High School Football
WACO will kick off the season with a week zero matchup against Central City this Friday, August 23rd, at home at 7 pm. The Warriors defeated the Wildcats 48-12 back in 2022, where Louden Huisenga rushed for a touchdown and totaled five tackles. Head coach Chad Edeker talked about the upcoming matchup,
“And you know, we know most of the eight-man formations that we’re going to see. So we can put that out there now and then that week against Central City, we’ll just, you know, just fine tune it and make sure we know what we’re going to do against them. It’s gonna be a tough one for us though, because they got a new coach this year, so. They had run a sort of unique, very similar to us. They ran an off-balanced power formation, which we knew pretty well the last couple of years, and they got a new coach. So, we don’t know exactly what they’re going to run. So, we got to have all our bases covered.”
Winfield-Mt. Union will scrimmage Midland on Friday at 5 pm at home.
Central Lee will take on Keokuk on Friday at 6:30 pm for a scrimmage at home.
Mt. Pleasant will face off against Danville on Friday at 7:30 pm for a home scrimmage.
High School Volleyball
Mt. Pleasant will travel to WACO tonight for a scrimmage at 5:30 pm. Head coach Logan Wall discussed what she learned during her first year at the helm and how she’s applying it to year two,
“Yes, that was definitely a learning year. And every year there’s going to be something new that I’ll be learning, never going to be perfect. But you know, coaching as a head coach, there’s a lot of a lot of hats to juggle. However, two things that I took away from last year is we have to have good communication with our players, with parents, with our community, and then just trying to build those positive relationships with the student athletes, that’s going to go a long way, you know. They only have four years at the high school level and so, just really trying to create a positive relationship with them and so that’s kind of that’s kind of where I’m at and what I’ll continue to do this year and just now they know my expectations and so and they do a good job of following them. And so this year has been a smooth transition into a new season.”
West Burlington will host a scrimmage tomorrow, 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 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 starting with an intrasquad volleyball game at the high school gym at 5 pm.
Fairfield will have their “Meet the Trojans” on Friday with introductions taking place on the track at 6:35 pm. Volleyball and football will have intrasquad scrimmages at 7 pm.
High School Cross Country
Fairfield will practice at 8 am today and Friday, August 23rd, then Tuesday through Thursday practice will start at 3:30 pm.
Southeastern Community College
The volleyball team will travel to Rockford, Illinois on Friday, August 23rd, for their opening weekend tournament with their first matchup against Kansas City Kansas Community College.
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.
This Day in Sports History
1909 – The first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, now the home of the world’s most famous motor racing competition, the Indianapolis 500.
1921 – Detroit Tiger Ty Cobb is the fourth to get 3,000 hits against the Boston Red Sox, the youngest ever.
1941 – Baseball umpire Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on the field holding an umbrella to get a rainout.