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Iowa turkey hunters have a few days to prep for the season to start

Ag/Outdoor, News

April 4th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa’s spring turkey hunting season is scheduled to start soon. Nate Carr, a conservation officer with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, says Iowa’s youngest hunters will fire the first shots. “Youth season is going to get us kicked off April 7th,” Carr says. “It’ll go on for a few days and then we’ll get into our regular spring turkey hunting seasons which is broken up into four different seasons.” Those seasons start April 10th, 14th and 19th, with the final season running April 26th through May 14th.

Carr says the turkey has a storied past in Iowa as the pioneers had to hunt to survive. “Back in the late 1800s, early 1900s, early settlers were pretty hard on our wildlife here in Iowa, turkeys included,” Carr says. “They were actually extirpated from the state, which means they were completely wiped out within the state of Iowa and the last wild turkey was seen around 1910.” Carr says it was a lengthy recovery process for the big birds, which vanished from our soil for more than five decades.

“It was a long road to get them back in the ’60s through different reintroduction efforts,” Carr says. “We were able to get some birds from Missouri who really had a similar issue, but they were starting to see their wild population come back. So we transplanted some birds from Missouri, up into Iowa in different locations and have really seen them be fairly successful throughout Iowa.”

The D-N-R usually issues around 50-thousand tags for spring turkey hunting season, with roughly 22-percent getting filled, which equates to a harvest of around 11,500 birds. Learn more at www.iowadnr.gov.

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I-35 boys, Treynor Girls win at Nodaway Valley Co-Ed Invitational 04/03/2023

Sports

April 3rd, 2023 by admin

Nodaway Valley Co-Ed Inviational
04/03/2023

Girls Team Scores

  1. Treynor 120
  2. West Central Valley 111
  3. Nodaway Valley 95
  4. I-35 88
  5. Audubon 62
  6. Martensdale St. Marys 53
  7. Bedford 22
  8. East Union 19
  9. CAM  11
  10. Exira-EHK 8

Treynor was led by wins from Aubree James in the 100M Hurdles and Clara Tiegland in the 400M Hurdles. They also won the Sprint Medley and Shuttle Hurdle Relay.

Nodaway Valley was led by a win in the 400M by Abby Engles in a new record time of 1:05.22. Jorja Holliday won the discus. The Wolverines also won the 4x100M Relay (Maddie Weston, Abby Engles, Emma Lundy, Annika Nelson 53.83).

Audubon’s Madison Steckler won the 200M and Stefi Beisswenger won the 800M

Boys Team Scores

  1. Interstate 35 129.
  2. CAM  116
  3. Bedford 104
  4. West Central Valley 80
  5. Nodaway Valley 76
  6. Martensdale-St. Marys 60
  7. Orient-Macksburg 22

CAM was led by Sam Foreman’s win in the 110M Hurdles in 15.40 and Jack Follmann won the 400M Hurdles in 57.77. The Sprint Medley (Kegan Croghan, Sam Foreman, Collin Bower, Cale Maas 1:43.00) and Shuttle Hurdle Relay (Jack Follmann, Cale Maas, Collin Bower, Sam Foreman 1:03.65) teams also won for the Cougars.

Doug Berg of Nodaway Valley won the 3200M. Trenton Warner won the shot put for the Wolverines.

Full results HERE

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Clarinda wins Treynor Jerome Howe Relays 04/03/2023

Sports

April 3rd, 2023 by admin

Treynor Jerome Howe Relays
04/03/2023

Team Scores

  1. Clarinda 116
  2. Underwood 88.33
  3. Treynor 86.33
  4. St. Albert 69
  5. IKM-Manning 66
  6. Shenandoah 64.33
  7. Logan-Magnolia 52
  8. AHSTW 45
  9. Missouri Valley 42
  10. Riverside 35
  11. Fremont-Mills 26
  12. Exira-EHK 19
  13. East Mills 17
  14. Audubon 15

Clarinda boys picked up a team win at the Jerome Howe Relays in Treynor on Monday. Tadyn Brown won the Long Jump and Treyton Schaapherder won the 3200M run for the Cardinals.

IKM-Manning’s Ross Kusel won the the High Jump and Caden Keller won the 1600M. The Wolves also won the 4x800M Relay.

AHSTW won the Distance Medley.

Full results: JeromeHoweRelays2023

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Glenwood wins home boys Ram Relays 04/03/2023

Sports

April 3rd, 2023 by admin

Glenwood Boys Ram Relays
04/03/2023

Team Scores

  1. Glenwood 145.5
  2. Lewis Central 134
  3. Atlantic 107
  4. Bishop Heelan 101
  5. Harlan 91.50
  6. Red Oak 52
  7. CB Thomas Jefferson 47
  8. Creston 29
  9. CB Abraham Lincoln 15

Glenwood got the team win and had a strong number of event wins along the way. Bryant Keller won the 3200M. Anthony Driscoll-Lee took the 110M Hurdles and the Long Jump. Logyn Eckheart won the Discus.

