It wasn’t necessarily the clean-cut win that Morrison head football coach Ryan Oetting was hoping for, but it was a win nonetheless.

Two River Queens made the Mississippi Athletic Conference All-Conference list when the conference released it’s selections earlier this week.

GILBERTVILLE – The River Hawks knew they would have a tough task taking on the No. 1 team in the state.

Two area football teams are still kicking in their respective playoff brackets, and both have already proved just why they deserve to be there.

Prince of Peace’s Sophie Griffin just ended her junior year of cross country with the Irish, capping it off with her second state appearance.

EPWORTH – Something just didn’t click for the Clinton volleyball team on Monday night in Epworth.

FORT DODGE – The Class 2A boys’ cross country championship race on Saturday afternoon in Fort Dodge was certainly as exciting as it was hyped up to be, and it just happened to be even more exciting for the Camanche Indians.

GLADBROOK – The Easton Valley defense did what they did all year to start the playoffs: dominate.

The 2018 season and the 2019 season has been night and day for the Morrison football team.

It certainly wasn’t a normal off-season for Fulton senior Trae VanZuiden.

This very weekend, Camanche junior Dylan Haubrich will be headed to Colorado Springs. That’s because on Monday, he’s slated to compete in an elite event.

The Easton Valley River Hawks are heading into the 8-man playoffs on Friday night, heading into the bracket with a No. 6 ranking and an 8-1 record.

LISBON – The Prince of Peace volleyball team ended their postseason run – the best in a decade for the Irish – on Thursday night at Lisbon.

EARLVILLE, Ill. – With game point on the line, the crowd saw the set from Kylie Collachia headed to the outside, and it was over before they knew it.

It’s been a decade since the Clinton High School girls’ swim team was able to send anyone to the state meet, and a couple of relays are trying to change that .

EARLVILLE, Ill. – The Fulton Steamers have said all along that a regional championship was one of their big goals this season.

It’s not easy being an offensive lineman.

TIFFIN – No road games in the postseason hasn’t been a concern for the Clinton River Queens.

Easton Valley and Prince of Peace compete against each other in many different sports, both calling the Tri-Rivers Conference and Class 1A home.

The Clinton cross country team ended their season last week in Bettendorf at districts, which comes with it a sad goodbye to the seniors.

The football season didn’t end the way the Camanche Indians wanted it to, but it certainly was a fun season.

CLINTON – Prince of Peace junior Anabel Blount took a couple leaps straight into the air. Paige Kuehl threw her hands towards the ceiling.

Some sports lend themselves to being family oriented.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A strike by school teachers in Chicago has spread from the picket line to the playing field.

The regular football season concluded on Friday night when Week 9 games heard their final buzzers.

FULTON, Ill. – In fitting fashion, a thunderous kill from senior Emily Schipper finished off the Senior Night match on Thursday night in Fulton, and the Steamers came away with a dominant 2-0 victory over Sherrard.

The storyline of the Clinton season certainly has been focused on the youth. With a handful of talented sophomores helping fill the varsity roster, it’s setting the stage for an exciting turnaround in the Clinton program.

Cross country athletes all over the state of Iowa took to their courses on Thursday afternoon, all vying for the coveted spots that would send them to the state meet in Fort Dodge next week.

DAVENPORT – In her assessment of what hampered the Camanche volleyball team on Wednesday night, senior outside hitter Tarah Wehde quickly found a diagnosis.

MAQUOKETA – It wasn’t always pretty and it wasn’t their best, but the Clinton volleyball team pulled out a road sweep to open up their 2019 postseason campaign against Maquoketa.

It’s always hard when you lose big groups of seniors.

There wasn’t a ton of expectation coming into this cross country season for the Northeast girls.

FULTON, Ill. – It was a welcome win for the Fulton volleyball team, who closed out their regular season with a comeback victory over Rockridge on their home court on Tuesday night.

CLINTON – The Prince of Peace Irish set the stage for a local rematch after winning the first round of regional volleyball on Tuesday night at the Joe O’Donnell Sports Center with a 3-0 sweep over Tri-Rivers Conference foe Marquette Catholic.

Camanche junior cross country runner Dylan Darsidan isn’t concerned with watching the Iowa Association of Track Coaches (IATC) individual rankings.

There’s a lot of positive energy coming from the Prince of Peace girls’ cross country team, and it just seems to keep increasing as the season end looms.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – The Fulton Steamers weren’t happy with the way they golfed on Saturday afternoon, shooting 16 strokes more than the previous day.

With Week 8 rolling around came games with huge playoff implications for a lot of local teams.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – With their season on the line, the Fulton boys’ golf team turned in an excellent day of golf in order to make the cut on Friday and play another round in the Illinois High School State Golf Tournament in Bloomington.

With just two weeks remaining in the regular season, a number of teams are aiming to solidify spots in the postseason on both sides of the river.

CLINTON – In what was a Class 1A Region 7 quarterfinal preview, the Prince of Peace volleyball team defeated the Easton Valley River Hawks in two sets on Thursday night.