High School Football
Mt. Pleasant will travel to Fort Madison tomorrow, 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 tomorrow at 7 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union will face off against HLV tomorrow at 7 pm on the road.
New London will take on English Valleys tomorrow at 7 pm at home.
Danville will host Columbus to end the season at 7 pm tomorrow.
Wapello will square off against Highland tomorrow at 7 pm at home to end the season.
Fairfield will travel to Solon tomorrow at 7 pm.
West Burlington/Notre Dame will compete against Davis County tomorrow at 7:30 pm in a road matchup.
Central Lee will face off against Mediapolis tomorrow at 7:30 pm for their regular season finale.
High School Volleyball
Fairfield will square off against Albia tonight at 7:30 pm on the road.
Danville will host a tournament tonight with Burlington Notre Dame and Mt. Pleasant also participating.
#2 Holy Trinity Catholic will compete in a quad at Mediapolis tonight at 5 pm.
Columbus will host Washington tonight 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
Mt. Pleasant and Fairfield will compete in their conference meet tonight at Keokuk.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) and Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU) released the team assignments for the upcoming state qualifying meets with Classes 1A and 2A scheduled to run at 4 pm on Thursday, October 24th.
For Class 1A at Regina Catholic, Danville will run against Van Buren County as the two boys’ teams will enter the race ranked. Joining them will be Wapello, New London, and the Holy Trinity Catholic boys’ team.
WACO and Winfield-Mt. Union will make the trip west to Pleasantville to compete, while Columbus will be on its own at North Linn.
In Class 2A, Central Lee and Notre Dame/West Burlington will make the trip to Monticello, while Mediapolis will follow the highly ranked Mid-Prairie teams to Pella Christian.
Southeast Iowa Playbook
New London was our school of focus for last night’s episode of the Southeast Iowa Playbook with special guests, senior Morgan Jones and junior Nicholas Loyd. Jones discussed how her leadership style is not only leading by example but providing encouragement,
“I honestly feel like I’m kind of a mix of both, like I definitely try to stay hype and cheer on my team, which that’s just a big thing in volleyball anyway. But on top of that, I also just make sure that I’m never slacking because I know that especially being a senior this year it feels different than last year. There are so many underclassmen and just people younger than me that I know are looking up to me and my other senior teammates, so just making sure that we’re not getting down on ourselves and playing to our best ability at all times and never breaking.”
For the football team, Loyd knows it will take a full 48-minutes of effort to exit with the win,
“We gotta play the whole game because last year we I think we actually were doing really good in the first half and then the second half, we kind of just fell apart. So I feel like if we just, like, play it together. We actually could have won.”
If you missed last night’s episode, then follow this link: New London Episode
Southeastern Community College
The volleyball team will face off against Marshalltown Community College at 7 pm tonight 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
1976 – Then coldest World Series game; Reds beat NY Yankees, 4-3 in Game 2 at Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati; 39 degrees Fahrenheit (until 1997).
1991 – Pittsburgh Penguin Paul Coffey sets the then-NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals and 744 assists).
2015 – Star forward Cristiano Ronaldo becomes Real Madrid’s all-time leading scorer across all competitions, overtaking club legend Raul with his 324th goal in a 3-0 win over Levante.