TRI-CENTER INVITATIONAL
Allysen Johnson and Madison Sporrer of Logan-Magnolia were first and second at the Tri-Center Invitational Tuesday. Hailey Egbert of Shenandoah was third, Marie Dea of Kuemper Catholic was fourth and Adyson Lapel of Woodbine was fifth. The rest of the girl’s top ten included Brylee Schechinger of Harlan, Michelle Wilson of Exira/EHK, Allie Anderson of Harlan, Keira Diehm of Heartland Christian and Taylor Bieker of Harlan. Harlan won the girls team title with 38 points, Logan-Magnolia was second with 58 and Boyer Valley was third with 69 points.
On the boy’s side, Landon Bendgen and Gunner Wagner placed first and second for Woodbine with Ryan North of Kuemper Catholic third, Dane Gorham of Boyer Valley fourth and Brennan Boden of Tri-Center fifth. the rest of the boy’s top ten includes Ian Shelton of Harlan, Jacob Greving of Kuemper Catholic, Brodie Davis of Logan-Magnolia, Dayton Wiederien of Kuemper Catholic and Jacob Hoden of Missouri Valley. Kuemper Catholic won the team crown with 41 points, Woodbine was second with 57 and Harlan third with 76.
CRESTON INVITATIONAL
Martensdale-St. Marys won the girl’s class B title with 36 points at the Creston Invitational Tuesday. Earlham was second with 39. Hannah Frank of Earlham was the champ. Jazz Christensen of Nodaway Valley placed 6th.
Clarinda won the girl’s class A title with 21 points. Creston was second with 52 and Red Oak was third with 66. Clarinda’s Raenna Henke and Elaina Hesse were the first two across the finish line.
Red Oak Police report that on Tuesday, September 19th, they arrested a 14 year old juvenile from Red Oak on a pair of drug offenses. The teen was charged with delivery to a minor, and distributing drugs near a school, both charges are class B felonies. The juvenile was taken to the Juvenile Detention Center in Council Bluffs.
Many of Iowa’s trees are struggling in the long-running drought. Joe Herring, a district forester with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, says some insects are causing problems with trees, and not just the emerald ash borer.
Herring says fall colors should be coming into view soon, starting with a species of small tree or bush found along roadsides, called sumac (SOO-mack).
During some drought years, the reds, yellows and oranges of fall appear more vibrantly on several species of trees in particular.
The D-N-R says the peak of fall color should be during the second week of October for the northern part of the state, and the second through the fourth weeks of October in southern Iowa.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny with a high near 81. South wind 10 to 15 mph.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear with a low around 55. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday: Mostly sunny with a high near 78. East southeast wind 5 to 15 mph.
Friday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy with a high near 76.
Saturday: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy with a high near 78. Breezy.
Sunday: A chance of showers. Mostly sunny with a high near 74.
Senior guard from the University of Iowa, Caitlin Clark, was named the winner of the 93rd AAU James E. Sullivan Award on Tuesday, presented annually since 1930 to the most outstanding athlete at the collegiate or Olympic level in the United States.
The winner is determined by AAU Sullivan Award Committee, AAU Board of Directors, sports media, and past winners. Former Iowa Wrestler, Spencer Lee, is the only other Hawkeye to win the award in school history (2019).
“I am incredibly humbled,” Clark said. “It is an honor to be selected for this prestigious award that elects a student-athlete that excels on the court and in the classroom. All the finalists are equally as deserving. It is special to represent the University of Iowa on this stage.”
Clark also won the 2023 Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year Award, Honda Cup and was named Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year as by THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA). She also won the 2023 Naismith, Wooden and Wade Trophies along with the Associated Press and USBWA Ann Drysdale Player of the Year honors.
She is also a two-time winner of the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard Award and is the first-ever three-time winner of the Dawn Staley Award. She also won the Honda Sport Award for Basketball in April.
Clark led her team to its first-ever NCAA Championship game and helped post the Hawkeye’s most wins in a single season. During the NCAA Tournament, she posted the first 40-point triple-double in NCAA Tournament history (men’s or women’s) and broke the NCAA single-tournament records for most 3-point FG made (24) and most points scored (191). This season, she is the only player in the nation with 1,000 points, 240 rebounds, 310 assists and 45 steals.
Overall, Clark became the first player in Division I women’s basketball history to record more than 1,000 points and 300 assists in the same season and was fastest Division I player (men’s or women’s) to reach 1,500 career points over the last 20 seasons.
