ACGC 2-1, Interstate-35 2-0, CRB 1-2, Lenox 0-2
ACGC 74, Coon Rapids-Bayard 6
ACGC 72, Lenox 11
Interstate-35 59, ACGC 23
Interstate-35 64, Coon Rapids-Bayard 16
Coon Rapids-Bayard 30, Lenox 18

SW Valley 3-0, SW Iowa 2-1, CAM 1-2, Griswold 0-3
Southwest Valley 34, CAM 18
Southwest Valley 54, Griswold 15
Southwest Valley 45, Southwest Iowa 24
Southwest Iowa 22, CAM 21
Southwest Iowa 42, Griswold 24
CAM 30, Griswold 18

Nodaway Valley 2-0, Martensdale St. Marys 1-1, Wayne 0-2
Nodaway Valley 48, Martensdale St. Marys 34
Nodaway Valley 60, Wayne 21
Martensdale St. Marys 51, Wayne 9

The S.W.A.T. girls’ wrestling team handled Red Oak 72-12 and beat Creston 54-30 Thursday night in Atlantic.

S.W.A.T. won nine of the 14 matches by forfeit against Red Oak. Mia South (145) won by fall, Stella Beattie (155) and Cadence Kinze won by fall. For Red Oak, Josie McCunn won by fall at (135), and Elaina Knipers (130) won by fall.

S.W.A.T. then won nine  matches against Creston. Three won by forfeit, six by fall, including unranked Haley Armstrong pinning Savannah Sisted at (235). Sisted was ranked 12th according to the latest iawrestle rankings.

The way S.W.A.T. competed at the Triangular brought Head Coach Tiffany South great pride to see how well her girls competed.

Coach South is hoping that the Valkyrie will learn from tonight’s success and continue to improve each week.

Saturday, December 9th is when S.W.A.T. returns to action in the WDM Valley Invite.

Trojan Wrestling went 1-1 at home losing against Creston 48-27 and winning against Red Oak 42-39 Thursday night. Creston would go 2-0 defeating Red Oak 68-11.

Creston 48 Atlantic, 27

The Panthers won six matches by forfeit and notched pinpoints from Lincoln Keeler (132) and William Bollinger (175) with dominate performances by both.

The Trojans won six of the eight contested matches. Tayle Jordan (106) and Evan Sorensen (285) won by fall. Braxton Hass (113) won by decision; Aiden Smith (132) won by tech fall; Kalvin Hayes (144) won by major decision, and Cohen Bruce won by decision at (190).

Atlantic 42 Red Oak 39

Jayden Harter was looked to for getting a pin for the Trojans to win, and he delivered with a fall in 3:05 at (132), and Atlantic won 39-36. Atlantic won three matches by forfeit and four falls. Atlantic Head Wrestling Coach Tim Duff was proud of the way his team battled against Red Oak

Red Oak won five matches by forfeit, two falls, and one decision.

Creston 68 Red Oak 11

In the Red Oak match, Creston won four matches by forfeit, six falls, a tech fall, and two major decisions. Kyler Sandholm (144) won by a pin for Red Oak; teammate Andrew Johnson won by tech fall.

Next up for Atlantic is a road trip to Council Bluffs Classic.

The Council Bluff Classic is a two day tournament starting Friday at Noon.

Wartburg hosts defending national champion North Central of Illinois on Saturday in the NCAA Division III football playoffs and with a victory will play in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl for the first time in school history.

That’s Wartburg coach Chris Winter. North Central has scored 55 points or more in three playoff wins and is averaging 62 points this season.

Winter says Wartburg’s run defense will be tested.

After dropping a heartbreaker in the semifinals at Mount Union last year the Knights are hoping to take the next step.

Top ranked Northwestern hosts number-four Georgetown of Kentucky on Saturday in the semifinals of the NAIA football playoffs. The defending national champion Red Raiders are 13-0 and coach Matt McCarty says Georgetown has a similar resume.

