Monthly Archives: May 2017

L-S softball season starts with loss to 2016 SICL champs

L-S softball season starts with loss to 2016 SICL champs
By Hailey Scandridge The Lynnville-Sully softball team started the season with a tough loss to the Tigerhawks of Colfax-Mingo. The girls hosted Colfax-Mingo on Monday, May 22, and ended the night with a losing score of 15-7. “We knew this game was going to be tough coming out of the shoot,” said head coach Stacey Alberts about...
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Girls golf season ends with best finish in five years

Girls golf season ends with best finish in five years
The Lynnville-Sully girls golf team had a chance to make it to state while competing at the Region 3 Final on Monday, May 22. Set at Keota’s Lagos Acres Golf Course, the meet featured the talents of golfers from New London, Iowa Valley, Winfield-Mt. Union, Sigourney, Colfax-Mingo, Martensdale-St. Marys, Montezuma, and L-S. The Hawks finished in...
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Jansen competes among best golfers in Class 1A at district meet

Dreary conditions greeted golfers at the district meet at Crestwood Hills Golf Course in Anita last Friday, May 19. Among the competitors was the lone L-S representative, junior Holden Jansen, who was an individual district qualifier. Jansen shot a 46 on the front nine holes and then a...
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Hardin’s $2,000 grant used to purchase books

Ms. Melinda Hardin, center, sits with Advanced Composition students Madison Johnson, on the left, and McKinley Conover holding non-fiction novels purchased with the James Patterson Grant. Hardin won a $2,000 grant from the James Patterson Foundation and Scholastic Books earlier this year. Half of the money purchased high school books; the other half was divided...
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L-S track teams set three new school records at state meet

L-S track teams set three new school records at state meet
Fifteen Lynnville-Sully track and field athletes gave their all at the state meet last week and were rewarded accordingly. With three new school records and seven events placing in the top eight, the Hawks came home with much to celebrate as the icing on the cake in a season to be proud of. BOYS RESULTS L-S Boys...
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Press INKlings: Another shade of blue, really?

Most of you probably have no idea, but the shades of blue are numerous and quite often in printing in color, create a nightmare. The Crayola company is adding to the nightmare. Remember when blue was the color choice in your box of crayons? It was the color for water, and it was the color for...
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers – 5/25/17

Well, it happened again. I had another mind-blowing, brain-shattering weekend. I wrote earlier that eight of my wife’s female cousins spent a week here so I was kicked out of my own house! This time, all my daughters came home for a late Mother’s Day. They brought four granddaughters. Counting my wife, I was battling nine women. I...
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