By Kristi Nixon RICEVILLE — Riceville junior guard Jaylyn Beran is well aware that every single Iowa Star North Conference team the Wildcats face are going to give she and her teammates their best shot. It’s just a matter of handling it. “Coming into each game, knowing that they are going to play their best…
By Kristi Nixon WATERLOO — Osage head coach Brent Jennings will be the first to say his team is not the same as it was a year ago. Aiming to defend the Battle of Waterloo title, his Green Devils were missing a few key components in dropping to fourth with losses to three quality Class…
By Kristi Nixon WATERLOO — The Osage girls wrestlers put the “battle” in the Green Devils portion of the Battle of Waterloo. Falling behind 27-0 in the initial bracket championship against Bettendorf, coach Ryan Fank’s team won five straight to tie it, saw another tie at 33 and momentarily went ahead 39-33 following Gable Hemann’s…
By Kristi Nixon OSAGE — When your top-three scorers are struggling, go with option four. With the Osage boys basketball team (7-0, 4-0 Top of Iowa East) that meant Maddox Cockrum, who went off for 19 points in a 55-49 win over winless North Butler (0-6, 0-5). Against the Green Devils, the Bearcats looked far…
By Kristi Nixon OSAGE — A defensive effort in the third quarter proved to be the difference for the Osage girls basketball team in a 55-25 victory over North Butler on Tuesday, Dec. 12. The Green Devils outscored the visiting Bearcats 22-1 to turn a close 21-15 halftime lead into an insurmountable 43-16 score entering…
By Kristi Nixon ST. ANSGAR — Trailing 40-37 heading into the fourth quarter, the St. Ansgar boys basketball team forced nine Nashua-Plainfield turnovers in the final eight minutes and outscored the Huskies 15-4 to pull out the 52-44 Top of Iowa East Conference victory. And it was a balanced attack during that span on Monday,…
By Kristi Nixon ST. ANSGAR — A slow start was quickly put to the wayside when the Saints turned up the defensive heat on Nashua-Plainfield. Coach Scott Cakerice’s girls basketball team turned on the full court pressure while trailing early on the Huskies and the visitors couldn’t handle it in an eventual 60-30 Top of…
By Kristi Nixon RICEVILLE — When Riceville needed someone to assert herself in this Iowa Star North Conference girls basketball game against Dunkerton, Tillotti Fair did not hesitate. The junior forward for the Wildcats stepped up in the second half of this 51-45 victory, scoring nine of her team-high 13 points by driving for baskets…
By Kristi Nixon RICEVILLE — Both Riceville and Class 1A sixth-ranked Dunkerton boys basketball teams like to play an up-tempo style. But the Raiders offense was on point in a 76-38 victory over coach Matt Schwade’s Wildcats on Friday, Dec. 8. After a 28-8 first quarter, the visitors held a 47-23 halftime lead, but despite…
By Kristi Nixon BRITT — The top-ranked Osage team saved the best for last. The Green Devil wrestlers faced a couple of top-ranked Class 1A wrestlers against host school West Hancock in sweeping Forest City, Mason City Newman and the Eagles on Thursday, Dec. 7. By far, the closest and most exciting match of the…