McCarty says Georgetown has an experienced team.

McCarty on the keys for the defense.

McCarty says on offense they need to stay committed to the run game.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa women’s wrestling sophomore Brianna Gonzalez has been named the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) regional women’s wrestler of the month for region five, announced today by the organization.

Gonzalez is currently undefeated accumulating four pins and five technical falls. She is 3-0 against ranked opponents, including her victory over third-ranked Payton Stroud at the Missouri Valley Open, via an 8-2 decision.

The El Monte, California native shined in her Carver-Hawkeye Arena debut last month as well, putting 13 team points on the board with two tech. falls and one pin. With adding these three wins to her record, Gonzalez has wrestled her way to a fourth-ranked spot in the recent NWCA rankings.

The Hawkeyes will travel to Naperville, Illinois, this weekend to compete at the North Central College Invitational on Sunday. The tournament will be streamed live on the North Central Athletics website, and matches will be updated live on trackwrestling.com.

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State (4-4, 0-0 Big 12) dropped the game to No. 4 Iowa (9-1, 0-0 Big Ten) by a score of 67-58.  Both teams shot evenly from the field through the night, but after a tie midway through the final quarter Iowa used a late surge to retake the lead for good.

Iowa State outshot Iowa in the first half at 40.6-32.4 percent as the score stood even at 34-34 entering the second half. As Iowa State kept within three of Iowa headed into the final quarter, five lead changes followed including an Iowa State lead with 4:30 left to play, but ISU was unable to secure the upset.

Audi Crooks had her first career double-double with 15 points and a career-high 10 rebounds. Crooks has now scored in double figures in seven of the Cyclones’ first eight games. Addy Brown had her second straight double-double, putting up 14 points and a career-high 12 rebounds.

How it Happened

The Cyclones kept within three of the Hawkeyes with a score of 10-7 at the first media timeout. Right out of the timeout, Brown hit a 3-pointer to ignite the crowd and knot the score. Nyamer Diew was the next to hit a shot from deep to again tie the score at 13-13, while Crooks followed with a layup to give ISU its first lead with 2:32 to go in the first. After Iowa took a run of eight, Jalynn Bristow answered with a 3 at the buzzer to trim UI’s lead to three (21-18).

Lead changes continued as Iowa State took leads of 22-21 and 26-24 while the score stood at 26-26 midway through the second. Crooks then entered double figures after draining a triple to again tie things up at 29. Iowa State remained efficient from beyond the arc as Arianna Jackson became the fifth Cyclone to record a triple, putting ISU up at 32-31. With 1:33 left, Crooks sent in the jumper for another tie at 34-34, with the score holding as the first half came to an end.

Isnelle Natabou fought for her own rebound and followed to send in the layup to put ISU up 39-38, while Iowa then went up four (43-39) with 6:10 left in the third. Neither team scored for nearly two minutes of play before Diew ended the scoring drought with a layup, bringing the Cyclones back within two. As Iowa led by five with 30 seconds remaining in the quarter, Brown put in the layup to make it 48-45 headed into the final frame.

Iowa State called the early timeout after Iowa stretched a seven point lead of 52-45. With 6:26 left, ISU came alive hitting a streak of eight to retake the lead at 55-54 as Iowa called a timeout. The Hawkeyes responded to retake the advantage, going up by six (62-56) with one minute to go. Iowa would hold on to the lead, taking the win by a final of 67-58.

Top Performances

Audi Crooks put up her first double-double and had her sixth 10-plus point game, entering double figures in the second quarter. The freshman’s final line was 15 points, 10 rebounds and an assist in 25 minutes of play. Crooks had 12 points and eight rebounds in the first half.

Addy Brown had 14 points and a game-high 12 rebounds for her third double-double this season. Brown also had five assists, two steals and a block.

Up Next

Iowa State next hosts North Dakota State this Sunday, Dec. 9 at 6 p.m. CT.

