High School Girls’ Tennis
Mt. Pleasant fell to Keokuk last night, 6-3. Lianah Phangchanthong, Shaye Barbee, and Neva Swarm each won their singles match. The Panthers will host Fort Madison on Monday, August 24th, at 4:30 pm.
In a battle of the undefeateds, Fairfield dismantled Burlington yesterday, shutting out the Grayhounds, 9-0. Ria Ross, Mareyn Durkin, and Kinzley Durkin each had won a set without giving up a game. The Trojans will head to Pella tomorrow, August 22nd, for the Tulip City Tussle.
Burlington Notre Dame lost to Muscatine yesterday, 9-0. Jessee Pearson forced a tiebreaker set, narrowly losing, 10-7. The Nikes will travel to Camanche on Thursday, August 27th.
High School Volleyball
Washington will scrimmage West Liberty tonight on the road at 4:30 pm.
WACO will be hosting a quad on Monday, August 24th, with New London making the trip at 5 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union will hold a triangular on Monday with Danville and Keokuk competing at 5 pm.
Mt. Pleasant, Holy Trinity Catholic, and Columbus will head to Mediapolis on Tuesday, August 25th, for a scrimmage at 4:30 pm.
High School Football
Fairfield will host a scrimmage against Sigourney-Keota tonight at 7 pm.
Washington will scrimmage Muscatine tonight at 5:30 pm on the road.
Mediapolis will face off against Fort Madison tonight at 6:30 pm for a scrimmage at home.
West Burlington/Notre Dame will square off against Burlington at Bracewell Stadium at 5 pm for their Fall Fest Scrimmage tonight.
Central Lee will host Wapello for a scrimmage tonight at 6 pm.
Columbus will scrimmage Cardinal at 7 pm at home tonight.
Van Buren County will travel to Albia for a Powerade Scrimmage tonight at 6 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union will compete against New London at home at 7 pm tonight. Wolves head coach Scott McCarty talked about what he’s hoping to see from his squad tonight,
“I was just talking to a coach just a little bit ago about how it’s gonna be good to get your guys on film against somebody else. You know, can we hit somebody else? Can we block them? You know, where’s our athleticism based against opponents and those things? And you know how your guys shape up against your guys. So it’ll be a good measuring stick as we go forward. And even as coaches, it’s good to start calling things, you know, under fire and situationally as opposed to just that you have a script of plays and you go from there. And you know, you try and mimic situations and practice and do those things, right? But you can’t always crank up the intensity as needed. So it’ll be good for us. You know, we’ll get some varsity guys, some reps. We’ll get JV guys some reps and go from there. You know, I’m super appreciative of New London. You know, they’re playing a JV only schedule, but they’re coming over and they’re gonna scrimmage with us. And you know, both teams are gonna help each other out. We’ll do some 11 man stuff for them and they’ll do some eight man stuff for us. And by the end of the night, hopefully both teams are healthy and we’re better than when we started.”
Meet the Players Night
Meet the Panthers will be held tonight at the Mapleleaf Athletic Complex starting at 6:30 pm with a Booster Club Announcement. Teams will be introduced after the update with cross country leading the pack followed by girls’ tennis, football, volleyball, and cheerleading. The cheerleaders will perform at 6:50 pm and the football team will scrimmage Danville at 7 pm.
Panther cross country has had at least one runner qualify for state in three of the last four years. Girls’ head coach Lyle Murray discussed how that has influenced competition amongst the team,
“Yeah, you know, and I think they feed off each other a little bit. You know, there’s always somebody to work out with, which is good on both sides. Yeah, you know, we’ve got a freshman who’s coming up. She’s got some promise. And then our returners, you know, and we’ve got Monroe James who’s coming back for her senior year. So, yeah, we should have a very solid team.”
Southeastern Community College
The men’s and women’s soccer teams split their matchup with Heartland Community College yesterday with the men’s team coming out on top, 3-0, while the women’s team fell, 8-0.
The men’s team will host Carl Sandburg College on Sunday, August 23rd, at 5 pm.
The women’s team will take on Lincoln Trail College at 4 pm on August 29th at home.
The volleyball team competed in day one of the Opening Weekend Tournament yesterday and defeated Elgin Community College in five sets, while Lake-Sumter State College swept the Blackhawks. SCC will be back in action today against Macomb Community College for game one at 2:15 pm.
This Day in Sports History
1967 – MLB Kansas City Athletics utility player Ken Harrelson becomes one of baseball’s first free agents when he is abruptly released by the team, after he reputedly refers to team owner Charlie Finley as “a menace to baseball.”
1971 – Laura Baugh, at the age of 16, won the United State’s Women’s Amateur Golf tournament. She was the youngest winner in the history of the tournament.
1984 – Victoria Roche, a reserve outfielder, became the first girl to ever compete in a Little League World Series game.