The fourth ranked Iowa Hawkeye women took command with a 19-3 third quarter run and beat Loyola of Chicago 98-69 in Iowa City. Caitlin Clark had a triple-double with 35 points, 17 rebounds and 10 assists. The Hawkeyes played without starting guard Gabbie Marshall who was ill.
That’s Iowa coach Lisa Bluder. The 17 rebounds for Clark were a career high.
AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State men’s basketball team kept up with the Joneses Thursday night in Hilton Coliseum. Robert Jones and Curtis Jones combined for 33 points and 13-of-20 shooting from the field to aid the Cyclones (10-2, 0-0 Big 12) in an 80-48 victory over Eastern Illinois (6-7, 0-0 Ohio Valley).
The victory kept Iowa State unbeaten at home (8-0) and gave head coach T.J. Otzelberger win No. 150 in his career.
Curtis Jones drilled five 3-pointers and tallied 15 of his game-high 18 points in the first half, and Robert Jones added 16 points on a 7-of-9 effort from the field. He also had a team-high six boards. Tamin Lipsey posted 11 of his 16 points after intermission and Milan Momcilovic netted 16 points after being scoreless at the break.
Iowa State, which led by as many as 37 points late in the game, was 10-of-23 from 3-point range (43.5 pct.) and connected on 16-of-18 at the charity stripe (88.9 pct.).
How It Happened
Curtis Jones gave the Cyclones a spark from the bench in the early moments. He scored nine quick points behind a pair of 3-pointers to give the Cyclones an 18-9 lead. After increasing their lead to 26-12, the Cyclones went on a four-minute scoring drought to allow the Panthers trim the deficit to under double digits at 26-18 with under eight minutes remaining.
Curtis Jones made two more treys down the stretch to give the Cyclones a 39-26 advantage at the break. The Cyclones were 6-of-13 from beyond the arc in the first 20 minutes.
A Lipsey steal and nifty pass to Robert Jones for a bucket began second half scoring for the Cyclones. Robert Jones scored another basket on ISU’s next possession, as ISU soon forged ahead 48-30.
Lipsey and Momcilovic each scored seven points in the first nine minutes of the second period to increase the Cyclone lead to 58-34.
The lead grew to 33 points (76-43) after a Momcilovic trey with 3:15 remaining in the game.
Top Performer
Tamin Lipsey scored 16 points, but he made his mark in multiple areas in the victory. Lipsey added seven assists, six rebounds and notched four steals, his 10th-straight game with three or more thefts. Lipsey now has 116 steals in his young 45-game career, already ranking No. 18 in school history.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – The Drake women’s basketball team (7-4) punctuated their non-conference schedule with a 108-60 blowout victory over North Dakota (3-8) on Thursday afternoon. The Bulldogs erupted for their first 100+ point performance since the 2021-22 season.
Courtney Becker and Taylor McAulay went back-to-back to start the contest with a three-pointer off the tip and a strip and score on the next trip down the floor. Anna Miller joined in with her first bucket with a shimmy down the lane before McAulay buried a three of her own.
McAulay continued her all-around start with a blocked shot on the perimeter, the second-straight for Drake, before Grace Berg canned the team’s third three-pointer in four attempts to force a North Dakota timeout. Drake led 13-2 at the first pause.
Suzie Glazer Burt Head Coach Allison Pohlman put on a press out of the timeout as a change of pace defensively. The Fighting Hawks probed their way to a couple scores despite the increased pressure, but the Bulldogs maintained their early advantage. Anna Brown chipped in with five-straight points for the Bulldogs as the clock ticked under the halfway point of the opening quarter.
Drake’s lead bloomed into double figures for the first time after a Katie Dinnebier three as the Bulldogs continued their red-hot start.
Anna Brown led the Bulldogs down the stretch of the first period, reaching 11 points as the first player in double figures. Drake led by eight after the first 10 minutes of play. Pohlman’s squad hit seven three-point baskets in the opening stanza, their most in a single period since making the same number vs. DePaul in the 2021 WNIT.