Off the court, she is a two-time First Team Academic All-American and was named the 2023 CSC Academic All-America of the Year.
In addition to athletic excellence, the AAU Sullivan Award aims to recognize the qualities of leadership, citizenship, character, and sportsmanship on and off the field.
“Caitlin Clark is the epitome of what this award represents,” said Jo Mirza, AAU President. “We’re honored to have her name forever entwined with the AAU Sullivan Award and we can’t wait to see what she accomplishes next.”
The other finalists for the award included baseball player Dylan Crews, Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles, University of Tennessee swimmer Jordan Crooks, Olympic swimmer Kate Douglass, and Purdue basketball center Zach Edey.
Clark is the eighth basketball player to take home the AAU Sullivan Award in its 93-year history. Previous winners include Sabrina Ionescu (2019), Breanna Stewart (2015), J.J. Redick (2005), and Bill Walton (1973).
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has made her first public statement about former President Donald Trump’s recent remarks about abortion policy. During an interview a few days ago with N-B-C’s Meet the Press, Trump said the six week abortion ban his rival Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed in April was a terrible mistake. Trump commented on his Truth Social platform yesterday afternoon, saying the three U-S Supreme Court Justices he appointed did something nobody thought was possible by ending Roe v Wade and sending the abortion issue back to the states.
Trump says Republicans need to learn how to talk about abortion or risk losing elections in 2024. Governor Reynolds posted a comment on social media a little over an hour later. Reynolds says it’s never a terrible thing to protect innocent life and she’s proud of the fetal heartbeat bill she signed into law in 2018 and, again, this summer. On Monday, DeSantis told Radio Iowa Trump’s remarks don’t reflect the values of Iowans and last night he praised Reynolds on social media for promoting a culture of life.
Trump is scheduled to campaign in eastern Iowa today(Wednesday). He’ll hold an event in Maquoketa, then appear at a late afternoon rally in Dubuque. It’s the same Davenport venue where Trump held a rally eight years ago — the first one Sam Clovis attended.
Clovis had joined the Trump campaign team the morning of that 2015 rally in Dubuque and introduced Trump to the crowd. Clovis later went on to become the national co-chair of Trump’s 2016 campaign. Clovis says it’s important for Trump’s current campaign to hold rallies in each of Iowa’s four congressional districts.
Clovis says “Ninety percent of winning the Caucuses is showing up and that to me is important that he make appearances out here in the state and I’m convinced he will.” Clovis, who does not have a role in Trump’s 2024 campaign, says while current polling shows Trump holding a commanding lead — the Caucuses are four months away.
Clovis says Trump faces a better slate of candidates than he did in 2016. In the 2016 GENERAL Election, Trump was the first Republican presidential candidate to win Dubuque County in half a century. In the 2016 Iowa CAUCUSES, though, Trump narrowly won the Dubuque County with about 27 percent of the vote — roughly half a point ahead of Marco Rubio got in Dubuque that night.
(Nevada, Iowa) – Officials with the Nevada Public Safety Department, Tuesday, said two people were arrested in California, in connection with the death on Sunday of a 7-month-old child, in Nevada. As a result of an investigation, 35-year-old Juan Angel Montalvo, Jr., and 23-year-old Sheyenne Nichole Shore, of Nevada, were each charged with Murder in the 1st Degree, and Child Endangerment causing death. They were in custody in California on additional charges unrelated to the child’s death, and will be returned to Iowa to face charges.
A criminal complaint released Monday said Shore brought the baby to the hospital, where she was cold, stiff and her pupils were dilated and fixed. Doctors attempted life-saving measures, but they were unsuccessful.
The Iowa State Medical Examiner said the baby had multiple scrapes and bruises on the face, forehead, back and abdomen, skeletal fractures of her wrist, and hemorrhages of the right eye and liver. The medical examiner also said findings in the brain and eyes were consistent with non-accidental head injuries. Her death was ruled a homicide.
The criminal complaint said officials searched Montalvo and Shore’s residence and found the baby’s blood on her clothes and blankets.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Omaha/Valley Nebraska
200 AM CDT Wed Sep 20 2023
The National Weather Service in Omaha has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for…
Central Mills County in southwestern Iowa…
* Until 230 AM CDT.
* At 200 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 3 miles west of
Malvern, or 16 miles southeast of Offutt AFB, moving east at 10
mph.
HAZARD…60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE…Radar indicated.
IMPACT…Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include…
Glenwood and Malvern.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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