High School Track and Field
Washington will host the Demon Relays tonight with Fairfield, Mt. Pleasant, WACO, and Wapello competing.
West Burlington/Notre Dame will hold the Falcon Co-Ed Relays tonight with Danville, Mediapolis, New London and Winfield-Mt. Union making the trip.
The Van Buren County boys’ team will travel to the Pekin Invitational, while the girls’ team will voyage to the Burdell Hensley Invitational at Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont tonight.
High School Soccer
Washington will compete against Fort Madison tonight with the girls’ team on the road and the boys’ team playing at home with both games at 5 pm.
The Wapello girls’ team will take on Mediapolis on the road at 5 pm tonight.
The Mediapolis boys’ team will host Danville tonight at 7 pm.
Mt. Pleasant will take on Keokuk tonight with the girls’ playing at home at 4:30 pm and the boys’ traveling to start at 5 pm.
Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union will hit the road to take on Mid-Prairie tonight with game one at 5 pm.
Fairfield will start conference play against Burlington tonight with the boys’ team at home and the girls’ team on the road at 5 pm.
The Central Lee boys’ team will face off against Sigourney-Keota tomorrow, April 10th, at 5 pm at home, while the girls’ team will travel to Washington at the same time.
The Burlington Notre Dame boys’ team will close out their road stand tomorrow against WACO at 5 pm, while the girls’ team will host Monmouth-Roseville tomorrow at the same time.
High School Golf
The Wapello boys’ team held their invite yesterday and through the blustering winds Winfield-Mt. Union claimed the crown with a team score of 338 followed by Hillcrest Academy’s 350. The Wolves had five golfers finish in the top 10, including the meet champion Justin Knipfer, who carded a 79. Konner Kinneberg finished with an 84 for 4th place.
Danville took home 5th place as a team with Wapello and Columbus nabbing 6th and 7th place, respectively, while New London finished with a team score of 429. The Bears and Wildcats were led by Mattix Furnald’s and Kason Dopler’s 15th place score of 95. Wapello had Wyatt Marlette compile the 8th-best score of the day with an 88. Riley Raines headlined New London’s effort with a round of 98 for 21st place.
The Southeast Conference will meet back up today with the boys’ teams heading to Fort Madison and the girls’ teams playing at Fairfield.
Wapello will travel to Hillcrest Academy today.
Van Buren County will hold a triangular today with Holy Trinity Catholic participating.
Mediapolis will host Central Lee today.
Danville and Burlington Notre Dame will travel to New London today for a triangular.
Columbus will hit the road to compete against Lone Tree today.
Winfield-Mt. Union will host WACO today.
High School Boys’ Tennis
Mt. Pleasant will travel to Fort Madison tonight at 4:30 pm.
Fairfield will host Burlington for their first match of the season tonight.
High School Football
New London held a special session board meeting last night and it was announced that the Tigers will not be fielding a varsity football team in the fall. The board arrived at the decision due to a lack of interest in the program, as they return just two seniors and two juniors. New head football coach Antonio Bailey will lead a Junior Varsity team with the program expecting a small group of sophomores and nine freshmen to come out to play next season. The Tigers are aiming to play eight games but no schedule has been set in stone.
New London was forced to forfeit the 2025 season after week four due to a lack of numbers from injury. This has become an ongoing problem for smaller schools as seven other programs, including Highland, had also canceled or paused their seasons before New London’s decision. For a more in-depth look at the underlying issues, follow this link: Football Numbers
Southeastern Community College
The baseball team picked up their 15th and 16th consecutive victories yesterday after sweeping Marshalltown Community College, 18-8 in game one and 24-4 in game two. It was all about slugging yesterday as the Blackhawks clouted 16 extra base hits, including nine home runs between the two games. Brady Coffman collected a double and two home runs for six RBIs, Jake Miller and Danny Rollins smacked two home runs for a collection of nine RBIs in game two, while Jackson Petsche led the team with eight total RBIs. The Blackhawks will host Carl Sandburg College today.
The softball team handled business against Indian Hills Community College yesterday, claiming game one, 8-2, and taking game two, 6-3. Araceli Rivas notched nine strikeouts in a complete game gem for game one. The Blackhawks will stay on the road for a doubleheader with Illinois Central College on Monday, April 13th.
College Baseball and Softball
The Iowa baseball team will travel to USC tomorrow, April 10th, with first pitch at 9 pm.
Reagan Bartholomew did it again for the Iowa State softball team, as the Cyclone clobbered a two-run go-ahead home run in the 7th inning to down Iowa, 9-7. Bartholomew also clapped her 11th double of the season as she collected three hits for the game. Iowa’s Tory Bennett smacked a three-run homer to lead the Hawkeyes.
The Iowa State softball team will host #19 Oklahoma State tomorrow with first pitch at 4 pm.
The Iowa softball team will look to get back in the win column tomorrow against Georgia Tech at 5 pm at home.
This Day in Sports History
1925 – At the height of his fame Babe Ruth rushed to hospital with a mysterious condition labelled “the bellyache heard round the world”. Ruth was reported dead by some newspapers.
1941 – The PGA establishes the Golf Hall of Fame.
1985 – White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game. Went on to start one more and still holds the record.