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Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun

The community newspaper for Mount Vernon and Lisbon

Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun

The community newspaper for Mount Vernon and Lisbon

Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun

Sports: Year in Review 2025

January 8, 2026

January Lisbon took the championship crown at the Lions Duals Saturday, Jan. 4, besting five different schools via points in the event. Mount Vernon bested Clayton Ridge, AC/GC and C.R. Washington at...

The Mount Vernon-Lisbon boys’ cross country team takes off from the starting line.

MVLXC boys’ second, girls’ third at state

Ryan Suchomel, Sports Reporter November 5, 2025

Both Mount Vernon-Lisbon programs got called out onto the deck Friday, Oct. 31, at the clubhouse at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course in Fort Dodge. For the first time in program history, the boys and...

The Mount Vernon-Lisbon Girls Cross Country team with the WaMaC trophy after winning the WaMaC title.

MVLXC ready for state meet

Ryan Suchomel, Sports Reporter October 29, 2025

It is a good cross-country season when you finish in Fort Dodge. Both the boys’ and girls’ team for Mount Vernon-Lisbon qualified to run there again, winning the State-Qualifying Meet on Wednesday,...

Mount Vernon-Lisbon’s Evelyn Moeller leads the runners at Solon Monday, Sept. 22.

MVLXC sweeps Solon invite

Ryan Suchomel, Sports Reporter September 30, 2025

Mount Vernon-Lisbon like running at the Solon Invitational every fall. And it is more fun when the Mustangs sweep the titles, like they did Monday, Sept. 22. “It is close to home and we can hear that...

Mount Vernon-Lisbon’s Dawson Scheil powers down the final stretch of the race.

Mustangs clean sweep XC invitational

Ryan Suchomel, Sports Reporter September 3, 2025

It was a clean sweep for Mount Vernon-Lisbon cross country at their season-opening home invitational Tuesday, Aug. 26 at the Elliott Athletic Complex. The varsity boys and girls both won team titles,...

MVLXC girls’ aiming for another WaMaC title

Ryan Suchomel, Sports Reporter August 20, 2025

It is a little bit good news/bad news for the Mount Vernon-Lisbon girls’ cross country team in 2025. The Mustangs return six of their seven runners from a squad that finished third at the Class 3A...

MVLXC girls’, boys’ teams state bound

Ryan Suchomel, Sports Reporter October 31, 2024

Mount Vernon-Lisbon cross country coach Kory Swart called it “a night to remember.” MVL won both the boys’ and girls’ races at the Class 3A State Qualifying Meet on Wednesday, Oct. 23 in Waverly. The...

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