Hawkeye Ten Conference:
#7 St. Albert 70, Logan-Magnolia 21
Storm Lake @ Denison-Schleswig
Shenandoah @ #8 Harlan Community

Western Iowa Conference:
Tri-Center 60, Boyer Valley 42

Rolling Valley Conference:
West Harrison @ West Monona

Corner Conference:
Lenox 54, East Mills 32
Southwest Valley 53, Griswold 34
Hamburg @ Sidney

Pride of Iowa Conference:
Bedford 67, Murray 32
Pleasantville 68, Wayne 53
Melcher-Dallas @ Southeast Warren

West Central Conference:
Ankeny Christian 46, Madrid 40
Ogden 52, Perry 38
#3 Panorama 62 @ IKM-Manning 34

Hawkeye Ten Conference:
Storm Lake 61, Denison-Schleswig 56
Harlan Community 63, Shenandoah 39
Logan-Magnolia  @ St. Albert

Western Iowa Conference:
Panorama 78 @ IKM-Manning 50

Rolling Valley Conference:
West Harrison 59, West Monona 41

Corner Conference:
Hamburg @ Sidney
Lenox @ East Mills
Southwest Valley 77 @ Griswold 27

Pride of Iowa Conference:
Bedford 68, Murray 35
Melcher-Dallas 71, Southeast Warren 31

West Central Conference:
Madrid 78, Ankeny Christian 47
Ogden 62, Perry 50
Woodward Granger 46, Martensdale-St. Mary’s 30

Thursday night the Griswold basketball team struggled to consistently score and lost by a wide margin to the Southwest Valley Timberwolves 77-27.

Griswold was up 10-7 halfway through the first quarter, but lost steam at the end with a 22-10 Timberwolves at the end of the first. The pressure and missed shots continued for Griswold and they were down 43-18 at half. The Tigers only scored 9 more points in the second half and the Timberwolves shots kept pouring in.

Alex Morgan had a strong night for the Timberwolves with 24 points. His 5 baskets in the second half  helped solidify the Southwest Valley win. Roman Keefe added 19 as Southwest Valley improved to 2-0 on the season. They stay on the road and head to Mount Ayr Friday night.

Peyton Cook was the leading scorer for the Tigers with 13 points. Griswold starts the season 0-1 and Head Coach Matthew Spunaugle told his players to keep their head up despite the loss.

Griswold will stay at home for a blue out game on Friday and face a tough Riverside team on Monday.

Tipoff for the Riverside matchup is set for 7:30 p.m.

The Griswold Tigers lost their opening game of the season to Southwest Valley 53-34 Thursday night. The Timberwolves used tight defense to take the early lead and never looked back after leading 15-9 by the end of the first quarter. Foul trouble and missed free throws were a big issue for the Tigers through much of the game. The Tigers had 15 fouls called on them.

Southwest Valley led 22-16 at halftime and had a 39-28 advantage by the end of the third. The Timberwolves got 21 points from sophomore Hailey Randall and Mackenzie Fast also scored 12. The Timberwolves improved to 1-1 and will head to Mount Ayr on Friday.

The Tigers got 7 points from Addison Adams and Abby Gohlinghorst had 7 points. Head Coach Ryan Lockwood noted that the sluggish offensive, hindered his team’s ability to score.

With the loss the Tigers are 0-1 to start the year and coach Lockwood is already focused on Griswold’s next matchup against Riverside.

Tip off for the Riverside game is set at 6:00 p.m.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa swimming and diving concluded day one of the Hawkeye Invitational on Thursday. Through the first six events, the Hawkeyes lead the team scoring with 229.

“It was an excellent start for our team to come out and expect to perform well on the first day,” Iowa head coach Nathan Mundt said. “That’s the standard they’ve been setting all season and to come into our home pool and continue to raise the bar even more, was a lot of fun. Seeing so many of our program’s top-10 performances is exciting momentum going into tomorrow. We want to continue to push and get better each day.”

Iowa posted six marks that rank on Iowa’s top 10 all-time lists. Freshman Jenna Kerr started it off, posting the eighth-fastest 500 free with a time of 4:48.63. Three Hawkeyes broke their all-time records, including freshman Olivia Swalley climbing five spots to rank third in the 200 IM (1.59.15), while sophomore Scarlet Martin and fifth year Kennedy Gilbertson followed up in the 50 free. Gilbertson tied for third all-time with a 22.70 and Martin posted a 22.91 to rank sixth all-time.