Ames, Iowa – For the second-consecutive year, Iowa State has registered the Big 12 Conference’s top Graduation Success Rate (GSR) score, according to the 2023 Division I academic performance metrics released today by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). ISU’s league-best 95 percent GSR matched the school-record set a year ago and marked the eighth-straight year it either tied or established a new academic excellence standard.

“Iowa State’s school-record tying and Big 12-leading GSR scores reflect the hard work, effort and dedication of our student-athletes in the classroom and their resolve to earn a degree from Iowa State University,” said Iowa State Director of Athletics Jamie Pollard. “Our coaches and academic services team have established a culture that allows our student-athletes to reach their full potential both academically and athletically over the course of their Cyclone journey.

“We appreciate the important role that Iowa State’s faculty and staff play in creating an academic environment that allows our student-athletes to grow and succeed,” he added. “Graduation remains the expectation for all Cyclone student-athletes, and this report demonstrates our ongoing commitment to helping them achieve that goal.”

ISU’s institutional GSR score has improved in each of the last nine years, from a 77 percent score in 2014 to its most-recent 95 percent mark the past two years, while equaling or establishing a school-record in each of the last eight years. Iowa State’s 2023 mark also came in four points higher than both the NCAA FBS and Big 12 averages.

The Cyclones’ institutional 2023 GSR score of 95 percent led the Big 12, followed closely by Baylor (94), West Virginia (94), Kansas State (93), Oklahoma State (92), Kansas (90), Oklahoma (89), Texas (89), TCU (87) and Texas Tech (85). For the purposes of the 2023 GSR report, the NCAA based conference affiliation upon the league that institutions were members of during the 2022-23 academic year. Of the four institutions that joined the Big 12 on July 1, Cincinnati had a GSR score of 97 percent, followed by UCF (92), BYU (80) and Houston (80).

ISU football produced a program-record GSR of 93 percent to rank second in the Big 12, while men’s basketball (89 percent) ranked fourth, followed by wrestling (89 percent, fifth), women’s soccer (96 percent, fifth), men’s track & field/cross country (85 percent, seventh) and volleyball (86 percent, ninth).

The GSR was developed by the NCAA with the entering freshmen class of 1995 to more accurately assess student-athlete’s academic performance. The rate holds institutions accountable for transfer students, unlike the fed survey. The GSR also accounts for mid-year enrollees and is calculated for every sport.

Under the calculation, institutions are not penalized for outgoing students who leave in good academic standing. The outgoing transfers are included in the receiving institution’s GSR cohort. The most-recent Division I Graduation Success Rates are based on the four entering classes from 2013-16.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa swimmer Olivia Swalley was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week for the second time this season, the conference announced Wednesday afternoon.

During the Hawkeye Invitational (Nov. 30-Dec.2), Swalley competed in nine events tallying eight top-10 marks in the Iowa record books, winning three individual events and three relays, and posting three NCAA “B” cut times.

The Johnston, Iowa, native won the 200 breast (2:12.92), 200 IM (1:59.15), and 400 IM (4:14.72), registering NCAA “B” cut times in each. Her 200-breast mark ranks fourth all-time at Iowa, while her 200 IM ranks third and 400 IM ranks second.

In the relays, Swalley helped the Hawkeyes win the 400 free relay (3:20.47), 200 medley relay (1:39.59), and 400 medley relay (3:38.28). The 200 medley ranks fifth in the Iowa record books, the 400 free ranks ninth, and the 400 medley ranks seventh.

Swalley also etched her name in the Hawkeye record books in the 100 breast (1:01.76) and in the 200 free relay (1:31.46), ranking sixth all-time in both.

Swalley and the Hawkeyes head to Ames, Iowa, on Friday to compete in the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawkeye Series hosted by Iowa State. The meet begins at 6 p.m. (CT) inside Beyer Hall Pool.