IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa senior tight end Erick All has been named to the Comeback Player of the Year Award Midseason Watch List on Wednesday.
The list consists of 49 college football student-athletes from 42 different schools and is presented by The Associated Press, College Sports Communicators and the Fiesta Bowl Organization.
The Fairfield, Ohio, native leads the Hawkeyes with 19 catches for 280 receiving yards and three touchdowns. All has three 30+ yard receptions. He had a team-best five catches for 97 yards and a touchdown versus Purdue (Oct. 7) as well as a team-high four catches for 67 yards, including a 13-yard score against Michigan State (Sept. 30).
All (6-foot-5, 250 pounds) transferred to Iowa after competing three seasons at the University of Michigan.
He was an honorable mention all-conference selection in 2021, after amassing 38 receptions for 437 yards and two touchdowns. All played in just three games a year ago due to injury.
MARY LOU SMITH, 72, of Elk Horn (IA) & formerly of the Atlantic area, died Tuesday, October 10, 2023, at the Salem Lutheran Home in Elk Horn. A Celebration of Life for MARY LOU SMITH will be held at a later date. Schmidt Family Funeral Home in Atlantic is in charge of the arrangements.
Memorials in her memory may be directed to the the Atlantic Animal Shelter.
MARY LOU SMITH is survived by:
Her daughter – Rachel (Jeff) Clausen.
Her son – Kevin Viether.
4 grandchildren, 2 great-grand children, and other relatives.
(Anita, Iowa) – Rescue crews were dispatched at around 11:40-a.m. today (Wednesday), to the scene of a semi tractor-trailer accident off eastbound Interstate 80 near mile-marker 62, in Cass County. Initial reports indicated the semi was in the ditch, with the driver possibly trapped. Additional rescue personnel have been requested.
Later reports said the driver was transported to the UNMC in Omaha.
GAIL ROBERT CONN, 71, of Lewis, died Wednesday, October 11, 2023, at his home, in Lewis. A graveside service for GAIL ROBERT CONN will be held 11:30-a.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023, at the Oakwood Cemetery, in Lewis. Schmidt Family Funeral Home in Atlantic has the arrangements.
A Celebration of life gathering for GAIL CONN will be held following the graveside service, and beginning at Noon, on Sunday (Oct. 15), at the Lewis Community Building.
Memorials may be directed to the Gail Conn Family in honor of his name. They will be designated at a later date to many of his favorite local organizations and charities. They may be mailed to the Conn Family at P.O. Box 212, Lewis, IA, 51544.
GAIL CONN is survived by:
His daughters – Angie Brockman of Atlantic, and Rachel (Breck) Chambers, of Tabor.
His sisters – Sue (Larry – AKA “MO”) Mosier, of Atlantic, and Jeanne Weddum, of Atlantic.
5 grandchildren, other relatives and loving friends.
(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports 30-year-old Daevon Deshone Sanchez, of Omaha, was arrested Sunday night at the Douglas County, NE, Sheriff’s Office. Sanchez was arrested on a Mills County warrant for Failure to Appear (FTA). His bond was set at $2,000.
And, Michael Allen Wiggins, of Omaha, was arrested Monday night following a traffic stop on Interstate 29 in Mills County. Wiggins was charged with OWI/2nd offense, with bond set at $2,000.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Four University of Iowa women’s tennis student-athletes head to Lawrence, Kansas, to compete at the ITA Division I Regional Championships from Oct. 12-16 at the Jayhawk Tennis Center.
Junior Barbora Pokorna, sophomores Daianne Hayashida and Pia Kranholdt and freshman Jessica Matthews will play in the single-elimination tournament beginning Thursday.
“We’re looking forward to getting down to Lawrence and having a competitive, high-level tournament,” said head coach Sasha Schmid. “We look forward to regionals every fall. It’s a great test and I am excited for our team to have some great matches in singles and doubles. There is no question we will learn a lot about we look forward to the competition.”
Iowa State basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger has a much younger team as he enters his third season at the helm. After hitting the transfer portal hard, the past two years six freshmen from a star-studded recruiting class are part of a team that will be in search of a third straight trip to the NCAA Tournament.
