The Eddyville Blakesburg Fremont Marching Band had a great day in Pella Saturday as they outscored a total of 10 other bands at the Marching Dutch Invitational. The band placed 1st in class 2A with a score of 62.2 four points ahead of the closest 2A band. EBF also won the Outstanding Color Guard Award. […]
Comments by Gladys Genskow “It was Senior Night and the seniors got their chance to shine. They have been talking all season about how they wanted to play different positions on Senior Night. It might not have been pretty, but they won the 1st set. It was fun to see them at times executing well […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – If you’re a student at Oskaloosa High, you have the opportunity to take Mrs. Anna Gritters’ Written Communications course. It’s a college-prep writing class that approximately 75-125 students choose to take each year. But the course does more than just prepare students for college writing courses. It’s helping them make real differences […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – It was homecoming week in Oskaloosa, and the Indians knew they had an uphill battle against number one ranked Solon if they were to get the win. Going into the night, the Indians believed that they would match up closer in the game. Oskaloosa Head Football Coach Jake Jenkins spoke about the […]
The Oskaloosa Volleyball team beat the Newton Cardinals in a program sweep at home on Tuesday night. The Homecoming victory was started off by the Freshmen team winning 25-22, 10-25, 15-10. The JV followed winning 25-21, 25-17. The varsity team had to go five before winning 25-22, 21-25, 25-10, 20-25, 15-10. Stat Leaders: Attacking – […]
Newton is our first meet that we run the full 2 miles and only meet we run 2 miles before conference. Our kids fought hard tonight and some of them ran the best mile times of the season! Now we just have to work on everyone moving up, packing together and finishing strong! The Girl’s […]
by Jodi Steinlage The 7th grade volleyball team was in action last Thursday and again last night taking on Pella and Grinnell. In the Pella match, the A-team would move their record to 4-0 with a sweep of the Dutch with scores of 15-10, 15-10, 15-5, 15-13, and 15-9. The team was led by Maleah […]
The girls beat Grinnell in 3 of 6 sets to 25. Gm1:16-25, Gm2:20-25, Gm3:20-25, Gm4:25-22,Gm5:25-20, Gm6:25-11 The girls out scored Grinnell 131-128 The team consisted of: Emma Tabbert, Allyson Maxwell, Carly Malloy, Emma Basham, Shannon Linder, Ashlyn McDougall, Marissa Katko, Nayeli Nicolas, Madison Roehler, Breana Engelhardt, Jadayia Daniels Individual Stats: Aces: Emma Basham(11), Shannon Linder(9), […]
EBF @ Ottumwa Tournament Sept. 16, 2017 Comments by coach Gladys Genskow “WOW what a day of volleyball. We won our pool, got to the finals and it was a great final 3rd set against Ottumwa. The match went back and forth the entire last half of the match. Exciting for both teams. We played […]
“It was a warm night last night, but the middle schoolers went out hard. The girl’s team may be small, but mighty they came in 3rd. The boys battled hard, coming in 4 points shy of 2nd place. They ran hard and I am proud of their efforts, we are making progress. Thank you to […]