The second quarter started with a much slower pace as the initial sprint tapered off. North Dakota used the shift to briefly swing momentum back in its direction as the hosts chipped away at Drake’s lead.
The Bulldogs weathered their way through the lower-scoring second quarter and rebuilt their lead in the process. Drake took a 51-34 advantage into the half.
Kacie Borowicz provided the first points of the second half for North Dakota, but Anna Miller answered on the other end. The Bulldogs’ onslaught ensued as Drake exploded out to a 27-point lead to force a Fighting Hawk timeout. Ava Hawthorne pitched in with her first triple of the afternoon to extend Drake’s advantage to 30.
Dinnebier banked one in as time expired on the third quarter. The Dogs led by 33 with 10 minutes to play.
Hawthorne fed Brown in the fourth quarter to give Drake exactly 100 points, their first triple-digit performance since beating Illinois State 104-62 in Feb. 2022. The Dogs cruised from there, eventually emptying their bench and earning the 108-60 road win.
“We scored 31 points in the first quarter,” Pohlman said after the game. “But I also thought that North Dakota did they made their set of runs..but we didn’t falter at all. We constantly stayed within the gameplan, getting inside touches outside touches, utilizing our versatility. We shot the three extremely, extremely well, especially in that very first quarter…just watching people step up to that line, go ahead and let it fly… it just felt really, really good.”
Six Bulldogs scored in double figures led by Anna Miller’s 20. Katie Dinnebier and Anna Brown both added 16 while Grace Berg and Taylor McAulay posted 13. Courtney Becker rounded out the Bulldogs’ offensive leaders with 10 points.
Freshman Shannon Fornshell corralled a team-high nine rebounds while Miller, Dinnebier, and reserve guard Ava Hawthorne dished out five assists.
Brooklin Dailey came off the bench for her best showing to date with a career-high seven points and seven rebounds.
“[This win] really means a lot,” Brown said in the postgame show. “Especially coming off [our last game] and then also just going into this little break we have before conference. I think it just gives us a little mojo going into MVC play.”
The Bulldogs will tip off their 2023-24 Valley slate on Dec. 30 with a trip to Southern Illinois.
(Radio Iowa) – Former Iowa Congressman Jim Ross Lightfoot is sharing the story of his life in a new memoir called, “Climbing Mountains With God.” Lightfoot says the book is about the importance of faith in helping meet life’s challenges. “That’s what life is — it’s a bunch of mountains,” said Lightfoot. “They pop up in front of you and you’ve got the choice of either trying to climb them, or just sitting on your fanny and doing nothing. If you don’t try to climb them, sitting on our fanny is about all you’re gonna’ accomplish.”
Born in 1938 in Sioux City, Lightfoot graduated from Farragut High School in 1956. After serving in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, he worked for I-B-M as a customer engineer and was eventually transferred to Oklahoma, where he later worked as a Tulsa police officer. Returning to southwest Iowa in the 1960s, Lightfoot joined the K-M-A radio farm department and stayed until 1984, when he was elected to the U-S House, serving until 1997. Lightfoot says he decided to write the book after recalling things his father said.
“My dad had all these wonderful stories to tell about riding his pony to school, and growing up in the Great Depression,” he said. “He and my mother renting a four-room house, and subletting two rooms so that they had enough money to live on. He farmed in the daytime and cut wood at night. She did sewing, and so on. All those years — almost 20 years at KMA — I had a tape recorder sitting right beside me and never once did I turn that recorder and get any of those wonderful stories he had to tell.” Lightfoot says he came to an epiphany of sorts in writing his memoir.
