Six dual meets led to six wins for the West Delaware wrestling team last week, with double-dual wins over South Tama and Williamsburg, at Seedorff Gymnasium, Jan. 21, opening the week before the Hawks went 4-0 at the Center Point-Urbana Duals, Jan. 23.

Two more Tri-Rivers Conference wins last week improved Maquoketa Valley’s girls’ basketball record to 16-0 as the Wildcats defeated East Buchanan and North Linn.

It was life on the road for the West Delaware boys’ basketball team last week. The Hawks defeated Waverly-Shell Rock, 55-46, Jan. 21, before suffering a 73-59 loss to Solon, Jan. 22. The Hawks closed out the week with a 73-68 win at Camanche, Jan. 23.

While the West Delaware girls’ basketball team lost a pair of road games last week, the Hawks still showed they can play with the top teams in the WaMaC Conference.

Posting their highest match score of the season, the West Delaware girls’ bowling team won its home triangular, Jan. 22. The Hawks posted a score of 2,799, ahead of Wahlert’s 2,596 and Independence’s 2,373.

As their regular season winds down, the West Delaware boys’ bowling team continues to find ways to win that may make the team tough to beat come tournament time.

Maquoketa Valley’s boys’ basketball team earned a home win against East Buchanan and a road loss to the undefeated North Linn Lynx.

On one side of the floor, you have an undefeated and top-ranked Maquoketa Valley girls’ basketball team. On the other end, you have a 1-13 Edgewood-Colesburg team coming off its first win of the season.

Edgewood-Colesburg opened the game with a 16-0 run and defeated Maquoketa Valley, 65-44, in a Tri-Rivers Conference boys’ basketball contest in Edgewood, Jan. 15.

The West Delaware girls’ basketball team may have lost both its games last week, but the Hawks’ efforts against Marion and Williamsburg show a change that will make the Hawks tough to play against the rest of the season.

Kyle Kelley scored a career-high 33 points and West Delaware opened the third quarter with a 16-0 run as the Hawks ended the week with a 69-59 win over Marion at home, Jan. 15. That came after the Hawks won at Williamsburg, 65-52, Jan. 12.

The West Delaware girls’ bowling team made the most of Senior Night as they defeated Benton Community 2,591-1,729 at Lightning Lanes, Jan. 15.

On a night when the West Delaware boys’ bowling team honored their senior team members, it was only fitting that a senior led the way in the Hawks’ 2,989-2,457 win over Benton Community, Jan. 15, at Lightning Lanes.

Edgewood-Colesburg’s boys’ basketball team had 13 players in uniform at Starmont, Jan. 12, and 11 of those players scored in the Vikings, 73-18, win over the Stars. Ed-Co improved to 9-3 on the season, while Starmont was limited to less than 20 points offensively for the fourth time this yea…

There were signs after the holiday break that Edgewood-Colesburg’s girls’ basketball team was ready to break into the win column, and that was exactly what happened when the Vikings defeated Starmont 62-29, at Arlington, Jan. 12.

Maquoketa Valley’s boys’ basketball team had a busy week, with four games in five days against three of the top teams in the state. In those four games they beat Alburnett, 61-52, at home, Jan. 11, traveled to Springville, Jan. 12 to take on the 12-1 Orioles losing, 60-35. On Jan. 14, the Wi…

A dominant defensive effort gave the West Delaware Hawks a 56-39 road win over the Independence Mustangs, Jan. 7. That win came after the Hawks lost to Solon, 62-31, at Seedorf Gymnasium, Jan. 5. The Hawks closed out the week with a 45-33 loss at Maquoketa, Jan. 8.

Led by Carson Schnieders’ 444 series, the West Delaware boys’ bowling team defeated Independence 2,900–2,708 at Lightning Lanes, Jan. 8.

The West Delaware girls bowling team defeated a very good Independence squad 2,617-2,506 at Lightning Lanes, Jan. 8.

A 78-69 win at Maquoketa snapped a four-game losing streak by the West Delaware boys’ basketball team, Jan. 8, giving the team their first win in 2021. Earlier in the week the Hawks lost a 54-52 game at home to Solon. They closed out the week losing at Wahlert, 64-60.

Edgewood-Colesburg’s varsity girls’ basketball team lost a pair of close contests coming out of the Christmas break, before dropping road contests at Alburnett and North Linn later in the week to fall to 0-12, but there are positive signs that point to the Vikings breaking into the win column.

Edgewood-Colesburg’s boys’ basketball team picked up a pair of home-court victories over winless opponents to start the new year before squaring off with one of the Tri-Rivers Conference heavyweights, at Alburnett, Jan. 8.

Maquoketa Valley’s girls’ basketball team is in a tough stretch right now with seven games in the next 13 days. Last week, the Wildcats added three more wins to improve to 11-0. They opened on Jan. 5 with a 51-38 win against Alburnett at home and followed it up with a 43-26 win against Mount…

Maquoketa Valley’s wrestling team traveled to Alburnett for a quad, Jan. 7. The Wildcats went 1-2 beating Edgewood-Colesburg, 36-24, but fell to Highland, Riverside, 35-30, and Alburnett, 54-15.

Maquoketa Valley freshman Haley Ronnebaum came up big in the Wildcats’, 52-34, win against second-ranked, and reigning Class 2A state champs North Linn, Jan. 2 at home. The game between the Tri-Rivers West conference leaders snapped North Linn’s 12-game win streak.

A tough first quarter proved too much for the West Delaware boys’ basketball team to overcome as they lost a non-conference contest to the Western Dubuque Bobcats, 76-48, at Epworth, Jan. 2.