High School Football
Mt. Pleasant will stay at home to compete against Tipton on Friday, September 13th, at 7 pm for Military Appreciation Night. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 6:45 pm.
West Burlington/Notre Dame will go against West Liberty on Friday at 7:30 pm at home.
WACO will celebrate homecoming this Friday at 7 pm against Winfield-Mt. Union.
New London will host Iowa Valley on Friday at 7 pm.
Fairfield will face off against Washington on Friday at 7:30 pm on the road.
Danville is back at home to take on Pekin on Friday at 7 pm.
Van Buren County will host Highland on Friday at 7 pm for their home opener.
Central Lee will take on Durant on Friday at 7 pm at home.
Mediapolis will attempt to upset Regina Catholic on Friday at 7 pm on the road.
Columbus will hit the road to face off against Lisbon at 7 pm on Friday.
Wapello will compete at home against Louisa-Muscatine on Friday at 7 pm.
High School Volleyball
WACO will face off against Wapello tonight at 7:30 pm at home.
Winfield-Mt. Union will take on Pekin tonight at 7:30 pm on the road.
West Burlington will host a rematch against Burlington Notre Dame tonight at 7:30 pm.
Van Buren County will face off against New London tonight at 7:30 pm at home.
Holy Trinity Catholic will look to right the ship tonight against Danville at 7:30 pm on the road.
Mt. Pleasant will attempt to get back in the win column tonight at home against Fort Madison with the opening serve at 7:15 pm.
Central Lee will host Mediapolis tonight at 7:30 pm.
Fairfield will travel to Keokuk tonight at 7:15 pm.
High School Cross Country
Winfield-Mt. Union, New London, Danville, Holy Trinity Catholic, Meidapolis, and Van Buren County will run tonight at 4:30 pm at the Riverview Club.
Fairfield will host their invitational on Thursday, September 12th, with Burlington Notre Dame, Central Lee, Danville, Holy Trinity Catholic, Mediapolis, Mt. Pleasant, Winfield-Mt. Union, Van Buren County, and New London all attending.
High School Cross Country Rankings
The Iowa Track Coaches Association released their third edition of the individual rankings for the 2024 season and Class 1A features the best local competition with seven runners ranked in the top 30.
Starting in Class 3A on the boys’ side, Washington’s Tyler Alderton was the lone man standing as the senior was bumped from #10 in Class 3A last week to #27 this week. Alderton finished in the top 10 of the Bob Brown Invitational over the weekend with a time of 17 minutes and 48 seconds.
The girls’ side of Class 3A saw Avery Rump’s first place finish at the Keokuk Meet last week of 20 minutes and 10 seconds elevate her from unranked to #12 in this week’s rankings.
In Class 2A, Will Schmidgall of Mediapolis entered the rankings at #7. The sophomore has clocked in a time of 17 minutes even for the season through two meets.
The boys’ Class 1A rankings featured five local runners ranked within the top 30, including three within the top 15.
Lincoln Bainbridge of Van Buren County headlines the list of local runners as the junior is ranked #7 in Class 1A. He raced to a time of 17 minutes and 42 seconds in his first race of the season and has helped the Warriors grab second place as a team in each of their first two meets.
Winfield-Mt. Union’s Kohlby Newsom snuck into the top 10 at #10. In the only race of the season for the Wolves, the senior finished with a time of 17 minutes and 30 seconds.
At #13, Danville’s Jackson Shacklett has helped the Bears finish in first as a team in their only meet of the season. Jude Dykstra of WACO entered the rankings at #22 and Ty Muniz jumped into the top 30 at #29 for Columbus.
On the girls’ side, Marie Yoder of Hillcrest Academy ranked #10 and Danville’s Alaina Gourley was placed at #19 for Class 1A.
Southeastern Community College
The volleyball team will face off against Des Moines Area Community College tomorrow, September 11th, at 7 pm on the road.
College Football
Iowa will attempt to get back on track against Troy at home on Saturday, September 14th, with kickoff at 3 pm. The broadcast will be on KILJ 105.5 FM.
Iowa State is on a bye week.
College Football Honors
Iowa State’s last second victory over Iowa yielded a handful of honors for some of the stars of the game.
Darien Porter’s two interceptions for the Cyclone defense led to the defensive back earning the East-West Shrine Bowl Co-Breakout Defensive Player of the Week. He is just the third Cyclone to capture two interceptions in one game and the first since David Sims in 2009.
Additionally, Kyle Konrady was named Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week after he nailed a 46-yard field goal and the game-winning 54-yard field goal. His game-winning kick was also named the Pop-Tarts Crazy Good Play of the Week.
This Day in Sports History
1960 – Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia runs a World Record time 2:15:16.2 barefoot to win the men’s marathon at the Rome Olympics; Bikila became the first East African to win a medal.
1972 – American freestyle wrestler Dan Gable wins the 68kg division gold medal at the Munich Olympics; he’s the only Olympic wrestler not to have a single point scored against him in the competition.
1989 – Indianapolis Colt running back Eric Dickerson rushes for 106 yards against San Francisco to become the fastest player to top the 10,000 yard plateau in only his 91st career game.