The Hawkeye Ten Conference Cross Country Championships will be run today in Denison.

The girls race will feature two teams ranked in the latest Class 3A poll out on Wednesday. Glenwood is ranked 7th and Harlan is 8th. Atlantic will look to be another team in the mix for the title. Creston’s Braelyn Baker, Glenwood’s Emma Hughes, Harlan’s Brecken VanBaale and Kaia Bieker, Claire Miller of Denison, Haley Bach of Lewis Central, and Atlantic’s Taylor McCreedy are some of the top individuals vying for a title.

The boys race won’t feature any teams currently ranked in Class 3A but Atlantic, Glenwood, and Harlan have all spent time in the poll or been recognized as a team to watch through the year. Lewis Central is another tough team in 4A. Individually Craig Alan Becker of Atlantic, Ethan Eichorn and Nathan Sell of Lewis Central, Leonardo Flores of Denison, and Trey Gross of Harlan are some of the top runners to keep an eye on.

The meet will start at 4:00 p.m. on the course near Denison High School with the middle school boys first. The middle school girls follow at 4:10 p.m., JV boys at 4:30 p.m., Varsity boys at 5:00 p.m., then Varsity girls at 5:30 p.m. and JV girls at 6:00 p.m.

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The IHSAA and IGHSAU released the team assignments for State Qualifying Cross Country Meets on Wednesday. Follow the links to see the assignments in each class.

(Radio Iowa) – March Madness is coming back to Des Moines. Wells Fargo Arena will host the first and second round of the men’s NCAA Basketball Championships in 2023. Greg Edwards is with the Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau.

It is the third time the city has landed the men’s tournament. Wells Fargo Arena hosted the first and second round in 2016 and 2019. Chris Connolly is the general manager of the Iowa Events Center.

Connolly was pleased with the bid they were able to put together.

Connolly says the NCAA has been pleased with the way the city has hosted past tournaments.

The Rolling Valley Conference Volleyball Tournament will be contested on Saturday in Woodbine. Action will start at 9:30 a.m. with matches being played in 2 different gyms. Admission is $5 for adults and students and a full concession stand will be open. Here is a look at the bracket for the opening round of the tourney. Teams that lose their first match will get to play a consolation match.

Quarterfinals

Paton-Churdan vs. Boyer Valley
CAM vs. Paton-Churdan or Boyer Valley
Glidden-Ralston vs. Coon Rapids-Bayard
West Harrison vs. Ar-We-Va
Exira-EHK vs. Woodbine

Colin Newell

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State junior center Colin Newell was named to the Rimington Trophy watch list, announced today by the Boomer Esiason Foundation.

The Rimington Trophy is given annually to the nation’s best center.

Newell, a native of Ames, has been a stalwart on the offensive line for the Cyclones since taking over at center in his freshman season in 2018.

Newell’s first year as a starter the Cyclones went 8-5, played in the Alamo Bowl and set a record for most conference wins in a season with six.

Injuries limited Newell to just two starts in 2019, but Newell has emerged as the leader of a young Cyclone offensive line in 2020. He’s started every game and has been a driving force in the Cyclones’ outstanding ground game that ranks second in the Big 12 at 179.8 yards per game.

Newell has 18 starts in his career.

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Wrestling legend Dan Gable is going to receive the nation’s highest civilian honor. The Des Moines Register reports that Gable has received a letter from the White House that President Donald Trump plans to award Gable the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Gable won three state championships for Waterloo West and lost just one match in college while winning two N-C-A-A titles at Iowa State. He won Olympic gold in 1972 and didn’t allow a single point to his opponents.

Gable went on to coach the University of Iowa to 15 national wrestling team championships between 1976 to 1997. The 71-year-old Gable says he is working on a date to visit Washington to receive the award.

President Trump has a rally planned in Des Moines tonight (Wednesday) where he is expected to announce the award.

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa D-N-R is asking deer hunters to take part in a program once again this year that donates venison to help feed the hungry. Coordinator Alicia Plathe says the Help Us Stop Hunger or HUSH program has donated millions of meals since 2003. “Once a hunter is successful in their harvest and they register their harvest — they field dress their deer, take care of it just like it was their own to take to a locker or to process themselves — but instead, they will drop it off at one of our participating HUSH lockers,” Plathe.

DNR HUSH Coordinator Alicia Plathe

She says the deer is then processed for the program. She says the hunter fills out information and the locker processes the deer into two-pound tubes of pure ground venison. Those tubes of venison are taken to the Food Bank of Iowa for distribution. “It’s been a really good partnership for the hunters, especially when they are either done with their hunt or don’t hunt for consumption purposes. They have a good positive outlook for those deer once they are done,” Plathe says.

Plathe says the program was started to help those in need and has been able to supply many meals.”I think we will break 15 million meals that have been donated since the conception of this program — which has been just about 20 years, not quite 20 years ago when it started — so that will be a good milestone for us to hit,” according to Plathe. “The last few years we’ve run anywhere from 25 to four-thousand deer that have been donated through the program. So, it’s not a small number that we are seeing every year.”

You can find information on the HUSH program on the D-N-R’s website at iowadnr.gov.

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