Sports
CRESCO - Although we are still a couple weeks away from the new school year starting, the fall sports practices have begun which means that the fall sports seasons are almost here. Forgot the holidays; now is the most wonderful time of the year!
I’ll never forget the first Crestwood school year...
CRESCO - Washington (Iowa) High School Softball Head Coach Ben Obermann, a 2009 Crestwood graduate, recently led the Demon Softball Squad to the 2025 State High School Softball Tournament.
Obermann just concluded his 10th season as Head Coach of the Demons. The 2025 season marked the fourth time...
CRESCO - Crestwood senior Laney Peter singled with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to score Keira Shea win the game-winning run during a 2-1 win over New Hampton in the first round of the Class 3A Region 1 Softball Tournament on July 10 at home. The win allows the Cadets (20-7) to advance to...
NEW HAMPTON - The Crestwood softball team swept both games of a doubleheader against New Hampton (5-2 and 11-2) on July 8 to clinch the Northeast Iowa Conference title with a conference mark of 11-1 (19-7 overall). This was Crestwood's first NEIC title since the 2020 season.
CRESCO - The Crestwood baseball team will play Oelwein at Starmont on Saturday, July 5 at 1 p.m. in the first round of the Class 2A Substate Tournament. The time had been moved up from 5 p.m. because of the potential for threatening weather later in the day. The following is the ticket link for...
CRESCO - On Sunday, June 8, at 10:46 a.m., I got a text message from my former co-worker, Theresa. She told me that John Reicks, former teacher and golf coach at Turkey Valley, had just passed earlier that morning.
While I had known that John (or JR, as all the TV kids called him) had been...
BOONE - Crestwood sophomore Ainsley Teeling carded a two-day, 36-hole total score of 158 (77-81, +14 over par) to place sixth in the Class 2A State Girls’ Golf Meet held at Cedar Pointe Golf Course in Boone on May 28-29.
“It was a great environment and I’m certainly proud of her efforts and...
DES MOINES - Taking on the best athletes in Iowa at the Class 2A State Track and Field Meet at Drake Stadium in Des Moines from May 22-24, the Crestwood boys’ and girls’ teams both gave an outstanding effort during all three days.
The Cadet boys’ distance medley team of Nathan Mahr, Finnegan Donlan...
CRESCO - Neither high temperatures nor wind gusts up to 53 miles per hour throughout the evening prevented the Crestwood boys’ and girls’ track teams from flexing their muscles at the Class 2A State Qualifier Track Meet held in Cresco on Thursday, May 15.
The Crestwood girls’ team cruised to the...
WEST UNION - Cold weather and a strong wind did not bother the Crestwood girls’ track team on Friday, April 4 as the Cadets grabbed first place at the North Fayette Valley Early Bird Meet with 164 points.
NFV took second place with 124 points, Oelwein snagged third at 84.5 and Turkey Valley was...
