High School Football
WACO will host a scrimmage today against Springville starting at 3 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union will scrimmage Midland on Friday, August 23rd, at 5 pm at home.
Central Lee will take on Keokuk on August 23rd at 6:30 pm for a scrimmage at home.
Mt. Pleasant will face off against Danville on August 23rd at 7:30 pm for a home scrimmage. Bears’ head coach Cody Thompson talked about who his leaders are going to be for the season,
“So, some kids have been really good for us over the summer that have really stepped up and lead and they did some of it last year we’re Jaden Bauer, he’s our returning quarterback this year, Landon Seibert, Kessler Whaley, Deken Huff, those guys. Those guys are all seniors that that have been very consistent over the summer, and I think have potential to be leaders, one of our more vocal leaders is going to be a junior Byers Nealey he’s returning all-district Linebacker. You know, he was good last year. He’s been great this year. Very vocal. Helped, you know, helps teach the kids and really just he works his butt off and he wants to be good, and he helps everybody prepare to be that and he’s going to be one of our bigger vocal leaders this year.”
High School Volleyball
WACO will practice tonight from 3:30 to 6 pm.
Van Buren County will have their practice starting at 4:30 pm.
Mt. Pleasant will travel to WACO on Monday, August 19th, for a scrimmage at 5:30 pm. Head coach Logan Wall talked about what the Panthers have been focusing on to get ready for the season,
“Definitely reviewing those fundamentals, but just gelling as a team, I feel like last year we had some changes in the lineup and so that kind of threw us for a loop right there at the beginning of the year and the beginning of the season. And so, we really just try to get girls in the gym and getting get us gelling as a team and working together we have good returning athletes coming in and so we’ve just been working on that cohesiveness and trying to just up our game from last year.”
West Burlington will host a scrimmage on Tuesday, August 20th, at 4 pm.
New London and Danville will compete in a scrimmage on Thursday, August 22nd, at Burlington Notre Dame.
Central Lee will host a scrimmage against Keokuk on Friday, August 23rd, at 5 pm.
Meet the Players Nights
New London’s “Meet the Players” night will be on Friday, August 23rd, at 5:30 pm with cross country and volleyball introductions and scrimmage taking place in the Charles Lorber Gym. On the football field, cheer and football will have their introductions with a football scrimmage against Wapello to follow.
Winfield-Mt. Union’s “Meet the Players” will take place on Wednesday, August 21st, at 6:30 pm.
Mt. Pleasant will have their “Meet the Panthers” night on Friday, August 23rd, starting with an intrasquad volleyball game at the high school gym at 5 pm.
High School Cross Country
New London will practice this week with a 9 am start time. 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.
Fairfield will continue having practice at 7:45 am at Waterworks for the week.
Van Buren County will start their practice at 4 pm at the track.
High School Wrestling
Mt. Pleasant will be holding a wrestling camp tomorrow for Mt. Pleasant students for Kindergartners through high school seniors for free at 10 am in the wrestling room.
College Football
The University of Iowa will officially kick off the season on Saturday, August 31st, at home against Illinois State at 11 am.
Iowa State will take on North Dakota on August 31st at 2:30 pm at home.
Award Watch List
The pillars of this year’s Iowa squad have been added to the Lombardi Award watch list, the award is given to the college player who best embodies the values and spirit of NFL coach Vince Lombardi.
Jay Higgins and Nick Jackson represent the defense for the Hawkeyes with 281 combined total tackles last season and Logan Jones aims to move the offensive line as the starting center. The trio made the All-Big Ten team in some capacity last season.
Rocco Becht will have lofty expectations under center for Iowa State this year after being added to the Manning Award watch list, the award is given to the nation’s top quarterback. His 26 total touchdowns last season is the second-most in a single season in school history.
This Day in Sports History
1743 – Champion of England titleholder Jack Broughton publishes “Rules of the Ring,” the earliest boxing code.
1954 – American brand management company Authentic Brands Group first publishes the magazine “Sports Illustrated.”
2022 – The Philadelphia Phillies picks up an 11-4 win over the visiting Cincinnati Reds. They become the 9th team with 10,000 franchise victories (and last of those founded in 19th century); they were the first to lose 10,000, in 2007.