Prep Wrestling: Iowa High School State Wrestling Championships Day Two

By Nathan Bloechl · Friday, February 18th, 2022 at 2:49 pm CDT

By: Nathan Bloechl — sports@kilj.com 

Des Moines — It’s separation day at the Iowa High School State Wrestling Championships.

Follow along on the air and here for updates throughout Day Two

9:00 a.m. (2A)

106 Quarterfinals – Carter West (NDWB) wins by dec. (5-2) over Jayson Stevens (Hampton-Dumont)

  • 106 Semifinals – Carter West (NDWB) wins by dec. (1-0) over Ethan Skoglund (Sergeant Bluff-Luton)
    • 1st Place Match – Carter West (NDWB) vs. Jace Hedeman (Union)

113 Quarterfinals – Kaiden Dietzenbach (NDWB) wins by injury default over Gavin Jensen (Williamsburg)

  • 113 Semifinals – Kaiden Dietzenbach (NDWB) loses by dec. (3-1) to Carter Anderson (Albia)
    • 113 Consolation Semifinals – Kaiden Dietzenbach (NDWB) vs. Vincent Mayberry (Glenwood)

120 Quarterfinals – Lane Scorpil (CC-WMU) wins by dec. (11-4) over Caelan Oakes-Sudhish (Southeast Valley)

  • 120 Semifinals – Lane Scorpil (CC-WMU) loses by dec. (10-3) to Kale Peterson (Greene County)
    • 120 Consolation Semifinals – Lane Scorpil (CC-WMU) vs. Carson Less (West Delaware)

120 Consolation Second Round – C.J. Davis (NDWB) wins by MD (12-0) over Cael Nelson (Carroll)

  • 120 Consolation Third Round – C.J. Davis (NDWB) loses by dec. (4-1) to Carson Less (West Delaware)
    • 7th Place Match – C.J. Davis (NDWB) vs. Caelan Oakes-Sudhish (Southeast Valley)

132 Quarterfinals – Blaine Frazier (NDWB) wins by by dec. (11-4) over Tyce Ruffridge (Pocahontas Area)

  • 132 Semifinals – Blaine Frazier (NDWB) wins by dec. (11-4)  Jonathon Burnette (Spirit Lake) 
    • 1st Place Match – Blaine Frazier (NDWB) vs. McKinley Robbins (Greene County)

138 Consolation Second Round – Tate O’Shea (NDWB) loses by dec. (1-0)  Kellen Moore (Forest City) 

152 Quarterfinals – Isaiah Fenton (NDWB) loses by dec. (7-2) in TB-1 to Chase Thomas (Osage)

  • 152 Consolation Second Round – Isaiah Fenton (NDWB) wins by MD (12-3) Gavin Scheuermann (Greene County)
  • 152 Consolation Third Round – Isaiah Fenton (NDWB) loses by dec. (10-9) to Zander Ernst (Sergeant Bluff-Luton)

160 Quarterfinals – Sam West (NDWB) loses by dec. (6-3) to Allen Catour (Assumption)

  • 160 Consolation Second Round – Sam West (NDWB) wins by dec. (9-3) over Zayvion Ellington (Sergeant Bluff-Luton)
  • 160 Consolation Third Round Sam West (NDWB) loses by dec. (3-2) to  Logan Fairchild (Winterset)
    • 7th Place Match – Sam West (NDWB) vs. Kam Royster (Williamsburg)

170 Quarterfinals – River Belger (NDWB) loses by dec. (6-2) Brady Ortner (Vinton-Shellsburg)

  • 170 Consolation Second Round – River Belger (NDWB) loses by fall (1:58) to Mack Seaba (Clarion-Goldfield-Dows)

182 Quarterfinals – C.J. Walrath (NDWB) wins by fall (1:46) over Will Ward (West Delaware)

  • 182 Semifinals – C.J. Walrath (NDWB) wins by dec. (5-1) over Nick Reinicke (Dike-New Hartford)
    • 1st Place Match – C.J. Walrath (NDWB) vs. Fernando Villaescusa (Gilbert)

2:30 p.m. (1A)

126 Quarterfinals – Marcel Lopez (New London) wins by TF (20-5) over Kendrick Huck (Nashua-Plainfield)

  • 126 Semifinals – Marcel Lopez (New London) wins by dec. (5-1) Quincy Happel (Lisbon)
    • 126 Finals – Marcel Lopez (New London) vs. Jace Rose (Riverside)

138 Quarterfinals – Quinten Aney (Mediapolis) loses by dec. (3-1) to Cade Siebrecht (Lisbon)

  • 138 Consolation Second Round – Quinten Aney (Mediapolis) wins by MD (9-0) over Ryan Steinlage (Interstate 35)
  • 138 Consolation Third Round – Quinten Aney (Mediapolis) loses in SV-1 by dec. (6-4) Trey Nelson (Nashua-Plainfield)
    • 7th Place Match – Quinten Aney (Mediapolis) vs. Hayden Fischer (AHSTW)

145 Quarterfinals – Louden Huisenga (WACO) loses by fall (5:16) to Hagen Heistand (Underwood)

  • 145 Consolation Second Round – Louden Huisenga (WACO) loses by dec. (9-2) to Nick Steinlage (Interstate 35)

