High School Track and Field
Mt. Pleasant will host the Denny White Relays tonight with Central Lee, Mediapolis, Washington, West Burlington/Notre Dame, and the Winfield-Mt. Union, New London, WACO, Danville, Wapello, and Fairfield boys’ teams making the trip.
The Winfield-Mt. Union girls’ team will hold their Relays tonight with Danville, Van Buren County, and WACO participating.
The Fairfield girls’ team will travel to a meet at Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont tonight.
Columbus will compete at the Central City Co-Ed meet tonight.
The Drake Relays are set to run from Wednesday, April 22nd, through Saturday, April 25th, with the high school competition starting on Thursday, April 23rd. The final start lists will be released by noon on Saturday, April 18th.
High School Soccer
The Central Lee girls’ team will face off against Burlington Notre Dame tonight at 5 pm on the road, while the boys’ team had their game against WACO postponed.
The Burlington Notre Dame boys’ team will host Wapello tonight at 7 pm.
The Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union girls’ team will travel to Maquoketa tonight at 5 pm.
Mt. Pleasant will clash with Washington tonight with the girls’ at home playing at 4:30 pm and the boys’ traveling to play at 5 pm. Panther boys’ head coach Rocco Russo discussed what the team will be focusing on as the season progresses,
“I’d like us to get a little bit mentally stronger. We’re a team that does not like something negative to happen, and if something negative happens right away, it takes us a few minutes to regroup and get going, and then once positive stuff starts falling, then it’s like the floodgates open and we start playing our soccer. We need to just start the game like that. We need to start with the mentality of we’re the big fish in the pond and we’re going to go get it.”
Fairfield will take on Keokuk tonight with the boys on the road and the girls at home and both games starting at 5 pm.
The Mediapolis boys’ team will hit the road to play Danville tomorrow, April 17th, at 5 pm.
High School Golf
The Southeast Conference will meet back up today with Mt. Pleasant hosting the boys’ teams and the girls’ teams heading to Keokuk.
Mediapolis will host New London today.
The Van Buren County and Holy Trinity Catholic boys’ teams will compete in the Mohawk Classic today.
Danville and WACO will travel to Highland today for a triangular.
Columbus will face off against Louisa-Muscatine today on the road.
High School Boys’ Tennis
Mt. Pleasant will host Burlington tonight.
Fairfield will compete against Keokuk tonight at home.
Southeastern Community College
The baseball team will travel to Northeast Iowa Community College today for a doubleheader.
The softball team will hit the road to play Iowa Western Community College on Saturday, April 18th.
College Baseball and Softball
The Iowa baseball team will get ready to host Maryland tomorrow, April 17th, at 6 pm.
The Iowa State softball team will tangle with BYU tonight at 7 pm on the road to start their three-game series.
The Iowa softball team will return to conference play with a home series against Indiana tomorrow at 6 pm.
This Day in Sports History
1929 – The New York Yankees become the first MLB team to permanently feature numbers on backs of uniforms; numbers correspond to position in batting order.
1939 – Stanley Cup Final, Boston Garden, Boston, MA: the Boston Bruins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-1, for a 4-1 series win; the first best-of-seven Stanley Cup Final series.
1959 – MLB Philadelphia Phillies’ Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit, having ended the previous season with a streak of 8.