After finishing the season with a 9-10 overall record the Kuemper Catholic softball team received honors for three players from the Hawkeye 10 conference.

It may have been a shortened season, but it wasn’t a season that was short of accomplishments.

For the first time ever in Iowa High school football history, every team will make the playoffs.

DALLAS CENTER: The juxtaposition on the field was something that wasn’t easily explainable.

NEOLA: They don’t meet all that often, yet when they do, the game is usually for most of the marbles.

The season, once again, ended too soon, but the optimism is only continuing to build.

Hope seemed to spring eternal even as the light was fading on the current game. 

Ever since the season began there has been something different about them.

It was a little too easy to overlook their opponents.

For the first time in five years, Carroll's post season is extending past the first game. 

For some fans Thursday night's game might have seemed like the same song, just a different, more vibrant, verse.

The bad news was the Crusaders trailed by one run. The good news was they had no outs, and the bases loaded in the bottom of the fifth inning.

The first hit of the game proved to be an omen.

It was easy to tell a rally was coming. What wasn’t certain was from which team the hits were going to come from.

For Ryan Feauto, being able to play all 45 holes of the Carroll Men’s City Golf Tournament with the same Titleist V1 ball bearing the Dordt University logo was key to turning himself from a contender into a champion.

Every team’s goal is to win every game they play, and that’s just what one area team did last week.

The Crusaders won back-to-back games to close the end of last week with wins in two different ways.

The game started out with shouts of joy and ended with players and fans alike chewing off their nails for Coon Rapids-Bayard fans on Friday night.

The season might have just started, but the post season path is already decided.

Carroll 8, Boone 5

The bats were uncorked Tuesday night while efficient work on the bump placed a tight bow on a triumphant Hawkeye 10 showdown.

Kuemper’s baseball team emerged with an easy victory over Carroll on Saturday.

The offense was clicking Tuesday night, and the pitching was even smoother.

Coon Rapids-Bayard felt little intimidation when matched up with one of 2A’s most tradition-rich programs.

A rising program has found its veteran replacement.

For Illinois State University senior golfer Andrew O’Brien, the physical therapy is working, and he’s getting his swing back.

Some had the feelings come back to them in an instant. Others took a play or an inning or two to get the feeling back to them.

It didn’t look promising, but also proved to be one of the most commonly dreamed scenarios.

Game balls are off limits. For umpires, that is.

The royal treatment never seems to slow once a champion reaches the top. A unique hobby that birthed a museum has enshrined one of Iowa’s latest Cinderella success.

In recent years the number 110 has gained an almost holy grail-type honor in Iowa high school baseball.

Twice in the game Will Schenkelberg had a hit that changed everything around. 

As the first day of June approached, the Barrus sisters, Allie and Madi, watched their local news with a bit of concern.

There are a lot of situations that the Kuemper Catholic softball team will be met with this summer. No matter what situation awaits them next the Knights are a team that won’t be afraid to take each situation on without anything holding them back.

When the softball conference is home to the defending State champions, and has half of the teams appearing on the preseason polls it could be easy to pack things up before play even begins.

Hitters in the Hawkeye 10 Conference have been put on notice.

It’s hard not to see the excitement on the Carroll baseball team over the last two weeks.

Few other teams in the Rolling Valley Conference have what the Crusaders have coming back this year.

At times last season it was frustrating being a Glidden-Ralston Wildcat baseball player.