Area Sports

The Mount Ayr girl’s golf team hosted a five-team meet on Tuesday, April 22. It was the second meet in as many nights for the Raiderettes. In town was Martensdale-St. Mary’s, East Union, SE Warren, and Wayne. The meet would see MTSM claim the meet title with a team score of 188. Mount Ayr was…

The Mount Ayr boy’s golf team won their third, fourth, and fifth meets of the season last week as the 2025 season approaches May. The Raiders have only one meet this week at Corning and Happy Hollow Golf Course in a meet with Southwest Valley. The following week, the Raiders will compete at the 2025…

The postseason state qualifying meet assignments are now known for track teams after the 2025 state qualifying meet assignments were released last week. The Mount Ayr track teams will compete at meets in Class 1A on Thursday, May 15, with start times of 4 p.m. The Raiders will compete at the state qualifying meet in…

Mount Ayr junior Aubree Shields competed at the Drake Relays last week in Des Moines. Shields, one of the top high jumpers in the state, joined the rest of the field of top jumpers among all classes this year. Shields would tie for 11th at Drake with a best jump of 5-feet, 2 inches. Shields…

The Mount Ayr girl’s golf team won both meets they played in last week in a span of 48 hours. The Raiderettes played at the 18-hole Sidney invitational on Wednesday, April 9, and at Martensdale-St. Mary’s on Thursday, April 10. At Sidney, the Raiderttes played in an 18-hole meet and won it, scoring a team…

The Mount Ayr Raiderette girls track team competed at the Centerville co-ed last Thursday, their second meet of the week. Mount Ayr got a event win from Aubree Shields in the long jump and a pair of runner-up relay finishes from their distance medley and 4X800-meter relay teams. Mount Ayr’s Aubree Shields won the long…

The Mount Ayr boy’s track team made the trip to Panorama High School last Tuesday for the Kip Janvrin Invitational along with 12 other teams. The result was a fourth-place team finish and an event win that set one of their relays up in position to be reckoned with. The Raiders scored 57 points at…

The Mount Ayr girl’s track and field team began a two-meet week on Tuesday, April 8, at the Kip Janvrin Invitational in Panora. There, the Raiderettes placed ninth as a team with 37 points. Central Decatur won the meet with 101 points while Madrid was second with 100 points and Ogden was third with 91…

Mount Ayr to attend SWICC All-Star Game The first annual Southwest Iowa Community College Spartan High School All-Star games will be played this Saturday in Creston. There will be a boy-girl doubleheader featuring star basketball players from SW Iowa. The event begins at 4 p.m. with the girls game and is followed at 6 p.m.…