The Iowa Hawkeye women are the favorite in the Big Ten race but coach Lisa Bluder says they will have plenty of competition. As many as five Big Ten teams are expected to enter the season ranked, including three in the top ten.
Bluder made her comments at Big Ten Media Days in the Twin Cities. She says they have moved on from last season but wants her players to relish the run to the NCAA title game.
Off to a 2-0 start in the Missouri Valley race the UNI Panthers get ready for a huge test this week with a visit to top ranked South Dakota State. The Jackrabbits are 5-0 and the defending national champions.
That’s UNI coach Mark Farley. South Dakota State is averaging more than 43 points and 273 yards of rushing per game.
The Panthers are coming off a 27-20 win at Indiana State and Farley says a number of players will be questionable for this week’s game with injury.
The offense continues to make progress and has averaged over 35 points in the first two league games.
The Panthers held Indiana State to 98 yards of rushing and Farley says run defense will be a key against South Dakota State.
UNI is 3-2 overall.
(Radio Iowa) – There are at least two hundred pickleball courts in Iowa and many city councils, particularly in urban Iowa, are planning to build more. Officials who represent the 17-hundred residents of Lake City in western Iowa who’ve been discussing where and how to build a pickleball court in their community are planning a private fundraiser that will go beyond just collecting cash and checks. Jacob Mathews, the city administrator of Lake City, says they’ll accept electronic payments through the digital app called Venmo.
All the printed materials for the Lake City fundraiser will feature a Q-R code — one of those black and white squares with a barcode.
According to a software that tracks philanthropy in the United States, 63 percent of donors prefer to give online with a credit or debit card and another 17 percent want to use another electronic method like Venmo. Only four percent want to give cash. Mathews says a 50-thousand dollar donation — in any form — will secure naming rights to Lake City’s pickleball court.
(Radio Iowa) – Forty-three-year-old Kyle Ricke has entered a written plea of not guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting death of Algona Police Officer Kevin Cram last month.
Online court records show a pretrial conference has been scheduled for November 14th in Kossuth County District Court. If there are no delays in the case, a trial has been scheduled to begin on December 12th. Ricke is accused of shooting Cram, who was trying to serve an arrest warrant on the Algona man, and then fleeing the area around 8 p-m on September 13th. Ricke was apprehended near Sleepy Eye, Minnesota later that evening after an extensive search that involved law enforcement agencies from Iowa and Minnesota.
ROBERT CHRISTENSEN, 77, of Manning died Thursday, October 5, 2023 at his home. Funeral services for ROBERT CHRISTENSEN will be held on Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 1:30 pm at Zion Lutheran Church in Manning. Ohde Funeral Home in Manning is assisting the family.
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Friends may call Saturday, October 14, 2023 from 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm at the church.
Burial in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Kimballton.
ROBERT CHRISTENSEN is survived by:
Brother: David (Marilee) Christensen of Harlan
Sister-in-Law: Connie Christensen of Virginia
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is investigating a fatal hunting incident that occurred Sunday night in northern Hardin County. Officials said today (Monday) 53-year-old Mark Arends, of Alden, was hunting coyotes with friends on private land approximately two miles north of Alden. The hunters were separated by several hundred yards when, around 8 p.m., Arends was struck by a single rifle shot. The incident remains under investigation. Arends was transported to Hansen Family Hospital, in Iowa Falls, where he was pronounced dead. The State Medical Examiner’s office will be conducting an autopsy as part of the investigation.
Coyotes are nocturnal animals so hunting coyotes is often done at night, with hunters utilizing various night vision technology including thermal imaging scopes. “We stress the importance of identifying your target before taking a shot, and that’s even more important when hunting at night and using thermal technology,” said Captain Matt Bruner, with the Iowa DNR’s Law Enforcement Bureau. “The same can be said about the importance of the hunting plan, especially at night, and following that plan when in the field.”
The Iowa DNR and the Hardin County Sheriff’s office responded to the incident last night and officers were on scene again early Monday morning.
AMES, Iowa – Beau Freyler has been named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week, the league office announced Monday.
It is the first Big 12 weekly honor of Freyler’s career and he is the second Cyclone to be named the league’s defensive player of the week this season, along with Jeremiah Cooper.
Freyler led the way for the Cyclone defense with two interceptions to go along with a team-leading and season-high 11 tackles in a 27-14 ISU victory over TCU. Both of his takeaways occurred in the red zone to stop threatening Horned Frog drives.
The Colorado Springs, Colo. native is the only player in the Big 12 to rank in the top 10 of the league in interceptions (3) and tackles (46) this season. His three interceptions on the year are tied for the seventh-most nationally.
Freyler now has five career games with 10-plus tackles.
Iowa State is back in action Saturday, Oct. 14 at Cincinnati. Kickoff is set for 11 a.m. (CT) on FS1.
2023 ISU Big 12 Weekly Honors
Sept. 4 – Jeremiah Cooper (DPOW)
Sept. 25 – Chase Contreraz (STPOW)
Oct. 9 – Beau Freyler (DPOW)
(Radio Iowa) – The year-long commemoration of Jack Trice wrapped up at Iowa State Sunday with a closing ceremony on the day Trice died following a football game 100 years ago. Trice’s cousin George Trice spoke at the event, and referenced the letter he wrote prior to the game where he vowed to do more than his part.
He says the honorary degree award Jack was fitting, as he wanted to get an animal husbandry degree to go beyond sports.
George Trice says he can do things and go places that Jack couldn’t then because he was black.
He says some schools had said they wouldn’t play Iowa State because Jack was on that team. That is part of the story that George says needs to continue to be told.
George Trice is also a graduate of Iowa State University.
There are two new top ranked teams in the latest Radio Iowa High School Football Poll. Todd Kimm reports.
Des Moines, Iowa – Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered all flags in Iowa to be lowered to half-staff immediately on Monday, October 9, and remain at half-staff until sunset on Sunday, October 15, 2023, to honor the lives lost – including at least nine Americans – in the horrific attacks committed against Israel by Iran-backed terrorist organization Hamas.
“Iowans mourn for the families of those killed by Hamas in Israel. Hamas’ brutality knows no bounds, with reports of Holocaust survivors, women, and children taken by Hamas militants from their homes as hostages or brutally murdered,” said Gov. Reynolds. “Today and every day, Iowa stands in solidarity with Israel and their right to defend themselves.”
Flags will be flown at half-staff on the State Capitol Building and on flag displays in the Capitol Complex. Flags will also be at half-staff on all public buildings, grounds and facilities throughout the state.
Individuals, businesses, schools, municipalities, counties and other government subdivisions are encouraged to fly the flag at half-staff for the same length of time as a sign of respect.
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