LISBON -- For 25 spring seasons, girls track athletes from Mount Vernon and Lisbon came together.They coined unique nicknames and they assembled quality teams. Sometimes, championship teams.A new day has dawned, though: Lisbon has claimed independence and is going solo.No more Zebras, T-Rexes, Mermaids or ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- The Mount Vernon Mustangs had an opportunity. An opening.Alexis Conaway closed it with authority.Conaway delivered 32 kills -- including a few in a key run late in the third set -- as third-rated MOC-Floyd Valley fought past No. 10 Mount Vernon, 22-25, ...

CEDAR RAPIDS – The path to the Sioux Center locker room was encased between ice and concrete, not leading to much emotion. But as each Warrior made their way out of the dressing room, they did so with puffy cheeks and teary eyes.Minutes before, they ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- They have a new coach, different players and a completely different identity. But don't snooze on the Mount Vernon Mustangs. And don't dismiss them. Tenth-ranked Mount Vernon used a balanced, disciplined offense and was unflappable on the floor in a four-set victory over No. ...

VINTON -- Seventeen on her 18th.Sarah Frisch celebrated her birthday with a match-high 17 kills, and fourth-ranked Grundy Center swept Mount Vernon, 25-17, 25-18, 25-16, in a Class 2A volleyball regional final Tuesday night at Garrison Fieldhouse.And thus officially ended Mount Vernon's two-year reign as state ...

MOUNT VERNON -- It wasn't a game day for Sarah Ryan. It wasn't a practice day.It was a rest day."I've been babysitting and mowing," Ryan said on a hot, lazy late-July afternoon. "It's weird for me. I like to be busy."As The Gazette honors its 2011 ...