This Thursday night the (9-1) Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears will compete against the undefeated (10-0) CAM Cougars in Algona. The Golden Bears historically have had a competitive football program but have in a playoff drought since 2018. This year’s Bishop Garrigan team has ended that drought and played the role of spoiler through their first two playoff games winning against Janesville 63-6 and upsetting Remsen St. Mary’s 21-18.

The closely contented win against the defending state champions was important to the Golden Bears and Head Coach Marty Wadle credits his team’s confidence heading into the game.

The win against the Hawks was from Bishop Garrigan sticking to their identity of hardnosed football and dynamic defense. The Golden Bears ran the ball 37 times, had 208 rushing yards, and only one pass attempt.

Now the bears will continue to rely on their run game against CAM. Leading the team in carries, yards, and rushing touchdowns is senior fullback Caden Roethler. Roethler has 142 rushing attempts, with 963 yards, and 17 touchdowns. Next to him in the backfield is junior tailback Owen Murphy. The tailback has 35 carries, 185 yards, and 1 rushing touchdown.

Even with a team that has rushed for over 2100 yards, Coach Wadle expects this game to be difficult against a talented Cougar squad.

If the Golden Bears can stick to their football identity and rely on the results they’ve seen thus far. Coach Wadle believes they can make this game Thursday night competitive.

KJAN will bring you the coverage of Thursday’s matchup starting at 6:00pm with the pregame show and kickoff starting at 7:00pm.

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The Northern Iowa men’s basketball team is at home tonight against Coe College in an exhibition game. Panther coach Ben Jacobson.

The Panthers are coming off a closed scrimmage at Wisconsin.

Jacobson wants to see better offense this evening.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa rowing team is set to travel to Princeton, N.J., for the Princeton Chase on Sunday Nov. 5. Iowa will compete against a stacked field consisting of, No. 3 Princeton and No. 8 Penn, as well as Big Ten rivals, No. 15 Rutgers and No. 17 Indiana.

The Hawkeyes will compete in three eight’s in the women’s open race event on Sunday at 10 a.m. (ET), followed by six four’s in the women’s open four category at 1:20pm Eastern. 

Both open events will be 3-mile time trials and there will be a total of 51 eight’s and 35 fours racing in the Princeton Chase.

Quoting Head Coach Jeff Garbutt

“We are excited to get the opportunity to test our progress as a program against some of the best competition in the country. We look to build off our progress from last season and get a better sense of what we still need to work on as we head into winter training to reach our goals as a program in 2024.”

The ACGC have had a perfect season up to this point. The Chargers advanced into the quarterfinals this week by defeating Lynville-Sully 29-8 last Friday night. The Chargers got off to a slow start on the cold and windy Friday evening but were able to push 15 points onto the board in the third quarter to push their lead to 29-0 before Lynville-Sully then scored late to avoid being shutout. The Chargers got contributions from every player who stepped on the field. The Chargers were led by the rushing attack of Mike Fuller who had 160 yards and two touchdowns on 25 carries, Anthany Solorzano who had 110 yards on 17 carries, and Jathan South who had 60 yards but punched in two touchdowns. The Chargers total for the game had 60 carries, 360 yards, and 4 touchdowns. This is nothing new for the Chargers as they have just 4 total pass attempts in their last 4 games played. Head Coach Cody Matthewson credits the offensive line and receivers for buying into the system that they play and all 11 guys on the field doing their job.

Coach Matthewson was very happy with how his team came out and played and blocking out some of the outside noise that has started around this Chargers team the deeper they continue to advance.

Now that the Chargers are onto the quarterfinals this week where they will play the 10-0 Madrid Tigers in a heavy weight fight to advance to the semi-final held at the UNI dome. This match is a bit close and personal for Head Coach Cody Matthewson as his dad coached at Madrid for 23 years, he played his high school ball for the Tigers and says he knows everything about this Tigers team.

Both the Chargers and the Tigers play very similar styles of football wanting to pound the run game and trying to avoid throwing the football. The Chargers have just 4 passes over their last 4 games and the Tigers have just 10 pass attempts over their last four games. This is going to be a game where it comes down to the very end in a tough physical battle and Coach Matthewson knows that every yard will matter in this heavy weight fight.

With so much on the line Friday night this will be one of the best games around the State of Iowa. Only one of these teams can move on to the semifinals at the UNI dome next week and more than likely this game will come down to the final possession of the night. The Chargers and Tigers kick off at 7:00pm at the Guthrie Center with the pregame show starting at 6:00pm here on KJAN.

Listen to the full interview with Head Coach Cody Matthewson below.

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