The UNI men’s basketball team opened up Missouri Valley Conference play with a 83-61 win over Evansville on Sunday in Cedar Falls. AJ Green led 5 Panthers in double figures with 18 points.
UNI built a 7 point halftime lead and blew the game wide open in the second half. Trae Berhow had 16 points and Noah Carter added 15.
UNI improved to 6-7 on the season and Evansville falls to 4-10. Next up for the Panthers is a Wednesday home game against Valparaiso at 8:00 p.m.
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The Iowa women’s basketball team improved to 7-3 with a dominating 93-56 win over Evansville on Sunday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The game was a replacement for a match-up with Illinois that was postponed due to COVID-19 issues within the Illinois program.
Caitlin Clark had a historic day scoring a Carver-Hawkeye Arena record 44 points. That total was a career high for Clark and in the process she surpassed 1,000 point mark for her career in the first quarter. She reached the mark faster than any other women’s basketball player in Big Ten history.
Up Next: Iowa returns to Big Ten play as it hosts Northwestern on Thursday, Jan. 30 inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. (CT) on B1G Network.
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee – A trio of Hawkeye wrestlers took home top four finishes at the Southern Scuffle at McKenzie Arena on Sunday. Freshman Drake Ayala picked up a third place finish while redshirt freshman Cullan Schriever and senior Aaron Costello finished fourth to cap off their weekends.
Ayala began his day with a hard-fought 6-5 loss against Minnesota All-American Patrick McKee in the 125-pound semifinals. In the consolation semifinals, Ayala got back in the win column, defeating Appalachian State’s Caleb Smith in a 5-2 decision. In the third-place match, Ayala trailed 7-0 entering the third period. The freshman scored a takedown at the edge of the mat with 1:36 remaining, and eventually scored three more takedowns in the period. Trailing by two in the final seconds, Ayala secured his final takedown followed by four nearfall points to win a 14-10 decision in spectacular fashion.
Schriever dropped his 133-pound semifinal bout to the bracket champion, Michigan State’s Rayvon Foley via 5-0 decision, before rebounding with a 9-2 decision over Missouri’s Trey Crawford in the consolation semifinals. In the third-place match, Chattanooga’s Brayden Palmer defeated Schriever, 4-2.
In his semifinal matchup Costello fell to Lewis Fernandes of Cornell via major decision, 9-0. Costello then won by decision, 7-5, to Tyrie Houghton of North Carolina State in the consolation semis to earn his way to the third-place match. In the third-place matchup, North Dakota State’s Brandon Metz defeated Costello by decision, 4-1.
At 141 pounds, freshman Wyatt Henson finished his weekend going 3-0 on the day. Henson defeated Appalachian State’s Heath Goyner, 6-2, to begin his day and followed it up with a win over Rider’s Quinn Kinner (7-3). Henson won via medical forfeit to finish fifth.
Redshirt freshman Patrick Kennedy and senior Brennan Swafford each wrestled back to sixth-place finishes.
Up Next: The No. 1 Hawkeyes play host to No. 14 Minnesota on Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. (CT). The dual will be broadcast live on the Big Ten Network.
AMES, Iowa – No. 14 Iowa State (12-1, 1-0 Big 12) rang in 2022 and Big 12 action with an 88-72 win over West Virginia (7-4, 0-1 Big 12). As a team, the Cyclones finished with 26 assists on 33 made baskets, while outrebounding the Mountaineers 45-34 en route to its fifth-straight win of the season.
In total, five Cyclones finished in double figures, led by a 29-point, 11-rebound performance from Ashley Joens, marking her 38th career double-double. Beatriz Jordão tied her season high with 14 points, while tying her career-high with three assists. Lexi Donarski added 14 points, while Morgan Kane chipped in 10 points off the bench.
Emily Ryan had another tremendous performance at the point, recording her second-straight double-double with 10 points and 16 dimes. She finished just one rebound shy of a triple double with nine boards. Her 16-assist performance tied the ISU school record, set by Lyndsey Medders on Dec. 30, 2005 against IPFW. Her 16 dimes also set a new career high for the second time in as many games, following a 15-assist performance in ISU’s last game against Prairie View A&M.
Up Next
Iowa State hits the road to face Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., on Wednesday, Jan. 5. The game will be at 6 p.m. on Big 12 Now on ESPN+.
With the new year, new mask policies are being put in place in some Iowa schools and several districts are dropping their mask mandates as of today (Monday). The C-D-C says all 99 Iowa counties are seeing high transmission of COVID-19, and Nola Aigner Davis at the Polk County Health Department says vaccines and masks remain the best ways to bring down the number of infections and hospitalizations. “COVID-19 is not slowing down anytime soon,” she says, “and it’s especially not going to slow down after the holidays when individuals gathered with family and friends and traveled.”
In many cases, school boards decided to make masks optional because COVID-19 vaccines are available for school-aged children, but Aigner Davis says the change in policy is ahead of the numbers. “This would be a reasonable step to take if we saw a high rate of individuals under the age of 18 getting the vaccine,” she says. “We are still not seeing high vaccination rates for children under 18.”
Masks are no longer required in several Iowa school districts, including Decorah, Linn-Mar and Southeast Polk. Masks will become optional for West Des Moines students later in the month. Some school districts may require masks if there is a spike in coronavirus infections. In Mount Vernon and College Community schools, a mask mandate will be reinstated if the COVID-19 positivity rate is higher than 2 percent in a school and the absence rate is over 8 percent.
(by Grant Gerlock, Iowa Public Radio)
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(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department says there were two arrests over the holiday weekend. Friday afternoon, 34-year-old Jessica Renee Swietek, of Mt. Ayr, was arrested for Driving While Barred. She was later released on a $2,000 bond. And, on Saturday, 26-year-old Jimmy Wayne King, of Texas, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on charges of OWI/1st offense, and Carrying Weapons while intoxicated. He was also later released on a $2,000 bond.
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