Area Sports
Mount Ayr middle schoolers get season underway
The Mount Ayr middle school girl’s basketball team has begun play this season with a couple of games under their belts. The Raiderettes traveled to Bedford last week and saw two defeats. The 8th graders fell 36-21 and the 7th graders fell 26-21. Mount Ayr played Martensdale-St. Mary’s on Monday, November 20. After playing SW…
Read MoreDozen Raiders earn District Honors
The 2023 football season is near its conclusion as the state championship games for all classes are this week. Last week, the honors list for Class A District 6 was released after the final team in the district lost. The Madrid Tigers, who won the District 6 title, advanced to the UNI-Dome and the Class…
Read MoreRaiderettes place 4th at State Qualifying Meet
The Mount Ayr Raiderette cross-country team placed one spot in the final team standings from qualifying for the state meet. Mount Ayr placed fourth with 118 points with the top-3 teams advancing to this week’s state meet in Fort Dodge. Earlham won the meet with a team score of 41 followed by meet runner-up AHSTW…
Read MoreRaiders host Boy’s State Qualifying Meet
The Mount Ayr Golf & Country Club was the site for a Class 1A state qualifying meet last Thursday. There were nine scoring teams and nine other teams represented at the meet for a total of 18 schools represented. Earlham won the meet with 29 points and Council Bluffs St. Albert was second with 35…
Read MoreMount Ayr sees season end after 5-set Lenox match
There is no love loss between Mount Ayr and Lenox. Lenox, the regular season Pride Of Iowa East Division champs and POI tournament champs hosted rival Mount Ayr last week in the first round of the Class 1A Region 3 tournament. In two meetings this year, each team had a victory over the other. Last…
Read MoreRaider season ends, 34-18
7th ranked Chargers comeback to sideline Raiders If football games were scored by the total points scored in the first and last quarters, the Mount Ayr Raiders would be moving on in the Class A football playoffs. However, everyone knows that the sum of the total points in all four quarters is used, thus a…
Read MoreShaffer Junior Tour Player of the Year
Jaylee Shaffer of Ellston, accumulated 4,415 Player of the Year points to win the 2023 Iowa PGA Junior Girls 14-15 Player of the Year award. Shaffer played in 12 Iowa PGA Junior Tour events this season. She won 7 events in 2023. She was victorious at the Iowa PGA Spring Series hosted by Ames Golf…
Read MoreANOTHER HEARTBREAKER-Raiders drop overtime game against Lynnville-Sully
The Mount Ayr Raiders played their hearts out in a defensive battle at state-ranked Lynnville-Sully last Friday, but fell by one score in overtime, 23-16. The loss takes the Raiders out of the district title conversation, but the Raiders are very much in the postseason conversation. Mount Ayr will play the last two weeks at…
Read MoreMount Ayr logs two meets
The Mount Ayr cross-country teams traveled to Stuart last Thursday for the second of two meets they ran at last week. Two days after running at the Clarke Invitational, Mount Ayr ran at the West Central Valley Invitational in Stuart. Both teams will be back in action this week, running at the Centerville Big Red…
Read MoreClose loss in rematch with Lenox
The Mount Ayr Raiderettes had only one match last week, but it was a big one. Earlier this season, the Raiderettes beat POI favorite Lenox at the Tigers home tournament four days into this season. That score was 2-1 in favor of Mount Ayr. Last Tuesday, the match would flip and go the way of…
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