Sports

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor   springville       Springville football coach Joe Martin hasn’t been one to shy away from challenges when it comes to scheduling over much of his dec…

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor   marengo       If there was ever a case that could be made where the scoreboard doesn’t always give an accurate account of a sporting outcome, Friday…

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor   anamosa       While it may have been a considerably more reduced field than normal, numbers wise at Fawn Creek’s annual women’s club tournament Satu…

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor   PRESTON       Talking with Fawn Creek Country Club General Manager Darin Sander, who also doubles as one of the men’s club team’s top golfers, days …

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor   PRESTON       They may have been the massive underdog coming into the annual Three Rivers tournament Saturday, Aug. 15, but with arguably the younge…

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor   sioux city       Throughout what was a wildly successful baseball career that began before he could even remember, former Anamosa High School supers…

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor         As I get ready to piece together the 2026 Journal-Eureka fall sports preview, headed your way next week, I can’t help but be intrigued by some…

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor   peoria, ill.       It’s every athlete’s dream to someday compete at the highest level possible.       Former Anamosa standout Eli Lehrman had that s…

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor   durant       Wanting nothing more than to return the coveted Al Norton Cup back to Anamosa soil, the Wapsi Country Club men’s golf team knew the odd…

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor   wyoming       Just imagine what Midland senior superstar Anthony Harrington could have accomplished this summer if he had been fully 100-percent hea…

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor         I’ve been an Atlanta Braves fan since the late 1970s, and over the decades have attended games to watch them in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Lou…

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor   springville       Knowing he had a mostly young softball team coming into the 2026 campaign, with a mere two seniors on the roster in Ella Hoge ad K…

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor   springville       First-year Springville baseball coach Drayton Kamberling knew exactly what he was getting into when he took over the reins of the …

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor   durant       They came in as the overwhelmingly heavy favorites to win their 13th straight women’s Eastern Iowa golf Association tournament champion…

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor   durant       As if there needed to be any more proof that Anamosa is one of the best golf communities in all of eastern Iowa, the Wapsi and Fawn Cre…

By Daryl Schepanski Sports Editor ANAMOSA       She has meant so much to the Anamosa softball program over the last four years, now superstar Anamosa senior pitcher Rebekah Graham has …