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AMES, Iowa – Senior Lauren Mansfield scored a season-high 15 points, nine of which were from three-point land in Iowa State’s 62-54 victory over Iowa Wednesday. Four Cyclones scored in double figures for the second time this season in the annual Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk series rivalry. Iowa State improves to 5-2, while Iowa falls to 5-4 overall this season.
Mansfield caused a momentum shift in the first half after drawing a charge with just 52 seconds remaining, which ignited the Cyclone crowd and her teammates. Iowa State went on to force a Hawkeye turnover and responded with a trey by Cyclone guard Nikki Moody four seconds before halftime. Moody’s three-pointer brought the Cyclones within three, but it was forward Hallie Christofferson’s basket with just a half second to play that put the Cyclones down by just one point heading into the locker room. Christofferson went up strong after receiving a pass from Moody on an inbounds play and converted from the charity stripe after drawing the foul.
Freshmen Brynn Williamson and Moody each contributed solid performances for the Cyclones. Moody finished with 13 points and was six-for-six from the free throw line. The Euless, Texas native converted on four crucial free throws in the final two minutes of the game as the Hawkeyes pushed for a comeback. Williamson posted 11 points for Iowa State and finished three-for-six from three-point range.
As a team, the Cyclones improved dramatically from the first half to second in three-point field goal percentage. Iowa State shot 41.7 percent from beyond the arc in the second period compared to just 18.2 percent in the first.
Iowa State forced 22 Hawkeye turnovers, the second-most Iowa has committed this season.
Despite an early exit from the game due to a knee injury, which isn’t considered to be serious, with three minutes remaining, Poppens scored 10 points, grabbed nine rebounds and drew three charges for the Cyclones. In the first half alone, the Cyclone forward posted six points and five rebounds. This is the fifth game Poppens has scored 10 points or more.
Iowa was led by center Morgan Johnson’s 16 points. Johnson converted on five of 10 from the free throw line and grabbed seven boards for the Hawkeyes. Melissa Dixon chipped in 11 points for Iowa and two buckets from beyond the arc.
With the win, Iowa State leads the 2011-12 Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series by a score of 11-4.
A truck driver from New Mexico was injured during a crash between two semis and a car early late last night (Wednesday), in Polk County. The Iowa State Patrol says a 1995 Toyota Avalon driven by 26-year old Kevin Harris, of Nevada, IA, was traveling north on Interstate 35 at around 11:50-p.m., about seven-miles north of Ankeny, when for reasons unknown, he lost control of the vehicle.
The car went onto the shoulder and hit a cable guardrail and posts. The impact sent the posts into the traveled portion of the interstate. A 2012 Freightliner semi, driven by 48-year old Chris Scholl, of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, hit the metal poles, causing his front tires to blow out. The semi ended up in a ditch. Scholl was transported by Cambridge Rescue to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, for treatment of his injuries.
A second semi, driven by 44-year old James Steele, of Bedford, also hit the debris. Some tires on the 2007 Peterbilt semi blew out, and air lines were damaged, but Steele was able to maintain control.
Here’s the forecast and weather stats for Atlantic….
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Today: A 50 percent chance of snow, mainly after noon. Cloudy, with a high near 29. Wind chill values as low as 5. North northwest wind between 6 and 11 mph. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.
Tonight: A 20 percent chance of snow before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 9. Northwest wind between 5 and 7 mph.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 24. Wind chill values as low as zero. Northwest wind between 5 and 9 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 11. Wind chill values as low as 5. West northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming south southwest.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 34. Southwest wind between 8 and 13 mph.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 22.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 39.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 29.
Monday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 38.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa has a new farmland price record. The Des Moines Register says it happened on Wednesday when a 74-acre tract near Hull in Sioux County in northwest Iowa sold for $20,000 an acre. The previous record was in October when a 120-acre parcel went for $16,750 per acre near Sioux Center, also in Sioux County. Auctioneer Pete Polleman, of Hull, who called Wednesday’s sale, says farmland in northwest Iowa is very valuable, with good commodity prices and a strong livestock industry. Economist emeritus Neil Harl of Iowa State University calls the prices “amazing.”
A survey or real estate agents in September put the state average at $6,477 an acre, an increase of over 30 percent in the last year. ISU will release its annual farmland survey Dec. 14th.
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MILTON K. LARIMER, 80, of Stuart, died Mon. Dec. 5th, at the Kavanagh House in Des Moines. Funeral services for MILTON LARIMER will be 11-a.m. Sat., Dec. 10th, at the Johnson Family Funeral Home in Stuart.
Visitation at the funeral home is from 6-8pm Friday (12/9). Online condolences may be left to the family at www.johnsonfamilyfuneralhome.com
Burial will be in the South Oak Grove Cemetery, with full military rites.
Memorials may be directed to the Stuart American Legion, in care of the funeral home.
Authorities in Pottawattamie County are warning area residents not to give out their personal information to someone who claims to be a representative of Medicare. Sgt. Dwayne Riche, with the Criminal Investigations Division at the Sheriff’s Office, says a resident call this (Wednesday) morning to report a phone solicitor posing as a representative for Medicare called and requested the individual confirm personal information.
The solicitor asked for a confirmation of the persons address, bank account numbers, and specifically, the routing numbers on the bottom of that persons checks. The caller claimed they needed that information so a new Medicare Card could be issued.
Sgt. Riche said the sheriff’s office contacted Medicare, and confirmed they would not make the type of request the solicitor had made, and furthermore, that the suspect caller was NOT a representative of Medicare. Riche advises residents in the area, that if you receive that type of solicitation, you should NOT release or give personal information over the phone to the caller.
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