The Fort Dodge Community Schools Foundation has taken the lead alongside two local businesses in an upcoming project to replace the baseball scoreboard at Ed McNeil Field inside Dodger Stadium. Work is slated to begin this fall above the ivy-clad walls in right-centerfield. The current ...
DES MOINES — A doubleheader loss on Monday didn’t sit well with the 9th-ranked (Class 4A) Fort Dodge baseball team, so on Wednesday, the Dodgers took their frustrations out on Des Moines Lincoln. Fort Dodge (25-7 overall) scored a combined 34 runs in 18-4 and 16-0 five-inning wins over ...
If you can’t find Francis Lee on the North Polk girls soccer sidelines, just listen. Lee isn’t bashful about cheering her team on. In fact, she encourages it. Lee, a 2014 Fort Dodge Senior High graduate, wears her emotion on her sleeve. She’s unapologetic about it. “I’m ...
The wheels are in motion for eighth graders to participate in Iowa high school athletics as soon as this fall. Two months ago, Iowa lawmakers passed House Bill 2591, giving the go-ahead to eighth-grade students to join high school programs a year early. Governor Kim Reynolds signed that bill ...
Blake Utley believes every game reveals a little more about his ninth-ranked (Class 4A) Fort Dodge baseball squad. Monday’s doubleheader loss to rival Mason City didn’t produce the outcome his Dodgers had hoped for, but it did give them plenty of homework — and a little bit of brutal ...
Things don’t always go as planned for the third-ranked (Class 4A) Fort Dodge softball team. Even a rivalry that’s become as lopsided as the series with Mason City will produce a surprising turn of events every once in a while. Head coach Andi Adams reminds her Dodgers it isn’t the ...