High School Wrestling
The Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union girls’ team hosted their Invitational last night and Pekin ran away with the team title with 174 points, while Van Buren County took second place with 130 points. Armoney Adams continued her undefeated season with three pins and a 1st place finish in the 100-pound weight class. Jacqueline Singer claimed the win by fall in the 1st place match in the 105-pound weight class, while Rylee Caviness won the 125-pound weight class with three victories by fall.
Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union led the trio of our other local teams, accruing 76 points for 8th place, followed by WACO with 46 points and Mediapolis with 30 points. The Wildcats were led by Jada Moats, as she took 1st place in the 190-pound weight class with a victory over Kylee Hill of Burlington in the championship match. WACO had Emorry Davis and Makayla Morrison each take 3rd place for their respective weight classes, while Kaiya Swafford claimed 3rd place for the Bulldogs.
The Mediapolis, Fairfield, Wapello, and Van Buren County girls’ teams will compete at the Fort Madison Invitational on December 1st.
The Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union girls’ team will travel to Tipton for an Invitational on December 1st.
The Wapello and Mt. Pleasant girls’ teams competed at the West Liberty Invitational last night and the Arrows took 10th place with 82 points, while Mt. Pleasant finished in 11th place with 67 points.
Wapello was led by Kenadee Helscher and Clara Ball, as Helscher finished the night 3-0, including a win by technical fall in the 105-pound championship match, and Ball claimed four victories with a major decision over Audra Coss of Wilton taking the gold in the 115-pound weight class.
Zenlynn Lee led the Panthers, advancing to the championship match in the 145-pound weight class, but falling to Sierra Metcalf of North Scott to snatch the silver. Courtney Smith also claimed 2nd place in the 235-pound weight class with a record of 1-1 for the night.
High School Basketball
The Mt. Pleasant girls’ team will tip-off the season at Pella tonight at 7 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 6:45 pm. Panther head coach Curt Watson talked about his team’s goals for the start of the season,
“…We want to compete with everybody. Last few years, I don’t think we’ve competed very well against a lot of the good teams and stuff. And I think if we can go up there, show Pella that we are there to play basketball and give them a really good game. I think it’s just going to go and get better against Burlington Notre Dame and it’s still key for us is we got to get a lot of these younger girls, a lot of varsity experience and the more experience they get, the better they’re going to be at their season goes down.”
The Winfield-Mt. Union girls’ team will hit the road to face off against Pekin tonight at 7:30 pm.
The Fairfield girls’ team will compete against Knoxville tonight at 7:30 pm on the road.
The Columbus girls’ team will host Louisa-Muscatine tonight at 6 pm.
The WACO girls’ team will face off against Wapello at home tonight at 6 pm.
The Winfield-Mt. Union boys’ team will attend a scrimmage at Kirkwood Community College on Friday, November 28th, with a matchup against Columbus Catholic.
The New London girls’ team will travel to Louisa-Muscatine on December 1st at 6 pm.
High School Bowling
The Mt. Pleasant girls’ team will travel to Keokuk tonight at 6 pm.
Southeastern Community College
The women’s basketball team will stay at home to play North Iowa Area Community College tonight at 5:30 pm.
The men’s basketball team will host Spoon River College tonight at 7 pm.
The men’s and women’s wrestling teams will duel Ellsworth Community College on December 3rd at home.
College Football
Iowa will travel to Nebraska on Friday, November 28th, to end the regular season with kickoff at 11 am. KILJ 105.5 FM will have the call.
Iowa State will face off against Oklahoma State on Saturday, November 29th, at 11 am.
College Basketball
The #11 Iowa women’s team will host Western Illinois tomorrow, November 26th, at 6:30 pm.
The Iowa men’s team will compete in the Acrisure Classic tonight against Ole Miss at 8:30 pm.
The #10 Iowa State women’s team will compete in a tournament starting on Friday, November 28th, at 10 am.
In a top 15 matchup, the #15 Iowa State men’s team grabbed T.J. Otzelberger’s 100th career victory as head coach of the Cyclones in a thrilling 83-82 victory over #14 St. John’s. Joshua Jefferson had a terrific all-around game, racking up 17 points, eight rebounds, three assists, and a block in the marquee win. The Cyclones will continue their run through the Players Era tournament today against Creighton at 1 pm.
This Day in Sports History
1961 – NBA’s Bob Cousy becomes the second player to score 15,000 points.
1979 – Pat Summerall and John Madden broadcast a game together for the first time. A pairing that lasts 22 years and becomes one of the most well-known partnerships in TV sportscasting history.
2018 – LA Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers sets an NFL single-game record, completing 25-straight passes in a 45-10 win against the Arizona Cardinals.