OTTUMWA — Kevin Kretz has won a lot of races in his four years swimming for the Ottumwa Bulldogs.

OTTUMWA — It was a big night at Evans Middle School Gymnasium.

FAIRFIELD — One game separated the Fort Madison and Fairfield girls basketball teams in the Southeast Conference standings.

CENTERVILLE — Trevor Summers was on a roll earlier this season when he stepped on the mat for a championship match against Lucas Henderson.

BLOOMFIELD – Austin Payne spent most of the first period of his last match on Senior Night at Davis County fighting from underneath.

DES MOINES – Trae Swartz's pursuit for 1,000 career points will have to wait until a few more days.

OTTUMWA – On Friday, Joe VandenBerg was ready and waiting to celebrate the first win of the season for the Ottumwa girls basketball team in the locker room.

BURLINGTON – For the second time in 11 months, the Bulldog boys celebrated an eight-point win over Burlington.

OTTUMWA – Dave Wenger brought his top 10 scoring wrestlers to Evans Middle School Gymnasium on Saturday.

DES MOINES – Trae Swartz scored a season-high 34 points, including 22 in the first half, as the Ottumwa boys basketball team rolled to the team's first CIML Metro conference win of the season.

OTTUMWA – After working hard all week in the wrestling room, Eli Slater was ready to put on a show for his teammates.

DES MOINES – Things were looking good for most of the first half Tuesday night for the Ottumwa boys basketball team in the CIML Metro conference opener at Des Moines North.

OTTUMWA – Losses are a part of sports on all levels.

OTTUMWA – No one knew what to expect heading into what promised to be the most unique high school football season the state of Iowa has ever seen.

When it came to moving the football down the field, area teams found multiple ways to find positive yardage.

KEOSAUQUA – There are several superlatives that could describe the play of Isabel Manning.

PELLA — The Ottumwa boys basketball traveled to Pella Tuesday night for one test in 2020, a battle with a tall Pella Christian squad.

OSKALOOSA — Oskaloosa welcomed Class 4A Ottumwa and all-state forward Trae Swartz to town on Monday night as the Bulldogs would runaway to a 64-26 victory over the Indians.

WAUKEE — The Ottumwa High School wrestling team will head to the break with 12 wins in 17 duals so far this season.

OTTUMWA — For one night, Cherie Langland was happy to have a special assistant coach helping instruct and encourage members of the Ottumwa High School boys swimming team from dry land.

OTTUMWA — The future may be uncertain.

GRINNELL — For the third straight game, the Ottumwa boys basketball team stepped on to the court short handed.

OTTUMWA — Two of the best talents in Iowa High School boys basketball could be found in Wapello County on Monday night.

LEON — First it was Ankeny Centennial on Thursday.

OTTUMWA — Central Iowa Metropolitan League opponent Ankeny Centennial wrestling team came to town with five state ranked weights Thursday night.

OTTUMWA — The past 48 hours were a cold reminder of the circumstances surrounding a season played in the midst of a pandemic.

OTTUMWA — It may not be the Statue of Liberty.

OTTUMWA — The plan as always this season is to compete against the best high school bowlers in the state this February.

GILBERT — It will be a season unlike any other for the Ottumwa High School wrestling team.

OTTUMWA — It's not hard to figure out who sets the pace for the Ottumwa High School boys swimming team.

BLOOMFIELD — If the first night of the high school wrestling season is any indication, big things are in store for the Ottumwa Bulldogs on the mat in the 2020-21 campaign.

OTTUMWA — Normal. That certainly would not describe Tuesday afternoon's season-opening dual with Davis County for the Ottumwa High School bowling teams.

OTTUMWA — The most highly anticipated season of boys basketball at Ottumwa High School in nearly two decades has featured plenty of preseason anxiety.

OTTUMWA — It can be easy to forget just how young the core of the Ottumwa High School wrestling program truly is.

OTTUMWA — The last ball Zoe Seamans sent down the lane last year as an Ottumwa High School bowler came with tears in her eyes.

OTTUMWA — There was laughing. There were smiles. There were even videos being posted to social media.

OTTUMWA — June of 2018.

DES MOINES — The Central Iowa Metropolitan League, based upon guidance received from Governor’s Office of the State of Iowa, the Iowa Department of Education, the Iowa Department of Public Health, the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, and the Iowa High School Athletic Association, has r…

OTTUMWA — After spending most of 2020 sharing space near the top of several leaderboard, Ottumwa High School teammates Cale Leonard and Joe Hammer will share space on the first page of another list. Leonard and Hammer both earned first-team all-state honors given out by the Iowa High School …

PLEASANT HILL — Kylie Latham. Alli Bookin-Nosbisch. Carollin Mellin.

IOWA CITY — Two halves of football.

AMES – The realities of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic means the Ottumwa girls cross-country team will have to wait until 2021 to try and win a second straight CIML Metro Conference team title.

OTTUMWA – Technically speaking, Friday night provides the Ottumwa High School football team with a chance to earn the program's first postseason win in 12 years.