152 Quarterfinals – Dominic Lopez (New London) wins by MD (20-11) McKade Nunn (Nashua-Plainfield)

  • 152 Semifinals – Dominic Lopez (New London) loses by dec. (4-3) to Gabe McGeough (MFL-MarMac)
  • 152 Consolation Third Round – Dominic Lopez (New London) vs. Jace Nelson-Brown (Emmetsburg)

182 Quarterfinals – Josh Glendening (New London) wins by fall (0:57) over Brecken Freeburg (Tri-Center)

  • 182 Semifinals – Josh Glendening (New London) lose by dec. (4-3) Jackson Dewald (Westwood, Sloan)
  • 182 Consolation Third Round – Josh Glendening (New London) vs. Carson Hartz (Columbus Catholic)

220 Quarterfinals – Jonah Clark (WACO) wins by fall (1:02) over Cooper Nielsen (Audubon)

  • 220 Semifinals – Jonah Clark (WACO) wins by dec. (6-3) Matthew Francis (West Hancock)
  • 220

Women’s College Basketball: Wesleyan Earns Top Seed in CAC Tournament

By Nathan Bloechl · Friday, February 18th, 2022 at 2:32 pm CDT

Mount Pleasant — The Iowa Wesleyan women’s basketball has earned the top seed for the upcoming CAC Tournament, the league has announced.

Wesleyan will tussle with eighth-seeded Fisher College in the quarterfinal round, which will take place on February 25th at 8:15 p.m.

The complete seeding is listed below.

1: Iowa Wesleyan University

2: Haskell Indian Nations University

3: Wilberforce University

4: Washington Adventist

5: Northern New Mexico College

6: Crowley’s Ridge College

7: Cottey College

8: Fisher College

Iowa Wesleyan will close their over this weekend, taking on Cottey College tonight before battling College of the Ozarks on Saturday.

Prep Basketball: Danville Wins Thriller, New London Rolls; Other Prep Finals

By Nathan Bloechl · Friday, February 18th, 2022 at 2:29 pm CDT

Danville 42, Notre Dame 41

Caiden Gourley’s buzzer-beating field goal lifted Danville to a heroic, 42-41 win over Burlington Notre Dame last night.

The win propelled the Bears to Tuesday’s district final.

Drake Johnson led the way for Danville, with a game-high 17 points while shooting 6-of-11 from the field.

Sawyer Nelson and Ty Carr both added eight, while Gourley finished with seven — none bigger than the final two.

Notre Dame was paced by Gedi Boal and Jackson Brent who both had 10.

The Nikes ended their year 8-15, Danville improved to 21-2.

Winfield-Mount Union 48, Hillcrest Academy 43

It wasn’t pretty, but Winfield-Mount Union advanced to the district final to play Danville, earning a 48-43 win over Hillcrest Academy last night.

Winfield-Mount Union will play the Bears next Tuesday at Central Lee.

Cam Buffington poured in a game-high 22 points to lead the Wolves, while Andrew Brown added nine.

Abram Edwards finished with eight.

Winfield-Mount Union improved to 21-2.

Hillcrest Academy, who closes their chapter at 15-7, was led by Luke Schrock’s 15 points.

New London 78, Iowa Valley 57

No team in southeast Iowa is hotter than New London. The Tigers got 25 points from Kade Benjamin while Devin Swanson added 18 as New London cemented Iowa Valley 78-57.

The win moves New London to Tuesday’s district final.

Kooper Schulte and Blaise Porter both chipped in with 14 for the Tigers, who had four double-figure scorers.

Brody Ward led Iowa Valley with 18 points while Peyton Loffer chipped in with 11.

They end their season 18-5.

WACO 46, Montezuma 42

WACO used to a 17-5 fourth quarter run to bury the defending state champion Montezuma Braves, 46-42 last night.

The Braves led by eight at the end of the third quarter before the monstrous fourth.

Simeon Reichenbach, an all-state running back this past fall, scored a game-high 20 points while hauling in nine boards, as well.

Hunter Hughes added seven for WACO.

Montezuma, who beat perennial power North Linn in last year’s state finals, finishes this year 18-5.

WACO is now 19-4, they’ll play New London at Mediapolis next Tuesday in the district final.

 

 

 

Daily Jail Count

By Theresa Rose · Friday, February 18th, 2022 at 12:10 pm CDT

In the interest of keeping Henry County residents informed, the Henry County Sheriff’s office has requested KILJ post the daily jail count. During the jail referendum campaign it was publicized that the jail would be able to house additional inmates from surrounding counties and this would generate revenue for Henry County.

  24__      Henry County Inmates

 

 58 __      Out of County Contract Inmates              

 

 82__     TOTAL

InMotion Headed for the Dutch Masters Competition

By Theresa Rose · Friday, February 18th, 2022 at 11:57 am CDT

Mount Pleasant’s show choir InMotion will be among 11 high school ensembles vying for honors Saturday at the 14th Dutch Masters Show Choir Competition at Pella High School. Mount Pleasant is scheduled to perform at 3:00 pm.

