High School Basketball
The Mt. Pleasant girls’ team will stay at home to take on Burlington Notre Dame tonight at 6:45 pm, while the Mt. Pleasant boys’ team will travel to Cedar Rapids Washington to start off the season at 7 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 6:45 pm. Head coach Eric Rawson discussed his team’s expectations with the season opener tonight,
“You know our expectations right now with the group that we have is having the ability to come in with a good attitude and attack the day; every day is a new day and let’s get better. You know, every time we’re in the gym and get better individually get better as a group, as a team and you know, hopefully by the end of, you know, we get through December or get into January and February and get some guys healed up and with the pieces that we have put together, you know, hopefully you can be at a very competitive level. You know, it’s just we got a young team at the varsity level being physical, basketball is a physical sport and you got to be very athletic. So, it’s going to be part of the piece that we’ll need to find.”
Van Buren County will host Cardinal with the girls’ facing off first at 6 tonight.
WACO will hit the road to play Holy Trinity Catholic tonight with the boys’ scheduled to play at 7 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union will square off against Louisa-Muscatine on the road tomorrow, December 3rd, with the girls’ playing first at 6 pm.
Wapello will take on Pekin in a road matchup tomorrow night with the girls’ tipping off at 6 pm.
Danville will face off against Mediapolis tomorrow at home with the boys’ playing first at 6 pm.
New London will travel to West Burlington tomorrow with the first game at 6 pm.
Central Lee will tip off the season tomorrow against Holy Trinity Catholic on the road with the boys’ scheduled to follow the girls’ game at 7:30 pm.
Columbus will compete against Lone Tree on the road tomorrow with the girls’ playing first at 6 pm.
High School Wrestling
The Mt. Pleasant, Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union, Fairfield, Mediapolis, Van Buren County, and Wapello girls’ teams will compete in the Fort Madison Tournament tonight.
WACO will participate in the Washington County Quad meet tomorrow, December 3rd, at Washington.
The Mt. Pleasant boys’ team will host a dual against Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union tomorrow at 6:30 pm.
The Mediapolis boys’ team will compete in a quad at home tomorrow at 6 pm.
The Wapello boys’ team will host a triangular tomorrow at 6 pm.
High School Bowling
Fairfield will square off against Washington at home today.
Mt. Pleasant will duel West Burlington tomorrow, December 3rd, at KingPins.
Southeastern Community College
The #13 men’s basketball team picked up another win over the weekend, beating Lake Land College 72-62 to end the Broadway Classic 2-0. The Blackhawks will host Kennedy-King College on Saturday, December 7th, at 7.
College Football
#16 Iowa State’s defense sealed the program’s first 10-win season after defeating Kansas State 29-21. A blocked field goal and a safety gave the Cyclones the cushion needed as Rocco Becht finished the game with three total touchdowns (one rushing). Iowa State will face off against #12 Arizona State on Saturday, December 7th, at 11 am for the Big 12 conference championship. Their last conference championship occurred back in 1912.
Iowa will await their bowl matchup, which will be announced on December 8th.
College Basketball
The #5 Iowa State men’s team will host Marquette on Wednesday, December 4th, at 7 pm in the Big 12/Big East battle.
The Iowa men’s team will start conference play tomorrow, December 3rd, at 6 pm against Northwestern at home.
The #15 Iowa State women’s team got back in the win column with a 75-59 victory against Middle Tennessee over the weekend. Audi Crooks commanded the lane with a team leading 21 points. The Cyclones will compete against USC Upstate tomorrow at 6:30 pm at home.
The #22 Iowa women’s team will take on Tennessee in the Women’s Championship Classic on December 7th at 6 pm.
This Day in Sports History
1951 – Future Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Don Hutson has his #14 jersey retired by the Green Bay Packers; first number retired in franchise history.
1984 – Miami quarterback Dan Marino breaks the then-NFL single-season touchdown passing record when he throws his 37th in the Dolphins’ 45-34 loss to the Raiders; finishes the season with 48 touchdown passes.
1987 – “334” club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20″ of snow to attend New Jersey Devils 7-5 NHL victory over Calgary.