Gilbertson, Kerr, Swalley, and Martin combined to post new all-time marks for both relays on the night. The squad posted a time of 1:31.46 in the 200 free relay to become sixth at Iowa and ended the day in the 400 medley relay (3:38.28) to rank seventh in the record books.

The Hawkeyes return to action on Friday, Dec. 1 for day two of the Hawkeye Invitational. The meet will be live streamed on B1G+ (subscription required).

EUGENE, Ore. – Hawaii (24-8) had 13 blocks as it turned back No. 7 seed Iowa State (20-10), 3-1 (16-25, 26-24, 25-18, 25-23), Thursday evening in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Matthew Knight Arena on the campus of the University of Oregon.

The Cyclones claimed the first set behind a 15-1 run and led much of the second set before relinquishing the lead late. ISU could never regain momentum as the Rainbow Wahine easily won the third set and held the Cyclones off in the fourth to advance.

The Cyclones were paced by senior Alexis Engelbrecht, who finished with 13 kills while hitting .478. Maya Duckworth posted her seventh double-double of the season, finishing with 15 kills and 11 digs to go along with a career-high matching five services aces. The Cyclones notched eight aces as a team.

Freshman Nayeli Gonzalez was in double figures with 12 kills and 14 digs for her seventh double-double of the season. She broke Rachel Hockaday’s freshman point record, finishing her first season at ISU with 409.5 points.

Setter Morgan Brandt dished out 43 assists and now has 83 assists in her NCAA Tournament career, the fourth-most by any Cyclone in tournament play.

ISU hit just .186 in the match while playing without libero Brooke Stonestreet and right side hitter Lilly Wachholz, who missed the match due to injury.

This was ISU’s 17^th NCAA Tournament appearance in school history and the 16^th under the direction of Christy Johnson-Lynch.

 Set One

The Rainbow Wahine jumped out to a quick 7-2 lead before a timeout was called by Johnson-Lynch. The timeout was just what the Cyclones needed as it propelled them to nine-straight points and an 11-7 lead before UH could score another point. The Cyclones extended the run to 15-1 and cruised to a 25-16 opening set victory and a 1-0 lead.

The Cyclones hit .480 in the opening frame and had four service aces as a team, including three from Duckworth.

Set Two

Iowa State scored the first three points in set two and held Hawaii at arm’s length throughout the first half of the set until the Rainbow Wahine were able to close the Cyclone lead to just one at 21-20, forcing a timeout. The Wahine kept rolling and went on top 22-21, but Gonzalez and Engelbrecht stopped the 5-0 run with a block. Hawaii would extend the lead back to two (24-22) before the Cyclones fought off a pair of set points. Ultimately, the Cyclones dropped the set on a service ace by Talia Edmonds, evening the match 1-1.

Hawaii controlled the net in the second set, notching five blocks and holding the Cyclones to a .000 hitting percentage on its way to the 26-24 win.

Set Three

The Cyclones never led in the third set as Hawaii hit .533 on its way to a 25-18 set win and a 2-1 lead in the match. The Wahine had 16 kills and no errors on 30 attacks in the frame, while ISU hit just .179 as a team. An Annie Hatch kill trimmed the deficit to 16-13, but UH closed it out with a 9-5 run.

 Set Four

What appeared to be a pivotal replay put Hawaii up 13-11, but the Cyclones took it in stride and rattled off the next five points to gain control of the set and go ahead 16-13. Hawaii quickly rallied back and knotted it up at 18-18. The set went back-and-forth the rest of the way until Hawaii was able to gain some separation and eventually won the match on Iowa State’s eighth service error of the match.

Top ranked Northwestern hosts 10th ranked Saint Xavier of Illinois on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the NAIA playoffs. Northwestern coach Matt McCarty.

In an upset of fifth ranked Marian last week, Saint Xavier had 15 tackles for a loss and 10 sacks. McCarty says the Raiders will need to take advantage of man coverage.

Saint Xavier leans on its passing game but McCarty says the defensive game plan begins with stopping the run.

McCarty says advancing in the playoffs requires playing at a high level.