High School Football
Winfield-Mt. Union’s 7th through 12th graders will finish their camp tonight from 5 to 7 pm. Head coach Scott McCarty has enjoyed teaching the fundamentals this past week to both the high schoolers and the youth,
“Youth Camp is always fun to get the young kids in and start getting them excited about football, get their parents excited about it. You know, we don’t get too intense with it. We like to have the kids have fun and play games and things like that, and we have our older guys stick around and help out. So, it’s fun for them to interact with the young kids because those young kids always look up to the high school players and our high school camp, kind of an extension of practice, but we’ll do some fun things. We feed our kids like tonight we’ll have a pool party after. You know, so it’s been good, a lot of learning, a lot of new faces and some new places. And so, it’s kind of nice to be kind of a slowed down environment where you’re not pressured with the game at the end of the week and get a chance guys to learn some things before we get going whole hog here next week.”
WACO’s week zero game against Central City has allowed them to hit the practice field this week. Head coach Chad Edeker has been most impressed with the leadership shown by his players,
“Oh, I have been really impressed with that, that group of senior leaders. You know we’ve thrown the ball really well. I mean we’re not a big throw team. We’re a run team. But you know these first couple of days like you get to the helmet, you can learn running plays, we’re going to go. But we worked a lot on our passing game the first three days here and I thought Clayton throwing the ball really well. And Gage and Isaac and Loudon have done a great job of of catching the ball. You know, we’re not, I would say we’re not transitioning into a passing team, but you know, we do have a lot of skilled guys with a lot of speed. So, we’re going to be able to, we’re going to look to try to get the ball in space a little bit more than we have in the past.”
WACO will have their football practice tonight at 5 pm.
Mt. Pleasant will participate in another camp tonight at 5:30 pm at West Liberty.
Van Buren County will finish up their football camp for the high schoolers this morning with a 7 am start time.
High School Volleyball
Mt. Pleasant will be traveling to Des Moines for a team camp today.
High School Cross Country
New London will start practicing on Monday, August 12th, at 9 am and runners must have a current physical and signed concussion form.
Junior high runners are encouraged to join the high school practices for extra conditioning as their first practice is scheduled for Friday, August 23rd, at 4 pm.
Danville had their informational meeting last night about the upcoming season. If you were unable to attend, then you can email Coach Gourley at lucas.gourley@danvillecsd.org.
Fairfield will have voluntary practices today at 8 am at the high school. Practices will officially get underway at 7:45 am on August 12th at Waterworks.
Mt. Pleasant will start their team camp next week and the girls’ head coach Lyle Murray talked about what the camp consists of and what the teams are looking to accomplish,
“Basically everybody getting together and running together pretty much for the first time. We’re very fortunate to stay down at the Oakland Mills cabins, thanks to the conservation department down there. They’ve been very generous to us, and we try to go around picking up trash and tidying up things in the area to help them out a little. That we do some team building exercises. Obviously, we do a lot of running, we’ll run twice a day and then on Wednesday we have a hill workout, and the kids know it’s coming every year and it’s not an easy one. But we try to make it as pleasant as running hills can be. And then yeah, just watching just kind of like, you know, I keep saying it, but team building, you know, just watching them come together.”
High School Baseball
The Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association released their All-State teams for the 2024 season and six athletes from southeast Iowa made the squad.
In Class 1A, Burlington Notre Dame had three players make the All-State Second Team in Spencer Brent, Landry Haberichter, and Jaxon Sadler. Brent led the team with 39 RBIs and a 0.458 batting average, while Haberitchter cracked a team leading 13 doubles. Sadler recorded a 1.33 ERA with nine wins. Caden Schwenker and Dylan Kipp found spots on the All-State Third Team.
For Class 2A, West Burlington’s Brock Thuleen earned All-State Second Team honors. The junior led the team in batting average, home runs, RBIs, and doubles.
Iowa Football
The Hawkeyes will be hosting their annual “Kids Day at Kinnick” tomorrow, August 10th. The open practice will begin at 11 am with the gates opening at 10 am. Team members will be signing autographs for kids around 10:30 am along the front of the west and south stands. Admission is free for all fans.
Award Watch Lists
Rocco Becht will look to keep slinging the football down the field for Iowa State this season as he was put on the Davey O’Brien Award watch list, the award is given to the nation’s top college quarterback.
Becht had a fantastic freshman season, throwing for 3,120 yards, 23 touchdowns, and completing 231 passes, all Cyclone freshman records. That stat line culminated into Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year and Second-Team Freshman All-American honors.
This Day in Sports History
1936 – Jesse Owens is part of the American 4 x 100m relay team that wins gold in world record (39.8) at the Berlin Olympics; his fourth gold medal of the Games.
1975 – First NFL game in the Louisiana Superdome, Houston defeats the Saints 13-7.
1988 – The Chicago Cubs beat the Mets 6-4 in their first official night game at Wrigley Field.
