High School Volleyball
Winfield-Mt. Union will attempt to spoil Hillcrest Academy’s senior night at 7:30 pm tonight.
Burlington Notre Dame will host New London tonight at 7:30 pm.
West Burlington will head back home to take on Danville tonight at 7:30 pm.
Wapello will make the trip to Lone Tree tonight at 6:30 pm.
#2 Holy Trinity Catholic will travel to Central Lee tonight at 7:30 pm.
Van Buren County will look for their own senior night victory tonight against Mediapolis at 7:30 pm.
WACO will face off against Louisa-Muscatine tonight at 7:30 pm on the road.
Columbus will travel to Highland tonight at 7:30 pm.
Mt. Pleasant and Fairfield will travel to Oskaloosa for a tournament on Saturday, October 11th.
High School Cross Country
Columbus will have their senior night tonight when they hold the Mike Jay Invitational with New London, WACO, and Winfield-Mt. Union making the trip.
Mediapolis will host their Invitational tonight with Notre Dame/West Burlington, Central Lee, Danville, Holy Trinity Catholic, Mt. Pleasant, and Wapello participating.
High School Football
Mt. Pleasant will stay on the road to take on Keokuk tomorrow, October 10th, at 7:30 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 7:15 pm.
Mediapolis will tangle with Mid-Prairie tomorrow at 7 pm on the road.
Van Buren County will welcome Wapello to town tomorrow at 7 pm.
WACO will host Springville tomorrow at 7 pm.
Fairfield will travel to Fort Madison tomorrow at 7:30 pm.
West Burlington/Notre Dame will look to regroup for their road showdown with West Liberty at 7 pm tomorrow.
Central Lee will compete against Wilton at 7 pm tomorrow on the road.
Danville will take on Pekin tomorrow at home to celebrate their senior night at 7 pm.
Southeast Iowa Playbook
Danville was our school of focus for last night’s episode of the Southeast Iowa Playbook with our special guests being senior captains Graci Huff and Byers Nealey. For Huff, the honor of captain goes beyond a title,
“Yeah, and I don’t really see it as I’m the captain. Like, overall, it’s like I get the pleasure to lift people up and lead the team by example and just be someone that they can come to if they need to talk to me about anything. They need to be lifted up during the game and stuff like that. My goal is also, as the captain, to be the loudest one on the court and the one that’s always communicating, so that if other people are maybe like, it wouldn’t be as noticeable because I’m loud enough.”
While Nealey is looking to leave behind a legacy of doing everything to the best of your ability,
“I mean, I just want to try and teach them all that, you know, no one’s too big to do the little things and that nothing is guaranteed. You got to work for it… I mean, in practice like do the warmups right. I mean it doesn’t seem like a big deal. But I mean if you can’t even just finish the extra few feet to go through the line, how are you going to, I mean do your job in the game, if you can’t do little things, you can’t do the big things.”
If you missed last night’s episode, then follow this link: Danville Episode
Southeastern Community College
The volleyball team was swept by Kirkwood Community College last night in a contentious match by scores of 25-22, 25-20, and 25-19. The Blackhawks will host a triangular on Sunday, October 12th.
The men’s soccer snuck out with a 2-1 victory over St. Louis Community College yesterday, while the women’s soccer team fell to St. Louis Community College, 7-2.
The men’s and women’s soccer teams will travel to Central Community College on Saturday, October 11th.
College Football
#22 Iowa State will stay on the road as they look to regroup against Colorado on Saturday, October 11th, at 2:30 pm. KILJ 98.5 FM and AM 1130 will be on the call.
Iowa will travel to Wisconsin on Saturday for kickoff at 6:05 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM will be on the call.
This Day in Sports History
1938 – The Cleveland Rams and the Chicago Bears play one of only four penalty free games in NFL history; Rams win 14-7 at Cleveland Stadium.
1989 – Art Shell becomes the first Black NFL head coach in the modern era; his Los Angeles Raiders beat the New York Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football.
1997 – North Carolina’s men’s basketball coach Dean Smith retires as the winningest coach in college basketball.