High School Basketball
The Columbus girls’ team was unable to close out North Cedar last night, falling 52-43. The Wildcats will square off against Hillcrest Academy at home tonight with game one at 6 pm.
Mt. Pleasant will start conference play in a road showdown in Burlington tonight with the girls playing first at 6 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 5:45 pm. Panther girls’ head coach Curt Watson talked about what makes this year’s team special,
“I think right now it’s team chemistry. They’re coming to practice. They’re having fun. They work hard at practice. So it’s been really fun to come to practice as a coaching staff and talking to the girls and they’ve been getting after it and I think we’re trying to get maybe the culture change a little bit with them and they accepted it and they want the culture to be better, like helping girls up when they’re on the floor, getting louder at practice, we’ve been really hounding. Sometimes it’s kind of like a morgue there, you know, it’s we don’t. Nobody’s yelling. Nobody’s talking to each other. And we said we got to pick that up and they really took that to heart.”
Winfield-Mt. Union will remain at home tonight with a matchup against Lone Tree with the girls’ teams starting the night at 6 pm.
West Burlington will travel to Mediapolis tonight with the night tipping off at 6 pm.
Wapello and Louisa-Muscatine will tangle tonight at 6 pm.
WACO will face off against Pekin tonight in a doubleheader with game one at 6 pm.
Central Lee will host Burlington Notre Dame tonight with game one at 6 pm.
Holy Trinity Catholic will make the trip to Danville tonight with game time at 6 pm for the girls’ contest.
Van Buren County will face off against New London tonight in their home opener with the boys’ game following the girls’ contest at 7:30 pm.
Fairfield will start conference play tonight with a road matchup against Fort Madison with the doubleheader beginning at 6 pm.
High School Bowling
Mt. Pleasant split their showdown with Washington yesterday with the girls’ team winning as they bowled 2,178 as a team, while the boys’ team lost 2,754-2,371. Shyann Smith led the girls’ team with 359 total pins. The Panthers will host Keokuk on Thursday, December 11th.
Fairfield will hit the road to take on Burlington today.
High School Wrestling
The Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union boys’ team snuck out with a 40-36 dual victory over Mt. Pleasant last night. Picking up victories by fall for the Panthers was Landon Yocum, Ramzy Davis, Juan Lopez, and Levis Evans, as Kolbein Ostby and Keegan Birdsell escaped with narrow decision victories. The Wildcats saw Bowen Thomson, Angel Ineichen, Kason Dopler, Fritz Figaro, Dante Orozco, and Justin Knipfer collect victories last night.
The Wapello, WACO, and Mt. Pleasant boys’ and girls’ teams and Mediapolis and Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union boys’ teams will participate in the Willard Howell Tournament tomorrow, December 6th.
Fairfield hosted a triangular last night and the boys’ team defeated Centerville, 42-36, and Davis County, 54-26, while the girls’ team split their matchup, beating Centerville 30-23 and losing to Davis County 42-30.
On the boys’ side, Noah Patel, Jasper Carpenter, Aiden Holthus, Dain Burkhart, and Sebastian Ftwi each went undefeated for the night. The trio of Aislinn Wise, Samantha Lyons, and Kendra Allison each finished the night 2-0.
The Van Buren County boys’ and girls’ teams and Fairfield girls’ team will compete in the Bill Rex Invitational tonight.
The Fairfield boys’ team will travel to the Bob Murphy Invitational tomorrow.
The Burlington Notre Dame boys’ team will wrestle at the Cliff Keen Independence Invitational tonight.
The New London boys’ team will start their season when they host the Jeremy Fulk Classic tomorrow.
Southeastern Community College
The women’s basketball team will face off against Northeast Community College tomorrow, December 6th, at home at 1 pm.
The men’s basketball team will host Kankakee Community College tomorrow at 3 pm.
The men’s and women’s wrestling teams will participate in the Buena Vista Open with the women’s team wrestling today and the men’s team starting tomorrow.
College Football
Iowa and Iowa State will await their bowl destination, which will be announced on Sunday, December 7th.
College Basketball
The #12 Iowa women’s team will make the trip to Rutgers tomorrow, December 6th, at 5 pm for their first Big Ten matchup.
The Iowa men’s team will face off against Maryland tomorrow at 3 pm at home.
The #10 Iowa State women’s team will take on Northern Illinois on Sunday, December 7th, at 1 pm at home.
The #10 Iowa State men’s team will travel to #1 Purdue tomorrow with tip-off at 11 am.
This Day in Sports History
1968 – Future Hockey Hall of Fame center Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins scores two goals in his goaltender brother Tony’s (also HOF) NHL debut for the Montreal Canadiens in a 2-2 tie.
1973 – Chicago Cubs Ron Santo becomes the first baseball player to invoke the 10-and-5 rule and veto his trade.
1992 – The first SEC Championship Game: #2 Alabama beats #12 Florida, 28-21.