High School Track
The State Track and Field meet is scheduled to start on Thursday, May 22nd, and run through Saturday, May 24th. KILJ will be keeping track of 16 local teams, providing updates and results throughout the three-day event. For a full list of our local state qualifiers, follow this link: Full List of State Qualifiers
High School Tennis
The Mt. Pleasant boys’ team took on Grinnell at Kennedy High School this past weekend for the team substate tournament and fell to the Tigers 5-3. Dane Cook dominated his singles match, while Lou Schimmelpfennig snuck out with a win by tiebreaker in his singles showdown, 10-5. Schimmelpfennig would team up with Sawyer Fulton to win their doubles match 6-2 in set one and 6-0 in set two. The Panthers ended the season with a 6-4 record.
The Fairfield boys’ team cruised past Centerville 5-0 in the opening round of the Substate 8 tournament before dropping just one game to Clarke Community to advance to the Substate championship. The Trojans will square off against Pella on Wednesday, May 21st, on the road.
The Fairfield girls’ team will take on Central DeWitt in the Regional semifinals tomorrow, May 20th, at Xavier High School.
High School Golf
The boys’ Class 1A District meet for Winfield-Mt. Union, Wapello, Holy Trinity Catholic, and Danville’s Alex Holtkamp and Graylon Walker will take place at Heritage Oaks in Wapello today.
The boys’ Class 2A District Meet for Mediapolis and Central Lee will take place in Pella today.
The boys’ Class 3A District meet featuring Washington will be hosted by West Delaware today at Pin Oak Links.
The girls’ Region 5 final will take place at Little Bear Country Club in Midland on Wednesday, May 21st, with Wapello, Columbus, and New London competing as teams and Elizabeth Griffin of Holy Trinity Catholic and Kellee Milks of Winfield-Mt. Union participating as individuals.
The Mt. Pleasant and Fairfield girls’ teams will compete in the Class 3A Regional on Wednesday at Edmundson Golf Course.
High School Soccer
The boys’ SEISC championship lived up to its billing as Mediapolis and #6 Burlington Notre Dame faced off for the title for the third consecutive season. The scoring began in the first half as the Bulldogs, defending their back-to-back conference championships, had Carl Hines net the first goal of the morning.
However, the Nikes would take advantage of an own goal as Jayden Nanthan pushed the squad ahead 2 to 1 in the second half. Lance Ludens would tie the game for Mediapolis, and momentum seemed to favor the Bulldogs after Notre Dame goalkeeper Taylor Lundgren was hit with a red card for handling a ball outside the box, ushering in the backup John Paul Hill and leaving the team a man down. Yet, Hill made some key saves leading to a 3-2 win for Notre Dame in penalty kicks. It is the Nikes’ first SEISC championship since 2022.
The Central Lee girls’ team will start Regional play today on the road against Fairfield at 5 pm.
The Wapello girls’ team will face off against Mid-Prairie in the Class 1A Region 3 first round at 5 pm today.
The Mt. Pleasant girls’ team had their matchup against Ottumwa tonight canceled.
The WACO boys’ team will take on Danville on the road in the Class 1A Substate 5 first round at 7 pm tomorrow, May 20th.
The Central Lee boys team will take on Sigourney Keota tomorrow at 7 pm at home with the winner advancing to play Mediapolis.
The Wapello boys’ team will take on Central DeWitt on the road tomorrow at 7 pm in the Class 2A Substate 5 bracket.
The #6 Burlington Notre Dame boys’ team earned a bye and will host either Assumption or Solon at 7 pm on May 27th.
The Fairfield boys’ team will compete against Centerville in the Class 2A Substate 6 opening round at 7 pm at home tomorrow. Mt. Pleasant awaits the winner.
The Mediapolis girls’ team will face off against Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union on Wednesday, May 21st, at 7 pm at home for postseason play.
The Burlington Notre Dame girls’ team will start their postseason journey on Friday, May 23rd, on the road against Clear Creek Amana at 7 pm.
High School Baseball
West Burlington is scheduled to start the season tonight against Wapello with first pitch at 5:30 pm at home.
Fairfield will hit the road to take on Grinnell tonight at 5 pm.
Mediapolis will face off against Cardinal tonight at 5:30 pm on the road.
Central Lee will travel to Burlington tomorrow, May 20th, at 7 pm.
Mt. Pleasant will make the trip to Grinnell on Wednesday, May 21st, at 7:30 pm.
This Day in Sports History
1912 – AL President Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb’s suspension, they will be banned from baseball.
1974 – Stanley Cup Final, The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA: Goaltender Bernie Parent and the Flyers shut out the Boston Bruins, 1-0, to win the series 4-2, becoming the first “expansion” team to win Stanley Cup; Parent named playoff MVP.
1991 – Willy T. Ribbs overcomes numerous mechanical problems in qualifying to become first African-American driver to make the Indianapolis 500 starting grid.