Ryan Suchomel, Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun
• May 7, 2025
Mount Vernon didn’t have to look far to find a new girls’ basketball coach. Jacob Misener was right there on the bench.
The Mustangs promoted their assistant coach to the head job Monday, a few...
Ryan Suchomel, Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun
• April 16, 2025
When the Mount Vernon girls’ basketball team tries to defend its state title next season, it’ll do so without coach Nate Sanderson, who stepped down last week.
Assistant Ben Knake also resigned,...
Looking back over the previous week in Wells Fargo Arena, a couple things stood out after Mount Vernon won a state title in girls’ basketball.
1. Defense. Mount Vernon set a 3A record for fewest points...
Mount Vernon senior Joe Briesemeister was named the WaMaC East Division Player of the Year recently by league coaches.
Briesemeister averaged 16.9 points and 7.6 rebounds per game, plus 2.0 assists,...
After winning a state championship Friday night, the Mount Vernon girls’ basketball team stayed up late, late, late into the night in the hotel lobby and hotel rooms, soaking up how good it all felt.
And...
Ryan Suchomel, Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun
• March 5, 2025
There’s not a lot of players than can push future Northern Iowa offensive lineman Joe Briesemeister, who is 6-foot-5 and 230 pounds, off the block. But Keokuk’s 6-foot-11, 250-pound junior Jaxon Clark...
Ryan Suchomel, Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun
• March 5, 2025
Every super hero origin story is unique. The Mount Vernon 2025 girls’ basketball team has one, too. No. 1 Mount Vernon opened Class 3A state tournament play Monday, March 3, against West Marshall (19-5)....
Every Monticello 3-pointer landed like a dagger. At the end of the Class 2A district semifinal, the Lions lay bleeding on the court.
Et tu, Brute?
The Panthers sunk 13 3-pointers, including eight...
Some Senior Nights are special.
Win? Check. Mount Vernon topped Washington, 65-37.
Celebrate seniors? Check. The Mustangs have four seniors, and the three healthy seniors started the regular-season...
Lisbon girls’ basketball is still under construction.
That was evident Tuesday, Feb. 18, when the lost in a Class 2A regional quarterfinal at Jesup, 62-25.
“I think for us, we’ve always...
The Mount Vernon girls’ basketball season is starting to feel like a rerun … but in all the best ways.
On Saturday, Feb. 22, the Mustangs clobbered Benton Community 68-22 to earn a return trip...
Top-ranked Mount Vernon girls’ basketball started their return path to the state tournament by hammering Vinton-Shellsburg in a Class 3A playoff game Saturday, Feb. 15.
Mount Vernon won, 68-23.
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