“As I was writing it,” said Lightfoot, “it occurred to me that, hey, I didn’t do all this stuff. I was just a tool. God used me to do it, and I believe that’s what’s life is all about. I’m still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up — so, we’re still working on it.” Lightfoot also recalled the mountains he faced in attempting to pass his first bill in Congress, one aimed at helping farmers during the farm crisis of the mid-1980s.
“I was green. I was a freshman. I didn’t know ‘come here’ from ‘sic em’ and I had to learn the ropes,” he says. “I wrote a bill that basically gave farmers some financial relief and allowed lending institutions to step outside the rules that are the Banking Commission had on them so they can negotiate with farmers and suppliers and so on. There are a lot of people sit down and made some fantastic deals which never would have happened otherwise, but it saved all of them and they stayed in business.”
The book “Climbing Mountains With God” is available through his website, jimrosslightfoot.com.
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No.
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School
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Record
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LW
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1
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North Linn
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8-1
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1
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2
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Newell-Fonda
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8-1
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2
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3
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Martensdale-St. Marys
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7-2
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3
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4
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Remsen St, Mary’s
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8-0
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4
|
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5
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Riceville
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9-0
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5
|
|
6
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Council Bluffs St. Albert
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8-1
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6
|
|
7
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Calamus-Wheatland
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10-0
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7
|
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8
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Algona Bishop Garrigan
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9-1
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8
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9
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CAM
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7-1
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11
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|
10
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Woodbine
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6-2
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12
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11
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Lynnville-Sully
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8-2
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13
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12
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Coon Rapids-Bayard
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5-2
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9
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13
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Edgwood-Colesburg
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9-2
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14
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14
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Springville
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8-3
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NR
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15
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Earlham
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5-2
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10
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No.
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School
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Record
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LW
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1
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Dike-New Hartford
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8-1
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1
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2
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Panorama
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8-0
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3
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3
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Iowa City Regina
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7-1
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4
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|
4
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Westwood
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9-0
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5
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5
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Sioux Central
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8-1
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6
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6
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Central Lyon
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9-0
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8
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7
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Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont
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8-1
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2
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8
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Nodaway Valley
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7-1
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5
|
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9
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North Mahaska
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8-1
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9
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10
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MVAOCOU
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7-0
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12
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11
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Cascade
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6-2
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13
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12
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Treynor
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6-2
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14
|
|
13
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Jesup
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8-0
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15
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14
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Grundy Center
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8-1
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NR
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15
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Aplington-Parkersburg
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7-2
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10
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No.
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School
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Record
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LW
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1
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Solon
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8-1
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1
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2
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Mount Vernon
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9-0
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2
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3
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Des Moines Christian
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9-1
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3
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4
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Estherville-Lincoln Central
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9-2
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4
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5
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Dubuque Wahlert
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8-1
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5
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6
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Harlan
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8-0
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6
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7
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Forest City
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8-0
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7
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8
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Roland-Story
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8-0
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11
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9
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Monticello
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9-1
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9
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10
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Benton Community
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6-3
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8
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11
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Algona
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6-3
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10
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12
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Spirit Lake
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4-3
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NR
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13
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Cherokee
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9-1
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12
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14
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Williamsburg
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5-3
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14
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15
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Chariton
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9-1
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15
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No.
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School
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Record
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LW
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1
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Dallas Center-Grimes
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8-1
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1
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2
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Clear Creek-Amana
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8-0
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2
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3
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North Polk
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7-1
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3
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4
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Waverly-Shell Rock
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9-0
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4
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5
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Mason City
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8-1
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5
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6
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Sioux City Bishop Heelan
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8-0
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6
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7
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Norwalk
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9-1
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7
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8
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Central DeWitt
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8-0
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8
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9
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Le Mars
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7-2
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9
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10
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Lewis Central
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6-3
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10
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11
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Marion
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8-2
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11
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12
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Carlisle
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5-3
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12
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13
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Maquoketa
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8-2
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13
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14
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Pella
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7-2
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NR
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15
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Western Dubuque
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6-4
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15
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No.
