Ripke, Feldermann compete at state
Mount Vernon freshman Jada Ripke swam in four events Saturday at the 2024 State Swimming Meet in Marshalltown.
Swimming with Cedar Rapids Washington, Ripke was...
No. 4 Mount Vernon couldn’t overcome four turnovers in a Class 3A state semifinals Saturday night at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. No. 3 Humboldt beat them 28-25 and advanced to the 3A title game.
“It...
Ryan Suchomel, Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun
• November 13, 2024
The stars were certainly aligned.
For a Mount Vernon team that watched the volleyball team win a state title one day earlier, and that had stopped at the Sacred Acre a few hours earlier, falling...
Ryan Suchomel, Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun
• November 13, 2024
If you missed it, KCRG’s Jack Lido (@ JackLido) posted some great video footage on X.
The first clip is from the state volleyball tournament in 2023, after Mount Vernon had lost to Western Christian...
Ryan Suchomel, Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun
• November 13, 2024
Long after the final play and long after the crowd had filed out of Walmer Field Friday, Nov. 8, many Lisbon football players loitered on the field.
The fourth-ranked Lions weren’t ready to go...
Mount Vernon freshman Jada Ripke qualified in four events for the state swimming meet, held Friday, Nov. 15 and Saturday, Nov. 16, in Marshalltown.
(All qualifiers are tentative until lane assignments...
It is eerily calm a half mile away from the starting line of the Class 3A state meet at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course in Fort Dodge.
The sound of the starting gun, and then the chaos begins. Thousands...
It has all been leading to this.
Mount Vernon, the season-long No. 1 team in 3A, is returning to the state tournament after finishing runner-up in Xtream Arena a year ago.
“We ended up short,”...
No. 4 Lisbon advanced to the Class A quarterfinals for the first time since 2016 after thumping Bellevue, 56-12, on Friday, Nov. 1, at Walmer Field.
Up next for the 10-0 Lions is a battle with No....
Mount Vernon enjoyed the home portion of its playoff schedule, downing Carroll 42-6 on Friday, Nov. 1, at the Martha Parsons Activities Complex.
In the near-future, the UNI-Dome awaits.
But first,...
One day Lisbon volleyball will get that monkey off its back.
But for now, the never-making-state thing sometimes feels like King Kong.
Lisbon lost to No. 14 West Burlington on Monday, Oct. 28,...
Lisbon has a simple formula for when the opponent puts the ball on the ground.
“We call them country fumbles and city fumbles,” Lisbon coach Dylan Hastings said. “The players know, if the ball...
