High School Volleyball
The Southeast Iowa Super Conference Tournament will get underway with pool play starting tonight. WACO will host Pekin, Louisa-Muscatine, and #3 Holy Trinity Catholic. Pool 2 will hold West Burlington, Central Lee, and New London at Columbus. Van Buren County will welcome Wapello, Mediapolis, and Highland to town. Lastly, Winfield-Mt. Union will host Burlington Notre Dame, Danville, and Hillcrest Academy.
Washington will face off against Fort Madison on Tuesday, September 29th, at 7:15 pm on the road.
Mt. Pleasant will hit the road to play Burlington on Tuesday at 7:15 pm.
Fairfield will compete against Keokuk on the road at 7:15 pm on Tuesday.
High School Cross Country
Mediapolis, Notre Dame-West Burlington, Columbus, Van Buren County, and Wapello will compete at the Grayhound Invite tonight at 4:30 pm.
Mt. Pleasant, Danville, and Central Lee will run at the Williamsburg Invitational on Tuesday, September 29th, at 4:30 pm. Panther boys’ head coach Mitch Anderson is ready to watch his team get into a rhythm in the second half of the season,
“Yeah, well, you really do plan your schedule around your races. So, when you lose one of those, you definitely feel that. But I think it’ll take the whole season. But I think by the time we get to the end, we’ll finally be where we know these kids can be.”
Washington will host their Invitational on Tuesday with Fairfield and WACO making the trip.
High School Girls’ Tennis
Fairfield hosted the Class 1A Region 5 individual tournament yesterday and the Trojans dominated, sending five of their six competitors to the state tournament. On the singles side, Natalie Steele defeated Stella Dvorak of Mt. Vernon, 6-4 in both sets, to exit with the regional championship, while both doubles teams also advanced, as Mareyn Dunkin and Kinzley Dunkin beat Faeven Gebremariam and Sriya Yammanur by scores of 2-6, 6-3, and 6-0. Ria Ross took 3rd place on the singles side, just missing the cut.
The individual state tournament will take place in Waukee on October 7th and 8th.
Mt. Pleasant will head to Oskaloosa on Saturday, September 26th, for their Team Class 1A Region 8 first-round matchup.
Fairfield will host Fort Madison, while Burlington Notre Dame will travel to Keokuk on Saturday.
High School Football
Van Buren County will attempt to upset Pekin tonight at 7 pm at home.
Mt. Pleasant will attend another Homecoming when they head to Washington tomorrow, September 25th, 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 look to keep their streak going against Wilton tomorrow at 7 pm on the road.
West Burlington/Notre Dame will look to regroup tomorrow at home at 7 pm against Central Lee.
Fairfield will hit the road to play Solon tomorrow at 7:30 pm.
Danville will remain at home for a matchup against Highland tomorrow at 7 pm.
WACO will celebrate their Homecoming tomorrow at 7 pm against Belle Plaine.
Winfield-Mt. Union will travel to Iowa Valley tomorrow at 7 pm.
Wapello will get back to action with a road trip to North Cedar tomorrow at 7 pm.
Southeastern Community College
The men’s soccer team has now had consecutive games end in a draw, after tying Marshalltown Community College yesterday, 1-1. The Blackhawks will take on Northeast Community College at home on Saturday, September 26th, with the women playing first at 10 am.
The volleyball team pushed Marshalltown Community College to the brink last night but ultimately finished short of the victory, losing in five sets. The Blackhawks will head to Ottumwa for an invitational tomorrow, September 25th, with game one against Iowa Western Community College at 3 pm.
College Football
#17 Iowa will make their first road trip of the season to #18 Michigan on Saturday, September 26th, at 2:30 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM will have the call.
Iowa State will meet #15 Utah at home on Saturday at 2:30 pm. KILJ 98.5 FM and AM 1130 will be on the call.
This Day in Sports History
1920 – Babe Ruth becomes the first player to hit 50 home runs in a season.
1929 – New York Yankee pitcher Tom Zachary ends the season 12-0, the record for the most pitching wins without a loss in one season.
1977 – Ken Hinton of the CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards, a record that still stands.