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The snowstorm at the end of last week wiped out most of the high school contests on Thursday and Friday, but overall the first half of the winter sports season hasn’t had many weather-related interruptions. Bud Legg is the spokesman for the Iowa High School Athletic Association which oversees boys’ sports. “Through Friday we’ll probably have maybe about 120 cancellations of boys’ games and probably for every boys’ game there’s probably a girls’ game that’s been cancelled, and a comparable number of wrestling events,” Legg says. He says it’s the most cancellations they’ve had in the last two years.
“You know last year we had a really, really great year. But three years ago we had over 900 cancellations for the winter, and we’re just talking just boys’ sports at that time,” Legg says. “And of those 900, we had all but about 75 or 80 of them were made up.” The cancellations lead to a lot of calendar checking by the athletic directors at each school. Legg says they have to match schedules for open dates and see if the officials are available, all while checking to be sure there are no conflicts with other school events such as music concerts and plays. The sports teams do not practice on Christmas Eve or Christmas, and then it is up to the coaches how long a break they give before starting up practice again. Legg says the association does not allow any regular games during a school’s Christmas break.
“They’ll have scrimmages…at maybe two or three schools at the same site and get in some scrimmage time. Because the school staff is on vacation, the athletic association for probably going on 30-35 years now, has determined that is not a good time to try and play games,” Legg says. The teams will return from break and begin playing games again in January.
(Radio Iowa)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An assistant coach for the Kansas City Chiefs has received a citation for suspected driving while intoxicated after a one-vehicle crash. Police said Adam Zimmer was alone in his vehicle and unhurt in the accident around 9 p.m. Sunday on a street south of the Country Club Plaza shopping district. He was arrested and given a municipal citation and was released about five hours later on cash bond.The investigation was continuing Monday.
Zimmer is listed on the Chiefs’ website as a defensive assistant and assistant linebackers coach. He’s in his third year with Kansas City. Head coach Romeo Crennel said Monday the Chiefs did not yet have complete information about the arrest. Kansas City is 2-13 heading into next week’s season finale at Denver.
(Released Mon., Dec. 24th 2012)
The Top Ten teams in the Associated Press Iowa high school basketball poll with first-place votes in parentheses and won-loss record, total points and position last week at right:
Class 4A
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. Iowa City, West (10) | 7-0 | 100 | 1 |
| 2. Dubuque, Senior | 6-0 | 86 | 2 |
| 3. North Scott, Eldridge | 9-0 | 79 | 3 |
| 4. Bettendorf | 7-0 | 64 | 4 |
| 5. Epworth, Western Dubuque | 6-0 | 48 | 6 |
| 6. Sioux City, East | 8-0 | 44 | 5 |
| 7. Urbandale | 7-1 | 41 | 7 |
| 8. Valley, West Des Moines | 6-2 | 34 | 9 |
| 9. Ankeny | 5-2 | 31 | 8 |
| 10. Sioux City, North | 7-0 | 11 | 10 |
Others receiving votes: Pleasant Valley 5. Des Moines, Roosevelt 4. Cedar Falls 2. Johnston 1.
Class 3A
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. Vinton-Shellsburg (7) | 8-0 | 96 | 1 |
| 2. Iowa Falls-Alden (1) | 7-0 | 78 | 2 |
| 3. Creston | 8-0 | 75 | 3 |
| 4. Grinnell (1) | 5-0 | 68 | 4 |
| 5. Assumption, Davenport | 4-3 | 59 | 5 |
| 6. Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City | 5-2 | 42 | 6 |
| 7. Dallas Center-Grimes (1) | 7-0 | 36 | 8 |
| 8. MOC-Floyd Valley | 8-1 | 33 | 9 |
| 9. Spencer | 7-1 | 17 | 10 |
| 10. Atlantic | 7-1 | 13 | NR |
Others receiving votes: Mount Pleasant 12. Solon 5. Pella 4. Centerville 4. Crestwood, Cresco 4. Carroll 3. Fort Madison 1.
Class 2A
| Record | Pts | Prv | ||
| 1. Nodaway Valley (7) | 7-0 | 91 | 1 | |
| 2. Western Christian, Hull | (1) | 7-0 | 88 | 2 |
| 3. West Fork, Sheffield (2) | 8-0 | 82 | 3 | |
| 4. IKM-Manning | 9-0 | 67 | 4 | |
| 5. Cascade,Western Dubuque | 8-0 | 57 | T5 | |
| 6. Sheldon | 10-0 | 41 | 7 | |
| 7. MFL-Mar-Mac | 6-0 | 40 | 9 | |
| 8. PCM, Monroe | 9-0 | 38 | 8 | |
| 9. Des Moines Christian | 7-1 | 19 | T5 | |
| 10. West Branch | 8-1 | 8 | NR |
Others receiving votes: New Hampton 6. Notre Dame, Burlington 5. Hudson 4. St. Edmond, Fort Dodge 2. Mid-Prairie, Wellman 2.
