Have you ever watched the excitement of children in a pet store as they move around admiring and sharing expressions of affection as the kittens meow and puppies bark in anticipation their kennel gate will be unlatched to welcoming arms of a new owner?
Tommy was celebrating his seventh birthday. There was only one item on...
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Hawks soar past Eagles
Both L-S varsity basketball teams came home with victories after facing Keota on the road in a double header on Friday, Jan. 9. The girls chalked up a 35-27 win over the Eagles, and the boys overcame Keota 60-50.
“The girls did a pretty good job of handling the physical play,” said L-S Coach Jerry Hulsing....
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IGHSAU extends girls high school cross-country race distance
Beginning next fall, high school girls will run 1,000 meters farther at their cross-country races. This comes after the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union’s board of directors voted to extend the girls’ race distance from 4,000 to 5,000 meters at its Jan. 7 meeting.
The move to 5,000 meters (3.1 miles) marks the first change...
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Roland captures Great Lakes title
Lucas Roland, a Lynnville-Sully eighth grader, recently traveled to Fort Wayne, IN, to compete in the Great Lakes Championship wrestling tournament and as part of Team Iowa in the Nuway National Duals. Roland went 4-0 to capture the Great Lakes title and 7-1 over the weekend to help Team Iowa to a second-place finish in...
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L-S grapplers get back in action at PCM after break
There was no easing back into the schedule after Christmas break for the L-S Hawk wrest;ers. The PCM Mustang Invitational pitted them against a high level of competition on Saturday, Jan. 10. Overall, L-S placed 11th out of 13 teams with 82 points. Knoxville won the invitational with 178 points, ahead of second-place Gilbert with...
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Fourth-quarter surge by L-S girls ends in a victory at EV
The Lynnville-Sully girls varsity basketball team was on the road Tuesday, Jan. 6, for its first game of the new year. Pairing the No. 1 SICL conference team, the L-S Hawks, versus the No. 2 SICL conference team, the English Valleys Bears, the stage was set for a showdown at EV. The game was any...
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L-S guys keep EV winless
The first game after Christmas break started a little sluggish for the L-S varsity boys. But as the team got back into the swing of things, they pushed past English Valleys on Tuesday, Jan. 6, to come home with a 58-37 victory.
The Bears have had a tough season so far as they are still searching...
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