Sports, October 3rd

High School Football

Mt. Pleasant will celebrate their Homecoming tomorrow, October 4th, against Washington at 7:30 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 7:15 pm.

Danville will travel to Van Buren County tomorrow at 7 pm.

WACO will celebrate their senior night tomorrow at 7 pm against New London. 

Mediapolis will host Mid-Prairie tomorrow at 7:30 pm. 

Columbus will hit the road to compete against Louisa-Muscatine at 7 pm tomorrow. 

Central Lee will celebrate their homecoming tomorrow at 7:30 pm against West Burlington/Notre Dame.

Fairfield will take on Williamsburg tomorrow at 7:30 pm on the road. 

Wapello will host Lisbon at 7 pm tomorrow.

Winfield-Mt. Union will face off against Iowa Valley tomorrow at 7 pm at home. 

High School Volleyball

WACO will host Hillcrest Academy tonight at 7:30 pm. 

Fairfield will square off against Williamsburg tonight at 7:30 pm on the road. 

Holy Trinity Catholic will take on Burlington Notre Dame tonight at 7:30 pm at home. 

West Burlington will compete against Central Lee tonight at 7:30 pm on the road. 

Mediapolis will face off against New London tonight at home at 7:30 pm.

Van Buren County will travel to Danville tonight at 7:30 pm.

Wapello will tango with Highland at home tonight at 7:30 pm.  

Winfield-Mt. Union will compete in a tournament at New London on Saturday, October 5th.

Mt. Pleasant will be gearing up for the first round of the Southeast Conference tournament on Tuesday, October 8th, at 5 pm. 

Columbus will take on Highland on October 10th at 7:30 pm at home.

High School Cross Country

Mediapolis, Central Lee, Holy Trinity Catholic, West Burlington/Notre Dame, and Wapello will participate in a meet hosted by Winfield-Mt. Union tonight.

Mt. Pleasant, WACO, Wapello, and Fairfield will travel to Hillcrest Academy on Monday, October 7th. 

Danville, Columbus, and Van Buren County will compete at Heritage Oaks Golf and Country Course on October 10th.

Southeast Iowa Playbook

Danville was our school of focus for last night’s episode with special guests, junior Alaina Gourley and senior Jackson Shacklett. Both student athletes are individually ranked within the top 30 in Class 1A, which also puts both the girls’ and boys’ cross country teams ranked within the top 15 for Class 1A as well.

Gourley believes that the local competition has boosted the Bears both as a team and individuals,

“This year especially, it’s been really motivating, just a whole new feeling because the last couple years with cross country girls, we haven’t even really been able to compete with those fast teams and fast people. So, this year has just been really eye opening to how competitive it can get and just that really helps you with your goals. And like just with your time, having those fast people, you can just go with have really helped us improve our times and really just improved how we race as a team and how we raised as individual people.”

Shacklett, who has been running for most of his life, gave some advice to anyone who is trying to start running,

“Try and stay consistent and don’t give up right away because at the start it’s going to be really difficult to like, love the sport and that’s exactly how I felt when I started the sport, I just didn’t really like it. But over the years I kind of grew closer to it and I just came to realize how mentally and physically challenging it is, and the best advice I’d give is just not to give up on the sport.”

If you missed last night’s episode, then follow this link to our list of archived episodes: Danville’s Episode.

Southeastern Community College

The volleyball team picked up their second consecutive home victory last night over North Iowa Area Community College 3-1 by scores of 25-13, 28-26, 23-25, and 25-16. The Blackhawks will compete in the Rock Valley Tournament tomorrow, October 4th, with game one at 1 pm against Highland Community College.

College Football

#16 Iowa State is back at home on Saturday, October 5th, at 6:30 pm, taking on Baylor. KILJ 98.5 FM and AM 1130 will have the broadcast. 

Iowa will square off against #3 Ohio State on the road at 2:30 pm on Saturday. KILJ 105.5 FM will have the call. 

This Day in Sports History

1920 – The Dayton Triangles beat the Columbus Panhandles 14-0 in the first official game of the American Pro Football Association (later the NFL).

1974 – 39-year old Frank Robinson becomes the MLB’s first African-American manager when he signs as player-manager for Cleveland.

2004 – Seattle Mariners’ right fielder Ichiro Suzuki adds two more singles in a 3-0 defeat to Texas as he finishes the season with an MLB record 262 hits.