Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, February 27, 2003

In the preliminaries to the finals of the state high school wrestling championships in Des Moines Saturday night, Mount Ayr Community high school coach Eric EHLEN will take his place in the Iowa High School Athletic Association Wrestling Hall of Fame. EHLEN, who has coached at Mount Ayr Community high school since 1996, is being honored especially for his stellar high school wrestling career.

Two Mount Ayr Community Raider wrestlers will be taking part in the state wrestling tournament at Veterans Auditorium in Des Moines Thursday. Kevin TRULLINGER qualifiedat 215 pounds for the second year and Hans LARSON qualified at 135 pounds at the district meet Saturday.

A district title is behind them and regional play lies ahead for the Mount Ayr Community Raiderette girls basketball team. The girls, ranked 18th in the state, easily handled Nodaway Valley 40-28 Wednesday night and then got past Panorama 55-40 Saturday night to take the Class 2A district title. That sent them on to regional play in action against 14th ranked Central Decatur Tuesday night at Truro. The girls are now 20-2 for the season after having wrapped up a tied for first place with the Central Decatur squad. That the playoff game between the Mount Ayr Community Raiderettes and the Central Decatur Cardinals Tuesday night in the first round of regional Class 2A girls basketball competition would be a good one was a given. Both teams came into the game ranked in the top 20 in the state -- Central Decatur at 14th and the Raiderettes at 18th. The two teams had shared the Pride of Iowa conference title and in their only previous meeting Central Decatur took a one-point victory 40-39. Before a packed gymnasium at Interstate 35 at Truro Tuesday night the two teams battled into overtime and, when the dust had cleared, the Cardinals were declared the winners after a last second basket put them up 52-50.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2013

 

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