Today's Local Sports

For an inexperienced Washington team, last nights 49-45 overtime win over Eddyville-Blakesburg gave them more than enough to experience.

Monday’s Mid-Prairie boys basketball jamboree in Wellman served as a showcase for several teams in southeast Iowa.

The Washington girl’s basketball team kicks off their season tonight.

The Lone Tree girl’s basketball team starts things off quick this week with two games back-to-back and one of them being a rivalry game.

The Washington Demon girls basketball team starts their season on Monday, and the starting five will look drastically different than it did last year.

The Columbus Junction girl’s basketball team grabbed their first win of the season Friday night against West Liberty.

The Washington Demons suffered their second loss of the season last night, in their final game of the season.

Several area teams were in action Thursday night in Wellman at the Mid-Prairie girls basketball jamboree.

Congratulations to Ashley Rausch of the Washington Demon softball team.

It’s come down to this. The class 3A state championship between the Bishop Heelan Catholic Crusaders and the Washington Demons.

The Winfield-Mt.Union football team had three players make the all-district team.

The Lone Tree football team had eight all district players, and all of them made it on the first team all-district team.

The Washington high school athletic office is once again selling state football tickets for Thursday’s Championship.

The Highland football team grabbed two first team all-district spots.

The WACO football team had nine players make the all-class A district five team, and a co-MVP.

Because of the Demon football game on Thursday, the Washington athletic schedule has some changes.

The IMS volleyball team not only had three first team selections for all-conference, they also had the co-most valuable player in Casey Perez.

The Sigourney volleyball team had three all-conference players and two honorable mentions.

Tanner Knupp runs in the winning score on a 52 yard pass from Daryn Seibelius. Knupp led the Demons with 107 yards on 11 carries and a touchdown and two catches for 78 yards and the winning score. Photo courtesy of Linda Drish

It was a hard fought game that took all 48 minutes to decide a winner, and it was the Demons who came out on top.

Other score from the State football playoffs.