The Iowa State women are now 4-0 in the Big 12. The Cyclones outscored 24th ranked West Virginia 20-2 to close the game in a 74-64 win in Ames, Wednesday night. The Cyclones trailed by 19 midway through the third quarter. Audi Crooks led the way with 22 points and after coming back from injury senior guard Emily Ryan played a season high 26 minutes and had 13 points.

After missing all seven three point attempts in the opening half the Cyclones made five-of-10 in the second half.

Tucker DeVries poured in 29 points and the Drake men took control late in the game Wednesday night, to beat Missouri Valley Conference leader Indiana State 89-78. The Bulldogs are 4-1 in the Valley and bounced back from a lopsided loss at Belmont.

That’s Drake coach Darian DeVries. The Bulldogs committed only three turnovers while forcing Indiana State into 15.

The Northern Iowa men claimed their second Missouri Valley victory Wednesday night, with a 67-59 win over Illinois-Chicago. Seldom used freshman forward Kyle Pock played 24 minutes and led UNI with 13 points.

That’s UNI coach Ben Jacobson who says Pock also played well on defense.

The Panthers are 2-3 in the Valley and 8-8 overall.

The (4-8) Griswold Girls basketball team had a bumpy start to the season only winning 3 out of their first 9 games. When asked about the losses it seemed that a part of Griswold’s woes was the overthinking on the court and a lack of confidence. Now through the growing pains and losses, a new sort of identity is beginning to emerge for Tiger basketball and Head Coach Ryan Lockwood likes to use one word, “Hunger”.

That shift in mental gears represented itself last Friday when Griswold won a tightly contested battler against Essex 36-32. Part of that win in Coach Lockwood’s opinion is from the girl’s ability to play a full four quarters of locked in team basketball.

In that hard fought game against the Trojans, senior Karly Millikan stood out from her team almost having a double-double with 9 points and 14 rebounds. Millikan leads the team in rebounds and Coach Lockwood freely admits her success with grabbing boards is part of competitive nature and precise basketball mind.

Through Griswold’s 12 games, another player has stuck out on the stat sheet. Freshman Amanda Houser who currently leads the Tigers in scoring with 81 points, she has a few teammates close behind like Addison Adams with 80 and Abby Gohlinghorst with 79.

The next challenge for Coach Lockwood and his competitive Griswold squad is a road trip to Shenandoah on Thursday night. There they face a (6-6) Fillies team with a powerful scorer in junior Lynnae Green who is averaging over 18 points a game. The Tigers know they will have to bring their A-game in this contest.

Tipoff is set for 6:00pm Thursday night in Shenandoah.

The Iowa State women look to stay unbeaten in the Big 12 race tonight by hosting 24th ranked West Virginia. A young Cyclone squad is 3-0 in the league race and begins a week that will find them hosting fourth ranked Baylor on Saturday.

That’s Cyclone coach Bill Fennelly who says this week’s games will be a new challenge from a style of play standpoint.

West Virginia is 2-1 in the Big 12.

Freshman forward Owen Freeman has been a bright spot in what could be a down year for the Iowa basketball team. The six-10 native of Moline is averaging better than 10 points and nearly six rebounds and also leads the team with 30 blocked shots. He has been named Big Ten Freshman of the Week five times this season.

That’s Iowa coach Fran McCaffery who says Freeman’s success begins with his work ethic.

The Hawkeyes are 9-6 overall and 1-3 in the Big Ten. The host Nebraska Friday night.

(Radio Iowa) – The last opportunity for hunters to take a deer this season will focus on unclaimed deer tags in individual counties. Iowa D-N-R state deer biologist Jace Elliott says this final season helps with population control. “Starting January 11th through January 21st, we have January antlerless seasons being held in select counties based on the availability of those county antlerless tags on the 11th,” he says. The D-N-R held its first excess tag season last year. “Those tags can be purchased for use during that January anterless season. It has to be purchased in person at a vendor just because if you purchased it online, the tag may not come to you in time to utilize for the season,” Elliot says. “They must be purchased in person at a vendor, a list of which can be found on our D-N-R website.”

Elliott says the rules change a little bit on the type of gun you can use to encourage hunters to participate. “The Excess Tag January Season allows the use of centerfire rifles between 22 and 50 caliber, that can be used to harvest deer that normally many of those calibers couldn’t normally be used during our firearm season,” he says. “So there’s a little bit of incentive there for hunters to go out and take advantage of these extra seasons.” Elliott says hunters have had success in recent weeks.

“In terms of our overall harvest this season, we’re trending along pretty closely with our five year average. We’re within five percent of the harvest at this time last year, which was a very good year for our deer harvest in Iowa,” Elliott says. “I would expect finishing up at about the same spot, which is between 105 and 110-thousand deer.”

He says the anterless season is a little quieter and longer, and offers a great opportunity to get a deer for your freezer late into the winter.

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State raced out to a 14-0 lead then held off second ranked Houston late for a 57-53 win in Ames. ISU improves to 12-3 overall and 1-1 in the Big 12.

That’s Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger. The Cyclones handed the Cougars their first loss after a 14-0 start.

Defense was the key. The Cyclones limited Houston to 38 percent shooting and forced 16 turnovers.

Otzelberger says home court was a big advantage. Attendance was listed at better than 14 thousand despite the winter storm.

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Iowa State remains at home this weekend, playing host to Oklahoma State on Saturday (Jan. 13) in a 5 p.m. CT tipoff on ESPN2.

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There is a new Head Coach in town for the Atlantic Trojans baseball team and his name is Nathan Block. When asked about what his initial feeling was with becoming the next Head Coach, Block explained how thrilled he was.

An Iowa native Coach Block is a graduate of Panorama High School. He attended Loras College and from there he learned he had a passion for teaching and coaching. Block served as an assistant baseball coach at Pocahontas Area and Nodaway Valley. Block’s time at Nodaway Valley made him familiar with the Atlantic program as the two programs competed last summer.

While discussing this new role of coaching for Atlantic, Coach Block discussed how being a successful coach is about connecting with the students and helping them learn about the importance of the communities they’re in.

On the topic of coaching, Coach Block was quick to remember a coach that impacted him in his high school days. That said coach is Head Baseball Coach at Panorama Brian Bahrenfuss.

Coach Block has simple and concise goals for his Trojan Squad. He wants to move a team that was 10-17 a year ago, to above .500 and he plans on his team competing for a Hawkeye Ten conference title.

Baseball season for Atlantic starts Monday May 20th.

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