Ottumwa, IA – Daniele Verdirosi (Rome, Italy/Araniti) continued to score at will for the Indian Hills Men’s Soccer team as the Warriors picked up a 4-1 victory at home over Iowa Central Community College on Saturday. Indian Hills moves to 7-3-0 overall on the year. The freshman forward netted a pair of second half goals […]
PELLA— The Central College volleyball team was on the wrong side of a pair of matches at a triangular hosted by the Illinois Institute of Technology Saturday, getting swept by Lake Forest College (Ill.) 25-23, 26-24, 25-20 and falling 25-20, 25-18, 21-25, 25-20 against the hosts. The Dutch (3-6) played all seven sets close Saturday, […]
Waterloo, IA – No. 2 Indian Hills Volleyball took down Hawkeye Community College in four sets on the road Saturday. The win is the 14th in a row for the Warriors who improve to 21-1 overall. Playing for the third time in four days, the Warriors dropped its opening set against the Redtails on Saturday […]
PELLA—A Central College football team that has authored so many magical finishes was positioned to pull off another one Saturday, the kind of theatrical close that could ease the frustrations of a mistake-filled afternoon. But it was previously winless Loras College (1-2 overall, 1-0 American Rivers) that pulled off the winner Saturday, a 37-yard Aidan […]
PELLA — A mostly even match went against the Central College men’s soccer team in a 2-0 loss to Viterbo University (Wis.) Saturday afternoon. The V-Hawks (8-0-0) are an NAIA squad that was 25-3-1 over the previous two seasons and loaded with a veteran, international roster. They were given five yellow cards and a red […]
PELLA — A high-scoring offensive week for the Central College women’s soccer team continued Saturday morning with a 3-0 home win over Cornell College. Central (3-2-1) previously had five goals in a win at Monmouth College (Ill.) on Wednesday. It was also the ninth consecutive win over the Rams (1-5-1) for the Dutch. “It was […]
Esther Marie Thornton August 22, 1924 – September 15, 2022 New Sharon, Iowa | Age 98 Esther Koeppen Smith Thornton, 98 of New Sharon passed away Thursday evening, September 15, 2022 at the St. Francis Manor in Grinnell. Esther Marie Thornton, the daughter of John and Mayme (Kruble) Koeppen, was born on August 22, 1924 […]
Oskaloosa–The William Penn women’s volleyball team suffered its first Heart of America Athletic Conference loss in a 3-1 setback to Culver-Stockton Friday. WPU (8-7, 4-1 Heart), which lost by scores of 21-25, 25-17, 23-25, 17-25, was outhit .192-.113. The navy and gold sprinted out to 6-2 lead in the opening set and stayed on top […]
LISLE, ILLINOIS — Natalie Gaszynski (senior, outside hitter, Huntley, Ill.) had double-digit kills for the third time this season in the Central College volleyball team’s 25-21, 25-20, 25-14 loss against Benedictine University (Ill.) Friday night. Gaszynski had a team-high 10 kills on 18 attempts for the Dutch (3-4). Nobody else had more than four for […]
Oskaloosa– As part of Wednesday’s National Awards Day, the NAIA announced its 2021-2022 Scholar-Athletes and Scholar Teams. William Penn tallied 93 total Scholar-Athletes, led by 13 from the women’s volleyball program. A total of WPU 21 teams had a Scholar-Athlete, including 20 with multiple honorees. The honorees by sport: Baseball (5): Tanner Bedier, Alex Fisher, […]
