LOCAL SPORTS

William Penn’s men’s track team won the team championship at the Grinnell Invitational Saturday (1/26).  Chris Leiba won the 60 and 200 meter dashes; Joel Brown the long jump; Mofi Alade the high jump; Brenden…

Oskaloosa High’s boys’ and girls’ basketball games at Newton yesterday (1/24) were postponed because of the weather.  The girls’ game will be made up Saturday (1/26) with the JV game at 3 and the Varsity…

The IGHSAU has released its playoff pairings for Classes 1A, 2A and 3A.  In 1A Region 4, Lynnville-Sully has a first round bye and will host Iowa Mennonite or Iowa Valley Tuesday, February 12.  In…

A couple of area high school baseball coaches were honored over the weekend at the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association’s annual banquet in Cedar Rapids.  Tom Hallgren of EBF was recognized for 15 years…

William Penn University's Kayla Music is this week's Heart of America Conference women's indoor track athlete of the week.  The freshman from Corpus Christi, TX won both the 60 and 200 meter races at last…

The Oskaloosa @ Dallas Center-Grimes girls & boys basketball doubleheader that was cancelled for tonight due to the weather will be made up on Saturday, Feb. 2.  It's an afternoon doubleheader with the girls game at 4pm…

A tough loss for Oskaloosa’s boys’ basketball team.  Cedar Rapids Jefferson edged the Indians 62-61 Saturday night (1/19) at the Wells Fargo Advisors Shootout in Cedar Rapids.  Willie Guy III scored in the final seconds…

William Penn’s women’s basketball team hosts Missouri Valley Monday night (1/21) at 7 at Penn Gymnasium; it’s Girls and Women in Sports night.  The Statesmen women saw their nine game winning streak ended Saturday (1/19)…

Tonight’s (1/18) high school basketball games in the area will be starting early.  Oskaloosa’s boys’ and girls’ doubleheader with Grinnell will now have the girls’ game starting at 5:00, with the boys’ game starting around…

Indianola defeated Oskaloosa 51-18 in a dual meet at Indianola last night.  Oskaloosa got pinfall wins from Wyatt Krier at 145 pounds and Cody Gunn at 160…..plus decision wins from Leland Evans at 138 and…