High School Track and Field
The girls teams of WACO and Danville will compete at the Winfield Girls Invite tonight.
The New London girls team will compete in the Horton Relays today.
The boys and girls teams of Mt. Pleasant, and Central Lee, while the boys teams of WACO, Danville, New London and Winfield-Mt. Union will be competing in the Denny White Relays tonight.
High School Soccer
The Mt. Pleasant girls team will travel to take on Burlington today.
The Mt. Pleasant boys team will face off against Burlington at home tonight.
The WACO boys team will host Mediapolis tonight.
The Central Lee girls team will look to get back in the win column tomorrow, April 14th, against West Branch.
The Central Lee boys team will look for their first win of the season against Highland tonight at home.
High School Golf
Winfield-Mt. Union will be facing off against Wapello this afternoon.
The New London boys and girls will compete in the English Valleys Invitational tomorrow, April 14th.
The Mt. Pleasant boys team will host while the girls team will travel to compete at Keokuk today.
The Central Lee boys team will compete in the Lee County Invite tomorrow.
High School Tennis
The Mt. Pleasant girls team will host Burlington tonight.
The Mt. Pleasant boys team will take on Maharishi at home on April 18th.
Southeast Iowa Playbook
Blaise Porter and Kade Benjamin joined us for the first episode of the Southeast Iowa Playbook last night and they talked about their favorite memory from playing at New London.
“Kinda hard, obviously, getting to state that was awesome, but I think the best moment I had was being on the floor when we beat WACO freshman year,” said Porter. “I think they were ranked #2 or something like that and we beat them. I think it was a semifinal game, we were definitely supposed to lose that game. I think we were predicted to lose by like 15 or something like that, but you know we came in and we really shocked everybody that game. So, that was probably my favorite moment.”
Benjamin’s favorite moment came during their run to the state tournament,
“My favorite moment definitely has to be the substate game from this past year. I don’t know, the energy in the gym was just crazy and we finally made it to state like we were supposed to, we finally did what we were supposed to. So, it’s just a great feeling. So, that’s definitely my favorite memory.”
Iowa Wesleyan Athletics
The Tiger softball team will face off against Clarke University today in a make-up game with game one at 2 pm.
The Tiger baseball team will be back in action on April 18th against Culver-Stockton College with game one at 3 pm.
The outdoor track and field teams are competing at the Cornell Invitational on April 15th. Logan Lucas will be joining us on Tiger Nation this morning at 9 am.
This Day in Sports History
1940 – American athlete Cornelius “Dutch” Warmerdam, using a bamboo pole, becomes 1st man to pole vault 15 ft, at University of California, Berkeley.
1986 – The Boston Celtics ended the season with an NBA record 40-1 home win record.
2003 – 67th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Mike Weir wins his only major title in a 1-hole playoff over Len Mattiace; only Canadian to win the Masters and first left-handed Masters champion.