High School Basketball
All games were canceled last night due to weather.
Mt. Pleasant will host Fort Madison tonight at 6 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will have the call with the pregame show at 5:45 pm.
Danville will host Central Lee tonight with the boys’ game starting at 7:30 pm following the girls’ contest. Senior Dillan Mason talked about what the team has been working on heading into their matchup with the Hawks,
“We’re going to just work on our discipline. I mean, we’re a team that on paper, we’ve been fouling a lot and just to get rid of those fouls that aren’t really worth it like some are alright, but some of them that we could just get rid of, and it would really help. So, instead of having these close games, maybe we get the double digits and run off with the lead instead of shooting ourselves in the foot and then keeping it close.”
WACO will travel to Lone Tree tonight with game one at 6 pm.
Wapello will compete against Hillcrest Academy tonight with the girls’ contest playing at 6 pm.
Burlington Notre Dame will travel to New London tonight with tip-off at 6 pm for the girls’ contest.
Holy Trinity Catholic will host West Burlington tonight with game one at 6 pm.
Van Buren County will travel to Mediapolis tonight with the boys’ game following the girls at 7:30 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union will hit the road to play Highland tonight with the girls playing first at 6 pm.
Fairfield will take on Washington at home tonight with game one of the doubleheader at 6 pm.
High School Bowling
Central Lee will travel to Centerville today.
Fairfield will duel Mt. Pleasant on Monday, December 15th, at home.
High School Wrestling
All meets were postponed last night.
The Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union girls’ team will wrestle at the Zimmerman Tournament tonight at Maquoketa High School.
The Wapello girls’ team will compete in a tournament tomorrow, December 13th, at Marion High School.
The Mt. Pleasant and Mediapolis boys’ teams will make the trip to Grinnell High School for the Tiger Duals tomorrow.
The Mediapolis, Van Buren County, Fairfield, and Mt. Pleasant girls’ teams will travel to Keokuk for an Invite tomorrow.
The Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union and Burlington Notre Dame boys’ teams will compete at the Colfax-Mingo Dual Tournament tomorrow.
The New London and Wapello boys’ teams will travel to the North Cedar Invitational tomorrow.
The Van Buren County and WACO boys’ teams will participate in the HLV-TC Invitational tomorrow.
The WACO girls’ team will compete at the Vinton-Shellsburg Tournament tomorrow.
Southeastern Community College
The women’s basketball team will travel to Central Community College tomorrow, December 13th.
The men’s basketball team will compete in the Highland Tournament tonight.
College Football
#23 Iowa will take on #14 Vanderbilt on December 31st at 11 am for the ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa, Florida.
College Basketball
The #10 Iowa State women’s team will host UNI on Sunday, December 14th, at 5 pm.
The #11 Iowa women’s team will look to get back in the win column tomorrow, December 13th, against Lindenwood at 2 pm at home.
The men’s Cy-Hawk series had #4 Iowa State on upset alert with Iowa leading by 13 points in the first half, but the Cyclones hung on to win 66-62. Iowa State went on a 19 to 0 run to take over the lead as Joshua Jefferson led the way with 24 points. With the win, Iowa State completed their first-ever single-season sweep across volleyball, football, wrestling, and basketball against the Hawkeyes.
The Iowa men’s team will look to right the ship against Western Michigan at home on Sunday at 2 pm.
The #4 Iowa State men’s team will host Eastern Illinois on Sunday at noon.
This Day in Sports History
1968 – Arthur Ashe became the first Black man to be ranked #1 in tennis.
1981 – Wayne Gretzky became the quickest to reach 50 goals in a season. It was in the 39th game.
2010 – The collapse of the inflatable roof at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Mall of America Stadium caused the cancellation of a game between the New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings. The teams played the next day at Detroit’s Ford Field.