High School Volleyball
The Southeast Iowa Super Conference Tournament held its pool play round last night with the top two teams from each pod advancing to the tournament finals, here’s how everything shook out.
In Wapello, the Arrows and Mediapolis both swept Pekin and Louisa-Muscatine, setting up a final match to decide who would earn the top seed from the pod. The pair traded the first two sets before Wapello cruised to victory in the tiebreaker 15-6. Mila Jordan continued her terrific season for the Arrows with 26 kills and three aces. Mediapolis was led by Josie Hutcheson’s 19 kills.
#2 Holy Trinity Catholic swept their way through the New London pod, keeping their opponents to 10 points or less in five of the six sets. The Kruses paced the team with Adalyn tabbing 21 kills and five aces and Callie notching 25 assists and four aces.
Winfield-Mt. Union was able to claim that second spot out of the pool play.
On their home court, Burlington Notre Dame finished the night 3-0, sweeping Highland (21-5, 21-13) and Central Lee (21-15, 21-15) and taking down Columbus in three sets (21-15, 9-21, 15-4).
As it turned out, the first match of the night decided who would move on to the finals as Central Lee handled Columbus in straight sets (21-15, 21-11) as both teams defeated Highland. Kenna Sandoval led the Hawks with 57 assists and six blocks in her three matches.
Lastly, Van Buren County claimed the top spot in the West Burlington pool, finishing the night undefeated after sweeping Lone Tree (21-11, 21-9) and Hillcrest Academy (2-14, 21-19) before coming back to defeat the Falcons in the tiebreaker (15-21, 21-18, 15-8).
The eight-team tournament is scheduled for tomorrow, September 27th, at Southeastern Community College.
Mt. Pleasant will get another chance at home on Tuesday, September 30th, against Burlington at 7:15 pm.
Fairfield will head back home to host Keokuk on Tuesday at 7:15 pm.
High School Cross Country
Van Buren County, Notre Dame/West Burlington, and Mediapolis competed in the Tony Proctor Invitational last night and the Van Buren County girls’ team collected another team victory with 31 points, while the Mediapolis boys’ team took the silver behind Clear Creek Amana.
On the girls’ side for the Warriors, Kayley Snowgren and Rylee Philips claimed 6th and 7th place, respectively, with Snowgren clocking a time of 21 minutes and 28 seconds. Four of the five scoring runners finished in the top 10 for the Warriors.
Hanna Ritter snatched the silver medal for Notre Dame/West Burlington with a time of 20 minutes and 20 seconds, while Avery Dietz of Mediapolis took 17th place with a time of 23 minutes and 10 seconds.
On the boys’ side, Simon Wendel of Mediapolis yielded a time of 16 minutes and 24 seconds, which was good enough for 2nd place. Helping the Bulldogs finish in 2nd place overall was Will Schmidgall’s 4th place time of 17 minutes and 2 seconds.
Van Buren County’s Lincoln Bainbridge raced to the bronze medal with a time of 16 minutes and 47 seconds as the Warriors finished in 3rd place with 82 points.
Lastly, Notre Dame/West Burlington’s Cavin Denney finished in 5th place with a time of 17 minutes and 11 seconds as the Nikes claimed 4th place overall.
New London, Notre Dame/West Burlington, and Winfield-Mt. Union will make the trip to Clear Creek Amana for an invitational on Monday, September 29th.
Mt. Pleasant and Danville will participate in the Williamsburg Invitational on Tuesday, September 30th.
WACO and Fairfield will compete at the Washington Invitational on Tuesday.
Van Buren County will celebrate their senior night at the Warrior Invite with New London, Central Lee, and Holy Trinity Catholic participating on Tuesday.
High School Football
Mt. Pleasant will look to bounce back against Washington tonight at home at 7:30 pm for their Homecoming. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 7:15 pm. Kellen Kohorst said defeating the Demons is of the “utmost importance,” and Panther head coach John Bowlin is confident this team can do just that,
“I believe in these guys. I know that they want it and you know, I know they’re capable of doing it. And he’s one kid that’s put a ton of work in. He’s going to go out there and lead us and I expect all those seniors to have a great focus tomorrow night.”
West Burlington/Notre Dame and Central Lee will both be looking to get back in the win column at 7 pm tonight with the Hawks acting as the hosts.
Van Buren County will travel to Pekin tonight at 7 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union will square off against Iowa Valley tonight at 7 pm at home.
Mediapolis will celebrate their Homecoming tonight at 7 pm against Wilton.
Wapello will host North Cedar tonight at 7 pm.
WACO will hit the road to take on Belle Plaine tonight at 7 pm.
Fairfield will host Solon tonight at 7:30 pm.
High School Girls’ Tennis
Fairfield will host Central DeWitt in the Class 1A Region 1 championship, September 27th, with the winner advancing to the state tournament.
Southeastern Community College
The volleyball team will attempt to right the ship today when they compete in a triangular at Illinois Central College.
The men’s and women’s soccer teams will travel to Iowa Lakes Community College tomorrow, September 27th.
College Football
Iowa will look for an upset against #11 Indiana tomorrow, September 27th, at 2:30 pm at home. KILJ 105.5 FM will have the call.
#14 Iowa State will host Arizona tomorrow at 6 pm fresh off a bye week. KILJ 98.5 FM and AM 1130 will be on the call.
This Day in Sports History
1908 – Chicago Cub Ed Reulbach becomes the only pitcher to throw a doubleheader shutout, winning 3-0 and 5-0 over the Superbas at Washington Park in Brooklyn, New York.
1962 – LA Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills becomes the first player in MLB history to steal 100 bases in a season (en route to 104).
1978 – New York District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms.