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Lisbon’s Happel wins fourth state championship

Sports

February 21st, 2016 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Lisbon’s Carter Happel achieved the ultimate goal for a high school wrestler on the eve of his 19th birthday.Happel became Iowa’s 25th four-time state champion when he beat Dike-New Hartford’s Trent Johnson 7-1 Saturday night to capture the Class 1A title at 145 pounds.

Happel, who will wrestle for the Hawkeyes next year, outmaneuvered the once-unbeaten Johnson after coasting through the first three rounds with two technical falls and a pin. Johnson never had any clean shots, and there was never a doubt Happel would prevail.

The title capped a 52-0 season for Happel, who won his final 169 matches and went 209-1 in his career. Only one Iowa wrestler, Max Thomsen of LaPorte City Union with 210, finished with more victories.

Central IA woman cited after Montgomery rollover accident

News

February 21st, 2016 by Ric Hanson

A woman from south central Iowa was cited for Possessing an open container of alcohol, and failure to have insurance-accident related, following a rollover accident early this (Sunday) morning, about a mile west of Red Oak. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says 24-year old Angela Kier, of Indianola, was driving a 2002 Ford Explorer westbound on Highway 34 at around 12:35-a.m., when the SUV drifted onto the north shoulder of the road.

Kier over-corrected back onto the roadway, causing the SUV to go out of control. The vehicle rolled over, landing on its top in the eastbound lane of Highway 34. Kier was not injured. Her vehicle was a total loss.

Atlantic/CAM Wrestling places four, Creston O-M wins team title

Sports

February 21st, 2016 by admin

20160220_180845Southwest Iowa and Hawkeye 10 wrestling showed very well at the 2016 Iowa High School Wrestling Championships.  Out of the wrestlers we were following in the KJAN listening area there were 4 State Champions, 6 Runner-Ups, and 25 Place-winners.  Champions were: 3A-152 Colton Clingenpeel of Council Bluffs-Thomas Jefferson, 2A-152 Matt Malcom of Glenwood, 2A-170 Chase Shiltz of Creston/Orient-Macksburg, and 1A-126 Alex Thomsen of Underwood.

The Atlantic/CAM Wrestling team had a very good showing by tying a school record with 4 place-winners in one tournament.  Carter Cox led the way with a Runner-Up finish at 113.  Kole Hansen placed 5th at 106.  Zac Stork finished 8th at 182 and John McConkey was also 8th at 285. All Atlantic/CAM wrestlers that came to the tournament made it past day one with Chase McLaren and Keagan Hosfelt also reprenting the team and coming up short on day 2.  All of Atlantic/CAM’s State Qualifiers aside from Hosfelt will be back on a very strong squad next season.

20160220_215927 The Creston Orient-Macksburg Panthers wrestling team took advantage of a deep, strong team and took the Class 2A team title.  Aside from Shiltz winning a title at 170 the Panthers also had two Runner-Ups in Seth Maitlen at 195 and Wyatt Thompson at 138.  They finished with 90.5 team points and edged out Clarion-Goldfield-Dows by 8 points in the final standings.  Glenwood finished 4th and Atlantic/CAM was 14th.

Also locally McGwire Midkiff of Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson was Runner-Up at 113 pounds in Class 3A.  Nathan Haynes of Missouri Valley was Runner-Up at 160 in Class 1A.  Tim Barr of AHSTW was Runner-Up at 170 in Class 3A.

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State Wrestling Final Team Scores (Top 20)

Sports

February 20th, 2016 by admin

1A
1. Alburnett 119.5
2. Lisbon 111.0
3. Newman Catholic-Mason City 52.0
4. Highland-Riverside 50.5
5. Underwood 49.0
6. Missouri Valley 47.5
7. Don Bosco-Gilbertville 46.0
8. Interstate 35 45.0
9. North Linn-Troy Mill 42.5
10. Ogden 42.0
11. Sibley-Ocheyedan 40.0
12. Moravia 37.0
13. Martensdale-St. Mary`s 36.5
13. West Marshall-State Center 36.5
15. Dike-New Hartford 36.0
16. South Central Calhoun 35.5
17. Pleasantville 30.0
17. Wapello 30.0
19. AHSTW 29.0
20. Sumner-Fredericksburg 28.5
2A
1. Creston/Orient-Macksburg 90.5
2. Clarion-Goldfield-Dows 82.5
3. Albia 78.0
4. Glenwood 75.0
5. ADM 74.0
6. New Hampton 73.5
7. Mediapolis 72.5
8. Assumption-Davenport 66.0
9. Webster City 63.0
10. South Tama County-Tama 61.0
11. Crestwood-Cresco 57.5
12. Charles City 50.0
13. Clear Lake 49.0
14. Atlantic 45.0
15. West Liberty 42.0
16. Denver/Tripoli 40.0
17. Sergeant Bluff-Luton 39.5
18. Osage 37.0
19. Independence 35.5
20. Perry 30.0
3A
1. Southeast Polk 141.5
2. Fort Dodge 131.5
3. Valley-West Des Moines 113.5
4. Cedar Rapids-Kennedy 72.0
4. Waverly-Shell Rock 72.0
6. Dubuque-Hempstead 66.5
7. Prairie-Cedar Rapids 62.0
8. Epworth-Western Dubuque 57.5
9. Council Bluffs-Thomas Jefferson 52.0
9. Pleasant Valley 52.0
11. Clinton 48.0
11. Dowling Catholic-WDM 48.0
13. Iowa City-West 45.0
14. Linn-Mar-Marion 44.0
14. North Scott-Eldridge 44.0
16. Indianola 42.5
17. Bettendorf 42.0
18. Cedar Rapids-Jefferson 41.0
19. Johnston 40.5
20. Ames 40.0

 

State Wrestling Finals

Sports

February 20th, 2016 by admin

Check out the full list of medal winners here.

3A-106
1st Place Match – Kyle Biscoglia (Waukee) 54-1 won by major decision over Nick Oldham (Valley-West Des Moines) 39-8 (MD 9-1)
3A-113
1st Place Match – Brody Teske (Fort Dodge) 43-0 won by decision over McGwire Midkiff (Council Bluffs-Thomas Jefferson) 52-6 (Dec 9-2)
3A-120
1st Place Match – Jack Wagner (Bettendorf) 31-0 won by decision over Adam Brown (Southeast Polk) 31-6 (Dec 8-5)
3A-126
1st Place Match – Triston Lara (Fort Dodge) 41-2 won by decision over Nathan Lendt (Southeast Polk) 34-8 (Dec 9-3)
3A-132
1st Place Match – Grant Stotts (Valley-West Des Moines) 40-3 won by decision over Austin Yant (Waverly-Shell Rock) 43-9 (Dec 3-2)
3A-138
1st Place Match – Nelson Brands (Iowa City-West) 54-3 won by decision over Clint Lembeck (Xavier-Cedar Rapids) 41-3 (Dec 6-5)
3A-145
1st Place Match – Michael Zachary (Dowling Catholic-WDM) 40-0 won by tech fall over Colten Mertens (Mount Pleasant) 41-1 (TF-1.5 4:35 (20-5))
3A-152
1st Place Match – Colton Clingenpeel (Council Bluffs-Thomas Jefferson) 60-0 won by decision over Logen Rodriguez (Cedar Rapids-Kennedy) 38-8 (Dec 8-2)
3A-160
1st Place Match – Shea Hartzler (Linn-Mar-Marion) 44-3 won by decision over Jacob Carlson (Mason City) 33-7 (Dec 5-0)
3A-170
1st Place Match – Marcus Coleman (Ames) 43-1 won by fall over Deion Clayborne (Sioux City-North) 43-2 (Fall 5:29)
3A-182
1st Place Match – Max Lyon (Epworth-Western Dubuque) 51-0 won by fall over Jamiir Moore (Waverly-Shell Rock) 39-4 (Fall 1:04)
3A-195
1st Place Match – Sam Cook (Fort Dodge) 45-0 won by decision over Taylor Mehmen (Prairie-Cedar Rapids) 40-6 (Dec 9-6)
3A-220
1st Place Match – Wyatt Wriedt (North Scott-Eldridge) 46-3 won by decision over Ethan Andersen (Southeast Polk) 39-2 (Dec 12-10)
3A-285
1st Place Match – Gannon Gremmel (Dubuque-Hempstead) 46-0 won by fall over Aaron Costello (Epworth-Western Dubuque) 49-5 (Fall 2:48)
2A-106
1st Place Match – Matthew Randone (Assumption-Davenport) 42-8 won by decision over Eric Faught (Clear Lake) 35-1 (Dec 5-4)
2A-113
1st Place Match – Justin Portillo (Clarion-Goldfield-Dows) 39-2 won by major decision over Carter Cox (Atlantic) 38-6 (MD 9-0)
2A-120
1st Place Match – Josh Portillo (Clarion-Goldfield-Dows) 44-1 won by decision over Michael Millage (Crestwood-Cresco) 37-6 (Dec 8-6)
2A-126
1st Place Match – Brock Rathbun (Center Point-Urbana) 48-0 won by decision over Brayden Curry (Sergeant Bluff-Luton) 46-3 (Dec 7-3)
2A-132
1st Place Match – Keaton Geerts (New Hampton) 50-1 won by decision over Brice Everson (Camanche) 48-3 (Dec 2-0
2A-138
1st Place Match – Ryan Leisure (Clear Lake) 47-1 won by fall over Wyatt Thompson (Creston/Orient-Macksburg) 51-4 (Fall 7:22)
2A-145
1st Place Match – Bryce Leshen (Albia) 33-1 won by decision over Brady Brott (Clarion-Goldfield-Dows) 47-4 (Dec 2-1)
2A-152
1st Place Match – Matt Malcom (Glenwood) 52-1 won by major decision over Joe Kelly (West Liberty) 17-5 (MD 18-5)
2A-160
1st Place Match – Zach Johnston (ADM) 50-3 won by decision over Trevor Nelson (Solon) 47-4 (Dec 11-4)
2A-170
1st Place Match – Chase Shiltz (Creston/Orient-Macksburg) 43-1 won by major decision over Nick Holt (Independence) 48-4 (MD 8-0)
2A-182
1st Place Match – Luke Erickson (Mediapolis) 29-4 won by fall over Nick Baumler (North Fayette Valley) 41-1 (Fall 5:31)
2A-195
1st Place Match – Izaak Shedenhelm (Denver/Tripoli) 53-2 won by decision over Seth Maitlen (Creston/Orient-Macksburg) 54-4 (Dec 7-2)
2A-220
1st Place Match – Gavin Dinsdale (Webster City) 44-1 won by fall over Levi Duwa (Mid-Prairie-Wellman) 44-4 (Fall 6:21)
2A-285
1st Place Match – Carter Isley (Albia) 41-0 won by major decision over Cooper Lawson (Webster City) 37-2 (MD 9-1)
1A-106
1st Place Match – Donny Schmit (Wapsie Valley-Fairbank) 42-3 won by decision over Samuel Loyd (New London) 47-3 (Dec 5-3)
1A-113
1st Place Match – Brock Henderson (North Linn-Troy Mill) 47-0 won by decision over Jeremiah Colon (Newman Catholic-Mason City) 36-2 (Dec 4-3)
1A-120
1st Place Match – Bryce West (Highland-Riverside) 55-0 won by fall over Brady Kyner (Southeast Warren/Melcher-Dallas) 52-1 (Fall 3:26)
1A-126
1st Place Match – Alex Thomsen (Underwood) 50-0 won by major decision over Drew West (Highland-Riverside) 52-1 (MD 15-7).  Thomsen is undefeated in his career for the Eagles.
1A-132
1st Place Match – Briar Cochran (Moravia) 52-1 won by decision over Chase McLaughlin (Lisbon) 46-9 (Dec 14-11)
1A-138
1st Place Match – Nick Williams (Lisbon) 29-1 won by decision over Jacob Krakow (Iowa Valley-Marengo) 52-5 (Dec 6-3)
1A-145
1st Place Match – Carter Happel (Lisbon) 52-0 won by decision over Trent Johnson (Dike-New Hartford) 43-1 (Dec 7-1). **Happel becomes the 25th all-time 4x State Champion and finishes with a career record of 209-1.
1A-152
1st Place Match – Conner Shulista (Alburnett) 53-1 won by decision over Zachary Axmear (English Valleys-North English) 52-1 (Dec 6-3)
1A-160
1st Place Match – Sal Arzani (Interstate 35) 51-1 won by major decision over Nathan Haynes (Missouri Valley) 57-6 (MD 10-2)
1A-170
1st Place Match – Tanner Sloan (Alburnett) 41-3 won by major decision over Tim Barr (AHSTW) 54-2 (MD 8-0)
1A-182
1st Place Match – Austin Lentz (Ogden) 44-0 won by decision over Daniel Bishop (Hinton) 46-2 (Dec 6-3)
1A-195
1st Place Match – Slade Sifuentes (Lake Mills) 56-0 won by decision over Landers Kuboushek (South Winneshiek-Calmar) 48-4 (Dec 8-3)
1A-220
1st Place Match – Colton Hansen (Newman Catholic-Mason City) 50-3 won by fall over Rylan Richardson (South Central Calhoun) 54-1 (Fall 2:45)
1A-285
1st Place Match – Jared Brinkman (Regina-Iowa City) 42-0 won by decision over Tim Butcher (Manson Northwest Webster) 43-2 (Dec 2-1)

Prosecutor: Lack of communication allowed suspect to flee

News

February 20th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Douglas County’s top prosecutor say a lack of communication among government agencies allowed a 19-year-old man charged with motor vehicle homicide to flee justice. The Omaha World-Herald reports that a week after the Jan. 29 crash on an Omaha street, Eswin Mejia posted $5,000 bail to be freed. Authorities say he then skipped a urine test, and officials now can’t find him.

