West Burlington, IA- Six students from the Southeastern Community College's Computer Club, and six from the Business Club earned top ranks at the February Business Professionals of America State Leadership Conference. BPA is the top career and technical student organization for students pursuing careers in business management, office administration, information technology, and related fields. Participants compete in several categories, including Computer Programming Concepts, Business Law and Ethics, Computer Security, and Digital Computing and Design Concepts. Six Computer Club members; (Gary Brownlee, Warsaw, Landon Lemmon, New London, Jacob Shores, Burlington, Kyle Shores, Burlington, Crystal Timmerman, Burlington, and Daniel Walters, Fort Madison) earned a combined 30 honors at the state competition, while Business Club members (Piper Cole, Burlington, Jayde Eberhardt, Sperry, Corwyn Gaines, Burlington, Chloe Jones, Ft. Madison, Aidan Pealer, New London, Pattie Poling, Kahoka)
The Hillcrest Academy baseball and softball teams make the road trip to Mediapolis Thursday, each in search of their first wins. The Raven baseball team is 0-2 after 5-2 and 5-4 losses to Highland and Louisa-Muscatine respectively to start the year. The Ravens are hitting .163 as a team with a staff ERA of 4.00. Individually, Hillcrest is led by Jace Rempel at the plate with a .429 average and two RBI. London Schrock is the ERA leader at 1.75 in four innings.
Mediapolis is 1-2 overall with losses to Highland and New London and a win against Winfield-Mt. Union. The Bulldogs are hitting .241 as a team and have a 4.91 team ERA. Individually, MEPO is led by Josh Darbyshire with a .500 average four RBI and three runs scored. On the hill, Jason Brooks is 1-0 with a 2.80 ERA in five innings. These two teams met last year with the Bulldogs winning a 1-0 pitchers dual. MEPO has won 13 of the last 14 in the series.