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School
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Record
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LW
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1
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Johnston
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9-0
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1
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2
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Davenport North
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8-2
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3
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3
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Dowling Catholic
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6-3
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4
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4
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Waukee
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7-1
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5
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5
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West Des Moines Valley
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7-3
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2
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6
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Ankeny Centennial
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4-5
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6
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7
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Pleasant Valley
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7-3
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7
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8
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Ankeny
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6-4
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8
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9
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Cedar Falls
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8-1
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9
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10
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Cedar Rapids Prairie
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6-1
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11
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11
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Southeast Polk
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5-4
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13
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12
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Waukee Northwest
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4-4
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12
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13
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Sioux City East
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5-3
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10
|
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14
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Iowa City West
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4-4
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NR
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15
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Iowa City High
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3-5
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14
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GRACE PAULEY, 93, of Panama died December 20, 2023 at Myrtue Medical Center. Mass of Christian Burial for GRACE PAULEY will be held on Wednesday, December 27, 2023 at 10:30 am at St. Mary’s of the Assumption Church in Panama. Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan is assisting the family.
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Visitation will be held Tuesday from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the St. Mary’s Parish Center with a wake at 7:00 pm at the church.
Burial in the St. Mary’s Cemetery in Panama.
GRACE PAULEY is survived by:
Daughters: Melinda (Dale) Kreher of Omaha; Denice (Steve) Nie of Jesup; Kris (Jerry) Hermsen of Dubuque; Julie (Guyle) Sonderman of Portsmouth
Sons: Doug (Joan) Pauley of Columbus, NE; Dan (Alicia) Pauley of Guthrie Center; Pat (Sandy) Pauley of Honey Creek
Brother: John Schoemann of Portsmouth
Sister: Ceil Langer of Portsmouth
Sister-in-Law: Thelma Schoemann of Porsmouth
26 Grandchildren
17 Great-Grandchildren
The 59th annual Ken Kraft Midlands Championships and the second annual Soldier Salute live stream exclusively on B1G+, Dec. 29-30.
As wrestling season ramps up, a season-long wrestling pass is available for $69.99 on B1G+, the Big Ten Network’s home for non-televised events and on-demand archives. The subscription includes access to both the Midlands Championships and Soldier Salute, as well as more than 80 additional non-televised Big Ten wrestling events, 2024 Big Ten Wrestling Championships coverage and on-demand replays of televised duals. Additionally, you can watch up to four live streams/mats simultaneously on one screen at bigtenplus.com or with Apple TV.
Big Ten Network veteran wrestling broadcasters Shane Sparks and Jim Gibbons will anchor the Midlands Championships coverage on B1G+. For the first two sessions on Dec. 29, B1G+ will feature 10 individual mat cameras along with whip-around coverage focused on the best action at a given moment. On Dec. 30, B1G+ will once again be home to individual mat cameras for both the men’s and women’s divisions in sessions three and four, along with the whip-around feed.
Individual mat cameras will be available for all four sessions of the Soldier Salute. The tournament is hosted by the Iowa City Area Sports Commission and 100% of the annual tournament proceeds will be split between the United Service Organizations (USO) and a development fund targeted towards the continued growth of high school girls wrestling. As part of its coverage commitment, the Big Ten Network will also make a contribution benefitting both organizations.
Competitors from 10 Big Ten men’s programs are expected to compete across both tournaments, including several ranked in Intermat’s top 30. The list includes No. 2 Iowa, No. 6 Ohio State, No. 10 Michigan, No. 12 Minnesota, No. 14 Rutgers, No. 23 Illinois, No. 30 Wisconsin, Michigan State, Northwestern and Purdue. The Iowa women’s program will also compete at the Solider Salute.
