The Newton boys basketball team needed something to get its mind off a 64-30 loss to Norwalk on Friday night, but after Monday, it will have to keep looking.
 

Trailing by just four points at halftime, the Cardinals (2-2, 0-1 Little Hawkeye Conference) let Marshalltown slip away in the third en route to a 59-40 loss that dropped Newton back to .500 in the young season.
 

"The second half tonight was pretty similar to Norwalk," Newton coach Nick Wilkins said. "It basically comes down to us doing the things we put in place before the game about how to execute. With teams like this and their personnel, this is what's going to happen if you don't."