High School Basketball

New London will be on the road to play Holy Trinity Catholic and Danville will host Burlington Notre Dame tonight with both girls’ games going at 6 pm with the boys to follow..

The Mt. Pleasant girls’ team will play conference foe Washington tomorrow at 7:30 pm at home. The boys’ team will be on the road to face off against Washington at 7:30 pm.

Winfield-Mt. Union will face off against Wapello tonight with the girls’ going at 6 pm and WACO will travel to play Columbus tonight.

Central Lee will host Van Buren County tonight with the girls’ going at 6 pm followed by the boys.

High School Wrestling

The boys’ team hosted Fairfield last night with the Trojans getting the best of the Panthers 53-18. Sawyer Fulton for Mt. Pleasant got the scoring going, but Fairfield rattled off two wins in a row, one by Cael McCabe, it was Charlie Bohenkamp to tie the match at 12. Fairfield would outscore Mt. Pleasant 41-6 for the rest of the duel with Gavin Kerr and Franklin Tousignant each picking up wins by decision. In extra matches, Mt. Pleasant would win three out of the five with Avalos Ramirez-Jefferson, Jared Dorothy, and Jaxsen Stuecker picking up wins by fall. Two members of the girls’ team wrestled last night with Ella McNamee picking up a win by decision and Alexis Wagner winning by fall. The boys’ team will be competing tomorrow at the Williamsburg Tournament.

High School Bowling

Mt. Pleasant will travel to play Louisa Muscatine Monday, January 23rd.

Iowa Wesleyan Athletics

The women’s basketball team will look to get back in the win column tonight against Haskell Indian Nations at home at 5:30 pm. Head Coach Steve Williamson was on Tiger Nation yesterday and discussed that he expects to see a tenacious defense from the Tigers.

The 25th ranked men’s team will play Haskell Indian Nations at the conclusion of the women’s game tonight. KILJ will be on the call for both games with the pregame show at 5:15 pm.

The men’s wrestling team hosted Cornell College last night for their first home match of the season and fell to the Rams 44-3. Brendan Ferenchik was the lone Tiger to score last night in a match that ended in an 8-7 decision. The next meet for the Tigers will be a dual against Waldorf University on January 25th.

The women’s wrestling team’s  next scheduled competition is January 27th at the 2023 Spire Classic.

The Tigers next indoor meet will be tomorrow, January 21st, at the Hilltop Invitational.

This Day in Sports History

1968 – Houston Cougars defeat the UCLA Bruins 71-69 to win basketball’s Game of the Century and end UCLA’s 47 game winning streak.

1989 – Pittsburgh center Mario Lemieux becomes just the 2nd player in NHL history to score 50 goals in less than 50 games; #50 in 44th game as the Penguins lose 7-3 to the Jets in Winnipeg.

2007 – Utah coach Jerry Sloan passes Larry Brown for 4th on the NBA’s all-time win list (1,010) after the Jazz beat the Chicago Bulls, 95-85 at the United Center.

Prep Basketball- The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union has updated the rankings for another of girls’ basketball and only 3 teams dropped out of the top 15 for all 5 classes combined. Moreover, the top three teams in each class remained unchanged.

Class 1A is still ruled by Algona Bishop Garrigan followed by Newell-Fonda and North Linn. Amazingly, it is another stable week for Class 1A with each team keeping their position from the week before. Winfield-Mt. Union still holds the 10th position with an undefeated record of 16-0, as they are fresh off a dominating victory over WACO, and Burlington Notre Dame is ranked 11^th at 12-4 after crushing Central Lee 72-42 in their last matchup.

Class 2A also had minimal movement with one team falling down the rankings. Pocahontas Area is now ranked 11^th after being ranked 8^th a week ago, as they fell to Sioux Central 52-41. Otherwise, Dike-New Hartford is still the top team at 13-0 with Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont ranked 4^th at 14-0. No teams dropped out of the rankings.

Estherville Lincoln Central, Unity Christian, and Solon are the top three teams of Class 3A, respectively. Osage takes over the 7^th spot after Center Point-Urbana fell three spots to 10^th as the Stormin Pointers dropped games to 4^th ranked Benton and Class 4A ranked 7^th Clear Creek Amana. Cherokee also dropped in the rankings from 8^th to 12^th after their 31-point loss to Spencer, 67-36. Sioux Center jumped up the rankings to 11^th from 14^th. Atlantic dropped out of the rankings with 9-4 Harlan taking the 15^th spot of the rankings.

