COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (KETV) — The Iowa Western Community College Board of Trustees has approved the addition the Fall, of men’s and women’s swimming and diving to the Reivers’ (Ree’verz) athletic department. The program will operate out of the Lewis Central Community School District’s pool at Titan Hill Intermediate School.

There is no cost for Iowa Western Reivers to use the facilities for practice during the day. The pool will be available for Lewis Central High School swimmers after school. A national search for a coaching staff will begin immediately. The program is expected to begin by the end of March.

This time Iowa was able to close out a road win. The Hawkeyes built a 12-point halftime advantage and held off Michigan State 78-71, Tuesday. It was their second straight win as they move to 8-8 in the Big Ten. The Hawkeyes shot 51 percent and committed only six turnovers.

That’s Iowa coach Fran McCaffery. With the victory the Hawkeyes move back into the top half of the Big Ten standings with four games to play.

Payton Sandfort led the Hawkeyes with 22 points. Ben Krikke had 18 points and added 14 rebounds as Iowa led by as may as 16 points in the second half.

Iowa visits 12th ranked Illinois on Saturday.

The (19-5) Exira-EHK Spartans Boys basketball team ends their season with a 56-49 loss to the Woodbine Tigers in the semi-final round of the Class 1A-Region 8 Substate. The Tigers got their inside game working early in the game, as Tigers Sophomore Jax Pryor scored nine points in the first quarter but was held scoreless in second quarter, as the Spartans took a seven point lead into halftime with a score of 31-24. Tigers junior Carter Gruver scored 17 of his 23 points in the second half. The Tigers took the lead back late in the 4th quarter at 51-49 and knocked down six big key free throws down the stretch to secure the win for the Tigers.

The Spartans had three guys in double figures on the night. Senior Cash Emgarten, who led the Spartans in scoring with 15 points and junior Josh Nelson and senior Jackson Radcliff each had 10 points in the game.

The toughest part of this loss for the Spartans they will be graduating seven seniors from this years team. Spartan head coach Tony Santistaben had to say about coaching these seniors this season in the first year as head coach of the Spartans.

Spartan senior guard Aiden Flathers reflected on the game against Woodbine, but he was sure glad about winning the Rolling Valley Conference this year.

Flathers said he is going to miss the most about playing Spartans basketball.

This loss for the Spartans boys basketball team will end their season and they will finish their season with a 19-5 overall record. This win for the Woodbine Tigers will put them in the Regional Championship game this Saturday in the Class 1A-Substate 8 championship game against the Madrid Tigers in Carroll. Tipoff at 7:00 pm.

(hawkeyesports.com) EAST LANSING, Mich. – The University of Iowa men’s basketball team defeated Michigan State, 78-71, on Tuesday night at the Breslin Center. The Hawkeyes move to 16-11 on the season and 8-8 in Big Ten conference play.

Graduate Ben Krikke secured his third double-double of the season. Krikke scored 18 points shooting 7-of-11 (64%) from the field. Krikke set a season high in rebounds with 14. He was just one rebound shy of tying his career high.

Junior Payton Sandfort led all scorers with 22 points, his seventh time this season finishing with 20+ points. Sandfort knocked down two threes and pulled in six rebounds.

Senior Patrick McCaffery rounded out the Hawkeyes in double-digits with 14 points. McCaffery grabbed four rebounds while shooting 4-of-5 from the free-throw line.

After a back-and-forth beginning to the first half that featured nine ties and four lead changes the Hawkeyes jumped on the Spartans. A 15-1 Iowa run with just over six minutes remaining in the half started with the Hawkeyes down three and ended with them leading the Spartans by 11. Iowa shot 16-of-28 (57%) from the field in the first half with three players in double-digits. Iowa handed Michigan State their largest halftime deficit at home this season, leading the Spartans, 45-33, at the break.

Iowa carried that momentum into the second half and extended their lead to 16 points in the first minute of the second half. The Spartans refused to go away, but the Hawkeyes had a response for every Michigan State run. Michigan State was able to cut the lead to five points with 2:30 remaining but Iowa would score the next five points to push their lead back to ten points. Krikke, Perkins and Sandfort combined to score 25 of the team’s 33 points in the second half.

Iowa finished the game shooting 28-of-55 (50.9%) from the field and 4-of-13 (30.8%) from deep. The Hawkeyes shot 18-of-23 from the free throw line (78.3%).

UP NEXT
The Hawkeyes continue on the road, traveling to Champaign on Saturday to face No. 12 Illinois at 1:15 p.m. (CT) at the State Farm Center.

