by Wade Steinlage Oskaloosa–After struggling on the diamond for the last few campaigns, the William Penn baseball team is back to the winning path and the national raters have taken notice as the NAIA released its third top-25 poll Tuesday. WPU, which is 22-6 overall (8-3 Heart), is unofficially tied for 34th in the country […]
by Wade Steinlage Ankeny–In a head-to-head showdown between two of the best programs in the Midwest, the Statesmen women’s golf team bettered its out-of-state foe by defeating Bellevue in a dual Tuesday. #17 William Penn posted a two-round score of 627 (319-308), holding off Bellevue (334-317–651) by 24 strokes at the par-71 Otter Creek Golf […]
by Wade Steinlage Oskaloosa–The Statesmen softball team failed to pick up some meaningful league wins Tuesday as it was swept by Mount Mercy in a Heart of America Athletic Conference doubleheader. WPU (15-15, 6-4 Heart), which lost by scores of 3-0 and 5-3, had its four-game winning streak snapped at the hands of the Mustangs […]
PELLA — A ninth-inning rally in game two by the Central College baseball team stunned Loras College as the Dutch pulled off a 10-6 and 5-4 sweep on Tuesday afternoon. Central (15-4, 5-3 American Rivers Conference) found itself in a 4-1 hole with two outs in the eighth inning of the second game against the […]
PELLA—Six hits from shortstop Daria Parchert (sophomore, Illinois City, Ill., Rockridge HS) and an exhausting day’s work from pitcher Mariah Fritz (senior, Tama, East Marshall HS) helped lift the Central College softball team to a 7-6, 6-4 sweep of Buena Vista University Tuesday. Less than 48 hours after tossing nearly 10 innings in a sweep […]
by Wade Steinlage Oskaloosa–Elayna VanArsdale (Jr., Bensalem, Pa., Secondary Education) hit a new personal best as she was named the Heart of America Athletic Conference Women’s Field Athlete of the Week Monday. VanArsdale won her first career weekly laurel after leading the Statesmen at the Baker Relays. The junior won the hammer throw title with […]
by Wade Steinlage Oskaloosa–Big points from the women’s basketball team as well as the bowling squads have allowed the William Penn Athletics Department to make a significant move after the winter sports season as the Heart of America Athletic Conference updated the Commissioner’s Cup standings. William Penn improves six positions from the fall and now […]
by Wade Steinlage Oskaloosa–The William Penn Athletics Department excelled during the winter and is now in the top 100 as the updated Learfield Sports NAIA Directors’ Cup Standings were released recently. The Statesmen go from unranked to 89th place with 103.5 points; nearly 250 institutions are in the NAIA. WPU gained 53 points from men’s […]
A Mahaska County Sheriff’s Office Press Release The Mahaska County Sheriff’s Office is pleased to announce that they have been selected as a grant recipient by the Mahaska County Community Foundation. The Sheriff’s Office will receive $12,000 from the MCCF. These funds will be used to purchase new Automatic External Defibrillators (AED’s), to be carried […]
Henrietta Aalsburg Groenenboom April 9, 1924 – April 2, 2019 Oskaloosa, Iowa | Age 94 years 51 weeks Henrietta Aalsburg Groenenboom died April 2, 2019, at the age of 94 years 51 weeks, at Northern Mahaska Specialty Care in Oskaloosa, Iowa, where she had been a resident since September 2014. Henrietta was born on April […]
