High School Girls’ Tennis
The state singles and doubles tournaments for the first fall tennis season are now in books and Fairfield finished in the top 8 in both categories.
The doubles team of Ria Ross and Sriya Yammanur started day two by being swept by the pair from Boone (6-2, 6-0), sending the Trojans to the 7th place bout against Spencer’s Kennedy Graettinger and Brynn Merchant. In a tight matchup, Fairfield finished in 7th place, beating the Tigers in three sets.
In the singles bracket, Natalie Steele was swept in both of her contests yesterday to grab 8th place on the podium.
High School Volleyball
In a rematch of the Southeast Iowa Super Conference tournament championship contest, Burlington Notre Dame managed to steal a set away from #2 Holy Trinity Catholic, but the Crusaders proved to be too much, winning in four sets (27-25, 25-16, 14-25, 25-16).
Holy Trinity Catholic will face off against Van Buren County at 7:30 pm at home on Tuesday, October 7th.
Columbus defeated Winfield-Mt. Union last night in straight sets by scores of 25-16, 27-25, and 25-14. The pair of Jessica Del Rio and Kennedy Woepking was unstoppable last night, combining for 24 kills and 10 aces.
Columbus will travel to Highland on Thursday, October 9th, at 7:30 pm.
Wapello handled Highland last night, sweeping the Huskies by scores of 25-15, 25-11, and 25-19. Kate Lanz and Mila Jordan each tabbed 10 kills in the victory, while Annaka Greiner collected 13 assists, eight kills, and two aces. The Arrows will tangle with Hillcrest Academy at home on Tuesday at 6:30 pm.
West Burlington and Central Lee were going back-and-forth with the Hawks snatching the fifth set and the match victory (18-25, 25-21, 24-26, 15-13). Taylor Jones was a force at the net for Central Lee with 16 kills and five blocks. Brenna Shafer put up 15 kills and six aces for the Falcons.
Central Lee will take on Danville on Tuesday at 7:30 pm on the road.
WACO was swept by Hillcrest Academy last night (15-25, 12-25, 15-25). The Warriors will host Lone Tree on Tuesday at 7 pm.
New London will host a tournament tomorrow, October 4th, with Burlington Notre Dame, Winfield-Mt. Union, and West Burlington making the trip.
Mt. Pleasant and Fairfield will be gearing up for day one of the Southeast Conference Tournament slated to start on Monday, October 6th.
High School Cross Country
WACO competed in the Bud and Bonnie Williams Invitational last night and the boys’ team finished in 8th place. Garrett Landau led the effort for the Warriors with a time of 17 minutes and 30 seconds, which was good enough for 39th place. On the girls’ side, Josie Dykstra turned in a top 20 finish, clocking a 15th place time of 20 minutes and 27 seconds.
Winfield-Mt. Union hosted their invitational last night and Louisa-Muscatine swept the team titles.
On the girls’ side, Notre Dame/West Burlington led the charge individually with Hannah Ritter and Kaitlyn Kipp claiming 2nd and 3rd place, respectively. Central Lee’s Aubree Bunnell and Macy Anderson finished right behind the Nikes in 4th and 5th place, respectively, anchoring the Hawks to 2nd place as a team.
Mediapolis took 3rd place with Evie Schmidgall clocking a time of 24 minutes and 44 seconds. Ashlyn Bender of Winfield-Mt. Union took 32nd place in her home meet.
On the boys’ side, Mediapolis grabbed 2nd place as a team with 48 points, but had three runners finish in the top 10, including Simon Wendel’s race winning time of 17 minutes and 5 seconds followed by Will Schmidgall’s silver medal performance.
Cavin Denney ushered Burlington Notre Dame into 3rd place with a time of 18 minutes and 33 seconds, which was good enough for 5th place. Central Lee’s Austin Fogarty claimed 10th place with a time of 19 minutes and 19 seconds, helping the Hawks finish in 4th place with 75 points. Will Parsons anchored Wapello with a time of 20 minutes and 30 seconds for 21st place.
Bowen Thomson of Winfield-Mt. Union took 22nd place with 20 minutes and 31 seconds, while Jay Ellison of Holy Trinity Catholic grabbed 40th place.
Mediapolis will host their Invitational on Thursday, October 9th, with Notre Dame/West Burlington, Central Lee, Danville, Holy Trinity Catholic, Mt. Pleasant, and Wapello participating.
Columbus will run at the Steve Johnson Invite tomorrow, October 4th.
High School Football
Mt. Pleasant will clash with Fort Madison tonight at 7:30 pm on the road. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 7:15 pm.
Fairfield will travel to Washington tonight at 7:30 pm.
West Burlington/Notre Dame will host Wilton at 7 pm tonight.
Central Lee will square off against Mid-Prairie at home at 7 pm tonight.
Mediapolis will take on West Liberty tonight at 7 pm at home.
Wapello will host Columbus tonight at 7 pm.
WACO will attempt to get back in the win column tonight at 7 pm in a home showdown against English Valleys.
Winfield-Mt. Union will travel to HLV/TC tonight at 7 pm.
Danville is on their second consecutive bye week and head coach Cody Thompson has been impressed with how quickly his team was able to refocus,
“So originally when we when it was just the one week, you know, we didn’t read too much into it and you know, we usually get a get a couple kids healthy and kind of work on some, you know, self-scouting and kind of really focus on ourselves. And you know once we got news on the second week you know, it was almost like a day our kids kind of went into a little bit of, like unfocused state of like, oh, man, like, it just, it really kind of threw us off. And then I thought they did a great job refocusing and kind of looking forward to what’s next.”
Southeastern Community College
The volleyball team picked up another conference victory last night against Des Moines Area Community College in four sets. The Blackhawks will compete in a tournament at Rock Valley College today.
The men’s and women’s soccer teams will travel to Northeast Community College tomorrow, October 4th, with the women playing first at 1 pm.
The men’s basketball team will be traveling to Waukee for the ICCAC Men’s JUCO Jam on Sunday, October 5th. The Blackhawks will take on Lake Region State at 11 am to start their day.
College Football
#14 Iowa State will take on Cincinnati tomorrow, October 4th, at 11 am on the road. KILJ 98.5 FM and AM 1130 will be on the call.
Iowa is on a bye week.
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.