Bob Bebensee and DNR Conservation Officer Grant Gelle talk about all things outdoors.
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A rock-n-roll hall-of-famer is coming to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines this summer. John Mellencamp will be performing at the Iowa State Fair for the first time in his 35-year career. Fair officials announced Friday that Mellencamp will be featured on the Grandstand stage on the night of Saturday August 19th.
Tickets for the show will go on sale at 10 a.m. on March 3rd. Mellencamp has a new album that’ll be released in April. Some of the other acts scheduled to headline the Grandstand during the Iowa State Fair’s 11-day run include Nickelback, Little Big Town, and Alabama.
More on the web at https://www.iowastatefair.org/entertainment/grandstand/
(Radio Iowa)
The AHSTW boys basketball team will play for a trip to the state tournament tonight against Van Meter in Atlantic. The Vikings have had a great season with a 21-2 record, a major improvement on their 10-11 record a year ago. They’ll take on a very tough Van Meter team that is 22-1 on the year.
The Vikings have been led by Junior RJ Harris, the younger brother of Head Coach GG Harris, with 18 points per game this season. Senior Rhett Welsh is also averaging in double figures with 14 points per game. The Vikings are averaging a blistering 74 points per game.
The Van Meter Bulldogs have been led by three players averaging double figures: Blake Fryer and Ryan Schmitt with 11, and Mitchell Pomeroy averaging 10 per outing. The Bulldogs have put up 65 points per game and suffered their only loss of the year against Pella Christian.
Chris Parks and Mike Smith will have the call of the game on KJAN from Atlantic High School. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00pm and we’ll pick up coverage immediately following the Iowa at Maryland men’s basketball game.
Class 1A and 2A will play some Substate Finals around the state tonight to determine state qualifiers. A few other games were pushed back to today from Thursday and Friday due to the weather so one Class 1A qualifier won’t be determined until Monday.
CLASS 1A
Substate 7 @ East Union: Grandview Christian vs. Southwest Valley 7:00pm
Substate 8 @ Harlan: Ar-We-Va vs. Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 7:00pm
CLASS 2A
Substate 7 @ Atlantic: Van Meter vs. AHSTW 7:00pm –ON KJAN
Substate 8 @ Denison-Schleswig: Kuemper Catholic vs. Alta/Aurelia 7:00pm
Skyscan Forecast Saturday, February 25, 2017 Chris Parks
Today: Partly cloudy. High 33. NW @ 10-15.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. Low 25. SSW @ 5-10 increasing to 10-15.
Sunday: Clouds and sun mix. Warmer. High 46. WSW @ 10-15.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy. Low 31.
Monday: Mostly sunny. Warmer. High 51.
Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers. High 53.
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The governor’s office late Friday afternoon revealed details about MORE cuts in the present year’s state budget. The spending reduction plan legislators approved a few weeks ago directed the governor’s budget director to make another 11-and-a-half MILLION dollars in cuts on his own. That plan calls for community colleges to pare another one-point-seven MILLION dollars in spending between now and June 30th.
The University of Iowa must cut one-point-two MILLION dollars deeper. Iowa State University must cut nearly a MILLION and the University of Northern Iowa about HALF a million.
The state’s prison system will be required to make another quarter-of-a-million dollar cut and the Highway Patrol will have to cut its budget by more than a HALF million dollars.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lizzy Wendell scored 21 points and No. 21 Drake defeated Northern Iowa 70-57 on Friday night and clinched outright the Missouri Valley Conference regular-season championship. The Bulldogs (23-4, 16-0) won their 17th straight game to break the school record they shared with the 1996-97 team. The outright conference title, coming with two games remaining for the Bulldogs, is the first for Drake since the 1999-2000 season.
Drake took an 88-79 double-overtime victory at UNI on Jan. 27 but had an easier time Friday against the second-place Panthers (20-7, 13-3), using a 13-2 run, with nine points from Wendell, to lead by 13, 47-34, after three quarters. The lead stayed in double figures in the final quarter.
Becca Hittner added 12 points for Drake, which shot 52 percent. Sammie Bachrodt and Becca Jonas scored 10 points each. Caitlin Ingle had eight assists with nine points. Madison Weekly scored 19 points to lead UNI, which shot 28 percent.
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals have signed Cuban outfielder Jose Adolis Garcia to a minor league contract and invited him to their big league spring training camp. Garcia, the younger brother of Atlanta Braves third baseman Adonis Garcia, was the MVP of Cuba’s top professional league last year and was declared a free agent by Major League Baseball in December.
Adolis Garcia, who turns 24 next week, led Tigres de Ciego de Avila to consecutive Serie Nacional championships in 2015 and 2016. A right-handed hitter, he batted .315 with a .395 on-base percentage and .517 slugging percentage during his MVP campaign in Cuba. He also played briefly for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan last season.
St. Louis announced the move Friday night, saying general manager John Mozeliak would be available to discuss it with reporters Saturday morning at the club’s spring training complex.
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