Mount Pleasant — The Mount Pleasant girls’ basketball team is back at home tonight when the Panthers host Burlington in a Southeast Conference matchup.

The Grayhounds enter 0-14 while Mount Pleasant is 8-10.

The Panthers have lost two straight since clawing back to .500 — though those losses have came against two ranked opponents in Keokuk and Mediapolis.

Conference Player of the Year Candidate Andrea Lopreato leads the team with 21 points, 10 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game.

In her last two against Burlington, the superstar junior is averaging 27.5 points, 10.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists.

Kenna Lamm is second on the team at 12.8 points per game, connecting on 33% of her three point shots.

Alexis Standard leads Burlington at 10.8 points per game.

Tonight’s game will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Mount Pleasant High School.

Due to contractual obligations with Hawkeye basketball, there will be no radio for tonight’s game.

KILJ — The Super Conference schedule is preparing it’s teams for postseason play with big games tonight and the Shootout Games this weekend.

Games tonight will be girl-boy doubleheaders with the girls’ starting at 6:00 p.m. and the boys’ at 7:30 p.m.

• Danville at Cardinal
• Winfield-Mount Union at Columbus
• Lone Tree at Hillcrest Academy
• Mediapolis at Louisa-Muscatine
• Notre Dame at New London
• Highland at Pekin
• West Burlington at Van Buren County
• Central Lee at WACO

We’ll unveil the Shootout Games tomorrow. The girls’ Shootout Games will be hosted by the North Division and will be played Friday.

The boys’ will be hosted by the South Division and be played Saturday.

Mount Pleasant — The Iowa Wesleyan football team has announced it’s 2022 recruiting class, the second full class under head coach M.D. Daniels.

Headlining this year’s class is Division I-FCS transfer Malik Holbert, who played for Alcorn State University previously.

The 6’0, 230-pound linebacker was a two-time SWAC champion as a member of the Braves and comes to Iowa Wesleyan with two years of eligibility.

The Tigers also inked Missouri prep quarterback Caron Spann, who led his team to the Missouri High School State Championships.

The gunslinger threw for 2,213 yards last season with 36 touchdowns and just two interceptions —rushing for an additional 351 yards and four scores.

Spann committed to Wesleyan over St. Norbert (WI.) and Quincy University.

The Tigers finished last year 2-9.

Mount Pleasant 55, Regina 43 (OT) 

Mount Pleasant needed overtime to do it, but won their fourth straight 55-43 over Iowa City Regina last night.

Four Panthers scored in double figures, with Payton Hagans leading the way with 15 points.

Dewon Trent finished with 14 points and six rebounds. Owen Vansickel had 12 while Aidan Ashton had 10.

Mount Pleasant is now 8-9 on the season, meanwhile Iowa City Regina fell to 5-14.

The Regals were led by Landon Pietrzak’s game-high 19 points — he canned three triples.

New London 88, Central Lee 45 

New London stayed hot with an easy 88-45 win over Central Lee yesterday.

The Tigers jumped out to a 34-7 lead at the end of the first quarter and never looked back, extending their leads to 37 at halftime.

Devon Swanson had 17 points to lead the Tigers. Blaise Porter finished with 16 points while Kooper Schulte continued his nice run of play with 13.

New London upped their ledger to 15-1, they’re now 13-1 in Super Conference play.

Winfield-Mount Union 60, Louisa-Muscatine 34 

Cam Buffington had 22 points and eight rebounds while Abram Edwards added 10 points as Winfield-Mount Union put it in automatic in a 60-34 win over Louisa-Muscatine.

Andrew Brown chipped in with eight points for the Wolves, who used a 24-9 third quarter run to pull away.

The win moved Winfield-Mount Union to 17-1 on the season.

Xander Bieri had 16 for the Falcons, who are now 2-15.

Danville 39, WACO 37 (OT) 

Danville scored the lone basket in overtime, holding on to a 39-37 thriller over WACO yesterday.

Drake Johnson had 11 points to lead the Bears while Caiden Gourley had 10.

Colten Leichty led the Warriors with eight points.

Danville improved to 16-2 overall and 12-2 in Super Conference play.

WACO is now 14-4.

Other prep finals:

• Holy Trinity 54, Notre Dame 51
• Cardinal 72, West Burlington 54
• Hillcrest Academy 69, Highland 49
• Columbus 75, Lone Tree 56
• Mediapolis 44, Wapello 35

Winfield-Mount Union 37, Louisa-Muscatine 32

Bradie Buffington had 12 points to lead the way as the Lady Wolves earned a hard-fought 37-32 senior night victory over Louisa-Muscatine yesterday.

Anna Anderson poured in nine points while Melina Oepping finished with seven.

Kaylee Corbin had 18 points for the Falcons, who dropped to 13-4.

Winfield-Mount Union improved to 16-3.

No. 10 (2A) Mediapolis 69, Wapello 37

The dream of the perfect season remained intact for No. 10 Mediapolis in a 69-37 win over Wapello, yesterday.

Hallie Mohr had a game-high 20 points while Payton Bush added 16 for the Bullettes.

Serah Shafer had 11 points and three helpers for the Arrows.

Mediapolis is now 18-0 and a perfect 14-0 in Super Conference showdowns.

Wapello dropped to 9-10.

Central Lee 67, New London 26

Alivia Myhre outscored New London herself with 28 points to lead Central Lee to a 67-26 win over New London.

Myhre drilled six triples while Makayla Morrison flirted with a triple double with 11 points, 11 boards and eight assists.

The Hawks led 23-5 at the end of the first quarter and improved to 12-7 on the year.

New London is 0-20.

Danville 62, WACO 32

Cassidy Yaley had 13 points as Danville stayed hot with a 62-32 win over WACO.

Taylor Moore came off the bench for 12 points while Kenna Furnald — a state track qualifier from a year ago — had 11.

Danville is now 9-10 and 8-7 in league play.

WACO slumped to 8-11.

Other prep finals:

• Notre Dame 80, Holy Trinity 61
• West Burlington 57, Cardinal 33
• Highland 48, Hillcrest Academy 24
• Lone Tree 53, Columbus 35

Des Moines — Drake men’s basketball freshman swingman Tucker DeVries was selected as Missouri Valley Conference Newcomer of the Week, the league announced yesterday.

DeVries helped the Bulldogs to a pair of victories this past week over Illinois State and Loyola with an average of 15.5 points per game.

Drake will play at Indiana State tonight before welcoming in in-state rival UNI to the Knapp Center on Saturday.

The Bulldogs are 16-6 this year and 7-2 in MVC play.