Category Archives: Sports

You won’t find Leigha Elliott, Cori Fisk, or Tylie Wood practicing in a gym or at the field like many athletes their age. Instead, the three area teens are spending every spare hour they have fine tuning their skills in the arena. All three girls are active and competing across the state in the sport of...

Lynnville-Sully’s girls basketball team got their first win of the season over the Madrid Tigers in a non-conference match up on Tuesday, Nov. 21. The Hawks’ full-court pressure defense forced Madrid into 29 turnovers in the 63-40 win. “I thought our pressure defense set the tempo tonight forcing several turnovers,” said head coach Jerry Hulsing. “I...

  The 2023-24 Lynnville-Sully boys basketball team made its season debut on Black Friday, Nov. 24, in a jamboree hosted by the Hawks featuring three other teams. Knoxville was victorious over Baxter in the first half game, and the Hawks took the win over Class 3A Oskaloosa in the final two-quarters game. The Hawks and Indians played...

Lynnville-Sully’s girls basketball team rose to the challenge and pushed Class 2A’s second-ranked Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Rockets to the brink in the Hawks’ home season opener on Friday, Nov. 17. The game was a back-and-forth battle featuring several lead changes with the Hawks giving it their all down to the final minute. In the end, missed free...

  Lynnville-Sully’s girls basketball team has a strong nucleus of returning letterwinners to the 2023-24 season, and they are ready to make an impact in the SICL. The Hawks finished with a 16-8 record last season and lost just one senior from that squad. That senior – Greenlee Smock – played many roles on and off...

A monumental fall sports season for Lynnville-Sully and Pella Christian student-athletes came to a close as the Hawks and Eagles ran at the State Cross-Country Meet and the L-S volleyball and L-S and PC football teams suffered losses deep into their postseason runs. Lynnville-Sully’s volleyball team was on the cusp of making school history as it fought...

The hundreds of miles logged and hours spent running in the off-season by Lynnville-Sully’s three state cross-country qualifiers all paid off when they crossed the finish line of the Class 1A State Cross-Country Championships in Fort Dodge on Friday, Oct. 27. Juniors Olivia Norrish and Hendrick Lowry and freshman Colton Alberts punched their tickets to the...