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Brecht named D1Baseball Pitcher of the Week

Sports

February 20th, 2023 by admin

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Iowa Sophomore RHP Brody Brecht has been named the D1Baseball Pitcher of the Week, it was announced Monday.

The Ankeny, Iowa, native was perfect in his season debut and second career start throwing five innings and retiring all 15 batters he faced including 10 via strike out. The strikeouts and innings pitched were both career-highs for Brecht.

Brecht and the Iowa pitching staff combined for a 0.96 ERA over opening weekend, the fourth lowest in the nation. The staff allowed 5.14 hits per nine innings ranking 12th nationally, and had a 0.89 WHIP the 15th lowest in the nation.

The dual sport athlete was named a preseason Third-Team All-American by Baseball America and was named a freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball and Perfect Game a season ago.

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Iowa State’s Joens, Fritz sweep Big 12 weekly awards

Sports

February 20th, 2023 by admin

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State women’s basketball’s big week on the court led to a collection of accolades off the court, as Ashley Joens earned her third Big 12 Player of the Week of the season, while Denae Fritz became a two-time winner of the Big 12 Freshman of the Week Award, the conference announced on Monday.

Joens now sits alone in Big 12 history for career Big 12 Player of the Week awards, now boasting 13 for her career. Iowa State’s star guard/forward was the Cyclones’ leader in both contests. Against then-No. 17 Texas last Monday, she notched a game-high 24 points, while also grabbing eight rebounds and a pair of steals in the Cyclones’ 66-61 win over the Longhorns. In Saturday’s double overtime win at Baylor, Joens rose to the occasion in the bonus periods, scoring 13 of her 27 points in the extra 10 minutes. She also got her 10th double-double of the season with 11 rebounds and dished out four assists in the 81-77 victory.

Fritz was in double figures in both games this past week. In her 10-point outing against Texas, Fritz stepped up with many big shots, but none bigger than her game-icing 3-pointer with 37 seconds left to preserve the win. She also had seven rebounds and three blocks. At Baylor, she played a career-high 45 minutes in the double-OT contest and finished with 12 points (including three 3-pointers) and grabbing seven rebounds.

Fritz, Joens and the No. 20 Cyclones will be back in action on Wednesday at Oklahoma State. Tip from Stillwater will be at 6:30 p.m. on Big 12 Now.

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Injury accident south of Griswold, Sunday night

News

February 20th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Griswold, Iowa) – UPDATE – The Cass County Sheriff’s Office reports two women were injured during a single-vehicle accident Sunday night, south of Griswold. First responders from Griswold and Elliott were requested at the scene, where at around 8:50-p.m., a 2020 Nissan Altima driven by Hannah Kelly, of Red Oak, had gone into the ditch off 540th Street, near Wichita Road. The accident happened when Kelly swerved to miss a deer and she lost control of the car.

Kelly and another woman were transported to a local hospital by Griswold EMS for what was considered to be minor injuries.  The vehicle sustained approximately $3,000 worth of damage.

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Boys Substate Basketball Schedule 02/20/2023

Sports

February 20th, 2023 by admin

All games start at 7:00 p.m.

Class 3A Substate Quarterfinals

Substate 8

Carlisle @ Bondurant-Farrar
Creston @ Clarke
Atlantic @ Glenwood- ON KJAN
Lewis Central @ Harlan

Substate 1

Gilbert @ Webster City
Denison-Schleswig @ ADM
LeMars @ Bishop Heelan
Carroll @ Sergeant Bluff-Luton

Class 4A Substate Quarterfinals

Substate 1

Norwalk- BYE
Sioux City North @ Sioux City West
Sioux City East- BYE
CB Thomas Jefferson @ Johnston

Substate 8

Waukee- BYE
Des Moines East @ Urbandale
CB Abraham Lincoln- BYE
Des Moines North @ Dallas Center-Grimes

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It’s national FFA week

Ag/Outdoor, News

February 20th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – From driving tractors to school to educating elementary students on the importance of feeding the world, F-F-A Week is underway nationwide. There are 18-thousand-606 Iowans involved in this program — including Hunter Hayes of Webster City who likes the interaction. “Big opportunity to get involved with the community, and high school, get your name out there be able to help out with a lot of different organizations. F-F-A does help out with food drives and different stuff like that and it does actually help make a difference within the community,” Haye says. Haye says F-F-A has helped him broaden his abilities.