Two other area schools will also be competing at Pella. Fort Madison’s prep group Crimson & Black will hit the stage at 10:00 am and Swingspan goes at 2:30 pm. Central Lee’s CENTRifucAL Force performs at 11:30 am.

The top six groups from the daytime round will square off in the finals that begin at 6:15 pm.

Prep Wrestling: 16 KILJ Wrestlers Alive, 14 on Winners Side Into Day Two

By Nathan Bloechl · Friday, February 18th, 2022 at 2:09 am CDT

(Photo Courtesy: Meg McLaughlin // theregister.com)

By: Nathan Bloechl — sports@kilj.com 

Des Moines — 16 KILJ-area wrestlers remain alive at the conclusion of the first day of the Iowa High School State Wrestling Championships.

14 of those 16 are in the winners’ bracket, wrestling tomorrow for their chance to advance to the semifinals.

With state championships in mind, the usual suspects fired hot on Day One.

In 2A, that meant outstanding opening round bouts for top-ranked 182-pounder C.J. Walrath — who stapled his first round opponent Wayne Johnston in :47 seconds — and undefeated Blaine Frazier, who inched closer to 200 career wins, rolling past Easton O’Brien (Atlantic-CAM) in 1:40.

Sam West and River Belger also clocked in and punched their timecard to the quarterfinals.

West cruised by Decorah’s Austin Wilkins by fall in 4:53, while Belger made quick work of Tate Schmitt (Hampton-Dumont) earning a pin in 1:28.

Isaiah Fenton, Carter West and Kaiden Dietzenbach all advanced to the quarterfinals with relatively easy first round wins, as well.

On the backside of the bracket following first round losses, 120-pound freshman C.J. Davis (NDWB) wrestled a gutsy 2-0 decision win over Crestwood’s Kole Johnson which kept his podium hopes alive.

Likewise, 138-pounder Tate O’Shea (NDWB) — who seemed to be nursing a knee injury — snagged a mettlesome come from behind wrestleback triumph in thrilling 4-3 decision fashion.

Outside of the Nikes, Columbus Community-Winfield-Mount Union’s Lane Scorpil continued to impress with a major decision, 8-0 success over Carter Lamont (Vinton-Shellsburg).

Scorpil will quarrel with Caelan Oakes-Sudhish (Southeast Valley) in the quarters tomorrow.

Not to be outdone, 1A did not disappoint.

The fireworks started when three-time defending state champion Marcel Lopez made mincemeat of overmatched Van Meter freshman Garrett Cole.

Lopez ripped his way to fall win in 1:06.

His younger brother Dominic, the three-seed in the 152-pound bracket, circled like a Tiger on raw meat establishing his presence this weekend with systematic tech fall win over Foxe Youngblut (Don Bosco).

Lopez will get Nashua-Plainfield’s McKade Nunn tomorrow in the quarters.

Josh Glendening also got out on the right foot junior upholding his end of the bargain with a workman-like fall win in 1:10.

Mediapolis’ lone qualifier Quinten Aney will hope to get revenge tomorrow.

Now 41-1 after a decision win over Sean Thompson (Logan-Magnolia), Aney will wrestle the only man to beat him tomorrow in Lisbon’s establishment name Cade Siebrecht.

WACO’s two qualifiers both advanced.

Freshman — not by appearance — Louden Huisenga showed he was ready for the spotlight.

The 12th ranked 145-pounder snagged an earth-shattering come from behind win over 11th ranked Myles McMahon of Don Bosco.

Human wrecking ball Jonah Clark looked like a kitten with a ball of yarn winning his bout with Maquoketa Valley’s Brady Davis by fall after leading 11-2.

The lone elimination on the entire day was New London’s Gage Burden, though you could hardly call his season a disappointment. Burden finished his season 37-19 with a state appearance now inked on his resume. His future is undoubtedly vivid.

Tomorrow’s morning session will begin at 9:00 a.m.

You can listen on FM 105.5 and kilj.com.

Tony & Elsa Weinreich

By Theresa Rose · Thursday, February 17th, 2022 at 10:22 pm CDT

Mr. Tony Weinreich, 81, of New London, died Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at St. Luke’s Hospital, Cedar Rapids.

Mrs. Elsa Weinreich, 83, of New London, died Thursday, February 17, 2022 at Henry County Health Center, Mt. Pleasant.  Arrangements for Mr. and Mrs. Weinreich are pending at Elliott Chapel, New London.

Work release escape of Marquis Bedford

By Theresa Rose · Thursday, February 17th, 2022 at 9:18 pm CDT

Work release escape of Marquis Bedford

Ottumwa – Marquis Bedford, convicted of Willful Injury- Causing Serious Injury and Prohibited  Acts-Mfg, Del, Consp, or Poss w/Int-Meth LT 5 gm in Wapello and Jefferson County, failed to report back to the Ottumwa Residential Facility as required yesterday.

Bedford is a 24-year-old Black male, height 5′ 11″, and weighs 198 pounds. He was admitted to the work release facility on 10/15/2021.

Persons with information on Bedford’s whereabouts should contact local police.