Area Sports

Four early Mount Ayr runs held up despite a comeback attempt by Central Decatur in the two teams’ POI and 2024 regular season finale on July 1. The Cardinals traveled to Mount Ayr for the game and fell 7-6 after a furious rally fell short. The Cardinal’s record slipped to 6-16 overall while Mount Ayr…

In its 39th year of honoring the nation’s most elite high school athletes, Gatorade has announced Ryce Reynolds of Mount Ayr High School is the 2023-24 Gatorade Iowa Boys Track and Field Player of the Year. Reynolds is the first Gatorade Iowa Boys Track & Field Player of the Year to be chosen from Mount…

There was only one game on the schedule last week for the Mount Ayr Raiderettes. It was Monday, June 24 at home against Moravia. There, the Mohawks would take a 13-3 win in five innings. The loss dropped Raiderette’s record to 7-11 while Moravia improved to 13-18. Mount Ayr came into the game having snapped…

The regular season has come to an end for the Mount Ayr baseball team, an end that they had hoped to avoid as the Raiders fell in both games they played last week with a close loss, 11-8 at Interstate-35, and another road loss at CAM 19-10. The Raiders record sits at 7-10 overall and…

The Mount Ayr baseball team had a tough stretch of games early last week with a home game with SE Warren and an away game at POI leading Martensdale-St. Mary’s. The Raiders fell to both to fall back into a virtual tie for fourth place in the conference standings. The Raiders picked up a 3-2…

The Mount Ayr Raiderette softball team picked up a big win at Nodaway Valley last Friday to end their week of POI games. That 6-3 win created separation in the middle of the POI jumble between Mount Ayr, Bedford, Lenox, and Nodaway Valley. All four are within two games of each other in the standings,…

Break up the Mount Ayr Raiderette softball team. They are on a winning streak and that streak went to four games after three more wins last week over Pride of Iowa Conference foes. The Raiderettes lost their season opener at Shenandoah on May 20, but have not lost since and now are 4-1 and unbeaten…

The Mount Ayr baseball team went 2-1 in three games last week, earning their first two wins this year. Both were Pride of Iowa Conference wins with one on the road and the other at home. Two of the games were one-run finishes as well. The Raiders improved to 2-3 in their first five games.…

Mount Ayr senior Ryce Reynolds was selected to the Des Moines Register’s 2024 Elite All-State team. This was Reynolds second consecutive year to be recognized on the elite all-classes team and fourth year as Class 1A First Team All-State. The Register said, “Reynolds is a verified winner and, when he doesn’t win, he finished second.…

The state meet is over in Class 1A and for Mount Ayr’s Jaylee Shaffer, it was a good one. Shaffer cemented her place among the state’s best, shooting a score of 151 to place as the Class 1A runner-up at last week’s state golf meet in Marshalltown. Shaffer was one of 78 individual golfers at…