LOCAL SPORTS

Kenny Bednarek of Rice Lake, Wisconsin is taking home a silver medal in the Tokyo Olympics 200 meter sprint. Bednarek finished with a personal-best time of 19.68, finishing behind Andre de Grasse of Canada, who won the…

A former Iowa State University football player has been arrested in connection with an assault of a University of Iowa basketball star in May. Nicholas Kron, 29, of Nashville, Tennessee, faces an assault causing bodily…

Here’s the Iowa postseason honor roll for high school baseball for the season just ended.  The Iowa Print Sportswriters Association has voted Sigourney outfielder Cade Molyneux to its Class 1A All-State second team.  Knoxville outfielder…

Tri-County High School will not have a football team this fall because of a low turnout.  Last week, the Tri-County School Board voted to approve an agreement to have Tri-County high school students play for…

Three Oskaloosa Indians are on the Class 4A All-State softball team chosen by the Iowa Girls Softball Coaches Association.  Pitcher Faith DeRonde is on the first team, outfielder Maleah Walker on the second team and…

The season championships at Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa were held Wednesday night (7/28).  Derrick Agee took the checkered flag in the Mid State Machine Stock Car division.  Billy Cain won the Dirt N Asphalt…

The field at Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium will be named for Duke Slater, the trailblazing Black football player who was an All-American tackle a century ago, played in the NFL, and became a pioneering Chicago judge.…

The Little Hawkeye Conference has released its all-conference baseball and softball teams for the season just ended.  Starting with softball, Oskaloosa pitcher Faith DeRonde, outfielder Maleah Walker and utility player Olivia Gordon earned first team…

Emmalee Davis of Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont will play in the Iowa softball all-star games Saturday (7/24) in Waukee.  Davis will play on the Blue team in the three-team event.  The Blue team plays the White team at…

Oskaloosa High’s softball season ended Wednesday (7/21) with a 4-0 loss to Carlisle in the Class 4A consolation round in Fort Dodge. The game had settled into a pitchers’ duel with Carlisle taking a one-nothing…