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Bob Bebensee and DNR Conservation Officer Grant Gelle talk about all things outdoors.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Deonte Burton scored 22 points, Monte Morris had 15 and No. 23 Iowa State routed TCU 84-63 on Friday night to reach its third Big 12 Tournament title game in the past four seasons.
The fourth-seeded Cyclones (22-10) clearly weren’t impressed – or intimidated – by the Horned Frogs’ victory against top-ranked Kansas in the quarterfinals. Iowa State used two big first-half runs to assume control, and then stretched its advantage to 26 points midway through the second.
Vladimir Brodziansky and Jaylen Fisher had 10 points apiece for the No. 8 seed Horned Frogs (19-15), but nobody seemed to have much pep in their step after their heart-stopping win over the Jayhawks.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Jesse Jansma scored 22 points, Ben Gesink added 21 and Hull Western Christian beat Pella Christian 62-50 Friday night to win its second straight Class 2A state championship and third in four years.
It was the ninth title overall for Western Christian (24-2), tying Davenport Central for the most in state history. And coach Bill Harmsen became the first to coach state championship teams in boys and girls basketball at the same school.
Harmsen, in his first season as the boys coach, guided the Western Christian girls to three titles.
Kenden Veenstra led Pella Christian (22-5) with 12 points, Levi Jungling scored 11 and David Kacmarynski had nine points and 10 rebounds.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Grant DeMeulenaere scored 17 points and sparked a fast start that carried Grand View Christian to a 61-50 victory over Gladbrook-Reinbeck on Friday night and the Class 1A state championship.
Mach Nyaw added 11 points and Bryce Crabb 10 for Grand View Christian (27-1), which has been open for only three years but already has become a force in small-school basketball. The Thunder lost only to Class 3A state tournament qualifier Pella and finished with 27 straight victories.
Joe Smoldt led Gladbrook-Reinbeck with 25 points but struggled early when Grand View Christian took control. Smoldt, averaging 30 points a game, missed his first seven shots and went 5-for-19 from the field.
Caden Kickbush, usually the No. 2 scorer for the Rebels (26-3), started 0-for-6 and scored only four points.
FRIDAY, 3/10/17
1A Consolation
North Linn 76, Remsen, St. Mary’s 66
2A Consolation
Kuemper Catholic 73, Camanche 53
4A State Tournament Semifinals
Iowa City West 61, Cedar Rapids, Kennedy 37
West Des Moines, Valley 64, Sioux City, East 54
1A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Grand View Christian 61, Gladbrook-Reinbeck 50
2A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Western Christian 62, Pella Christian 50
SATURDAY, 3/11/17
3A Consolation
12:05-p.m. Waverly-Shell Rock vs. Manchester/West Delaware
3A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
6:05-p.m. Cedar Rapids/Xavier vs. Sgt. Bluff-Luton
4A Consolation
1:45-p.m. Cedar Rapids, Kennedy vs. Sioux City, East
4A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
8:05-p.m. Iowa City, West vs. West Des Moines, Valley
Today: Cloudy with scattered flurries. High 32. NE @ 5-10.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Low 20. E @ 5-10.
Sunday: Cloudy with a 40% chance of afternoon rain and snow. High 38. SSE @10-20.
Sunday Night: Cloudy with rain and snow likely. Becoming all snow after midnight. Low 29.
Monday: Mostly cloudy with a 40% chance of lingering snow showers in the morning. High 33.
Tuesday: Partly cloudy. High 31.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny. High 34.
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The Palo Alto County Sheriff’s Office said late Friday afternoon, residents of three households that were evacuated near the site of a train derailment and fire in the northwest Iowa county have been allowed to return home. The department says the three homes were each at least a half-mile from the site, where the ethanol-fueled fire was still burning late Friday afternoon.
The derailment occurred around 1 a.m. Friday near Graettinger. It sent 27 tanker cars, each carrying 25,000 gallons of ethanol, off the tracks. The sheriff’s office says two crew members escaped unharmed. No injuries have been reported.
Iowa DNR Field office supervisor Ken Hessenius said Friday afternoon that “there was a pretty big explosion” around 2:30 p.m. at the site, but that officials expect the fire to have burned out by Saturday, allowing investigators and railroad crews to better assess the damage then. He says it did not appear any significant amounts of ethanol had spilled into a creek at the derailment site after staff from his agency checked downstream. Hessenius says a water sample from the creek hadn’t yet been lab tested, but said the water appeared uncontaminated after “a smell test.”
Earlier in the day, Friday, the National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending some of a 15-member investigative team from the site of a fatal train collision on the Mississippi coast to rural northwest Iowa, to look into a derailment that caused the ethanol-fueled fire. Some members of the team will be coming from Biloxi, Mississippi, where the agency is investigating a Tuesday crash in which a Texas tour bus was hit by a freight train at a crossing, killing four. Other members of the investigative team heading to Iowa come from NTSB headquarters in Washington.
RICHARD MELVIN SCHOMER, 62, of Omaha, died Feb. 6th at home. A Celebration of Life Open House for RICHARD SCHOMER will be held at 2-p.m. on April 8th, at the Pauley-Jones Funeral Home, in Harlan.
RICHARD SCHOMER is survived by:
His sons – Jason Schomer, of Apache Junction, AZ, and Jeffrey Schomer, of Gilbert, AZ.
His brothers – Duane Schomer, and Jerry Schomer, both of Omaha.
His sister – Kathy Anderson, of Avoca.
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