Javion Jondle is staying in the moment, hoping to make the most of his remaining time as a Fort Dodge Dodger before the next chapter of his athletic career is written. The senior first team all-state football player is about to start the second half of his final basketball season as the ...

Legendary Bishop Garrigan head football coach Marty Wadle will be one of five new inductees into the Iowa Football Coaches Association Coaches Hall of Fame on March 4. Wadle will be joined by Benton’s Kal Goodchild, Dave Wiebers of Denison, Dan Sabers from Iowa City High and Carroll’s ...

CEDAR FALLS — A trio of Fort Dodge senior football players will suit up together one last time in the 7th annual River Battle Bowl all-star game at the UNI-Dome. First team all-district selections Javion Jondle, Connor Carver and Kaleb Lynch were chosen to compete for Team Iowa against Team ...

The Iowa Print Sports Writers Association and Iowa Football Coaches Association honored 21 Messenger-area players as all-state for their efforts on the football field this past fall. Among those named were Fort Dodge’s Javion Jondle, Humboldt’s Will Orness and Tayeton Lohaus, Southeast ...

CEDAR FALLS — The post-game scene in the media room said it all: ice packs, fresh bandages, tattered wraps, cuts and bruises. Blood, sweat and, of course, tears. For nearly three hours on the field at the UNI-Dome on Saturday night, a Class 3A state semifinal between Humboldt and Mount ...

CEDAR FALLS — The Humboldt football team vividly remembers last season’s state semifinal experience. The Wildcats lost in the UNI-Dome to eventual champion Harlan, running out of steam down the stretch. Derrick Elman’s group didn’t use that experience as an excuse, but rather, ...