High School Track
The Mt. Pleasant and Mediapolis girls’ teams competed in the 49th Washington Invitational last night and the Panthers ran away with the team victory, collecting 148 points, while Mediapolis finished in 5th place with 60 points.
Fort Mt. Pleasant, Kynlee White continued to dominate the 200-meter dash with a 1st place time of 26.34 seconds. In the field events, Ella Ensminger and Ava English finished 1st and 2nd place in the shot put as Ensminger’s throw of 39 feet even was the 5th best in school history. The Panthers picked up victories in the sprint medley, 4×200, 4×100, and 4×400 meter relays.
Mediapolis collected three silvers with Avery Crear leaping 5 feet in the high jump, Bryn Wright finishing with a time of 2 minutes and 31 seconds in the 800-meter run , and the 4×800 meter relay team clocking a time of 10 minutes and 30 seconds.
Winfield-Mt. Union hosted their invitational last night with the Keokuk girls’ team winning with 128 points, while the WACO boys’ team outpaced the hosts with 125 points.
On the girls’ side, Danville finished in 3rd place with 87 points. Delaney Newberry’s time of 27.18 seconds won the 200-meter dash. Alaina Gourley sprinted to the gold in the 400-meter dash with a sub-one minute time.
Winfield-Mt. Union’s Josie Nelson grabbed the win in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 16.3 seconds, which led to a win in the shuttle hurdle relay. WACO secured a victory in the distance medley relay with a time of 4 minutes and 50 seconds, while Bren Graber took the 400-meter hurdles.
On the boys’ side, WACO cruised to the team win as Jude Dykstra narrowly defeated Danville’s Jackson Shacklett in the 1600-meter run. Louden Husinega took the high jump with ease, clearing 6 feet and 1 inch. The Warriors won the sprint medley relay.
Winfield-Mt. Union totaled 108 points by the end of the meet. Kohlby Newsom grabbed a win in the 400-meter dash with a time of 51.04 seconds. Cruz Hagmeier won the gold in the 110-meter hurdles. Cooper Buffington’s throw of 141 feet and 6.25 inches claimed the discus. The Wolves took the distance medley and shuttle hurdle relays.
New London’s team speed was unmatched, winning the 4×100 and 4×200 meter relays. In the field events, Logan Franklin leapt 18 feet and 11.25 inches to win the long jump and Cael Wilka won the shot put. Danville took home the 4×400 and 4×800 meter relays.
Winfield-Mt. Union, WACO, Columbus, and Van Buren County will participate in the Sigourney Co-Ed meet on Tuesday, April 29th.
New London will host the Co-Ed Chris Selby Invitational on Tuesday with Danville, West Burlington/Notre Dame, Mediapolis, and Wapello making the trip.
Mt. Pleasant and Central Lee will compete in the Keokuk Relays on Tuesday.
The 115th Drake Relays continues today with a handful of local athletes competing. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be giving updates throughout the multi-day event. Here’s a look at what happened yesterday.
Burlington’s Kylee Hill missed out on the girls’ discus finals, throwing 124 feet for 11th place. Greyson Hartman of Washington finished with the silver in the boys’ shot put with a heave of 58 feet and 11 inches. Lastly, Fairfield’s Ryan Giberson and Eli Zilman both cleared 6 feet and 4 inches to tie for 4th place.
High School Tennis
The Mt. Pleasant boys’ team slammed Keokuk last night, winning 9-0. Max Heater, Dane Cook, and Elijah Rynders did not allow their opponent to win a game in their singles matches. Sawyer Fulton won a tiebreaker over Tyce Hoppe for his singles showdown. Head coach Tyler Rodgers gave props to his team’s development, especially Fulton,
“Well, Sawyer Fulton from last year to this year has taken a giant leap. I think he was our three-man last year. He’s playing #1 and it’s always tough being the #1 man because you get everybody’s best, but he’s handled it really well. Max heater, a freshman, has really stepped up and been impressive and then kind of senior dominated Dan Cook, Lou Shimmelpfennig, Beckham Prough, and Elijah Rynders have all been around for a while and are finally getting their chance to really play and taking advantage of it.”
In a battle of the undefeateds, the Mt. Pleasant boys’ team will square off against Fairfield on the road.
The Mt. Pleasant girls’ team traveled to Keokuk last night and lost 7-2. Lila Cook and Hannah Villaplaza won their singles matches with the closest game being 6-3. The Panthers will celebrate their senior night on Monday, April 28th, against Fort Madison.
The Fairfield girls’ team remained undefeated on the season, taking down Maharishi last night 8-1. The Trojans will get a rematch with Burlington, their closest win of the season, on Monday in a road showdown.
