Area Sports

The defending POI boy’s champs began their spring 2024 season with a bang last Thursday at home. There, the Raiders dominated the scores at a home triangular that featured three Pride of Iowa Conference schools. The Raiders shot a team score of 170 with all of their scores from the six in the lineup under…

What a start for the Mount Ayr girl’s golf team. The Raiderettes saw meet action for the first time this season on Thursday, April 4 on their home course and won the triangular meet going away. The meet featured a trio of Pride of Iowa Conference schools as Martensdale-St. Mary’s and SE Warren joined Mount…

The Mount Ayr boy’s track team claimed a pair of relay wins at the Centerville co-ed last week in their first outdoor meet of the spring 2024 season. There, the Raiders won the Distance Medley Relay and the 4X400-meter relay events. Davis County won the meet with a team score of 151 points followed by…

Raiderettes take a top-five finish in meet The Mount Ayr girl’s track team had relay finishes of first, second, and third at last week’s Centerville co-ed meet on Thursday, April 4. The finishes helped Mount Ayr to a top-5 team finish at the meet. Three teams topped the 100-point mark led by meet champion Davis…

Mount Ayr freshman Dyson Thompson had a big night at the Earlham Co-ed Meet last Thursday. The meet was the first outdoor meet for the Raiders this season. Thompson won the 400-meter dash and set a new Mount Ayr freshman record in the long jump. Thompson won the 400-meter dash in a speedy time of…

The Mount Ayr Track squads opened up the 2024 outdoor season with some great early season performances at the Earlham co-ed meet last Thursday. The meet was non-scoring, but many top-5 finishes were earned for the Raiderettes. “Three of the four field events came away with top-5 finishes. Aubree Shields was second in the high…

Mount Ayr sophomore Aubree Shields nearly captured the school record in the high jump event, after her performance at the Northwest Missouri State indoor meet last Saturday. Shields was the runner-up in the high jump with a best jump of 5-feet, 3 inches. The school record is 5-5, but Shields could not reach that height.…

The Mount Ayr Raiders wrapped up their indoor portion of the 2024 track season with a trip to Northwest Missouri State last Saturday to compete in a large high school meet. Teams from Missouri, Nebraska, and Iowa were there. It was an exciting day at the Hughes fieldhouse on the NWMSU campus as both Mount…

The Mount Ayr girl’s track and field team got their first meet in the books after traveling to Iowa State University last week for the IATC indoor track championships. There, sophomore Aubree Shields won the high jump and Mount Ayr’s shuttle hurdle relay team captured a top-10 finish. The Raiderettes also had other events get…

Decorated senior and Stanford University signee Ryce Reynolds got his senior season off with a bang, winning two individual titles and adding a third in the 4X400 relay at last week’s IATC indoor track championships at Iowa State University. The Raiders won three events at the meet and got their first live action of the…