Atlantic won the 4x400M Relay (Colton Rasmussen, Caden Andersen, Bennett Whetstone, Carter Pellett 3:36.76) and Shuttle Hurdle Relay (Jackson McLaren, Colton Rasmussen, Alex Keiser, Easton O’Brien 1:05.77) Jayden Proehl finished 2nd in the high jump and Colton Rasmussen was 3rd, both clearing 5-10. Carter Pellett was 2nd in the 400M in 53.25.

Lewis Central’s Ethan Eichhorn won the 800M and 1600M. Red Oak’s Jack Fling won the 200M and 400M. Harlan won the 4x100M Relay, 4x200M Relay, and Sprint Medley.

Full results: 2023BoysRamRelays

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High School Golf Scoreboard 04/03/2023

Sports

April 3rd, 2023 by admin

GIRLS GOLF

Boyer Valley 242, Glidden-Ralston 270, CAM 324, Woodbine 340, Exira-EHK 346, Coon Rapids-Bayard 382
Medalist: Addy Boell, Glidden-Ralston, 49
Runner-Up: Shay Burmeister, Exira-EHK, 49

Clarinda 214, Glenwood 241
Medalist: Faith Weber, Glenwood, 51
Runner-Up: Gianna Rock, Clarinda, 51

Denison-Schleswig 214, Lewis Central 219
Medalist: Tanna Petersen, Denison-Schleswig, 50
Runner-Up: Sydney Thien, Lewis Central, 53

Logan-Magnolia 221, Tri-Center 243
Medalist: Lilly Thomas, Tri-Center, 52
Runner-Up: Natalie Ausdemore, Tri-Center, 53

Nodaway Valley 234, Essex NTS, Griswold NTS
Medalist: Ashlynn Gutierrez, Nodaway Valley, 49
Runner-Up: Linsey Keiser, Griswold, 51

Sidney 204, Shenandoah 234
Medalist: Avery Dowling, Sidney, 45
Runner-Up: Ellie Ward, Sidney, 47

Treynor 227, Underwood 249
Medalist: Brooklyn Currin, Treynor, 47
Runner-Up: Mary Stephens, Underwood, 51

BOYS GOLF

CAM 176, Boyer Valley 178, Coon Rapids-Bayard 192, Woodbine 205, Exira-EHK 211, Glidden-Ralston 233
Medalist: Seth Hensley, CAM, 37
Runner-Up: Chase Jahde, CAM, 40 & Ben Nichols, Boyer Valley, 40

Fremont-Mills 178, Logan-Magnolia 183, Tri-Center 199
Medalist: Layne Brenden, Logan-Magnolia, 42
Runner-Up: Caden Blackburn, Fremont-Mills, 42

Glenwood 163, Clarinda 164
Medalist: Braden Sneed, Glenwood, 38
Runner-Up: James McCall, Clarinda, 39

Lewis Central 164, Denison-Schleswig 177
Medalist: Owen Okerbloom, Lewis Central, 39
Runner-Up: Payton Greenwood, Lewis Central, 39

Nodaway Valley 183, Essex 187, Griswold 188
Medalist: Zack Gebbie, Nodaway Valley, 39
Runner-Up: Kamron Brownlee, Griswold, 41

Shenandoah 180, Sidney 189
Medalist: Jade Spangler, Shenandoah, 41
Runner-Up: Ethan Laughlin, Shenandoah, 42

Treynor 179, Underwood 185
Medalist: Ethan Konz, Treynor, 37
Runner-Up: Danny Stein, Underwood, 43

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High School Soccer Scoreboard 04/03/2023

Sports

April 3rd, 2023 by admin

GIRLS SOCCER

Glenwood 6, Atlantic 0
Bondurant-Farrar 10, Carroll 0
Denison-Schleswig 3, Logan-Magnolia 2
Harlan 2, St. Albert 1
Underwood 10, Missouri Valley 0
West Central Valley 2, AHSTW 0

BOYS SOCCER

Glenwood 8, Atlantic 1
Bondurant-Farrar 5, Carroll 0
Harlan 3, St. Albert 2
Sioux City North 10, CB Thomas Jefferson 0
West Central Valley 2, AHSTW 0

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High School Tennis Scoreboard 04/03/2023

Sports

April 3rd, 2023 by admin

GIRLS TENNIS

Kuemper Catholic 9, Atlantic 0
Singles
1. Sophie Rohe 12 (K) def Rio Johnson 12 (A) 8-0
2. Ella Schwarte 10 (K) def Keira Olsen 12 (A) 8-1
3. Sophie Tidgren 10 (K) def Quincy Sorenson 11 (A) 8-5
4. Brooke Rohe 10 (K) def Jade Harter 11 (A) 8-5
5. Kaylie Simons 9 (K) def Genevieve McCalla 11 (A) 8-1
6. Elsa Tiefenthaler 9 (K) def Mary McCurdy 11 (A) 8-1
Doubles
1. SRohe/Schwarte (K) def Johnson/Olsen (A) 8-0
2. Tidgren/BRohe (K) def Sorenson/Harter (A) 8-2
3. Simons/Tiefenthaler (K) def McCalla/McCurdy (A) 8-1

