DES MOINES – All seven members of the Ottumwa High School girls cross-country team earned all-conference honors on Thursday by placing in the top 16 of the CIML Metro Conference meet.

OTTUMWA – Two weeks earlier, a 56-0 loss on the road might have been viewed as one more disheartening loss during yet another potentially winless season for the Ottumwa High School football team.

CEDAR FALLS – Trailing by a single shot with three holes left in the Class 4A boys state golf tournament, Cale Leonard approached his ball after teeing off on the par-5 seventh hole at Beaver Hills Country Club.

CEDAR FALLS – It was good enough to win the district tournament title on Tuesday.

MARION – Gaining 380 yards of any kind against the Linn-Mar defense would have required more than just a place in the Ottumwa High School football record books.

BURLINGTON – In previous years, something like an errant opening tee shot might have set the tone for a disappointing day on the course for Ottumwa senior Cale Leonard.

OTTUMWA — Officially, the number that will reside next to Abaya Selema's name will be 380 yards.

OTTUMWA – Brian Goodvin would have been happy to take a win no matter how it happened.

IOWA CITY – Jasmine Luedtke edged out Lina Newland for the top time among Ottumwa runners competing in the girls race at the Bud Williams Invitational on Thursday.

OTTUMWA – It would mean a lot to the Ottumwa High School football players to produce the season's first win on Homecoming night.

DES MOINES – Cade Hougland has the right idea.

OTTUMWA – There was no warming up in the bullpen for Ashlynn Sheets.

INDIANOLA – Both Ottumwa High School cross-country teams finished seventh at the Indianola Invitational on Thursday.

OTTUMWA – One more conference title down. One more to go.

OTTUMWA — Ottumwa High School has canceled this Friday's home varsity football game with Cedar Rapids Prairie, resulting in a forfeit loss for the Bulldogs.

BURLINGTON – Less than two weeks ago, Nate Speer and Cale Leonard battled it out for 18 holes with the final putts on the final green ultimately determining who came out on top.

MARSHALLTOWN – Even on an off day, Cale Leonard still had a chance to pull out a win.

BURLINGTON – It took one play for Bryant Williams to set the tone for another tough night on the gridiron for the Ottumwa High School football team.

COLUMBUS, NE – Two down. 48 more to go.

BURLINGTON – In previous seasons, this has been the game that has provided the Ottumwa High School football team with most of the program's brightest moments.

OTTUMWA – Cade Hougland had one score. Kyle Creamer had another.

OSKALOOSA – Several area teams battled it out with some of the top teams and top athletes in the state on Tuesday at the Oskaloosa Invitational cross-country meet.

OTTUMWA – The Ottumwa football team's best offense occurred on their opening drive as they hosted eighth-ranked Des Moines Roosevelt (3-0) at Schaffer Stadium on Friday night.

DES MONIES – Cale Leonard's even-par nine-hole round of 34 at Grand View Golf Club led the Ottumwa High School boys golf team to a win in the first CIML Metro conference competition of the season.

FAIRFIELD – While athletes around Waterworks Park had to be helped back to their camps, Lina Newland looked like she was ready to keep on running.

OTTUMWA – Trailing by one standing in the fairway on the 18th hole, Nate Spear knew he needed to a quality approach shot in order to have a chance at tying or winning birdie.

FAIRFIELD – Nate Weaton hopes this season, and next season, will not be only two times Ottumwa and Fairfield get back together on the gridiron.

OTTUMWA – Diamond Trail. Lynnville-Sully.

OTTUMWA – The one draw back to running a cross-country race at night?

OTTUMWA – It's hard to imagine a rougher start to a football season than what the Ottumwa Bulldogs experienced on Friday night.

JOHNSTON – In almost three full decades of coaching cross-country, Jeff Smith has never been part of a night like....

OTTUMWA — It wasn't the opener the Ottumwa Bulldogs were hoping for.

OTTUMWA — It's always better to open a season 1-0 than 0-1.

OTTUMWA – Two years ago, he came up 22 seconds short of qualifying for state.

OTTUMWA – It may have just been the preseason, but it might have given Ottumwa football fans a glimpse into a hopeful future for the Bulldogs.

OTTUMWA – Mike McWilliams wasn't one to sugarcoat anything.

OTTUMWA – Recovery and practice.

OTTUMWA — Mike McWilliams, the head coach of the Ottumwa High School swimming program for 42 years, passed on Thursday morning at the age of 80.

ANKENY – Cale Leonard came within a stroke of earning consecutive meet medalist titles in consecutive meets to open his senior season of Ottumwa High School boys golf.

MUSCATINE – Even the best golfers in the world can make a mistake during a round.

OTTUMWA – Before they were finishing their high school careers representing Ottumwa for the first time since 2006 in the Class 4A state baseball tournament, many Bulldog senior standouts were getting their first taste of playing on a big stage right in their own hometown.

OTTUMWA – At times over the past three years, Cale Leonard has proven he can play with some of the best golfers in the state.