Area Sports
Raiders sit at third place in Pride of Iowa
Three dominant wins in four games for the Mount Ayr baseball team helped them improve to 11-3 overall and 8-3 in the Pride of Iowa Conference. Mount Ayr is tied for second place with Lenox and SE Warren. Mount Ayr opened this week with a game at Bedford on Monday and at Lenox on Tuesday.…
Read MoreRaiderettes even season record, fourth in POI
Three wins in four games for the Mount Ayr softball team saw the Raiderettes even their record to 7-7 last week. The Raiderettes beat East Union at home, Nodaway Valley in Greenfield, and Central Decatur at home. The Raiderettes fell to Class 1A No. 5 SE Warren. Mount Ayr is currently in fourth place in…
Read MoreWIC Conference makes overtures to two POI members
The landscape for high school athletics is changing as small school conferences in Southwest Iowa are looking at their futures in their present conference membership. Recently, the Western Iowa Conference extended invitations to ten schools about the possibility of joining their conference. Pride of Iowa Conference schools Nodaway Valley and Southwest Valley are on the…
Read MoreMiddle school baseball season update reported
The Mount Ayr middle school baseball team opened the season playing at East Union. East Union 6, Mt. Ayr 3 The A Team started off the morning on June 5 to kick off the season. The Raiders jumped out to a 2-0 lead after the first half inning with Wyatt Collier singling and scoring and…
Read MoreRaider baseball head coach moves into similar role with SWCC softball
Chris Piperno recently resigned his position as Southwestern Community College head baseball coach, but he’s not going far, just one field to the west, to lead the Southwestern softball program. [Piperno is serving this summer as the Mount Ayr Raider head baseball coach.] Not only will Southwestern retain Piperno, but Danny Jensen, who recently stepped…
Read MoreRaiderettes softball wins two in a row
The Mount Ayr softball team won their second game in a row on Wednesday, June 11 at Central Decatur in an 11-3 win. The win was the fifth straight over the Cardinals for Mount Ayr since July of 2021. The two teams will meet again on January 3. The two teams were locked in a…
Read MoreMount Ayr hanging tough in POI race
The Mount Ayr baseball team has kept pace with the leaders in the Pride of Iowa Conference heading into this week. The Raiders are in second place in the POI going into the week a half-game back from Martensdale-St. Mary’s and Lenox who were tied in the lead with one loss each. The Raiders beat…
Read MoreRaiderettes face tough sledding on road
The Mount Ayr softball team was road warriors last week, playing three of their four games away from their home field. The results were tough, as the Raiderettes were 1-3 in four games last week with losses at Clarke and Murray and a home loss to Lenox in a one-run game. The Raiderettes won at…
Read MoreRaiders notch four straight victories
The Mount Ayr Raiders are one of the hottest teams right now in the Pride of Iowa Conference. This comes after the Raiders won four straight games that followed their first loss of the season on May 30. The wins over East Union, Clarke, Lenox, and Murray set the Raiders’ record at 6-1 and 3-1…
Read MoreKMA golf awards announced
Radio station KMA has released its conference golf awards, and the following Mount Ayr team members have received recognition among Pride of Iowa schools: Thad Streit – Coach of the Year Jaylee Shaffer – Girls Player of the Year, Sophomore of the Year, All-POI, All-Sophomore; Dylan Graham – Boys Senior of the Year, All-POI, All-Senior;…
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