Defense will remain the identity of the program even though it may take a while for freshmen to adjust to that end of the court.
Otzelberger feels this team will be better offensively. The Cyclones averaged just under 68 points per game which was last in the Big-12.
Otzelberger feels the Cyclones will score more this season while remaining focused on defense and toughness.
The Cyclones open at home on November sixth against Wisconsin-Green Bay.
(Radio Iowa) – A state legislator has won the slot to challenge the mayor of Iowa’s third largest city in November’s election. Just over four-thousand votes were cast in yesterday’s (Tuesday’s) primary for Davenport mayor. There were four candidates. Incumbent Mike Matson, who’s seeking a second term, got about 44 percent of the vote. His General Election challenger is Ken Croken, a former Scott County Supervisor who was elected to the Iowa House last year. Croken got about 35-and-a-half percent of the votes in the primary.
Croken is a lawyer who worked for the Genesis Health Care System in the Quad Cities. Matson, the current Davenport mayor, is an Army veteran who served on Davenport’s city council before being elected mayor in 2018. There were primary elections for city council races in Davenport and five other Iowa cities yesterday (Tuesday).
(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Adair County Board of Supervisors, today (Wednesday), acted on approving Homestead & Military Disallowances, a Child Abuse Prevention Grant draw-down in the amount of $1,874.68, and to begin the process of hiring of a Sheriff’s Department employee to replace an employee who resigned. Adair County Auditor Mandy Berg read a letter to the Board from Sheriff Jeff Vandewater who was unable to appear in-person, due to a prior commitment.
The Board also received an annual report from Weed Commissioner Nathan Jensen. He said overall, he had a pretty good year.
The Board approved the report as presented. Adair County Engineer Nick Kauffman reported on the Safety Program that was held Monday. He wasn’t too impressed by employee participation among the county’s staff.
The Board discussed options for making attendance mandatory. Supervisor John Twombly.
Kauffman also reported on Secondary Roads Dept. maintenance and activities. He provided the Board with updated photos on bridge and box culvert projects. One of the bridge projects involves beams being delivered and set on the Sec. 32 Washington bridge.
Sec. 32 Washington bridge (Screen capture from Adair Co. Engineer’s Office Facebook page)
Each beam is cast in a factory and reinforced with pre-tensioned steel wires to provide strength against tension forces experienced during loading. After the beams are set they will be bolted together with steel diaphragms and the crew will begin decking the bridge. He said also, his department is advertising for two positions within the Secondary Roads.
And, Environmental Health Director Jotham Arber presented his quarterly departmental update to the Supervisors. He said there is about a two-week wait on percolation tests right now. They’ve also been busy testing water.
He said also they started septic system drawings, beginning with Beacon, in Cass County.
The State of Iowa, he said, is backed-up two-years on grants for septic systems, but there may be additional monies coming down the pike from leftover ARPA funds, and, there are other options. Arber said also, they’ve developed a new septic system manual.
He says they’re printing 1,000 copies of the manual which should answer many new or existing homeowner questions about septic systems, inspections and repairs.
DES MOINES, Iowa (October 11, 2023) — Hy-Vee has been named the presenting sponsor for a special basketball doubleheader event featuring both the University of Iowa men’s and women’s basketball teams. The Hawkeye Showcase will be held at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines on Dec. 16.
“We thank Hy-Vee for their support and partnership of this special doubleheader,” said Maury Hanks, president of Global Sports Management. “Hy-Vee has established itself as a long-time proponent of sporting events throughout the state of Iowa and we’re grateful they will be involved in what promises to be an exciting day of basketball.”
The Hawkeye women, coming off an historic season winning a school-record 31 games, will face Cleveland State at 6 p.m. This will mark the first time the Iowa women, which finished runner-up in the 2023 NCAA Women’s Tournament, have ever played in Wells Fargo Arena.
The Iowa men’s team, one of 10 teams in the country to make the last four NCAA Tournaments, will play Florida A&M in a 3:30 p.m. tip off.
This will be the first appearance by the Iowa men’s basketball team at Wells Fargo Arena since beating Northern Iowa in the 2018 Hy-Vee Big Four Classic.
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