Class 4A

Region 1 – Clear Creek Amana 68, Keokuk 35
Region 2 – Waverly-Shell Rock 43, Western Dubuque 37
Region 3 – Bishop Heelan 50, Winterset 21
Region 4 – Dallas-Center Grimes 58, Pella 45
Region 5 – North Polk 49, Maquoketa 42
Region 6 – Gilbert 60, Xavier 57
Region 7 – Sioux Center 61, Humboldt 45
Region 8 – Lewis Central 53, Norwalk 49

Class 5A

Region 1 – Johnston 93, Sioux City West 51
Region 2 – Davenport North 53, Cedar Rapids Washington 40
Region 3 – Dowling Catholic 73, Des Moines Roosevelt 26
Region 4 – Waukee 83, Iowa City West 58
Region 5 – Ankeny Centennial 53, Sioux City East 25
Region 6 – Pleasant Valley 52, Waukee Northwest 43
Region 7 – Cedar Falls 45, Prairie 35
Region 8 – Valley 39, Ankeny 36

Class 1A: Substate 1
District 1 – North Union 58 St. Edmond, 39
District 2 – South O’Brien 57 MMCRU, 44

Class 1A: Substate 7
District 13 – Lynnville-Sully, 60 ACGC, 46
District 14 – Bedford 36  East Mills, 34

Class 1A: Substate 8
District 15 – Madrid 55  Coon Rapids-Bayard, 41
District 16 – Woodbine 56  Exira-EHK, 49

Class 2A: Substate 6
District 11 – Kuemper Catholic 54 South Central, Calhoun, 53
District 12 – Grundy Center 77 Aplington-Parkersburg, 63

Class 2A: Substate 7
District 13 – Treynor 73 Van Meter, 63
District 14 –  Grand View Christian 68 Des Moines, Christian, 47

Class 2A: Substate 8
District 15 -Underwood 61 East Sac County, 51
District 16 -South Hamilton 65 Pleasantville, 57

The Drake men take a share of the Missouri Valley Conference lead into Wednesday night’s game at home against Belmont. The Bulldogs are 13-3 in the Valley but one of those losses was an 87-65 pounding at Belmont in early January that was not as close as the final score.

That’s Drake coach Darian DeVries. Belmont center Malik Dia poured in 32 points in the first meeting and standout Bruins guard Ja’Kobi Gillespie missed the game due to injury. Gillespie averages more than 17 points per game.

The Bulldogs have won six of their last seven games and as several young players gain experience the Bulldogs are building more depth.

Belmont is part of a three-way tie for fourth in the Valley race at 9-7.

The Northern Iowa men take a share of fourth place in the Missouri Valey Conference into Wednesday night’s game at Illinois State. The Panthers are 9-7 in the league race. Illinois State is 7-9 and coming off wins over Evansville and Valley co-leader Indiana State.

That’s UNI coach Ben Jacobson who says the redbirds are playing well.

The (21-2) CAM Cougars girls basketball team has continued their winning ways so far this postseason. The Cougars have won two consecutive games this post season with wins over Orient-Macksburg and Wayne. CAM is led in scoring this post season by three seniors. Senior Eva Steffenson has scored 40 points and averaging 20 points per game this postseason. Senior Kiera Nichols has scored 30 points and is averaging 15 points a game this postseason and senior Meridith Rich has scored 22 points and is averaging 11 points per game this postseason.

This is what CAM Cougars girls’ basketball coach Joe Wollum had to say about key first quarter of his team’s semi-final win over the Wayne falcons last Friday night.

Coach Wollum had this to say about his Cougars opponent in their regional final game against the Montezuma Bravettes on Wednesday night.

The Cougars will play the Montezuma Bravettes in Norwalk on Wednesday night in the regional championship game of the Class 1A-Region 8 Bracket. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 PM. You can tune into that game on KJAN and kjan.com.

Class 3A: Region 1
MOC-Floyd Valley 62, LeMars 51
Glenwood 71, Lewis Central 68
Bishop Heelan 57, Sioux Center 54
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 68, Storm Lake 64

Class 3A: Region 2
North Polk 60, Algona 50
Ballard 67, Webster City 46
Humboldt 81, Spencer 65
Clear Lake 71 Boone, 39

Class 3A: Region 7
Winterset 64, Des Moines Hoover 47
Newton 70, Knoxville 61
Pella 67, Carlisle 45
Clarke 67 Chariton, 51

Class 3A: Region 8
ADM 70, Atlantic 49
Carroll 78, Denison-Schleswig 59
Bondurant-Farrar 88, Perry 57
Creston 56, Harlan 51