Pressure can be a fickle beast. Three straight losses, capped by a shutout defeat at the hands of Frontenac last week, had Iola High’s Mustangs scuffling. Their offensive struggles continued early Friday against Anderson County…

Iola High saw both sides of the coin Thursday. After a painful start against unbeaten Eureka — the Tornadoes scored the game’s first 12 points en route to a 25-4, 25-10 victory — and an…

PITTSBURG — Iola High’s girls tennis team played well into the night at the Pittsburg Invitational Monday, with singles players Miah Shelby and Keira Fawson vying for singles wins in their respective divisions. Shelby, a…

Amanda Holman is optimistic that if Iola High’s volleyball team could just avoid a few mistakes, the Mustangs will become a force to be reckoned with, and quickly. “It’s there,” she said. “I can see…

CARBONDALE — Iola Middle School’s seventh-graders continued to make progress on the volleyball court Monday. The A team took things to the brink before falling in five sets to Santa Fe Trail, 25-11, 25-21, 21-25,…

Iola High’s defense provided all of the team’s offense in a 14-10 loss to Frontenac in junior varsity action Monday. The Mustangs trailed 8-0 at halftime before registering a safety after a cluster of players…

CARBONDALE — A hectic conclusion to the middle school volleyball season is nearly complete for Iola Middle School. Amid the cluster of action were Monday’s road matches at Santa Fe Trail. Iola’s eighth-grade A team…

FRONTENAC — As if facing perhaps the most talented team on their schedule wasn’t enough of a challenge, Iola High’s Mustangs had to travel to Frontenac short-handed Friday. Iola was without the services of starting…

BURLINGTON — Iola Middle School’s volleyball teams dropped a pair of matches Thursday to Burlington. In eighth-grade A team action, Burlington won all three sets, 25-7, 25-6 and 25-12. “We lost to a very good…

Check out additional photos from Tuesday’s Humboldt-Iola Invitational here. HUMBOLDT — An occasional burst of wind out of the north was the only impediment to some blistering fast times on the cross country course Tuesday.…