High School Football
Winfield-Mt. Union will be hosting their final night of their youth football camp from 7:15 to 8 pm for 1st through 6th graders. 7th through 12th graders will practice from 5 to 7 pm tonight through Friday, August 9th.
WACO will have their football practice starting at 5 pm.
Fairfield will continue their 5th through 8th grade football camp tonight from 6 to 8 pm. The high school camp will continue through tomorrow, August 8th, from 4 to 6 pm with all camps being held at the high school practice fields.
Mt. Pleasant will continue hosting their morning football camp for the high schoolers and the Panthers will host West Liberty for a scrimmage tonight. The team will travel to West Liberty on Friday for another scrimmage at 5:30 pm.
Van Buren County will be having an informational meeting tomorrow at 5:30 pm in the classroom directly across from the wrestling room at the high school. Football camp for the high schoolers starts today at 7 am and runs through Friday.
High School Volleyball
Mt. Pleasant will be hosting their volleyball camp tonight with 5th through 8th graders practicing from 4 to 5:30 pm and high school players going from 6 to 8:30 pm at the high school gym.
High School Cross Country
New London will start practicing on Monday, August 12th, at 9 am and runners must have a current physical and signed concussion form.
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.
If you were unable to attend the informational meeting last night, please contact Coach Bridget Swailes at bridget.swailes@nlcsd.org.
Danville will be having an informational meeting tomorrow, August 8th, at 6:30 pm at the high school chorus room about the upcoming season. You will get to meet the coaches, learn about the team expectations, and get details about a practice schedule.
If you are unable to attend, then you can email Coach Gourley at lucas.gourley@danvillecsd.org.
Fairfield’s team camp will conclude today with departure at 7 am at the high school. There will be voluntary practices tomorrow and Friday at 8 am at the high school.
Practices will officially get underway at 7:45 am on August 12th at Waterworks.
Iowa State Football
The Iowa State Fair will be exhibiting a new feature called “Catch the Cyclone Vision.” Visitors will get to pick from a couple different unique campus experiences that feature a series of 360-degree videos highlighting the event. One of the experiences includes being in the huddle of an Iowa State football spring game; all visitors have to do is scan the QR code displayed with the information about the experience with their smartphone.
The exhibit will be open in the Varied Industries Building from 9 am to 8 pm every day of the fair starting tomorrow, August 8th.
Iowa Football
The Hawkeyes will be hosting their annual “Kids Day at Kinnick” on Saturday, August 10th. The open practice will begin at 11 am with the gates opening at 10 am. Team members will be signing autographs for kids around 10:30 am along the front of the west and south stands. Admission is free for all fans.
Award Watch List
Both the Hawkeyes and Cyclones might be looking to run the ball this fall with each team getting a member placed on the Doak Walker Award Watch List, which is given to the nation’s top running back.
For the University of Iowa, senior running back Leshon Williams looks to lead the ground game for the second consecutive season after averaging 4.8 yards per carry to finish with 821 yards last year. Williams was an All-Big Ten honorable mention selection last season along with being Iowa’s Roy Carver Team Offensive MVP.
Iowa State’s Abu Sama III crashed onto the scene during his freshman season last year. The freshman finally broke the century mark in the 10th game of the season and never looked back as he finished with 614 yards and six touchdowns, while breaking the team’s freshman single-season record of yards per carry at 7.3. Sama also totaled five touchdowns of 60 yards or more, the most in a single season for Iowa State since 1971.
Prospect League
Game two of the Prospect League Championship will take place tonight at 7:05 pm with the Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp acting as the home team against REX. The Pistol Shrimp can claim the championship tonight, but if they lose the two teams will participate in a winner-takes-all match tomorrow, August 8th, at 7:05 pm.
This Day in Sports History
1936 – Twenty-two nations line-up as the first basketball competition in the Olympic Games starts in Berlin; Estonia beats France 34-29 in the first game.
1948 – American Alice Coachman becomes the first Black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal when she takes out the high jump at the London Games.
1999 – Wade Boggs becomes the first MLB player to hit a home run for his 3,000th hit in a Tampa Bay Devil Rays’ 15-10 loss to Cleveland.