High School Track
Winfield-Mt. Union, WACO, Columbus, and Van Buren County will participate in the Sigourney Co-Ed meet tomorrow, April 29th.
New London will host the Co-Ed Chris Selby Invitational tomorrow with Danville, West Burlington/Notre Dame, Mediapolis, and Wapello making the trip.
Mt. Pleasant and Central Lee will compete in the Keokuk Relays tomorrow.
The 115th Drake Relays concluded over the weekend and here’s how our local teams performed in the 4×100 meter relays.
For the girls’ race, Mt. Pleasant was the first of our local teams to finish as the team of Kynlee White, Ellie Freeman, Taylor Williamson, and Kiyah Sanders crossed the finish line in 49th place with a time of 50.77 seconds. Burlington took 88th and Keokuk finished in 94th place, while Washington was disqualified.
On the boys’ side, New London’s squad of Cale Westerbeck, Gavin Strawhacker, Brigham Porter, and London Franklin sprinted to a 25th place time of 43.48 seconds. Keokuk finished in 30th place followed by Burlington in 39th place. Columbus had their team grab 42nd place with a time of 43.84 seconds. Fairfield and Washington finished stride-for-stride with the Trojans taking 62nd place and the Demons in 63rd place. Mediapolis collected 87th place.
High School Tennis
The Mt. Pleasant girls’ team will celebrate their senior night tonight against Fort Madison, while the boys’ team will travel to face off against the Bloodhounds.
The Fairfield girls’ team will get a rematch with Burlington, their closest win of the season tonight in a road showdown. The boys’ team will play at home.
High School Golf
Winfield-Mt. Union will tangle with Hillcrest Academy today at home.
Holy Trinity Catholic will host New London today.
WACO will take on Louisa-Muscatine today on the road.
The SEC girls’ teams will make the trip to Burlington today, while the SEC boys’ teams will meet up at Washington.
Burlington Notre Dame will travel to compete in a triangular today at Blue Top Ridge Golf Course.
Wapello will take on Columbus today at home.
Danville will make the trip to Central Lee today to play at the Green Acres Country Club.
Mediapolis will face off against Burlington Notre Dame tomorrow, April 29th, on the road.
High School Soccer
The Burlington Notre Dame girls’ team fell to Wahlert Catholic at the Assumption Invitational over the weekend 3-0. The Nikes will host Columbus tonight with the girls’ teams playing first at 5 pm followed by the boys game.
The Mt. Pleasant boys’ team made the trip to Muscatine over the weekend and split their triangular, losing 2-1 to the hosts and handling Central DeWitt 3-0. Akbar Wilson scored two goals, Dylan White recorded three assists, and Xachary LeBlanc made 13 saves between the two contests.
Fairfield will tangle with Mt. Pleasant tonight with the boys on the road and the girls at home.
The Mediapolis boys’ team will travel to WACO tonight at 5 pm.
The Mediapolis girls’ team will face off against Fort Madison on the road tomorrow, April 29th, at 5 pm.
The Danville boys’ team will travel to Fairfield tomorrow at 5 pm.
The Central Lee girls’ team will make the trip to Albia tomorrow with gametime at 5 pm.
The Wapello boys’ team will play Hillcrest Academy on the road at 6:30 pm tomorrow and the girls’ team will take on Monmouth-Roseville at home at 5 pm.
Southeastern Community College
The baseball team swept Southwestern Community College over the weekend both in thrilling and dominating fashions. Game one saw the Blackhawks score four runs in the top of the 7th to take a 5 to 3 lead just for the Spartans to knot the game in the bottom half of the inning. Nevertheless, SCC would win the game in the 8th inning, 6-5, as Owen Thomson slammed the door, striking out two in his 5th win of the season.
Games two and three were an exhibition of offense as the Blackhawks won game two 11-1 as Michael Farina and Jackson Petsche each notched two RBIs, while SCC clobbered the Spartans in game three 15-4. Farina homered twice in the game tallying nine RBIs for the weekend, while Sheppard Graf also went deep in the contest and brought home four runs.
The baseball team will travel to Northeast Community College today.
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
1930 – The first night game in the history of Organized Baseball took place in Independence, Kansas.
1965 – Lindsey Nelson broadcasts a baseball game at Houston Astrodome from a hanging gondola.
2018 – Shaquem Griffin is the first one-handed person to be drafted into the NFL; selected by Seattle Seahawks.