High School Girls’ Tennis
Mt. Pleasant had their senior night spoiled by Davis County last night, falling 7-2. Shaye Barbee, a junior, had a terrific night, shutting out her singles opponent Macey Campbell, 8-0, then teaming up with Lianah Phangchanthong to beat Campbell and Olivia Robinson in their doubles match 8-6.
Fairfield prepares to host the Class 1A Region 6 Individual tournament tomorrow, September 17th, with Mt. Pleasant making the trip.
High School Cross Country
New London will head to Oskaloosa for a meet tonight.
Wapello will compete in the English Valleys Invite tonight.
Central Lee will host their Invitational tonight with Winfield-Mt. Union and Van Buren County competing.
WACO, Mt. Pleasant, Mediapolis, Danville, Fairfield, Holy Trinity Catholic, and West Burlington/Notre Dame will travel to Rodeo Park Trail for the Timm Lamb Invitational on Thursday, September 18th.
High School Cross Country Rankings
The Iowa Association of Track Coaches released their fourth editions of the individual and team rankings yesterday and here’s a look at how our local teams fared.
In Class 3A, Mt. Pleasant’s Avery Fedler collected another victory in her short career at the Fairfield Invite, turning in a time of 19 minutes and 11 seconds. However, the Panther fell a spot in the individual rankings to #5.
The Mediapolis boys’ team remained at #19 in the Class 2A team rankings after a win at the Van Buren County Invite last week. The win vaulted Simon Wendel to #10 in the individual rankings, five spots higher than last week, and it brought Will Schmidgall back into the rankings at #28.
In Class 1A, WACO’s Jude Dykstra is the highest ranked runner for our area runners at #7, anchoring the 14th ranked Warriors. For the first time in her career, Josie Dykstra of WACO found herself in the rankings at #22 after snatching 1st place at the Sigourney Invite.
Both the Van Buren County boys’ and girls’ teams are still ranked as they both slid back to #11 in their respective rankings. Lincoln Bainbridge propelled five spots in the rankings to #12.
The Columbus boys’ team may not have anyone individually ranked, but the boy’s team is ranked 5th after a victory at the Sigourney Invitational, as five runners finished within the top 10.
High School Volleyball
#1 Holy Trinity Catholic will travel to Mediapolis tonight at 7:30 pm.
Van Buren County will square off against West Burlington tonight at 7:30 pm at home.
Mt. Pleasant will travel to Fort Madison tonight at 7:15 pm. Panther head coach Alicia Schrader does not want her team to beat themselves,
“We talk about limiting our mental errors, our unforced errors. I think that’s really our key. We have a lot of talent. I mean, we really do, but we sometimes lose focus, we might miss a serve that is crucial, or we might make a bad serve-receive pass. So just staying focused the whole time and limiting those hitting errors, serving errors, unforced errors… if we can do that, then I think we can be really strong.”
Fairfield will square off against Burlington at home tonight at 7:15 pm.
Danville will travel to New London tonight at 7:30 pm.
Burlington Notre Dame will host Central Lee tonight at 7:30 pm.
WACO will make the trip to Columbus tonight at 7:30 pm.
Wapello will square off against Winfield-Mt. Union at 7:30 pm on the road tonight.
High School Football
Mt. Pleasant will square off against fellow undefeated Central DeWitt on Friday, September 19th, at 7:30 pm at home. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 7:15 pm.
New London will face off against Wapello on Friday at 7 pm at home.
WACO will host Fremont-Mills on Friday at 7 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union will host Wayne for their Homecoming on Friday at 7 pm.
West Burlington/Notre Dame will welcome Mediapolis on Friday at 7 pm for their Homecoming.
Fairfield will hit the road on Friday at 7:30 pm to play Knoxville.
Danville will take on Van Buren County in a road showdown on Friday at 7 pm.
Columbus will compete on Friday at 7 pm against North Linn.
Central Lee will travel to West Liberty on Friday with kickoff at 7 pm.
Southeastern Community College
The men’s and women’s soccer teams will host Northwest Iowa Community College on Saturday, September 20th, with the women playing first at 1 pm.
The volleyball team will travel to Northeast Community College tonight at 6:30 pm.
College Football
Iowa will travel to Rutgers on Friday, September 19th, at 7 pm.
#12 Iowa State is on a bye week.
This Day in Sports History
1869 – Tom Morris Junior scored the first hole in one in the Open Championship.
1924 – St. Louis Cardinals’ future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Jim Bottomley sets the MLB all-time single game RBI record of 12 in a 17-3 rout of the Brooklyn Robins at Ebbets Field.
1950 – The Cleveland Browns (formerly AAFC) play their first NFL game, beating Philadelphia 35-10.