The first 12 spots were unchanged from last week’s Class 4A rankings with Dallas Center-Grimes still holding the top spot. Marion went from 13^th to 15^th after dropping games to Mount Vernon and Iowa City West. Lewis Central swapped the 15^th position to be ranked 13^th after dismantling their last two opponents. Spencer knocks Glenwood out of the top 15 to be ranked 14^th.

Class 5A had the most movement and the highest ranked team fell from their spot last week. Johnston is still the number one team at 16-0 followed by also undefeated Pleasant Valley at 14-0. Valley tumbled from 4^th to 7^th as they fell to originally ranked 6^th now ranked 4^th Dowling Catholic 50-32 and now ranked 6^th Ankeny Centennial by seven. Cedar Falls had the biggest jump in the rankings going from 14^th to 9^th after defeating previously 9^th ranked Iowa City West 38-29. The Trojans fell one spot to be ranked 10^th. Iowa City Liberty struck down Linn-Marr 63-57 resulting in the Lightning moving up to 12^th from 15^th and the Lions falling from 10^th to 13^th. Des Moines North was the lone team to fall from the rankings as Waukee took the 14^th spot, despite a 6-8 record.

High School Basketball

New London will be on the road to play Holy Trinity Catholic tomorrow, January 20th, and Danville will host Burlington Notre Dame tomorrow.

The Mt. Pleasant girls’ team will play conference foe Washington tomorrow at 7:30 pm at home. The boys’ team will be on the road to face off against Washington at 7:30 pm.

Winfield-Mt. Union will face off against Wapello tomorrow with the girls’ going at 6 pm and WACO will travel to play Columbus tomorrow.

Central Lee will host Van Buren County tomorrow with the girls’ going at 6 pm followed by the boys.

High School Wrestling

The Mt. Pleasant boys’ team’s next match is tonight, January 19th, against Fairfield.

Girls’ wrestling will have their Regional Qualifier take place January 27th and 28th with the state tournament scheduled to start February 2nd and finish up on the 3rd.

High School Bowling

Mt. Pleasant will host Fairfield tonight.

College Signing

Mount Mercy University will have a new Mustang join them in the fall from Mt. Pleasant as Carter Amos signed on to the team yesterday. Amos batted 0.310 last season and batted in 21 runners and scored 8 runs of his own. The Mustangs finished 33-20 with a 20-12 conference record for the 2021-2022 season. The Panthers will look to improve upon their record last season of 9-19.

Iowa Wesleyan Athletics

The women’s basketball team will look to get back in the win column tomorrow against Haskell Indian Nations at home at 5:30 pm. Head Coach, Steve Williamson, will join us on Tiger Nation this morning at 9 am.

The 25th ranked men’s team will play Haskell Indian Nations at the conclusion of the women’s game tomorrow. KILJ will be on the call for both games with the pregame show at 5:15 pm.

The men’s wrestling team will be at home tonight as they go against Cornell College at 6 pm.

The women’s wrestling team had their dual meet last night postponed and it has not been rescheduled yet. The next scheduled competition for the team is January 27th at the 2023 Spire Classic.

The Tigers next indoor meet will be Saturday, January 21st, at the Hilltop Invitational.

This Day in Sports History

1903 – French newspaper L’Auto announces a new 5-stage, long distance bicycle race, “Tour de France.”

1974 – Notre Dame beats UCLA, 71-70 in South Bend, Indiana to end Bruins’ NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak.

2013 – Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven of his Tour de France victories.

Mt. Pleasant- Carter Amos, a senior at Mt. Pleasant, made his decision to continue playing baseball collegiately at Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids. His brother, Dustin Amos, played for the Mustangs from 2016-2018 and accumulated 9 wins and 80 strikeouts in his two years of pitching for the team.

In his sophomore and junior seasons, Carter Amos had a combined batting average of 0.270, knocked in 32 runners, scored 20 runs, an on-base-percentage of 0.372, and stolen 15 bases on 16 attempts. Amos is coming off a season of batting 0.310 and has one goal in mind for his senior season,

“Just for us to win games and just hit as well as I did last year if not better. I just really want to win some games this year.”

For the 2021-2022 season, Mount Mercy finished 33-20 overall with a 20-12 record in conference play. The Panthers will look to improve on their 9-19 record from last year.