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Iowa women score upset over #5 Indiana

Sports

February 19th, 2022 by admin

The No. 22/25 Iowa Hawkeyes defeated the No. 5/6 Indiana Hoosiers, 96-91, inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, — the first win in Assembly Hall for the Hawkeyes since 2011-12. Iowa’s 96 points are the most that any opponent has scored against Indiana this season.

Sophomore Caitlin Clarks notched her 13th season and 22nd career double-double, tallying 18 points and 12 assists.

All eight Hawkeyes that played and all five starters scored in double figures, including senior Monika Czinano (22), junior McKenna Warnock (21), Clark (18), redshirt junior Kate Martin (13) and junior Gabbie Marshall (10). Martin’s 13 points are a season high.

Up Next: Iowa hosts No. 5/6 Indiana on Monday, Feb. 21, inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. (CT) on B1G Network.

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Iowa grabs big road win over #18 Ohio State

Sports

February 19th, 2022 by admin

The Iowa men’s basketball team notched a big road win over #18 Ohio State on Saturday afternoon 75-62. It was the Hawkeyes’ first victory over a ranked opponent this season.

Iowa held the Buckeyes to just 2 of 11 shooting from three-point range. Keegan Murray scored 29 of his game-high 24 points in the first half.

Iowa improves to 18-8 on the season and 8-7 in the Big Ten.

Next up for the Hawkeyes is a home game on Tuesday night against Michigan State at 6:00 p.m. We’ll have coverage on KJAN with pregame at 5:00 p.m. on the Hawkeye Radio Network.

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Late scoring run pushes ISU past Oklahoma

Sports

February 19th, 2022 by admin

A late 15-0 scoring burst pushed Iowa State to a 75-54 win over Oklahoma at Hilton Coliseum on Saturday. The Cyclones let a 15-point halftime lead dwindle away in the second half before the late run put it away.

Izaiah Brockington had 22 points and Tyrese Hunter added 14 points, 7 assists, and 4 rebounds to lead Iowa State to the important home win.

The Cyclones improved to 18-9 overall and 5-9 in Big 12 play.

Next up for the Cyclones is a home tilt against West Virginia on Wednesday night at 6:00 p.m.

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2022 State Wrestling – 2-A/1-A Consolation Finals

Sports

February 19th, 2022 by Jim Field

Class 2-A

  • 106 – 5th Place:  Aiden Smith (Atlantic/CAM) lost to Ethan Skoglund (Sergeant Bluff-Luton) 7-4
  • 113 – 5th Place:  Vincent Mayberry (Glenwood) beat Cole Schmauss (Crestwood) MAJOR DEC 11-3
  • 126 – 5th Place:  Ethan Follmann (Atlantic/CAM) beat Derrick Bass (Assumption) FALL 2:32
  • 145 – 5th Place:  Kale Downey (Clarinda) beat Austin Chally (Saydel) FALL 3:40
  • 160 – 3rd Place:  Dawson Bond (Red Oak) lost to Allen Catour (Assumption) MAJOR DEC 15-3
  • 170 – 5th Place:  Sterling Rodman (Carroll) lost to Drake Collins (West Liberty) TECH FALL 15-0 (3:59)
  • 182 – 5th Place:  Zane Bendorf (Harlan) lost to Gabriel Christensen (Ballard) 10-6
  • 285 – 5th Place:  Logan Green (Clarinda) beat Cameron Geuther (West Delaware) 7-1

Class 1-A

  • 113 – 3rd Place:  Corbin Reisz (Logan-Magnolia) beat Tegan Slaybaugh (AC/GC) FALL 1:56
  • 113 – 7th Place:  Brayden Maeder (Southwest Valley) lost to Hayden Helgeson (Lake Mills) 5-3
  • 120 – 3rd Place:  Blake Allen (Underwood) lost to Braden Graff (West Sioux) 1-0
  • 132 – 5th Place:  Elliot Cooney (Nodaway Valley) lost to Tiernan Boots (Lisbon) 10-4
  • 138 – 3rd Place:  Stevie Barnes (Underwood) lost to Clayton McDonough (Central Springs) 4-3 (TB-1)
  • 138 – 7th Place:  Hayden Fischer (AHSTW) lost to Quinten Aney (Mediapolis) MAJOR DEC 13-0
  • 152 – 5th Place:  Shea Parkis (Kuemper Catholic) beat Jace Nelson-Brown (Emmetsburg) 4-2
  • 152 – 7th Place:  David Helton (St. Albert) lost to McKade Munn (Nashua-Plainfield) MAJOR DEC 14-6
  • 160 – 3rd Place:  Gavin McGuire (Logan-Magnolia) lost to Cullen Koedam (West Sioux) 5-2
  • 170 – 7th Place:  Denver Pauley (AHSTW) beat Jaydon Knight (Mount Ayr) Medical Forfeit
  • 195 – 7th Place:  Carter Davis (Underwood) lost to Kolben Miller (North Butler-Clarksville) 6-1
  • 220 – 3rd Place:  Cal Wanninger (Kuemper Catholic) lost to Matthew Francis (West Hancock) MAJOR DEC 9-0
  • 220 – 7th Place:  Cooper Andersen (Panorama) beat Logan Wright (West Branch) 8-1
  • 285 – 7th Place:  Daniel Gregory (Treynor) lost to Mack Ortner (Don Bosco) 9-4