Mejia was charged Feb. 3rd with motor vehicle homicide and drunken driving in connection with the death of 21-year-old Sarah Root, of Council Bluffs. Root, who had recently graduated from Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln High School, was driving a 2002 Oldsmobile Bravada east on L Street about 2:15 a.m. Jan. 31 when her vehicle was rear-ended by a pickup truck driven by Mejia. Root’s sport utility vehicle was stopped or slowing when it was rear-ended near 33rd and L Streets. Root died later, at the Nebraska Medical Center.

A review of the case by the World-Herald shows Mejia – a Honduras national – was found to be a low risk to flee despite having twice failed to appear in court for other offenses. Federal immigration authorities declined to detain Mejia.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine criticized the case’s handling, saying “there has to be a common-sense communication between the feds and the state.”

No. 4 Baylor women win 14th in a row, 78-41 over Iowa State

Sports

February 20th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

WACO, Texas (AP) – Niya Johnson had 13 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists as No. 4 Baylor overwhelmed Iowa State 78-41 on Saturday for its 14th consecutive victory.
Alexis Jones had 18 points for the Big 12-leading Lady Bears (27-1, 14-1 Big 12). Freshman post player Kalani Brown added 16 points on 7-of-8 shooting along with seven rebounds.

Iowa State (13-13, 5-10) shot only 23 percent from the field (14 of 65) and was outrebounded 64-25. The Lady Bears had five players with at least seven rebounds.
Seanna Johnson led the Cyclones with 12 points, and Meredith Burkhall had 10.

Johnson just missed becoming only the second player in Baylor history with a triple-double while playing 26 minutes. The only other Lady Bear to pull off that feat was former All-America post Brittney Griner (five times). Baylor leading scorer Nina Davis was 2-of-9 shooting for six points, 10 under her average.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid has knee replacement surgery

Sports

February 20th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid has had knee replacement surgery and will not attend the NFL’s scouting combine in Indianapolis next week. The Chiefs confirmed to The Associated Press on Saturday that Reid had the procedure. Reid also had knee replacement surgery last year that caused him to miss the Senior Bowl.

The 58-year-old coach’s absence from Indianapolis should not have much of an effect on the Chiefs’ draft plans. While he offers general manager John Dorsey considerable input into the decision-making, he no longer has final say in personnel like he had in Philadelphia.  This three-day draft begins April 28 in Chicago.

FERN JENSEN, 85, of Manning (Svcs. 2/22/16)

Obituaries

February 20th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

FERN JENSEN, 85, of Manning, died Thu., Feb. 18th, at the Manning Regional Health Care Center. Funeral services for FERN JENSEN will be held 10:30-a.m. Mon., Feb. 22nd, at Zion Lutheran Church in Manning. Ohde Funeral Home in Manning has the arrangements.

Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday, Feb. 21st, from 4-until 7-pm.

Burial will be in the Manning Cemetery.

FERN JENSEN is survived by:

Her sons – Lonnie (Karen) Jensen, of Lake of the Hills, IL; Mark (Sue) Jensen, of Denison; Scott (Valerie) Jensen, of Tiskelwa, IL, and Kyle (Sherry) Jensen, of Lees Summit, MO.

Her daughters – Becky (Mike) Bruch, of Audubon, & Jodi (Brian) Nissen, of Osceola.

17 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, her in-laws, other relatives and friends.

Nebraska woman charged with theft of thousands in Iowa

News

February 20th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A Waterloo, Nebraska woman has been charged in Iowa with stealing between $22,000 and $222,000. The Daily Nonpareil reports that 44-year-old Beth Beutler was arrested Friday morning in western Iowa and charged with 38 counts of forgery. Authorities say she also faces charges of theft and ongoing criminal activity.

Police say Beutler used a checking machine to withdraw thousands of dollars. The machine allows truck drivers to access funds from across the country by giving a clerk at a truck stop an authorization code to pay for fuel, service or get cash.

Police say Beutler got the authorization codes from McMullen Brothers Trucking in Carter Lake, where her husband works, and used them at Pilot Travel Center in Council Bluffs.