Additional Big Ten wrestling coverage can be found on the B1G Wrestling Instagram page and the Big Ten Network YouTube wrestling page.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Atlantic Police Department says four people were arrested between December 2nd and the 12th. Several others cited into court and released. Most recently:
33-year-old Tyler Mills, of Atlantic, was arrested December 12th for Stalking/3rd & subsequent offense, Criminal Mischief in the 4th Degree; Providing False Information, and Interference with Official Acts. Officers cited and then released 42-year-old Heather Ott, on December 12th. Her citation was for Compulsory Education Violation/1st offense.
There were two arrests in Atlantic on Dec. 11th: 26-year-old Sergio Ramos, of Atlantic, was arrested for Violation of Probation; and, 23-year-old Fietko Ranu, of Atlantic, was arrested for Public Intoxication.
Atlantic Police report also, 19-year-old Brianna Loving, and 18-year-old Zoey Hansen, both of Atlantic, were cited into court Dec. 10th, for Possession of Controlled Substance (marijuana)/1st Offense. The woman were released from the scene with their citations.
On December 9th, the A-PD arrested 18-year-old Efrain Sandiego, of Atlantic, for Public Intoxication.
On the 7th, 46-year-old Robert Loving, of Atlantic, was cited for Theft in the 5th Degree, and released. On the 3rd, 41-year-old Chad Wilcox, of Atlantic, was cited for two-counts of Theft in the 5th Degree. And, on the 2nd, 20-year-old Kayden Good, of Atlantic, was cited for Theft in the 4th Degree.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa’s unemployment rate increased to three-point-three percent in November. That’s six-tenths of a percent higher than it was in July and the fourth consecutive month it has inched up. Beth Townsend, director of the Iowa Workforce Development agency, says there were about a thousand job losses in Iowa’s professional and business services sector in November — including a reduction in administrative support staff. “We also saw a number of people drop out of the workforce — about 6700 people between October and November. That was mostly due to retirements and students who willingly left the workforce,” Townsend says. “While we don’t like to see a reduction in our labor force, that number’s not overly concerning at this point.”
Just over 68 percent of Iowans who are 16 or older and actively seeking employment were working in November — that’s about five points higher than the national average. “Before the pandemic, we were at about almost 69% labor particiption rate and we’ve been over 68% for 2023,” Townsend says, “so we’re inching up and moving closer to pre-pandemic labor rate participation numbers.” There were about 100 layoffs in Iowa’s manufacturing sector in November, but Townsend says compared to the beginning of the year, there were about three-thousand more people employed in Iowa manufacturing by the end of November.
The most job GROWTH in November came in Iowa’s construction industry, which added 18-hundred jobs. “The good weather has certainly helped us out in that,” Townsend says, “and the hiring was primarily in commercial construction, so that was a good sign.” About a thousand jobs were added in the financial services sector in November. “Insurance and the financial industry are very key to the Iowa economy,” Townsend says, “and one of our bigger industries.” Townsend says 11-hundred people were hired in November to work in Iowa hospitals, nursing homes and other health care settings.
“Which is really good news for the health care industry because as you know they’ve had a difficult time hiring since the pandemic,” she says, “and they are up over 8500 jobs over the past 12 months.” The state’s IowaWORKS website lists 62-thousand job openings today. According to government data, more than one-point-six million people are working in Iowa. The national unemployment rate dropped to three-point-seven percent in November.
LARRY DEVIN, 73, of Atlantic [formerly of Lewis], died Thursday, December 21, 2023, at Atlantic Specialty Care. Memorial services for LARRY DEVIN will be held 11-a.m. Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, at Zion Lutheran Church in Atlantic. Roland Funeral Service in Atlantic has the arrangements.
Visitation with the family present is on Dec. 29th, from 9:30-a.m. until the time of service.
The family welcomes attendees to the church fellowship hall for a luncheon, following the service.
Memorials may be directed to the family for later designation.
LARRY DEVIN is survived by:
His wife – Sharon Mathias, of Atlantic.
Condolences may be left at www.rolandfuneralservice.com.
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