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JIM CASEY, 57, of Massena (Mass of Christian Burial 2/24/22)

Obituaries

February 19th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

JIM CASEY, 57, of Massena, died Friday, February 18, 2022, at Cass Health (Cass County Memorial Hospital) in Atlantic.  A Mass of Christian Burial for JIM CASEY will take place 1-p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24th, at the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Massena. Lamb Funeral Home in Massena has the arrangements.

Visitation will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 23rd at the Cumberland Community Building, from 2- until 7-p.m., with the family greeting friends from 4-until 7-p.m.; Online condolence may be left to the family at www.lambfuneralhomes.com.

Burial will held at a later date in the Victoria Township Cemetery, south of Massena.

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

 JIM CASEY is survived by:

His wife – Kris Casey, of Massena.

His daughters – Maureen (Jacob) Deal, and Molly Casey, all of Massena.

His Mother – Donna Casey, of Massena.

His brothers – Mike (Sheryl) Casey, of Lowell, Indiana, and Rob Casey (Babr VanHorn), of West Union, Iowa.

His sister – Eileen (Jim) Ver Woert, of Adel.

Other relatives and friends.

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(Updated) – 4 injured, 1 from Perry dead, following eastern Iowa crash, Saturday morning

News

February 19th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Hazleton, Iowa) – Four people were injured and a person from Perry died early Saturday morning, following a crash in eastern Iowa’s Buchanan County, south of Hazleton. The Iowa State Patrol reports the crash happened on Highway 150, at around 2:38-a.m.

Authorities say a 2011 Chevy Silverado pickup driven by 27-year-old Brian Goedken, from Independence, was traveling south on Hwy 150, when the vehicle crossed the center line, and struck a northbound 2008 Pontiac driven by 31-year-old Ronald Landals, from Perry, head-on. The pickup also struck a 2021 Ford Explorer. The SUV was driven by 26-year-old Mitchel Franck, from Fairbank, Iowa. Franck is a Buchanan County Sheriff’s Deputy.

Landals died at the scene. The other two drivers were injured, along with 21-year-old Meadow Lynn, from Independence, and 28-year-old Erin Bernardino, from Des Moines.  All of the crash victims were wearing their seat belts. Of those injured, Goedken and Lynn were taken to St. Lukes Hospital in Cedar Rapids. The other two were transported to separate hospitals, with Bernardino taken to the UIHC in Iowa City, and Franck transported to the Buchanan County Hospital in Independence.

The accident remained under investigation. Assisting the Patrol at the crash scene, were deputies from the Buchanan and Fayette County Sheriff’s Departments, along with Hazleton Fire and EMS.

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2022 State Wrestling – Class 2-A/1-A Consolation Semifinals

Sports

February 19th, 2022 by Jim Field

Class 2-A: 

  • 106 – Aiden Smith (Atlantic/CAM) lost to Colin Cassady (West Liberty) 6-3
  • 113 – Vincent Mayberry (Glenwood) lost to Kaiden Dietzenbach (Notre Dame) MAJOR DEC 14-6
  • 126 – Ethan Follmann (Atlantic/CAM) lost to Bo Koedam (Sergeant Bluff-Luton) FALL 4:17
  • 145 – Kale Downey (Clarinda) lost to Brady Stille (Decorah) 8-5
  • 160 – Dawson Bond (Red Oak) beat Logan Fairchild (Winterset) 3-2
  • 170 – Sterling Rodman (Carroll) lost to Brady Ortner (Vinton-Shellsburg) FALL 3:27
  • 182 – Zane Bendorf (Harlan) lost to Braden McShane (New Hampton/Turkey Valley) 9-5
  • 285 – Logan Green (Clarinda) lost to Ethan Hooyer (Sioux Center) 5-3 (SV-1)

