High School Football
Mt. Pleasant will travel to Fort Madison on Friday, October 18th, at 7:30 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 7:15 pm.
Van Buren County will host #4 Lisbon on Friday at 7 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union will face off against HLV on Friday at 7 pm on the road.
New London will take on English Valleys on Friday at 7 pm at home.
Danville will host Columbus to end the season at 7 pm on Friday.
Wapello will square off against Highland on Friday at 7 pm at home to end the season.
Fairfield will travel to Solon on Friday at 7 pm.
West Burlington/Notre Dame will compete against Davis County on Friday at 7:30 pm in a road matchup.
Central Lee will face off against Mediapolis on Friday at 7:30 pm for their regular season finale.
High School Volleyball
In the second round of the Southeast Conference tournament, the top two teams met up with the conference championship on the line and Washington claimed their first conference title in school history after besting Burlington last night.
Fairfield split their matches last night, falling to Burlington (12-25, 18-25) in straight sets and defeating Mt. Pleasant in three sets (25-23, 20-25, and 15-3). Faith Jones tabbed 37 assists between the two matches with four aces against the Panthers. The Trojans will square off against Albia tomorrow, October 17th, at 7:30 pm on the road.
In a preview of regional volleyball, Winfield-Mt. Union took on Lone Tree last night and the Wolves exited with a sweep (25-17, 25-17, 25-17). Kynlee Buffington led the team with 11 kills as Kaelyn Townsley was unstoppable from the service line with five aces. The Wolves end the regular season with a 12-10 record.
WACO was on the ropes last night against Pekin after dropping the first two sets 20-25 and 15-25; nevertheless, the Warriors closed out the match winning the final three sets 26-24, 25-20, and 15-8. Ally Rinner tallied nine kills as Kinsey Hildbrand led the team with 19 assists and four aces in the winning effort. WACO finished the regular season with an 8-18 record.
#14 West Burlington handled business last night against Danville, winning in straight sets 25-12, 25-9, and 25-17. The Falcons finished the regular season with a 35-6 record.
Danville will host a tournament tomorrow with Burlington Notre Dame and Mt. Pleasant also participating.
#2 Holy Trinity Catholic will compete in a quad at Mediapolis tomorrow at 5 pm.
Columbus will host Washington tomorrow at 7:30 pm.
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released the postseason brackets and for a breakdown of our local matchups, follow this link: IGHSAU Postseason Brackets
High School Cross Country
The Southeast Iowa Super Conference (SEISC) held their conference meet last night and the Pekin girls’ team and the Danville boys’ team raced to team titles and the individual championships.
Looking at the girls’ race, Chloe Glosser of Pekin raced to a 1st place time of 19 minutes and 14 seconds followed by Hillcrest Academy’s Marie Yoder in 2nd place and Alaina Gourley of Danville with the bronze. The Bears also took 3rd place as a team with 100 points as Abby Arnett grabbed 13th place.
Mediapolis finished in 4th place as Amelia Grier led the pack with a 14th place time of 22 minutes and 36 seconds. Central Lee took 5th place as a team as Macy Anderson finished in 15th place. Josie Dykstra of WACO raced to a 6th place time of 21 minutes and Iris Garza of Columbus took 7th place with a time of 21 minutes and 10 seconds.
For runners without team scores, Kaitlyn Kipp of West Burlington led the charge with a 5th place finish. Van Buren County’s Rylee Phillips and Kayley Snowgren finished in 9th and 10th place, respectively. Kenna Small of Wapello grabbed 12th place and New London’s Irelynn Kelly finished in 55th place.
On the boys’ side, Danville’s Jackson Shacklett narrowly exited with the gold with a time of 16 minutes and 49 seconds, as Will Schmidgall of Mediapolis finished three seconds later for the silver. WACO’s Jude Dykstra snuck past Van Buren County’s Lincoln Bainbridge for 3rd place with a time of 17 minutes and 3 seconds. Ty Muniz of Columbus rounded out the top five with a time of 17 minutes and 10 seconds.
For team scores, Danville won by 20 points over Mediapolis with Columbus taking 3rd place with 92 points. Van Buren County finished in 4th place, while WACO grabbed 7th place.
Central Lee was led by Austin Fogarty’s 41st place finish as the Hawks took 9th as a team. Liam Haeger raced to a 26th place finish for West Burlington/Notre Dame as the squad took 10th place. Holy Trinity Catholic grabbed 11th place with Layne Rung racing to a 12th place time of 17 minutes and 59 seconds. Lastly, Kohlby Newsom finished in 7th place as Winfield-Mt. Union took 12th place as a team.
Wapello’s Will Parsons grabbed 59th place and New London’s Natan Bergman finished in 64th place.
The Class 1A and 2A state qualifier meet is scheduled for next Thursday, October 24th.
Mt. Pleasant and Fairfield will compete in their conference meet tomorrow, October 17th, at Keokuk.
Southeast Iowa Playbook
Tune in to KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, tonight at 6 pm for a new episode of the Southeast Iowa Playbook with New London being our school of focus. Senior Morgan Jones and junior Nicholas Loyd will be our special guests.
Southeastern Community College
The volleyball team fell to Iowa Central Community College last night in straight sets 19-25, 22-25, and 13-25. The Blackhawks will face off against Marshalltown Community College at 7 pm tomorrow, October 17th, on the road.
College Football
#9 Iowa State will host UCF on Saturday, October 19th, at 6:30 pm. KILJ 98.5 FM and AM 1130 will have the broadcast.
Iowa will square off against Michigan State on the road on Saturday at 6:30 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM will be on the call.
This Day in Sports History
1921 – Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of the Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin. The only mid-game coaching change in NFL history.
1949 – Red Byron wins the first NASCAR Strictly Stock championship.
1968 – Americans Tommie Smith (gold 19.83 WR) and John Carlos (bronze) famously give the Black Power salute on the 200-meter medal podium during the Mexico City Olympics to protest racism and injustice against African Americans in the United States.