Category Archives: Sports

The sixth annual Lynnville-Sully Men’s Community Basketball Games drew 25 former players and current Hawk fans to the L-S gym on Saturday, Mar. 11, united in their love for the game. “I can't believe we have been doing this for six years now,” said L-S JV Coach Joel Harthoorn, a 1997 L-S alum and coordinator of...

South Iowa Cedar League teams headed to Grinnell College for the season-opening indoor meet on Monday, Mar. 20. The college’s indoor track is only 200 meters around. Due to timing problems, some events didn’t have times recorded. Though individual events were given places, there were no team places, so the returning conference and district champion L-S...

The No. 2 Pella Christian boys basketball team made it all the way to the championship round at the Class 2A state tournament last week. But it was the Western Christian Wolfpack who come away with the state title as PC fell 62-50. The tournament began with PC taking Van Meter into overtime last Tuesday, with...

The Lynnville-Sully Hawks staged a second-half comeback in the Class 1A opener of the boys state basketball tournament against Gladbrook-Reinbeck, but were unable to overcome the Rebels’ hot shooting. The Hawks fell 53-50 on Monday, Mar. 6, ending their season with a 24-2 overall record. Prior to the game’s tip-off, longtime Hawk fans Duane and Donna...

Lynnville-Sully was represented by three wrestlers at AAU State Wrestling last weekend at Wells Fargo Arena. Third-grader Matthew Mintle qualified at 60 pounds and won his first two matches Saturday, the second being an overtime thriller to make it to the quarterfinals. Matthew then lost 2-0 and had to win his next match to make the podium....

Six years since their last state tournament appearance, the Lynnville-Sully boys ran away with what had been a close game with Martensdale-St. Marys on Saturday to claim the Substate 6 Championship and a ticket to the state tournament. “It was a great night to be a Hawk!” said L-S Coach Nick Harthoorn, who will take his...