High School Football
Mt. Pleasant will travel to Fairfield on Friday, August 30th, at 7:30 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 7:15 pm.
Danville will host Lynnville-Sully on Friday at 7 pm.
New London will square off against Easton Valley on Friday at 7 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union will face off against Central City on Friday at 7 pm at home. Head coach Scott McCarty talked about some of the sayings you might hear throughout the season for the Wolves,
“Offensively, we want to try to keep it deceptively simple. Keep it easy for us but make it hard for the other teams and then defense. We just want to be physical. You know, we don’t have a slogan on a T-shirt or anything like that. But you know, we have our core values we talk about: ‘do it right’, ‘finish’, ‘be extraordinary at the ordinary,’ ‘make good decisions’ and then ‘be confident.’ Those are things that we want our kids to be good at, you know, and think about how they carry over not just football, but in life too.”
Central Lee will take on Van Buren County on Friday at 7 pm at home.
West Burlington/Notre Dame will take on Wapello on Friday at 7:30 pm at home.
Mediapolis will travel to compete against Columbus on Friday at 7 pm.
WACO will travel to take on Coon Rapids-Bayard on Saturday, August 31st, at 3 pm.
High School Volleyball
Fairfield will host WACO and Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont in a triangular match tomorrow, August 29th, with the Trojans and Rockets starting off the night at 5:45 pm.
West Burlington will compete in a quad tomorrow at Burlington with Danville and Wapello also competing.
Central Lee will hit the road to take on Fort Madison at 7:30 pm tomorrow.
Mt. Pleasant will participate in a triangular tomorrow at Ottumwa with their first game at 6:30 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union will face off against Keokuk tomorrow at 7:30 pm at home.
Van Buren County will hit the road on Saturday, August 31st, to compete in a tournament at Central Lee with the day starting at 9 am.
Holy Trinity Catholic and Burlington Notre Dame will travel to Bondurant-Farrar on Saturday for a tournament.
Mediapolis will get their season rolling on Tuesday, September 3rd, at Wapello for a tournament.
High School Cross Country
Van Buren County will have their first meet tomorrow, August 29th, at Albia, starting at 4:30 pm. The Iowa Association of Track and Field and Cross Country has the boys team ranked #19 in Class 1A.
Southeastern Community College
The volleyball team will host the Jimmy John’s Tournament, starting on Friday, August 30th, against Allen County Community College at 2 pm.
College Football
The University of Iowa will officially kick off the season on Saturday, August 31st, at home against Illinois State at 11 am. Tune in to KILJ 105.5 FM to listen to the game. This is the second matchup between these two squads with the Hawkeyes defeating the Redbirds 31-14 in 2015.
Iowa State will take on North Dakota on Saturday at 2:30 pm at home. Tune in to KILJ 98.5 FM or AM 1130 to listen to the game.
This Day in Sports History
1990 – Cubs Ryne Sandberg is the first 2nd baseman to hit 30 home runs in a season, consecutively.
1990 – #1 seed Stefan Edberg loses in the first round to Alex Volkov in one of the biggest upsets in U.S. Open history.
2022 – A 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card sells for $12.6 million at auction, becoming the world’s most expensive piece of sporting memorabilia.
