High School Track and Field
The Mt. Pleasant, Mediapolis, and Fairfield boys’ teams will compete in the Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont meet tonight.
The Washington girls’ team will hold an invitational tonight with Fairfield, Mediapolis, and Mt. Pleasant participating.
Winfield-Mt. Union will host their relays tonight with Danville, New London, and WACO making the trip.
Central Lee, Columbus, Van Buren County, West Burlington/Notre Dame, and Wapello will be heading to Louisa-Muscatine for the Gardner-Wilson Co-Ed Relays tonight.
The Drake Relays are set to start today for our local high school athletes with Eli Zillman of Fairfield competing in the boys’ high jump and Washington’s Greyson Hartman throwing the discus. For a full look at the slate for our local athletes, follow this link: Start List for 116th Drake Relays
High School Soccer
Burlington Notre Dame will travel to Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union with the girls’ teams leading the night at 5 pm.
Mt. Pleasant will compete against Burlington tonight with the boys’ team at home at 4:30 pm and the girls’ team on the road at 5 pm.
Washington will take on Keokuk tonight with the girls at home and the boys on the road with the both games starting at 5 pm.
Fairfield will square off against Fort Madison tonight with the girls’ team at home and the boys’ team on the road with a 5 pm start time.
Central Lee will host Wapello tomorrow, April 24th, with the night starting at 5 pm.
The WACO boys’ team will travel to Hillcrest Academy tomorrow at 5 pm.
The Danville boys’ team will face off against Highland at home tomorrow at 5 pm.
The Mediapolis girls’ team will host Monmouth-Roseville, while the boys’ team will hit the road to compete against Keokuk tomorrow with both games starting at 5 pm.
High School Soccer Rankings
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU) released their third edition of the girls’ season soccer rankings and Burlington made their first appearance at #14 in Class 2A. The Grayhounds are 4-0 against fellow Iowa teams and have outscored their opponents 17 to 0 in their victories. Brooklyn Sparrow is leading the scoring with five goals on the year.
High School Golf
The girls’ Lee County Invite ran yesterday and Fort Madison won handily, defeating Keokuk by 21 strokes. A limited Holy Trinity Catholic roster settled for 3rd place with a team score of 498 as Emma Mohrfeld and Callie Kruse each shot a 110. Central Lee’s Lyla Smith led the team with a round of 112.
Burlington Notre Dame will host a triangular today with Danville and Central Lee competing.
The Wapello girls’ team held their invite yesterday and finished as the runner-up to Highland, as the Arrows finished the day with a team score of 409.
Winfield-Mt. Union took 4th place as a team but Ashlyn Bender led the course with a round of 87, while Wapello’s Emmalin Marshall claimed 3rd place with a card of 89. Rounding out the top ten for our local teams, Winfield-Mt. Union’s Ella Kann, Hailey Wellington of Columbus, and Danville’s Aubrey Nahorny finished 6th through 8th place, respectively.
Mediapolis took 5th place as a team with Bri Spears’ 105 leading her pack, which was good enough for 11th place.
Wapello will travel to Columbus today.
Winfield-Mt. Union will compete in Lone Tree today.
The Mt. Pleasant and Washington girls’ teams will make the trip to the Oskaloosa Invitational today.
The Fairfield girls’ team will contend in the Golden Hawk Invitational today at Mid-Prairie.
WACO will host Louisa-Muscatine today.
The Fairfield boys’ will hold an invitational tomorrow, April 24th, with Mt. Pleasant participating.
High School Boys’ Tennis
Mt. Pleasant will face off against Keokuk tonight on the road.
Fairfield will travel to Burlington on Monday, April 27th.
Southeast Iowa Playbook
Winfield-Mt. Union was our school of focus for last night’s episode of the Southeast Iowa Playbook with senior Nicholas Sparrow being our special guest. The multi-sport athlete is in the midst of the boys’ golf season, as the Wolves are on a hot streak, winning their last five contests. For a team that has experienced a plethora of success throughout their careers, there is plenty of trust out on the course,
“I mean it’s a lot of fun. We’ve been together since my freshman year, maybe even before that. I mean freshman year it was still early on in our careers so I mean it was just definitely learning moments. Just getting used to high school golf but at this point in our career now it’s just how well can we shoot. I mean even if we have bad rounds we know we’re going to have each other and back each other up. I mean last night me and Cody were our two and three and our number six, Grant Anderson, he stepped up and he was our number two guy last night so I mean it’s just little things like that where we know we can trust each other.”
If you missed last night’s episode, then follow this link: Winfield-Mt. Union Episode
Southeastern Community College
The baseball team suffered their first multi-game losing streak since March 13th and 14th, after dropping both contests to Kirkwood Community College yesterday, 12-3 in game one and 12-11 in game two. The Blackhawks will look to get back in the win column at home on Saturday, April 25th, against Northeast Community College in a doubleheader at 1 pm.
The softball team will look to bounce back at home on Saturday in a doubleheader against Marshalltown Community College at 1 pm.
College Baseball and Softball
The Iowa baseball team had to overcome an early deficit but managed to beat UIC last night, 6-4. Kooper Schulte scored a run. The Hawkeyes will travel to Indiana tomorrow, April 24th, at 5 pm.
The Iowa softball team took down UNI in a final that looked more akin to a football score, 21-17. McKenzie Leitgen swatted two home runs and collected five RBIs in the win. The Hawkeyes will take on Nebraska tomorrow at 5:30 pm on the road.
The Iowa State softball team will start their series against Kansas tomorrow at 5 pm.
This Day in Sports History
1869 – First professional baseball exhibition game: Cincinnati Red Stockings 24, Cincinnati Amateurs 15.
1954 – Hammerin’ Hank Aaron hits first of his 755 homers.
1964 – Houston Colt .45s Ken Johnson becomes the first and only major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0.