Mark Schafer is a dedicated local journalist based in Ottumwa, Iowa. With a focus on high school and college sports, Mark's articles provide in-depth coverage of games, players, and teams in the Ottumwa area. His work has also been featured in various newspapers, including the Ottumwa Courier, Pella Chronicle, Cleburne Times Review, and Carroll Today.
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NORTH ENGLISH – A balanced attack kept the Bears off guard. In the week 7 game against WACO English Valleys was unable to keep up with the balanced attack of WACO. The Warriors were able to gain an eventual 60-12 victory over the Bears. Most of the scoring for the game came in the first half as all 13 of the points by English Valleys were scored in the opening two quarters. For WACO, they scored 47 of their 60 points in the first 24 minutes of the game.
MORNING STAR - Mike Jay’s voice is famous for announcing track meets across the world. On Thursday afternoon his familiar voice was following along as many area cross country runners ran at the meet named in his honor. Pekin’s Chloe Glosser was able to win the meet, besting the field by nearly a minute. Glosser crossed the finish line with a total time of 19:21. Danville’s Alaina Gourley was second in the race with a time of 20:14.9.
SIGOURNEY – Early and very often.
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SIGOURNEY - It is hard to imagine a first half going any better. At the end of the first half the Cobras had put up head-turning numbers. They had been able to run 11 offensive plays, seven of which went for a touchdown.
BELLE PLAINE – Exactly what they feared came true. After winning their South Iowa Cedar League volleyball conference match opener on OCt. 14, the Savages were weary of what might await them in the gold bracket on Oct. 17. The fear was they were going to draw North Mahaska in the first round. They did, and ended up falling to them in a pair of close sets.
PEKIN — Just as they needed a lights-out performance, the lights literally went out.
Kalona – They weren’t going to make it easy on them. Although Hillcrest Academy was able to win the post season match 3-0 the Eagles sure gave the Ravens a fight in the first round of the class 1A playoffs held Oct. 21 in Kalona. While the Ravens were able to work their way to a quick lead in the first set, Keota did just enough to keep the Ravens off guard.
BELLE PLAINE – As the match went on one team only seemed to get better. Throughout the start of the class 1A regional volleyball tournament played Oct. 21 English Valleys seemed to only get better as the match went on. The Bears weren’t quite able to pull off the upset though as Belle Plaine won the match 3-0.
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