High School Golf
Winfield-Mt. Union took on Louisa-Muscatine yesterday and swept the competition in thrilling fashion, with the boys’ team winning 158-168 and the girls’ team sneaking out with a 224-227 victory. Konner Kinneberg showed out, hitting one-over par for the course for the boys’ team, while the girls’ team was led by Kellee Milks, who shot at 47.
New London will face off against Winfield-Mt. Union today on the road.
The Mt. Pleasant girls’ team finished in 8th place at the Oskaloosa Invite yesterday out of 12 teams with a team score of 416. The SEC girls’ teams will make the trip to Burlington on Monday, April 28th.
Mediapolis split their matchup against Holy Trinity Catholic yesterday with the girls’ team losing 236-223 and the boys’ team coming out on top 167-193. In the boys’ meet, four Bulldogs tied for the top spot with a 42 in William Worrall, Gannon Gunn, Jonathan Ford, and Max Griffin.
Holy Trinity Catholic will host New London on Monday.
Mediapolis will face off against Burlington Notre Dame on Tuesday, April 29th, on the road.
The Van Buren County and Burlington Notre Dame boys’ teams participated in the Davis County Invitational yesterday and the Nikes finished in 3rd place with a team score of 338 followed by the Warriors in 4th place with a team score of 352.
Burlington Notre Dame will travel to compete in a triangular on Monday at Blue Top Ridge Golf Course.
The Fairfield boys’ team will host an invite today with Mt. Pleasant and Van Buren County making the trip.
The WACO boys’ team will participate in the Sigourney Invite today.
Wapello will take on Columbus on Monday at home.
Danville will make the trip to Central Lee on Monday to play at the Green Acres Country Club.
High School Soccer
The WACO boys’ team fell to Highland last night 6-2. The Mediapolis boys’ team will travel to WACO on Monday, April 28th, at 5 pm.
The Fairfield girls’ team lost 9-1 against Burlington last night as the Trojans managed just two shots on goal. Fairfield will tangle with Mt. Pleasant on Monday with the boys on the road and the girls at home.
Burlington Notre Dame swept Wapello last night with the girls’ team handling the Arrows 5-1, while the boys’ team clobbered Wapello 11-0. Lexi Korschgen tabbed two goals for the Nikes in the girls’ game, while Kallie Kemper netted the lone goal for the Arrows.
The Burlington Notre Dame boys’ team will host Central Lee tonight at 5 pm. The Burlington Notre Dame girls’ team will compete in the Assumption Invitational tomorrow, April 26th.
The Wapello boys’ team will compete against Sigourney Keota tonight at 5 pm on the road.
The Columbus girls’ team shutout Central Lee last night as Iris Garza grabbed a goal and an assist. The Central Lee boys’ team remained undefeated after taking down Columbus last night 3-1.
The Central Lee girls’ team will face off against Canton at home tonight at 5 pm.
The Mt. Pleasant girls’ team lost their road showdown against Fort Madison last night 6-0 as Teagan Snaadt collected a hat trick for the Bloodhounds. The Panthers will travel to Washington at 5 pm.
The Mt. Pleasant boys’ team allowed Fort Madison to score first last night on a penalty kick, but the rest of the match belonged to the Panthers as they held on to the #1 spot in conference after winning 5-1. Dylan White scored two goals in the winning effort. Head coach Rocco Russo was overjoyed after snapping a 10-game losing streak to the Bloodhounds,
“It feels amazing. You know, one of the biggest things we’ve been talking to our guys about is responding to a negative event and I think they showed that they showed their last game against Burlington. They went up 1-0 on us and we responded well, played a nice game after that. And Fort Madison is a great team. They got great coaches over there and the main message we sent out this week was to stick together and fight adversity. And they showed that, I mean they bounced back, we gave up the PK early and we played lights out after that.”
The Mt. Pleasant boys’ team will participate in a tournament at Muscatine tomorrow with game one at 9 am.
The Mediapolis girls’ team will take on Monmouth-Roseville tonight on the road at 5 pm.
The Danville boys’ team will travel to Hillcrest Academy tonight at 5 pm.
Southeastern Community College
The baseball team will travel to Southwestern Community College tomorrow, April 26th, for the first two games of a three-game series.
The softball team starts their Region 11 tournament as the #3-seed on Wednesday, April 30th, in a best-of-three series against Iowa Western with the winner advancing to the championship game.
This Day in Sports History
1950 – Chuck Cooper becomes the first African American to be drafted into the NBA (for Boston Celtics).
1974 – The NFL moves the goalposts and adopts a sudden-death playoff.
1978 – Phillie Phanatic makes first appearance.