Class 1-A: 

  • 113 – Corbin Reisz (Logan-Magnolia) beat Brody Brisker (Wilton) MAJOR DEC 17-6
  • 113 – Tegan Slaybaugh (AC/GC) beat Cael Judish (Sumner-Fredericksburg) FALL 5:03
  • 120 – Blake Allen (Underwood) beat Preston Klostermann (Alburnett) FALL  4:38
  • 132 – Elliot Cooney (Nodaway Valley) lost to Joe Ebaugh (Denver) MAJOR DEC 11-2
  • 138 – Stevie Barnes (Underwood) beat Kaiden Knaack (Don Bosco) MAJOR DEC 11-2
  • 152 – Shea Parkis (Kuemper Catholic) lost to Lincoln Holub (Lisbon) MAJOR DEC 14-2
  • 160 – Gavin McGuire (Logan-Magnolia) beat Cade Molyneux (Sigourney-Keota) MAJOR DEC 10-1
  • 220 – Cal Wanninger (Kuemper Catholic) beat Conner Reed (Sigourney-Keota) FALL :56

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Conservation Report 02-19-2022

Ag/Outdoor, Podcasts

February 19th, 2022 by admin

Chris Parks and Cass/Adair County Conservation Officer Grant Gelly talk the great outdoors. This week they discuss upcoming listening sessions, late season ice fishing, eagle numbers, and great backyard bird count.

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DNR/ISU trying to help a turtle species grow

Ag/Outdoor, News

February 19th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is joining with Iowa State University on a project to document and help a specific type of turtle increase its numbers. The D-N-R’s Karen Kinkead says the Blanding’s turtles don’t mature and reproduce at a very fast rate. “The average is about 14 years — but it varies individually by turtle before they lay their first eggs. And the nests are very susceptible to predators — particularly raccoons and skunks,” Kinkead says. She says there’s been less trapping in the state and that has led to increased predators for the turtle. The Blanding’s turtles are found in wetland areas of northwest and central Iowa. “They are a state-listed species, so we don’t give out specific locations,” according to Kinkead. “They’ve got a bit of a black market following, so we try to keep that private so that the turtles aren’t collected illegally.”

Blanding’s turtle (IA DNR photo)

The plan is to monitor the turtles with radio transmitters. “The University of Northern Iowa has been doing some work on a different species of turtles for a very long time — and so they’ve sort of figured out the methodology of which transmitters to use and how to set them and how to attach them to turtles. And it should work the same way on the Blandings turtles that we are interested in,” she says. They also plan to work with the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines to gather some eggs and hatch out turtles to be placed back in the wild. “We think that doing it that way a turtle in captivity will be about the size of a three-year-old turtle in the wild after about a year,” Kinkead says. “And just that just gives them a bit more protection and gives their shell will harden and they get to a larger size — so it’s harder for like a great blue heron to swallow them whole for example.”

The Blanding’s turtles can live to be 75 years old. She says it’s important the D-N-R’s Wildlife Diversity Program does what it can to help this species. “They’ve certainly been around a very, very long time and I don’t think it is responsible of us to let them go extinct on our watch if we can help it,” Kinkead says.

The D-N-R is providing 163-thousand dollars for the project, with I-S-U chipping in 57-thousand. They have a two-and-a-half-year agreement to track and detail the lives of the turtles.

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Skyscan Forecast Saturday 02/19/2022

Weather

February 19th, 2022 by admin

Skyscan Forecast  Saturday, February 19, 2022  Dan Hicks

Today: Mostly sunny. S @ 10. High 36.

Tonight: Partly cloudy. S @ 10. Low 30.

Sunday: Partly cloudy. SW @ 15-25. High 59.

Sunday night: Partly cloudy. Light and variable winds becoming ENE 10-15. Low 25.

Monday: Mostly cloudy. High 35.

Tuesday: Cloudy w/ light snow. High 18.

Yesterday’s high was 61 and the low was 12. This day last year we had a high of 26 and a low of -22. The all-time record high was 71 in 2017. The record low was -22 in 1936. Sunrise this morning is 7:09 a.m. and sunset tonight will be 5:58 p.m.

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