Clarinda 9, Glenwood 0
Lewis Central 7, Red Oak 2
Shenandoah 6, Southwest Valley 3

BOYS TENNIS

Kuemper Catholic 9, Atlantic 0
Singles
1. Josh Langel 11 (K) def Clevi Johnson 12 (A) 11-9
2. Hans Kraus 11 (K) def Nolan Waters 11 (A) 10-2
3. Max Reineke 10 (K) def Kinnick Juhl 10 (A) 10-4
4. Mason Reineke 10 (K) def Nick Bennett 11 (A) 10-3
5. Jake Hausman 11 (K) def Alex Rosenbaum 12 (A) 10-4
6. Braxton Lu 10 (K) def Isaac Henson 12 (A) 10-5
Doubles
1. Langel/Kraus (K) def Johnson/Waters (A) 10-8
2. Mas Reineke/Hausman (K) def Juhl/Bennett (A) 10-2
3. Max Reineke/Lu (K) def Rosenbaum/Henson (A) 10-7

Glenwood 9, Clarinda 0

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Iowa women’s basketball season celebration to be held April 14

Sports

April 3rd, 2023 by admin

IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa Athletics Department will hold an end-of-season celebration to honor the NCAA runner-up women’s basketball team on Friday, April 14, at 5:30 p.m. (CT) at the Pentacrest on the University of Iowa campus.

Fans will have the opportunity to hear from P. Sue Beckwith, MD, head women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder and Hawkeye student-athletes, including National Player of the Year Caitlin Clark and seniors Monika Czinano and McKenna Warnock.

The team’s trophies will be on hand at the celebration, along with the Iowa Spirit Squad, Herky and the Iowa Pep Band. There will also be giveaways for those in attendance.

Iowa advanced to the Final Four for the second time in school history and was a national finalist for the first time. The Hawkeyes repeated as Big Ten Tournament champion and finished the 2022-23 season with a school-record 31 victories.

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Preliminary numbers show at least 16 tornadoes in eastern Iowa Friday

News, Weather

April 3rd, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Preliminary reports from the National Weather Service office in the Quad Cities shows at least 16 tornadoes touched down in eastern Iowa Friday. Lead Meteorologist, Justin Schultz, says that number could still go up as they continue looking at damage. “The vast majority of the tornadoes that we surveyed were of the E-F-zero to E-F-two range. So that’s the bottom portion of the Enhanced Fujita tornado strength scale,” he says. The strongest tornado
traveled through Keokuk and Washington counties.

“That was rated as an EF-four. The E-F-four is not as the highest on the Enhanced Fujita scale goes, that goes up to five,” Schultz says, “but still a very powerful and very violent tornado, that particular one.” He says that tornado started on a smaller scale in Wappello County before traveling into Keokuk County. “When it was in Wappello County down by Ottumwa — it was an E-F 2 at that time,” he says..

The E-F-four tornado had a width of 600 yards by the time it hit its peak, and did lots of damage. “There were several severely damaged homes near that Keota, Iowa, in fact, wiping one house completely off its foundation,” Schultz says. “So, in addition, a car was lost in the air and toss about one thousand feet into a nearby field and trees were completely debarked and only stubs are the largest branches for remaining. So that kind of gives you a glimpse at the damage that we saw.”

The N-W-S says there were nine people confirmed injured in the tornadoes — and no one was killed. Schultz says that’s because many of the twisters had a short life. “A lot of these tornadoes were actually fairly short lived, only on the ground for a few minutes or maybe up to 10. But that E-F-four, that was actually on the ground for close to 50 minutes. So that was a very long-track, long-lived tornado,” he says. That tornado had estimated peak winds of 170 miles an hour. Schultz says many of these tornadoes appeared darker as they pulled up dry ground and debris into them as they moved along.

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SCOTT FUNKE, 47, of Fontanelle (Mass of Christian Burial 4/10/23)

Obituaries

April 3rd, 2023 by Ric Hanson

SCOTT FUNKE, 47, of Fontanelle, died Friday, March 31, 2023, at his home. A Mass of Christian Burial for SCOTT FUNKE will be held 10:30-a.m. Monday, April 10, 2023, at St. John’s Catholic Church, in Greenfield.  Lamb Funeral Home in Greenfield has the arrangements.

The family will greet friends on Thursday, April 6, 2023, at the Lamb Funeral Home in Greenfield from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m

Memorials may be directed to the Scott Funke Memorial Fund to be established by the family at a later date.

SCOTT FUNKE is survived by:

His sons – Scott Funke, Jr., Triston, and Richard Funke.

His father – Dean Funke

His mother – Sandra Funke

His brother – Joseph Funke

His sisters – Angela and Christina

3 grandchildren, other relatives and friends.

Online condolences may be left to the family at www.lambfuneralhomes.com.

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