JEWELL, Iowa — [KCCI] – On a night when multiple numbers took South Hamilton High’s football field, there’s one digit that was on the mind of many — six. That’s the same number of times South Hamilton High’s principal rang the bell just before the game against Roland-Story in honor of 19-year-old Owen Renaud, a class of 2024 graduate and senior captain of last year’s football team who died in a plane crash last week. Renaud was one of four people who died.

Many fans — even from the opposing team — were dressed in white as a tribute to Renaud. Shirts in his honor were made available for free, with people leaving donations that would go toward the Flying High Scholarship Fund. Renaud’s family started the fund, which will be used to help kids that need it.

Anyone who would like to donate to the scholarship fund can do so via Venmo: @Michelle-Oskvig.

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INTERLEAGUE

AMERICAN LEAGUE

NATIONAL LEAGUE

TOP-25 COLLEGE FOOTBALL

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INTER LEAGUE BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEAGUE

NATIONAL LEAGUE

TOP-25 COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Shenandoah 55 Nodaway Valley 14

Treynor 20 Clarinda 6

Red Oak 30 West Central Valley 22

IOWA CLASS 8-PLAYER

Sidney 44 Griswold 24

CAM 66 East Mills 24

Fremont-Mills 60 Stanton-Essex 22

Collins-Maxwell 28 Coon Rapids-Bayard 20

Lenox 42 Bedford 14

Southeast Warren 30 East Union 2

Boyer Valley 53 West Harrison 0

Woodbine 72 Newell-Fonda 6

Ar-We-Va 42 Siouxland Christian 0

IOWA CLASS 8-PLAYER NON-DISTRICT 

Audubon 72 Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 0

IOWA CLASS A

Madrid 28 Mount Ayr 6

Earlham 40 IKM-Manning 18

ACGC 42 Panorama 11

Riverside 34 South Central Calhoun 21

Woodbury Central 47 Logan-Magnolia 14

Tri-Center 56 West Monona 6

11-PLAYER NON-DISTRICT 

Harlan 38 Glenwood 22

Lewis Central 30 ADM 27 (OT)

Underwood 40 St. Albert 13

Atlantic 21 Greene County 17

Ballard 55 Creston 28

Carroll 45 Denison-Schleswig 3

Kuemper Catholic 41 AHSTW 33

East Sac County 42 Missouri Valley 0

Grand View Christian 40 Southwest Valley 22

Abraham Lincoln 35 Des Moines East 6

Thomas Jefferson 42 Storm Lake 38

A fourth quarter score and a red zone stop helped Atlantic gut out a 21-17 win over Greene County on Friday night at the Trojan Bowl. Atlantic moves to 4-0 to start the season; the first time that’s happened in decades.

The game started a little rough for Atlantic with an opening drive interception on a fourth-down play. That set Greene County up at the Trojan 20-yard line, and they eventually got a 32-yard field goal to open the scoring. The two teams then traded punts and Atlantic was able to change momentum when the Rams booted it away. Ethan McNeal caught it on the run and bolted to a 50-yard punt return touchdown to put Atlantic on top. Two drives later Atlantic capped a long drive with a 4-yard touchdown run by Gavin McLaren. The Trojans would take that 14-3 lead to the half.

Greene County then struck back when Trevon Keely took the 2nd half kickoff back 80-yards for a touchdown. The point after attempt failed making it a 14-9 score. Four possessions later the Rams hit on two big pass plays to Keely to take the lead. Crew Conner hit Keely on a 14-yard pass to score. The Rams then ended up going for 2 and after initially being ruled short, the officials changed the call to deem the try good, putting Atlantic down 3.

The Trojans wasted no time in responding. Two big runs from Tyson O’Brien put Atlantic back on top. The second run being a 45-yard score. The point after try was good and Atlantic was back in front 21-17. Greene County drove all the way to the Trojan ten, but back-to-back incompletions would end the Rams chances. Atlantic got the ball back on down with 2:24 to go and grinded the clock down to :38 left. After a timeout the Trojans brought the offense out on 4th down and successfully got the Rams to jump offsides with a hard count to seal the game.

