Sports
CRESCO - Crestwood High School will host its Meet the Team Night for the fall sports teams on Thursday, Aug. 16 at 6 p.m. at the high school gym. There is no charge to attend.
Coaches and players for the football, volleyball and cross country teams, and the football cheerleaders, will be...
CRESCO - A near-capacity crowd witnessed a thrilling night of racing at the Cresco Speedway on Friday, July 27. The races were sponsored by the Upper Iowa Speedway in Decorah.
Kyle Falck of Decorah nabbed first place in the Stock Car feature, and Dan Hovden of Decorah took first in the B-Mod...
CRESCO - The Cresco AAU Softball 10 and under and 12 and under teams both earned the Youth 1st Team Award for sportsmanship during a tournament in Saint Charles, Minn. recently.
At the conclusion of each game, umpires at the tournament voted on playesr conduct, behavior and attitude. Teams were...
CRESCO - Crestwood students in grades seven through 12 participated in football camp at the high school practice field on Monday, July 30. The camp will run through Friday, Aug. 3. The Crestwood varsity squad will scrimmage against Waterloo East at 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 17. The first regular...
CRESCO - Crestwood High School will host the Crestwood Cross Country Camp for all students entering grades seven through 12 from Monday, July 30 to Friday, Aug. 3 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. There is no cost for the camp.
Student-athletes should meet at the high school by the softball field the...
CRESCO - Crestwood junior Frank Hrdlicka and junior Colter Bye both earned Northeast Iowa All-Conference honors for the 2018 baseball season.
Hrdlicka was tabbed for the Second Team at the infield position, and Bye earned Honorable Mention as an outfielder.
In conference games this season,...
CRESCO - There’s an old saying that goes, ‘Don’t judge a book by the cover.’ Translating this to sports, one could say that it’s not fair to judge a team solely on its final record.
Looking at the final record for the 2018 Crestwood varsity baseball team (5-24 overall, 2-16 NEIC), it was obvious...
NEW ALBIN - Solid team play in all phases (pitching, hitting and defense) helped the Turkey Valley baseball team notch a 4-1 win over Ed-Co on July 10 in the first round of the Class 1A District 7 Tournament at Shooky Fink Field in New Albin.
Squaring off against South Winn in the district...
CRESCO - They might not refer to themselves this way, but you could definitely call Ron and Joyce Swestka of Cresco two ace golfers. After all, the couple achieved every golfer’s dream last year: a hole-in-one.
Ron carded his first hole-in-one on hole eight at the Cresco Country Club on July 12,...
WATERLOO - Waterloo West scored one run in the bottom of the seventh to edge the Crestwood baseball team, 5-4, on July 9 in Waterloo.
Playing Class 3A No. 6 Waverly-Shell Rock in the District Semifinal on July 13 in Waverly, the Cadets struggled at the plate and in the field as they lost to the...