Even though Alvin “Avey” Johnson is 91 years old, he can still remember in detail the memories of his baseball career — memories that brought him joy as he talked about his playing days.
When Cory McDonald took over as the head coach of the New Hampton baseball program in 2009, one of his main goals was to get the Chickasaws to the state tournament for the first time in school history.
Twenty-eight years.
That’s how long it had been since the New Hampton volleyball team won a Northeast Iowa Conference championship, as the last time they claimed the title was in 1991.
It didn’t come easy, especially after early season losses in Upper Iowa Conference play to North Fayette Valley and South Winneshiek, but the Turkey Valley boys basketball team bounced back and concluded the conference schedule by winning nine con
After picking up their first victory of the season over Columbus Catholic two weeks ago, the New Hampton basketball team was hoping that this win would be a turning point in the season and more success would follow.
New Hampton/Turkey Valley isn’t used to going 2-4 at the Battle of the Waterloo, but coach Matt Paulus has no qualms about the way his team wrestled this past weekend at one of the best dual tournaments in Iowa.
The final score was ugly, yet last Tuesday’s girls basketball game between New Hampton and Waverly-Shell Rock told Chickasaw coach Chad Pemble something — namely that his players have plenty of heart.
The Border Battle wasn’t kind to New Hampton this past Saturday as both the Chickasaws’ boys and girls basketball teams dropped games to Minnesota schools.
Not that they didn’t go down without a fight.
After a 4-0 start to the year, the Turkey Valley boys basketball team hit a rough patch to end last week. This included a pair of losses against Upper Iowa Conference foe MFL MarMac and Houston, Minnesota.