Listen to the postgame interview with Atlantic Head Coach Joe Brummer:

Atlantic will take their 4-0 mark on the road to Winterset next week. We’ll have coverage on KJAN. Watch the full replay of the game HERE.

The Griswold Tigers Volleyball team is hosting a 6-team tournament on Saturday at Griswold High School. In addition to the Tigers, ACGC, AHSTW, Denison-Schleswig, Riverside Southwest Valley will all be in action Saturday.

On Tuesday, Griswold played two matches in Hamburg against the Wildcats and #9 East Mills.  After sweeping the three sets versus Hamburg, they played a spirited match versus East Mills but came up short. However, Head Coach Jody Rossell loved how her team competed.

Griswold comes into to season with a veteran group of players. The tigers roster features nine seniors. With a large number of seniors, you will usually have some depth to work with. And although depth helps, it the leadership that the seniors provide that can be just as important.

In that group of senior leaders Gabbie Grieman is having a great season. Through 12 games she leads the Griswold offense with 79 kills and a kill efficiency of .295. Defensively she also leads the team with 15 blocks. Rossell knows that her dedication and versatility have contributed to her success on the court.

In addition to the seniors, there are a few standout young guns patrolling the court for the Tigers. Sophomore Carsyn Adams leads the team with 66 digs and sophomore Amanda Houser is fifth on the team with 29. This has Rossell not only exited for the present, but also the future of Griswold Volleyball.

The tournament will kick off at 9am at Griswold High School. The tigers will look to improve on their 6-6 record. Rossel is looking forward to the opportunity of seeing some new opponents and continued growth from her squad.

The Audubon Wheeler football team had a dominant win against the Exira-EHK Spartans on Friday night scoring 72 points on the evening. Right from the start Audubon looked control as the Wheelers scored in under a minute at the top of the first quarter thanks to an Aaron Olsen 45-yard touchdown run putting them up 8-0. Exira-EHK was then forced to punt on the following drive giving Audubon the ball back and the Wheelers looked to Olsen again as quarterback Carson Wessel threw a sharp pass to Olsen who dashed his way for 50 yards back into the endzone making it 16-0. On the following drive the Audubon defense held firm forcing another punt and giving their offense one more chance to score before the end of the first quarter. Wessel would once again find Olsen for another touchdown pass near the sideline adding on to their 24-0 score.

The second quarter saw no improvement for the Spartan offense as Exira-EHK quarterback Bryce Brabham threw an interception in the Audubon redzone to Olsen. The Wheelers did take advantage of the turnover as Wessel had a dime pass to Austin Christensen for 39 yards and a touchdown. The game fully tilted in Audubon’s favor as they now led 30-0. The momentum swing did not stop there as midway through the second quarter the Spartans had a punt tipped giving it an awkward trajectory that turned into a 35-yard touchdown return by Jack Stanerson creating a 36-0 lead at halftime.

In the third quarter the Wheelers committed to keeping their foot on the gas and had an 18-yard touchdown reception by freshman Jorgen Nowatzke to put them up 44-0. The Spartans did force a turnover of their own as Owen Juhl picked off freshman quarterback Aiden Kjergaard getting the ball close to midfield for Exira-EHK. The result of their next drive was a turnover on downs and Kjergaard had a designed quarterback run go 33-yards for a score seeing a 50-0 Audubon lead grow. The fourth quarter saw Audubon seal the game with 3 touchdown scores on the ground one a Colin Hartl 4-yard sprint near the goal line, the next a 25-yard scramble by Kjergaard, and Mason Kasperbauer plunging his way through the maroon defense for 27 yards. The final score would be 72-0.

Wheelers head coach Sean Birks was proud of the way his team maintained their intensity throughout all four quarters.

Birks also noted that one of the strengths his Audubon team possess is the ability to be selfless and not focus on stats. Players like Aaron Olsen exemplify this demeanor to coach Birks.

The Wheelers turn their record into 3-0 with a win and face a talented St. Edmond team on the road next Friday. Coach Birks does not plan on underestimating the Gaels.

The Spartans drop to 1-2 with their loss and head back home to face Sidney next Friday.