Area Sports

The Mount Ayr Raiders began their 2025 season last week with three conference games. Games against East Union, Nodaway Valley, and SE Warren were the three contests. The results were a 7-0 win over East Union and a 10-0 win over Nodaway Valley. The Raiders lost to SE Warren 5-1. The total sum of the…

Shaffer wins state golf title for Mount Ayr Shaffer Is State Champ! Raiderettes Place 7th As A Team Mount Ayr sophomore Jaylee Shaffer is at the top of the Class 1A state mountain after last week’s state golf meet in Marshalltown. Shaffer claimed the top individual spot as the Class 1A state champion, a year…

The Mount Ayr Raiderettes began the 2025 softball season last week, highlighted by a comeback win at East Union to earn their first win in their first game. The Raiderettes beat East Union 8-7 in the first of three games last week against Pride of Iowa Conference teams. The Raiderettes fell 12-9 in nine innings…

The Mount Ayr girl’s golf team will keep their season going another week as the Raiderettes punched their ticket to the 2025 Class 1A state meet this week. The Raiderettes won the Class 1A Regional Final meet in Anita last week, beating out six other scoring teams at the meet. The Raiders dominated the field…

The Mount Ayr Raiders boys golf team saw their season come to an end on Monday, May 21. The Raiders would place fourth at the Class 1A district meet in Anita, hosted by CAM High School. Advancing to the state were Woodbine, Sigourney, and CAM, who all had team scores of 318. Mount Ayr was…

Paced by six relay event qualifiers and Willie Baker with four individual ambulatory event bids, the Mount Ayr Raider boy’s track team ended their season at the place where every track athlete hopes to, the state meet at Drake Stadium. The Raiders were led by a ninth-place finish in the 4X200-meter relay quartet of Drayden…

The Mount Ayr girl’s track and field team had a pair of top-5 finishers in individual events to lead the way at the 2025 Class 1A state track and field meet. Mount Ayr had six events qualify for the state meet this season. High jumper Aubree Shields would collect the top finish for Mount Ayr…

The Mount Ayr boy’s golf team collected meet win No. 9 this season with a triangular meet win at Bedford on Monday, May 12. Boys’ Team Scores: 1. Mount Ayr 149, 2. Bedford 183, 3. Lenox 188. Medalist: Dylan Graham (MA) 35 Runner-Up Medalist: Tanner Streit (MA) 37 Individual Team Results: MOUNT AYR (149): Dylan…

The Mount Ayr girl’s golf team sits one meet away from the Class 1A state tournament. This comes after the Raiderettes won their regional meet at Lenox on Wednesday, May 14. The Raiderettes beat five other teams at the meet to finish first with a team score of 390. East Union gave the Raiderettes a…

The 2025 POI champion Mount Ayr Raiders will play for a bid to the state meet this week. This comes after the Raiders captured a sectional meet championship on Wednesday, May 14 at home. The Raiders won the meet with a team score of 232, winning by a landslide over runner-up East Union, which had…