
Despite two Turkey Valley girls putting up a career-high scoring night, the Lady Trojans started Friday’s doubleheader against MFL Mar-Mac with a 57-40 loss, their first conference loss of the season.
The boys followed with a 56-35 win over the Bulldogs; they also have only one Upper Iowa...
