Category Archives: Sports

A schedule change due to the heat wave that scorched the area last week did not stop Lynnville-Sully’s cross-country team in its pursuit of excellence. The Hawks’ plans changed when Grinnell changed its Tuesday’s meet schedule to run in the cooler morning hours, which sent Lynnville-Sully runners to Colfax on Thursday, Sept. 7. The change...

Junior Olivia Norrish led the Hawks in the first meet of the season with a seventh-place finish at Williamsburg.  Lynnville-Sully’s cross-country team is off to a strong start having battled strong competition, tough courses, and high temperatures in their first two meets of the season. The Hawks made their season debut on Tuesday, Aug. 29, at Williamsburg....

Blake Van Wyk goes all out to make a catch in the endzone for the Hawks' first touchdown of the game against North Mahaska.  Lynnville-Sully’s football team, now ranked #2 in Class A by the Gazette, spent the past week preparing for rival week in which they took on North Mahaska on Friday, Sept. 1. That...

Lynnville-Sully’s volleyball team improved to 4-2 as it took down its only opponent of the week – the Baxter Bolts – in three straight sets on Tuesday, Aug. 29. L-S claimed the win with scores of 25-16, 25-20, and a dominating 25-10 in the final set. In the first set, the Hawks got on an early roll...

Junior Terran Gosselink trips up a Danville Bear in the Hawks' 54-13 victory at home on Aug. 25. Gosselink led the team in tackles with 7.5. The Lynnville-Sully Hawks’ journey back to the dome started Aug. 25 when the Hawks were under the Friday night lights for the first game of the 2023 season to...

Senior Carsyn McFarland digs a ball against Newton in the team's home quad on Aug. 24. She registered eight digs in the Hawks' three-set match against the Cardinals.  Lynnville-Sully kicked off the 2023 season and a busy week for the players on the road in a quad tournament on Tuesday, Aug. 22, at BGM. The Hawks...

Carter Brand won the Advanced Junior Dragster Class on Sunday, Aug. 27, at Eddyville Raceway Park.  Several local drag racers competed at Eddyville Raceway Park Aug. 19 and 26-27 and found success. In a very hot drag race, Saturday, Aug 19, John Freeborn of Lynnville raced his car to the winner’s circle of the Top Sportsman...