Class 1A
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. Danville (9) | 8-0 | 99 | 1 |
| 2. St. Mary’s, Storm Lake (1) | 7-0 | 91 | 2 |
| 3. Lone Tree | 9-0 | 68 | 3 |
| 4. Riverside, Oakland | 8-0 | 55 | 5 |
| 5. Murray | 8-0 | 53 | 6 |
| 6. North Tama, Traer | 9-0 | 50 | 7 |
| 7. Harris-Lake Park | 9-1 | 26 | 4 |
| 8. Preston | 7-0 | 24 | 10 |
| 9. Belmond-Klemme | 8-0 | 22 | 8 |
| 10. Boyden-Hull | 6-2 | 21 | NR |
Others receiving votes: Lawton-Bronson 13. Moulton-Udell 7. Iowa Mennonite, Kalona 7. Dunkerton 7. Ankeny Christian Academy 5. North Linn, Troy Mills 1. West Monona, Onawa 1.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Seth Tuttle scored 18 points to lead Northern Iowa to an 82-75 victory over Saint Mary’s on Sunday. Jake Koch added 16 points and nine rebounds for the Panthers (7-5), who have won 11 in a row at home. Anthony James scored 15 points and Deon Mitchell added 12 points for Northern Iowa. The Panthers took the lead for good just before halftime when Marc Sonnen made a 3-pointer to help UNI take a 32-29 lead into the break.
Jorden Page led all scorers with 26 points for the Gaels (8-3), who had won four in a row. The game was originally scheduled for Saturday but Saint Mary’s was delayed in arriving in Iowa due to the winter storm.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Andrew Luck threw for 205 yards to break the single-season rookie record, and his touchdown pass to Reggie Wayne late in the fourth quarter Sunday gave the Indianapolis Colts a 20-13 win over the Kansas City Chiefs and a berth in the playoffs.
Luck surpassed Cam Newton’s year-old record of 4,051 yards passing by a rookie in the second quarter, and then came through in the closing minutes. He marched Indy to the Chiefs 7, and then found Wayne in the back of the end zone on third-and-goal for the go-ahead score.
It was the seventh time Luck has rallied his team to victory in the fourth quarter. Darius Butler returned an interception 32 yards for a TD in helping the Colts (10-5) join the 2008 Miami Dolphins as the only NFL teams to win at least 10 games after losing 14 or more the previous season.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Micah Mason had 19 points and six assists and Drake continued its torrid 3-point shooting during a 74-56 victory over Eastern Illinois on Saturday. The Bulldogs (6-5), who came into the game ranked fifth in the country with 9.1 3-pointers per game, were 13 of 22 beyond the arc and shot 56 percent overall from the floor. They also hit 15 of 18 free throws. Drake also got 14 points from Ben Simons, 11 from Chris Hines and 10 from Seth VanDeest.
Sherman Blanford had 18 points and seven rebounds for Eastern Illinois (3-10), which outrebounded Drake 25-19 but committed 19 turnovers. Morris Woods added 10 points for the Panthers. Drake trailed 26-24 before scoring nine straight points to close the first half. A 3-pointer and layup by Mason to start the second half extended the lead to 12 points, and the Bulldogs later added a 14-2 run to make it 61-41 with 9:42 remaining.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Aaron White scored 20 points as Iowa throttled Coppin State 80-50 on Saturday. The Hawkeyes (11-2) have won six straight games for the first time in eight years. White made 7 of 8 shots from the floor and 6 of 7 from the foul line. The forward had six dunks — including a nice one-hand slam off an alley-oop. The Hawkeyes scored 50 points in the paint and missed all 17 of their 3-point attempts.
Iowa used a 17-2 run in the first half to pull away from Coppin State (3-10). The Eagles didn’t score on 16 of 17 possessions during that 10-minute stretch. Coppin State had 14 points and 12 turnovers at halftime. Sterling Smith, Troy Franklin and Andre Armstrong each scored nine points to lead the Eagles. Gabe Olaseni scored a career-high 14 points for Iowa, which doesn’t play again until the Big Ten opener Dec. 31 against No. 6 Indiana.
The Iowa Hawkeyes play Coppin State today (Saturday) in Iowa City, in their final non-conference game before the Christmas break. Iowa opens the Big Ten season hosting Indiana in Iowa City on December 31st. You can hear the game on KJAN, beginning at 11-a.m.
Coach Fran McCaffery says they want to finish this portion of the schedule on a good note. “We wanna keep playing the way we’re playing, hard, solid D, sharing the ball, a lot of different guys feeling good about their game, and that’s the way you want to go into Indiana,” McCaffery said. The Hawkeyes have been shooting the ball well lately, and freshman guard Mike GeSsell says it’s a matter of being confident.
“Whether you miss your last one, missed your last five, you have to continue to shoot with confidence. We are really confident the players we have on this team can shoot the ball,” GeSsell said. He says coach McCaffery is going to continue giving them the green light to shoot, even if they miss a few shots. While they have a winning record and have been shooting the ball well, GeSsell said after the win over South Carolina State that they still have room to improve on defense.
“You know that was kind of our weakness as a team last year and we still have some breakdowns at times,” GeSsell said. He says if they can cut out the breakdowns they will improve as a team. Iowa is 10-2 heading into Saturday’s game.
(Radio Iowa/Sports)
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