Area Sports

It was a rough night for the Raiders Friday as they hosted the Logan-Magnolia Panthers (8-1) in the second round of playoff football. The first quarter came and went, with both teams getting inside the redzone, however, the quarter ended with the Panthers ready to pounce, inside the 13. With quarters being 12 minutes long,…

The Raiders hosted the first round of the playoffs last Friday night with the Madrid Tigers showing up to play hard. Mount Ayr started off strong with a big kick-return by Braydon Pierson, across the 50 to the Tiger 31. The first play from scrimmage saw an Adler Shay carry and score, followed up by…

The Raider and Raiderette cross country teams ran at Lake Icaria last week to finish out their season with an opportunity to qualify for the State Meet this week. It was a tough course, one that Mount Ayr has not ran in a few years and one that none of the current runners had been…

The Raiderette volleyball squad faced a tough Lamoni Demon opponent, Wednesday, October 20. Lamoni jumped out ahead early and stayed on top of the Raiderettes in all three sets to move on to the semi-finals against Southeast Warren. “We made some adjustments and defensively I thought the girls did a great job moving their feet…

It was a Pride of Iowa cross country meet in Leon Thursday night where the Raiderettes looked to perform well against heavy hitters, such as Central Decatur and Martensdale-St. Marys. As a team, the Raiderettes finished third overall on a course they had ran earlier in the season and finished . Mount Ayr’s Karly Elwood…

Monday night set the stage for the Pride of Iowa tournament finals seeing Mount Ayr, Southeast Warren, Nodaway Valley and Southwest Valley winning on that Monday night. It was a straight-forward tournament with the winning teams playing for the championship and the other two battling it out for third. Mount Ayr and Southwest Valley would…

The Class A District 7 championship game came down to the final, week 8, match-up between the Mount Ayr Raiders and the Southwest Valley Timberwolves Friday night. Just two months ago, the Raiders started their first game with a new head coach in Ryan Victor, formerly of Missouri Valley. In week one, the Raiders fell…

The Raiderette volleyball squad dropped their final two games of the regular season last week, falling to Southwest Valley at home before traveling west to East Mills to close out the regular season schedule and enter Pride of Iowa Conference tournament play and regional tournament play following. Against the Southwest Valley Timberwolves on Tuesday, October…

The Raiderettes suffered a tough loss to the Clarinda Cardinals last Thursday night at home. In the first set, the Raiderettes fell 25-19 before the second set saw the Raiderettes struggle to string together points to close the deficit against a disciplined Cardinal team. The third set saw the Raiderettes battle to the end, however…