High School Volleyball
Winfield-Mt. Union picked up a four-set victory over Highland last night by scores of 25-23, 25-23, 23-25, and 25-22. Kynlee Buffington collected 23 kills, while Brinley Kinneberg snatched eight kills and four aces in the winning effort. The Wolves will hit the road to play Louisa-Muscatine on Thursday, October 1st, at 7 pm.
WACO will host a quad tonight starting at 5 pm.
Washington will face off against Fort Madison tonight at 7:15 pm on the road.
Mt. Pleasant will hit the road to play Burlington tonight at 7:15 pm.
Fairfield will compete against Keokuk on the road at 7:15 pm tonight.
Wapello will make the trip to Pekin on Thursday at 7 pm.
Holy Trinity Catholic will face off against Burlington Notre Dame on Thursday at 7 pm at home.
West Burlington will fly to Central Lee on Thursday at 7 pm.
Danville will host Van Buren County on Thursday at 7:30 pm.
High School Cross Country
Notre Dame/West Burlington, Columbus, Wapello, and Winfield-Mt. Union ran at the Clear Creek Amana Invitational last night and a total of four local runners finished within the top 10. For the girls’ race, Kaitlyn Kipp and Hannah Ritter of Notre Dame/West Burlington claimed 7th and 8th place, respectively, with Kipp notching a time of 19 minutes and 45 seconds. Columbus followed suit with Nadia Keller and Iris Garza claiming 12th and 13th place, respectively, as the team finished in 4th place. Audrey Ball of Wapello took 33rd place, while Winfield-Mt. Union’s Baylie Heacock placed in 64th.
On the boys’ side, Matthew Oleson of Notre Dame/West Burlington finished with a 7th place time of 16 minutes and 50 seconds to lead our local schools with Cavin Denney taking 11th place; yet, Columbus finished ahead of the Nikes for 3rd place by two points as Leondre Ceant grabbed 9th place with a time of 17 minutes and Kevin Villa finished in 12th place. Brayden Cline of Winfield-Mt. Union crossed the finish line in 48th place and Wapello’s Hayden Hunt took 69th place.
Mt. Pleasant, Danville, and Central Lee will travel to the Williamsburg Invitational tonight at 4:30 pm.
Van Buren County will participate in the Warrior Invite tonight at 4:30 pm.
The Winfield-Mt. Union Invitational scheduled for Thursday, October 1st, has been canceled.
High School Cross Country Rankings
The Iowa Association of Track Coaches released their sixth edition of the team and individual rankings yesterday and here’s some of the highlights.
In Class 3A, Mt. Pleasant had a pair of runners ranked with Silas Hulett slotting in at #16, while Avery Fedler was placed at #20.
For Class 2A, Mediapolis’ Will Schmidgall and Avery Dietz each had huge moves up the rankings with Schmidgall taking nine spots to #15, while Dietz finished inside the top 10 at #9. The Central Lee girls’ team, led by Aubree Bunnell who was ranked at #23, took the #15 ranking, a three spot bump.
For Class 1A, the Columbus boys’ team and Van Buren County girls’ team remained in the top 10, while WACO’s Josie Dykstra skyrocketed to the #3-spot after a record-breaking performance at Mt. Pleasant a week ago. The Warrior is looking for more performances like that for the rest of the season,
“I just want to focus on getting more and more PRs. I already beat what I was hoping to get this season. So that’s super exciting. And that’s going to motivate me a lot in future races.”
High School Girls’ Tennis
The Class 1A Region 8 Team tournament semifinals will take place tomorrow, September 30th, with Fairfield hosting Oskaloosa and Keokuk heading to Assumption.
High School Football
Mt. Pleasant will celebrate their Homecoming this Friday, October 2nd, at 7:30 pm against Fort Madison. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 7:15 pm. Panther head coach John Bowlin talked about what his team will be focusing on throughout the week,
“Yeah, I think you look at the last two weeks we’ve played some battles and we got to keep getting better and finding answers ourselves during the week and, you know, every game we play is gonna be a dogfight. We knew tonight was gonna come down to the wire and then next week’s gonna be the same way. Fort Madison’s a really well coached team. I’ve seen them putting up great numbers. They play physical.”
Fairfield will square off against Washington at home on Friday at 7:30 pm.
Mediapolis will take on West Liberty on Friday at 7 pm.
West Burlington/Notre Dame will be tested on the road against Wilton at 7 pm on Friday.
Central Lee will fly to Mid-Prairie on Friday with kickoff at 7:15 pm.
Danville will tangle with ACGC at the Lacey Sports Complex in Oskaloosa on Friday at 7 pm.
WACO will compete against English Valleys on the road at 7 pm on Friday.
Winfield-Mt. Union will host HLV-TC on Friday at 7 pm for their Homecoming.
Columbus will welcome Wapello to town on Friday for Senior Night at 7 pm.
Van Buren County will celebrate their Homecoming on Friday at 7 pm against Highland.
College Signing
The Mt. Pleasant Dance program has a history of developing talent for the next level and Courtney Andreasen added her name to the list after signing her letter of intent to join the Triton Dance Team at Iowa Central Community College. She will be studying to be a dental hygienist.
Southeastern Community College
The men’s and women’s soccer teams will look to get back into the win column today on the road against Hawkeye Community College with the women playing first at 12:30 pm.
The volleyball team will compete against Northeast Community College at home tonight at 6 pm.
College Football
#14 Iowa will host #5 Ohio State on Saturday, October 3rd, at 2:30 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM will be on the call.
Iowa State will take on West Virginia at home on Saturday at 11 am. KILJ 98.5 FM and AM 1130 will have the call.
This Day in Sports History
1946 – The St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers finish with the same records, marking the first time the NL pennant ends in a tie.
1954 – Willie Mays races back to make his famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz’s 460 foot drive during Game One of the World Series.
1957 – The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds. The next year the Giants were in San Francisco, CA.