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...
Local athletes Macklen Meyer, Sawyer Blum, Andrew Smith, Dalton Johnson, Ricky Ryan, Quinlan O’Connor, Eli Casey, Beckett Curran, and Beckett Meyer wrestled recently in the Iowa AAU State Wrestling...
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)....
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...
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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Mount Vernon boys’ wrestling won its Class 2A District Meet on Saturday, Feb. 15 in Ballard, and qualified nine wrestlers for this week’s state tournament in Des Moines.
Mount Vernon scored 233.5...
For Mount Vernon boys’ basketball, it was an odd week.
On Tuesday, Feb. 11, the Mustangs lost a cross-division WaMaC game to No. 10 Clear Creek Amana 80-51 in XTream Arena in Coralville.
The Mustangs...
The top-ranked Mount Vernon girls’ basketball set a school record in a win over No. 15 (4A) Marion on Friday, Feb. 7.
The Mustangs sank 16 3-pointers and beat the Wolves 75-52.
“There was something...
Mount Vernon boys’ basketball is enjoying a three-game win streak.
On Monday, Feb. 3, they won at Independence, 66-46. Then on Friday, Feb. 7, they beat Marion, 65-63. And capped the week with a win...
The good news for Mount Vernon boys’ wrestling? They got a banner to hang up in the gym: State Duals Qualifier in Class 2A.
“There’s a lot of those things in there already,” Mount Vernon coach...
