High School Basketball
The Mt. Pleasant girls’ team entered their home opener plagued by injury as two of their starting guards, Abby Carthey and Tori Wilson, will be unable to play until January; thus, resulting in a 57-16 drubbing at the hands of Pella last night. The game did not start that way as the Panthers held their ground for the first-half quarter, but as head coach Curt Watson talked about at the end of the game, the Dutch clamped down on the Panther offense,
“I mean we I thought we started out really well and then their press just took over against us and they had a game Friday you can tell they’ve played a game already but they did their press is so good. And we just really had trouble handling the ball tonight with it. And like I said, we had a lot of good moments that we started out really well. I thought, man, this pretty good right now and everything. But after that, we really started struggling, especially the first half.”
Kynlee White had a nice game for the Panthers as she finished the night with 9 points; additionally, freshman Abigail Shelangowski collected the first two points of her Panther career. Mt. Pleasant will stay at home to take on Burlington Notre Dame on Monday, December 2nd, at 6:45 pm. Coach Watson discussed what his team will be working on heading into the matchup,
“We got practice tomorrow I just told the girls we’re going to come in and do a lot of shooting try to work a little bit more on fundamentals for a couple hours and we’re giving them a couple days off and then Saturday and Sunday we’re going to come back and get ready for Notre Dame and hopefully we’re going to play a little bit more man-to-man against Notre Dame and hopefully have a few more presses to get ready for Notre Dame.”
The Winfield-Mt. Union girls’ team overcame a slow start to take down Pekin last night 40-29. Madison Kellogg’s 13 points helped the Wolves outscore the Panthers 19 to 3 in the fourth quarter to start the year 2-0. Winfield-Mt. Union will square off against Louisa-Muscatine on Tuesday, December 3rd, at 6 pm on the road.
The WACO girls’ team started the game on a 19 to 3 run and never looked back as the Warriors walked away with a 41-28 road victory against Wapello last night to start the year. Rachel Hoeg led the Arrows with 10 points in the loss. The Warriors will stay on the road to play Holy Trinity Catholic on Monday, December 2nd, at 6 pm.
Wapello will take on Pekin on Tuesday night at 6 on the road.
The Mediapolis girls’ team smacked West Burlington last night 85-19. Amelia Grier had a monster game with 25 points and six steals in the win. Danville will face off against Mediapolis on Tuesday at home with tipoff at 7:30 pm.
The New London girls’ team fell to Davis County last night 60-22. The Tigers will travel to West Burlington on Tuesday at 6 pm.
The Columbus girls’ team started the season with a 42-37 victory last night over Louisa-Muscatine. The Wildcats will compete against Lone Tree on Tuesday at 6 pm on the road.
The Winfield-Mt. Union boys’ team will participate in a scrimmage at West Liberty tonight at 5:30 pm.
The Mt. Pleasant boys’ team will travel up to Iowa City today to scrimmage Liberty and Regina Catholic.
High School Girls’ Wrestling
Mt. Pleasant, Columbus/Winfield-Mt. Union, Fairfield, Mediapolis, Van Buren County, and Wapello will compete in the Fort Madison Tournament on Monday, December 2nd.
WACO will participate in the Washington County Quad meet on Tuesday, December 3rd, at Washington.
Southeastern Community College
The men’s basketball team will host the Broadway Classic on Friday, November 29th, at 7 pm against Lincoln Trail College.
College Football
#17 Iowa State will punch their ticket to the Big 12 Championship game with a win against Kansas State this Saturday, November 30th, at 6:30 pm at home.
Iowa will take on Nebraska at home at 6:30 pm on Friday, November 29th. KILJ 105.5 FM will have the call.
College Basketball
Keshon Gilbert continued his impressive run through the Maui Invitational last night as #5 Iowa State hung on to win 89-84 over Dayton. Gilbert cashed in for a game-high 24 points, followed by Curtis Jones with 19 points. The Cyclones will compete for 5th place against Colorado today.
The Iowa men’s team exhibited their offense last night in a 110-77 victory over USC Upstate. Brock Harding led the charge with 20 points as four other Hawkeyes collected double-digit points. Iowa will start conference play on Tuesday, December 3rd, at 6 pm against Northwestern at home.
The #15 Iowa State women’s team will participate in the Fort Myers Tip-Off tomorrow, November 28th, with game one at 12:30 pm against #4 South Carolina.
The Iowa women’s team will start off the Cancun Challenge tomorrow at 5:30 pm against Rhode Island.
This Day in Sports History
1952 – The only win ever for the NFL’s Dallas Texans (1-11) as they beat the Chicago Bears 27-23 at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio.
1960 – Gordie Howe becomes the first NHL player to score 1,000 points.
1966 – In the highest-scoring NFL game, Washington defeats the New York Giants 72-41.