“You become a really close group of friends you spend a lot of time together you do some traveling you learn practical skills for the real world going out talking to people for some donations lining up different events you really learn a lot of skills that help you out moving forward with your life,” he says. Hayes says the group used to be called Future Farmers of America, but became F-F-A to make everyone feel welcome to the group.

“And that is to really broaden that spectrum. F-F-A doesn’t look to just say this is only for farmers and farmers’ children, we really want this to be a community organization and bring everyone in to be a part of it,” Hayes says. F-F-A is 95 years old. Find out more information or find a chapter in your area at: www.ffa.org.

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Iowa pork producers gather for training, updates in four cities this week

Ag/Outdoor, News

February 20th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Pork Producers Association is hosting four regional conferences across Iowa this week. Dal Grooms, the organization’s spokeswoman, says the meetings will be focused on providing useful information for hog farmers. “In the morning, we’re going to have Pork Quality Assurance Plus training for people who need to get their certification in that,” Grooms says, “and that’s really a training that helps people understand how to take better care of pigs.” Grooms says the afternoon sessions will include a host of local and regional experts who will be discussing a range of issues.

“We’re going to talk about African Swine Fever and what’s going on in Europe with that and what kind of lessons can be learned,” Grooms says. “We’re also going to talk about economic issues for the livestock industry, for the swine industry, and probably talk a little bit about corn and soybean prices.” One session will zero in on how hot weather can quickly cause critical problems for pork producers during the Iowa summer.

“We’re going to talk about some research that’s been done at Iowa State in terms of heat stress as it relates to barn ventilation,” she says, “and then finally, we’re going to talk about the value of manure. Iowa State’s done a lot of research there as well and can help people determine what is that value that they put on their crop fields.”

The meetings will be held in Orange City today (Monday), Webster City on Tuesday, Nashua on Wednesday and in Washington on Thursday. Learn more at: iowapork.org.

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DARWIN D. NISSEN, 86, of Exira (Svcs. 2/21/22)

Obituaries

February 20th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

DARWIN D. NISSEN, 86, of Exira, died Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital. Funeral services for DARWIN NISSEN will be held 10:30-a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21st, at the Exira Lutheran Church. Kessler Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.

Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family will meet with friends on Monday, Feb. 20, from 5-until 7-p.m.

Burial is in the Exira Cemetery.

DARWIN NISSEN is survived by:

His wife – Connie Nissen, of Hamlin.

His son – Mark (Sandra) Nissen of Audubon,

His daughter – Diana (Jeff) Munch, of Exira, and Sue (Ron) Soll, of Manning.

7 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; his sister-in-law Patty Maas, of Atlantic, other relatives and friends.

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Lenox man arrested following a traffic stop in Red Oak Mon. morning

News

February 20th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Red Oak, Iowa) – A traffic stop at around 2:20-a.m. today (Monday, Feb. 20) in Red Oak, resulted in the arrest of a man from Taylor County. According to Red Oak Police, 65-year-old Kenneth Earl Huber, of Lenox, was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance/2nd offense-marijuana, and a Felony PCS/3rd or subsequent offense charge (Class-D felony). Huber was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $5,000 bond.

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Skyscan Forecast for Atlantic & the Nishna Valley: Monday, Feb. 20, 2023

Weather

February 20th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

Today (Washington’s B-day): Areas of fog; Partly cloudy. High around 48. SW @ 10-15 mph.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low around 20. N @ 10-15.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to cloudy. High 40. E/SE @ 10-20.
Wednesday: Cldy w/light rain-snow. High 36.
Thursday: Mo. Cldy w/light snow. High 24.

Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 46. The Low was 24. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 64 and the Low was 27. The Record High on this date was 65 in 1925. The Record Low was -19 in 1978.

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Iowa hammered at Northwestern

Sports

February 20th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

It was no contest in Evanston. A dreadful first half was too much for Iowa to overcome. The Hawkeyes finished two of 17 from three point range and committed eight turnovers in the opening half and were clobbered at Northwestern 80-60. The Wildcats hang on to sole possession second in the Big Ten and win their 11th conference game in a season for the first time since 1931.

That’s Iowa coach Fran McCaffery who was ejected with seven and-a-half minutes remaining. The Hawkeyes finished three of 24 from behind the arc and fall to 9-7 in the Big Ten.

Tony Perkins scored all 11 of his points in the second half and the closest Iowa got was seven points.

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