Area Sports

The Pride of Iowa Conference boy’s golf title is going to reside in Mount Ayr. Again. This comes after the Raiders won their sixth meet this season at the 2025 POI conference meet last week in Lenox. The Raiders won the POI crown by 20 strokes over runner-up Wayne, who was second with a team…

The family lineage is well known, and now it is time for another Reynolds to shine. Mount Ayr freshman Emma Reynolds captured a pair of individual event titles at last week’s Pride of Iowa Conference meet at Nodaway Valley. Reynolds win helped the Raiderettes to a third-place team finish with 128 points. Reynolds ran three…

The Mount Ayr Raider boy’s track team placed second at their home co-ed last Thursday, May 8. The 12-team scoring meet went to the Lenox Tigers, who won the meet with a team score of 117 points. Mount Ayr was second with 98 points, and Wayne was third with 93 points. The Raiders won four…

The Mount Ayr boy’s track and field team had to hold off the pesky Lenox Tigers at the 2025 Pride of Iowa Conference track meet last week at Nodaway Valley. The Raiders won five events and scored 137.5 team points. Lenox was second with a team score of 136, behind five event wins of their…

The Mount Ayr boy’s track team nabbed four event wins at their home co-ed meet on Tuesday, April 29, in a meet victory for the team. The meet win was the second this season for the Raiders. Mount Ayr scored a team high 116 points out of the 13-team scoring meet. Lenox was second with…

The Mount Ayr boys and girls golf teams traveled to Corning on Tuesday, April 29, for a POI dual meet. Both Mount Ayr teams would claim victories at the meet in the only meet of the week for the teams. The Raiders will play this week at the Pride of Iowa Conference meet. The Raider…

The Mount Ayr girl’s track team collected seven event wins at their home co-ed meet on Tuesday, April 29. The Raiderettes won the distance medley relay, 4X400-meter relay, the high jump, the 3,000-meter run, the 400-meter hurdles, the 200-meter dash, and the 100-meter dash events. The Mount Ayr girl’s track team battled Interstate-35 for the…

The Mount Ayr boy’s track team ran at their second meet in a week on Thursday, May 1, at the Dave Tapp Invitational. The Raiders placed seventh at the meet with a team score of 51 points, but the highlight was a season-best time for their 4X200-meter relay team. The relay was the only event…

The Mount Ayr boy’s track team made the trip to Lenox on Monday, April 21 for what turned out to be their only meet of the week. The Raiders competed in the 10-team Lenox co-ed, placing fifth with a team score of 84 points. The Raiders were to compete at the West Central Valley Invitational…

The Mount Ayr Raiderette girl’s track team placed fifth at the Lenox Co-Ed meet on Monday, April 21. There, the Raiderettes scored 80 team points. Riverside won the meet with a team score of 138, while Shenandoah was second with 94 points and Griswold third with 92 points. The meet turned out to be the…