High School Basketball
Mediapolis swept Central Lee last night with the #9 girls’ team clobbering the Hawks, 71-26, and the boys’ team sneaking out a 54-48 victory. Grace Holsteen buried six threes for a game high 26 points. Max Griffin cashed in 16 points in the winning effort for the Bulldogs, as Carson Morrison also scored 16 for the Hawks.
Central Lee will close out their long road stretch with a matchup against West Burlington tomorrow, January 29th, with the girls tipping off at 6 pm.
Mediapolis will tangle with Holy Trinity Catholic at home on Friday, January 30th, with the girls’ teams playing at 6 pm.
Holy Trinity Catholic got to celebrate a 63-50 win over New London and a career milestone last night, as senior Layne Rung dropped 33 points to pass the 1,000-point plateau for his career. The girls’ game was postponed to February 3rd.
Holy Trinity Catholic will host Wapello tomorrow with game one at 6 pm.
New London will clash with Columbus tomorrow with night starting at 6 pm.
Columbus split their night against Wapello last night with the girls’ team deflecting the Arrows, 50-42, and the boys’ team losing 61-41. Ellie Sanders and Emmalin Marshall dueled for 13 points apiece.
Win streaks continued at Danville, as the girls’ team collected their seventh straight win in dominating fashion, 58-22, over Burlington Notre Dame to celebrate their senior night in style. Alaina Gourley finished the night with 21 points. The #3 Nike boys’ team smacked the Bears 72-38, improving to 18-0 on the season.
Danville will prepare for a road matchup against New London on Friday with the girls’ game at 6 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 5:45 pm.
Burlington Notre Dame will celebrate their Homecoming on Friday with a showdown against West Burlington with the girls’ game tipping-off at 6 pm.
WACO split their matchup against Highland last night with the girls’ team losing 56-45 and the boys’ team leashing the Huskies, 59-42. Brenna Graber put up 11 points for the girls’ team, while Kellen Shelman’s 13 points led the boys’ team. The Warriors will host Columbus on Friday with game one at 6 pm.
Fairfield will clash with Washington tomorrow with the girls’ playing at 6 pm.
Mt. Pleasant will celebrate their Senior Night on Friday against Washington at home with game one tipping-off at 6 pm.
High School Wrestling
Mt. Pleasant will duel Burlington tomorrow, January 29th, on the road.
The Burlington Notre Dame, Van Buren County, and New London boys’ teams will travel to Louisa-Muscatine for a quad tomorrow.
Wapello will host WACO in a quad tomorrow.
The Fairfield, Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union, Mediapolis, Van Buren County, and WACO girls’ teams will make the trip to Wapello for the Class 1A Region 6 state qualifying meet on Friday, January 30th.
The Mt. Pleasant girls’ team will wait for their Class 2A Region 5 state qualifying meet on Friday in Ottumwa.
The IHSAA released the boys’ Regional Duals assignments yesterday and #15 Burlington Notre Dame will take on #21 Woodward-Granger with the winner advancing to take on #3 Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont in the regional finals. Regional duals are scheduled for Tuesday, February 3rd, at 6 pm.
High School Bowling
The Southeast Conference tournament was held last night and the Keokuk boys’ team rolled away with the title by almost 300 total pins over the runner-up Washington, 2,933-2,697. Fairfield claimed 4th place with Mt. Pleasant taking 5th.
The Mt. Pleasant boys’ team will travel to Keokuk on Tuesday, February 3rd, for a triangular.
The Mt. Pleasant girls’ team will compete at the Class 2A Region 4 state qualifier on Monday, February 2nd, at Clinton, while the Fairfield girls’ team will make their way to Burlington for the Class 1A Region 8 state qualifier with Central Lee.
Southeastern Community College
The women’s basketball team will compete against North Iowa Area Community College tonight at 5:30 pm.
The men’s basketball team will host Kennedy-King College tomorrow, January 29th, at 7 pm.
The men’s and women’s wrestling teams will host Iowa Lakes Community College tonight.
College Basketball
The Iowa State women’s team will hit the road to face off against Texas Tech tonight at 6 pm.
The #8 Iowa women’s team will travel to USC tomorrow, January 29th, at 8 pm.
The Iowa men’s team will take on USC tonight at 6 pm at home. KILJ 105.5 FM will be on the call.
The #8 Iowa State men’s team will host Colorado tomorrow at 6 pm.
This Day in Sports History
1940 – Chicago’s Les Cunningham scores five points in one period to tie an NHL record that stands until 1978; records 2 goals & 3 assists in a 10:04 span during the 3d period of an 8-1 win over Montreal.
1984 – Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record point scoring streak ends at 51 games when the Oilers are beaten 4-2 by the LA Kings; Gretzky totals 61-92-153 during the period.
1992 – St. Louis right winger Brett Hull becomes the 2nd player (after Wayne Gretzky) in NHL history to record back-to-back seasons of 50 goals in 50 games; #50 comes in a 3-3 Blues’ tie in Los Angeles.