Benton football fans left lukewarm hand warmers scattered across the wobbly, steel bleachers in the away stands at Spartan Stadium. They abandoned half-drank Xtra Pibb and Diet Coke bottles, crystallized...

FORT MADISON — The Spartans closed out the nine-week regular season of varsity football with a 51-2 victory over winless Fort Madison in the Bloodhounds’ dog pound Friday, October 24. Solon’s...

This was not your typical Solon Senior Night. The storied Senior Night traditions for Solon remained the same, with the announcement of each senior athlete, the passing of the torch to the kindergarteners,...

After Solon’s Maddox Kelley scored a 49-yard rushing touchdown in the first drive of the game versus Keokuk, quarterback Eli Kampman isolated himself on the bench with a computer and watched film. He...

It sits in the corner of the Solon football locker room. Rust bleeds through the flaking tan powder coat, peeling like old bark. Steel is warped and thinned from years of abuse. Its legs wobble. One...

VAN HORNE — A string of field goals isn’t a common way to win a football game, but for the Spartans, it was key to their 28-21 non-district win over Benton Community Friday, Sept. 19 in the Bobcats’...

Hundreds of tiny rubber pellets stick to the feet of Eli Kampman. Not to his cleats. Not his socks. He is barefoot, circling Spartan Stadium. In his right hand, Solon’s star junior quarterback grips...

WILLIAMSBURG — Gridiron meetings between the Solon Spartans and Williamsburg Raiders haven’t always gone well for Solon. The Raiders pounded Solon 42-13 last year and denied the Spartans a 3A State...