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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...

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...

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...

Lucas Roland, an eighth grader at Lynnville-Sully, recently became the champion of the 125-pound weight class at the 2014 Iowa Grade School and Junior High State Wrestling Tournament. The tournament, held Dec. 28 at the Jacobson Center on the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, included 150 middle school wrestlers competing in 18 weight classes...

L-S Little Hawks may have been on a break from school around Christmas and New Year’s, but on the mat, they stayed just as busy with the young Hawks participating in multiple events last weekend. Five Hawks earned spots on the podium at Marshalltown on Jan. 4, led by CJ Cupples, who placed first. Lane Mathis...

Twenty-three Little Hawks had a chance to show off what they’ve been learning in wrestling this year by hosting a home non-competitive event on Monday, Dec. 22. For many of the kids, this was their very first event and a great chance for them to practice since scores weren’t kept for many of the matches. Every...