Logan-Magnolia won the girls Class 1A State Qualifying Track Meet at Fremont-Mills on Friday. The Panthers scored 151 points to win, Fremont-Mills notched 100.5 points in second.
Team Scores
Full results here: 1ASQMFremontMills2019
The Glenwood girls won the Class 3A Girls State Qualifying Meet at Carroll on Friday. The Rams scored 182 points to win it. Atlantic scored 108 points to take 2nd.
Team Scores
Automatic Qualifiers in Events
Sprint Medley
High Jump
3000M Run
4x800M Relay
Shot Put
Shuttle Hurdle Relay
100M Dash
Distance Medley
400M Dash
Long Jump
4x200M Relay
Discus
100M Hurdles
800M Run
200M Dash
400M Hurdles
1500M Run
4x100M Relay
4x400M Relay
Full results here: 3AGirlsCarrollSQM2019
The Humboldt Wildcats won the Class 3A Boys State Qualifying Track Meet at Carroll on Friday. They scored 157 points to top the field, Atlantic was 2nd with 143 points.
Team Scores
Automatic Qualifiers in Events
Sprint Medley
3200M Run
4x800M Relay
High Jump
Long Jump
Discus
Shuttle Hurdle Relay
Shot Put
100M Dash
Distance Medley
400M Dash
4x200M Relay
110M Hurdles
800M Run
200M Dash
400M Hurdles
1600M Run
4x100M Relay
4x400M Relay
Full results: 3ABoysCarrollSQM2019
Kuemper Catholic won the Class 2A Boys Golf Sectional at Panorama on Friday. The Knights shot 339 to win and Panorama was Runner-Up with 344. Van Meter also qualified for Districts with a 377.
Individually Corbin Borelli of Kuemper Catholic was Medalist with a 78. Kolby Shackelford of Panorama was Runner-Up with an 80.
Team Scores
Individual Scores and District Qualifiers
Qualifiers move on to play at the District Tournament at Carroll Country Club next Friday May 17th at 10:00am.
The Tri-Center Trojans shot 341 to win the 2A Boys Sectional Golf Tournament at Shenandoah on Friday. Clarinda was Runner-Up with a 341.
Parker Rock of Clarinda was the Individual Medalist with a 77. Coby Fink of Underwood was Runner-Up, also with a 77. Rock and Fink battled out through 6 playoff holes to determine the winner. Sam Hatcher of Missouri Valley will also advance to District play after shooting an 81.
Team Scores
Team and Individual District Qualifiers will play again next Friday at Carroll Country Club at 10:00am.
It’s all Bulldogs moving on to District play from the Class 1A Boys Golf Sectional at Lenox on Friday. Riverside and Bedford went 1st and 2nd, both shooting 365. Riverside won on the 5th score tiebreaker.
Individual Medalist was Zayne Osborn of Sidney with an 80. The rest of the Individual Qualifiers for District were Brennan Sefrit, Bedford 85 and Brock Wallace, Griswold 87.
All qualifiers advance to the District Tournament next Friday at Crestwood Hills Golf Course.
(Radio Iowa) — The U-S House passed a bill that would provide billion of dollars for rebuilding and recovery for Americans impacted by natural disasters. Iowa Congresswoman, Cindy Axne, A Democrat from West Des Moines, spoke on the House floor. “Entire towns were under water, homes were destroyed, family farms were devastated, and small businesses are facing irreparable damage. Many local schools may be forced to permanently close their doors,” Axne says.
She says many Iowans have been impacted by the flooding. “I’ve been down to the flood zones multiple times to speak with farmers, homeowners and business owners who have lost everything,” Axne says. “Their resilience is inspiring — but the damage is heartbreaking.” Axne says it is important to get the aid to those in need.
“Experts believe that it could take years to repair all the damage — Iowans don’t have that time to wait. The National Weather Service shows Iowa will remain vulnerable to flooding all summer, and rivers are expected to stay high,”according to Axne. Democrats who control the House are pushing this bill forward. There were several attempts to add amendments to the bill during the debate.
The legislation includes three billion dollars to address recent flooding in the Midwest and other disasters, plus six-hundred million in nutrition assistance to Puerto Rico. Negotiations continue among Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Senate on a disaster aid package.
(Radio Iowa) — As of last Friday, May 3rd, state tax collections were running 350-MILLION dollars ahead of the previous year. That’s a more than six percent increase in tax payments to the state over the past 10 months. It’s ALSO one-and-a-half percent ABOVE the prediction a panel of experts made in March. Jeff Robinson of the Legislative Services Agency says his analysis intentionally included the first few days in May.
“Twenty-five to 30 percent of the month’s gross revenue deposits occur over the first three processing days of May,” Robinson says. That’s mostly because April 30th is the deadline for quarterly income tax withholding payments to the state, as well as quarterly payments of sales taxes. April 30th is also the final day for submitting individual income tax returns to the state. Based on last year’s data, Robinson expects most income tax REFUNDS to be paid out by the end of May.
“This is a significant unknown when evaluating how solid the 6.2% revenue growth really is,” Robinson says. There are two other major factors at work in the final seven weeks of the state fiscal year. The state income tax CUTS the Republican lawmakers approved in 2018 didn’t go into effect until January of THIS YEAR, so there’s likely a reduction in state income tax withholding payments. At the same time, it appears there’s been an uptick in SALES tax payments to the state. That’s because G-O-P lawmakers voted to apply the sales tax to more online transactions, like Netflix subscriptions and Uber rides.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Kim Reynolds has named a corporate attorney who has contributed money to her campaign to a state commission that nominates candidates for positions on the Iowa Supreme Court and the Iowa Court of Appeals. Reynolds on Friday named Dan Huitink (HOY-tink) to the state judicial nominating commission. Huitink is a lawyer for Vermeer Corp. in Pella and is a former assistant U.S. attorney.
His appointment was made possible by a bill Reynolds signed Wednesday that gave her the authority to appoint nine members of the 17-member state commission. Lawyers will elect eight. Previously the governor and attorneys each selected eight commission members and the senior justice on the Iowa Supreme Court was the 17th member. The law removes the justice, which means Justice David Wiggins, a Democratic appointee, is taken off the commission.
Democrats have criticized the change, saying Republicans want to stack the courts in their favor after losing recent cases on abortion and same-sex marriage. State campaign finance records show Huitink contributed to Reynolds’ campaign for governor and has given to the Republican Party.
The Atlantic Trojans boys tennis team had a successful day at the District Meet they hosted on Friday. The Trojans advanced to a preliminary sub-state on the team side after finishing Runner-Up on a tie break with Clarinda. Individually Nile Petersen and Grant Sturm both advanced to State by making it to the District final.
Nile Petersen defeated Korey Rogers of Clarinda 6-4, 6-1 in the semifinals and Grant Sturm defeated Clarinda’s JD Hitt 6-1, 1-6, 7-5 to advance to the Final. Both advance to the State Tournament.
In Doubles Play AJ Clarkwitt/Drew Hall of Norwalk won the final over Brady Williams/Alex Best of Clarinda 6-3, 6-3. Both duos will move on to State.
Team Scores
Atlantic will play host to Norwalk tomorrow in a Preliminary Sub-State team match. The winner there will move on to face Clarinda in the Sub-State match.
The State Individual and Doubles Tournament will be held on May 24th and 25th at Byrnes Park in Waterloo and the State Team Tournament on May 28th at Waveland Tennis Courts in Des Moines.
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