Sports

Tickets available for football game vs. New Hampton

CRESCO - The Crestwood varsity football team will host New Hampton on Friday, Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m. for its homecoming game. Tickets will be cash only on Friday night at the football ticket booths. $7 for adults and $5 for children Kindergarten and up. The ninth grade game is schedule to start at...

Crestwood football team trounces MFL-Mar-Mac, tickets available for Decorah game

MONONA - Superb team play in all three phases of the game (offense, defense, special teams) allowed the Crestwood varsity football team to chalk up an impressive 34-6 win over MFL-Mar-Mac on the road on Friday, Aug. 29, in the season opener in a non-district contest. The Cadets took a modest 14-6...

Crestwood football tickets available online

CRESCO - Crestwood football fans who want to purchase tickets to the game against MFL-Mar-Mac on Aug. 29 should go to the following Link: https://fan.hudl.com/usa/ia/monona/organization/1723/mfl-marmac-high-school

Looking forward to another exciting school year

CRESCO - Although we are still a couple weeks away from the new school year starting, the fall sports practices have begun which means that the fall sports seasons are almost here. Forgot the holidays; now is the most wonderful time of the year! I’ll never forget the first Crestwood school year...

Obermann leads Washington to State Softball Tournament

CRESCO - Washington (Iowa) High School Softball Head Coach Ben Obermann, a 2009 Crestwood graduate, recently led the Demon Softball Squad to the 2025 State High School Softball Tournament. Obermann just concluded his 10th season as Head Coach of the Demons. The 2025 season marked the fourth time...

Cadet girls trip NH, advance to region semifinal

CRESCO - Crestwood senior Laney Peter singled with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to score Keira Shea win the game-winning run during a 2-1 win over New Hampton in the first round of the Class 3A Region 1 Softball Tournament on July 10 at home. The win allows the Cadets (20-7) to advance to...

Crestwood softball team sweeps NH, wins NEIC title

NEW HAMPTON - The Crestwood softball team swept both games of a doubleheader against New Hampton (5-2 and 11-2) on July 8 to clinch the Northeast Iowa Conference title with a conference mark of 11-1 (19-7 overall). This was Crestwood's first NEIC title since the 2020 season.

Crestwood baseball team to play Oelwein in playoffs on July 5 at 1 p.m.

CRESCO - The Crestwood baseball team will play Oelwein at Starmont on Saturday, July 5 at 1 p.m. in the first round of the Class 2A Substate Tournament. The time had been moved up from 5 p.m. because of the potential for threatening weather later in the day. The following is the ticket link for...

You were one of kind, JR - we’ll miss you

CRESCO - On Sunday, June 8, at 10:46 a.m., I got a text message from my former co-worker, Theresa. She told me that John Reicks, former teacher and golf coach at Turkey Valley, had just passed earlier that morning. While I had known that John (or JR, as all the TV kids called him) had been...

Teeling places sixth at State Golf Meet

BOONE - Crestwood sophomore Ainsley Teeling carded a two-day, 36-hole total score of 158 (77-81, +14 over par) to place sixth in the Class 2A State Girls’ Golf Meet held at Cedar Pointe Golf Course in Boone on May 28-29. “It was a great environment and I’m certainly proud of her efforts and...