High School Volleyball
Burlington Notre Dame will head to West Burlington tonight at 7 pm.
Mediapolis will host Van Buren County tonight at 7 pm.
New London will take on Central Lee at home tonight at 7 pm.
Holy Trinity Catholic will face off against Danville on the road at 7:30 pm tonight.
Wapello will travel to WACO tonight at 7 pm.
Washington will attempt to bounce back with a road matchup against Fairfield tonight at 7:15 pm.
Mt. Pleasant will hit the road to play Keokuk tonight at 7:15 pm.
Columbus will make the trip to Highland tonight at 7 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union will compete against Lone Tree tonight at 7 pm.
High School Cross Country
Van Buren County will host their Invite tonight at 5 pm with Danville, New London, Mediapolis, Winfield-Mt. Union, Central Lee, and the Holy Trinity Catholic boys’ team making the trip.
Columbus and Wapello will travel to Tipton for a meet tonight starting at 5 pm.
The Sigourney Invite has been canceled for tonight.
Fairfield will host the “Ron Hunerdosse” Invite on Thursday, September 10th, with Notre Dame/West Burlington, Mt. Pleasant, New London, Van Buren County, Wapello, Washington, and Winfield-Mt. Union participating at 5:20 pm.
High School Cross Country Rankings
The Iowa Association of Track Coaches (IATC) has had the tough task of ranking both the teams and individuals despite some teams still waiting to run for the first time this year. Nevertheless, southeast Iowa has been able to make their case in the third edition of the rankings this year.
For Class 3A, the Washington boys’ team jumped into the top 20 at #19 after previously being unranked. On the individual side, Parker Tschantz fell six spots to #30 after the Bob Brown invitational was canceled. However, making his first ever appearance in the rankings was Mt. Pleasant’s Silas Hulett at #15. The Panther turned in a 6th place time of 17 minutes and 19 seconds at the Dutch Invite over the weekend.
In Class 2A, the Notre Dame/West Burlington boys’ team entered the top 20 at #17 with Cavin Denny claiming a spot at #28, while Hannah Ritter grabbed the #26 slot on the girls’ side. The Central Lee girls’ team stayed put at #20 after winning the Keokuk Invite last week.
Lastly, the Columbus boys’ team kept their #2-ranking in the Class 1A polls, as they await to run their first race of the season, while the Van Buren County girls’ team climbed up to #6.
High School Football
Mt. Pleasant will get to stay at home when they host Oskaloosa on Friday, September 11th, at 7:30 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 7:15 pm. Panther head coach John Bowlin is looking for his team to start fast,
“You know, they got a lot of athletes. When I watched their first week, I thought that they look very similar to us in a way, so we’re going to have to be kind of ready for all aspects of the game and just keep working on us and shoring up our assignment and keys and just keep getting better and play physical, and we got to get started. We can’t have that hiccup on the, you know, first quarter like we have the last two weeks. We got to come out and be ready to play.”
Wapello will be looking to pull off the upset on Friday against Pekin with kickoff at 7 pm at home.
WACO will travel to play HLV-TC on Friday at 7 pm.
Winfield-Mt. Union will tangle with English Valleys on Friday with gametime at 7 pm.
West Burlington/Notre Dame will look to keep their streak going against Keokuk at home on Friday at 7 pm.
Danville will make the trip to Columbus on Friday at 7 pm.
Mediapolis will attempt to continue their momentum on Friday with a home contest against Fairfield at 7:30 pm.
Washington will travel to Burlington on Friday with kickoff at 7:30 pm.
Central Lee will welcome Fort Madison to town on Friday at 7 pm.
Van Buren County will face off against Cardinal on Friday at 7 pm on the road.
High School Football Rankings
Radio Iowa released their weekly rankings and two local schools cracked the top 10 after 2-0 starts. For Class 3A, Mt. Pleasant jumped up to #8 after previously being unranked. The Panthers have outscored their opponents 78 to 15 through the first two weeks. In Eight-Player, WACO’s offense leads the Warriors to a #10 spot in the rankings. Hayden Shelman has picked up right where he left off last year, scoring 11 total touchdowns in two games.
High School Girls’ Tennis
Mt. Pleasant will look to right the ship tonight at Keokuk at 4:30 pm.
Fairfield’s next contest will be September 14th at Burlington.
Southeastern Community College
The volleyball team will take on North Iowa Area Community College tonight at 6 pm on the road.
The men’s soccer team improved to 7-0 yesterday after taking down Kankakee Community College, 2-0. Toki Iwamura and Thomas Collet each scored a goal in the winning effort. SCC will compete against Madison College tomorrow, September 9th, with the men playing first at 2 pm.
College Football
#22 Iowa will host the Cy-Hawk Series on Saturday, September 12th, at 6:30 pm. KILJ 105.5 FM will have the Hawkeye broadcast, while 98.5 FM and AM 1130 will have the Cyclone broadcast.
The Cyclones will be looking to supply their own brand of suffocating defense after Isaac Terrell was named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week for his three sacks and a forced fumble against Southeast Missouri. In his Iowa State debut, he was a half-sack away from tying the single-game school record.
This Day in Sports History
1939 – Cleveland’s Bob Feller, 20, is the youngest pitcher to win 20 games.
1965 – Bert Campaneris becomes the first player to play every position in a major league game in a thirteen-inning 5–3 loss to the California Angels at Municipal Stadium.
2002 – Rookie quarterback David Carr throws for 2 TDs as the Houston Texans beat the Dallas Cowboys 19-10 to become only the second expansion team (1961 Minnesota Vikings) to win their inaugural game.