(Radio Iowa) – Joe Troche says Decorah is the right fit for his family and Luther is the right fit for him professionally. Troche was named Luther’s new football coach and takes over a program that has not enjoyed a winning season since 2017 and finished 0-10 this past season.
Troche had been an assistant coach at St. Olaf of Minnesota and says Luther is a similar type of school.
Troche says their style of play will fit their personnel.
(Radio Iowa) – Northern Iowa outscored Jackson State 21-2 to start the second half in a 66-56 win in Cedar Falls. The Panthers erased a seven point halftime deficit to improve to 3-5.
That’s UNI coach Ben Jacobson. After being held to 25 points in the opening half the Panthers scored 41 in the second half.
AJ Green finished with 24 points and says the Panthers focused on defense during an eight-day layoff.
Green says defense triggered their second half surge.
(Radio Iowa) – An insurance agent from Spirit Lake will fill a vacancy in the Iowa Senate. Unofficial results from Tuesday’s special election in senate district one show Republican Dave Rowley defeated his Democratic opponent by a wide margin. This is Rowley’s first run for elected office.
“However, I served as chair of Dickinson County Republicans and co-chair over the last 10 years,” he says, “so that helped a lot to get acquainted with the political scene.” Rowley will be sworn into office on January 10th, the first day of the 2022 legislative session. Reducing and ultimately eliminating the state’s personal income tax is a goal Republican Governor Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Senate’s Republican leader have embraced.
“The State of Iowa is probably in one of the best positions it could ever be to at least take a hard look at that,” Rowley says. Rowley says as a resident of northwest Iowa, he sees first hand some of the migration South Dakota gets because it does not have a state income tax. “I do know that once people reach retirement age, they look very hard at their state income tax,” Rowley says. “South Dakota seems to have a fairly good model and it does appeal to a lot of people.”
Rowley will replace Republican Zach Whiting who resigned from the state senate to take a job in Texas. Rowley will represent Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, Osceola and Palo Alto Counties for the next year. He intends to seek reelection in 2022, but in a new state senate district that includes his home county of Dickinson as well as Clay, Emmet, Kossuth and Winnebago. “My experience in insurance…in the last 30 directly in western Iowa, I have some very good friends that are in those counties,” Rowley says, “and I’ll definitely be reconnecting with a lot of the people that I know.”
Rowley, who has lived in Spirit Lake since the 1990s, works at an insurance agency in Estherville. Unofficial results show Rowley received 75 percent of the votes cast in the special election. He defeated Democrat Mark Lemke, a retired businessman who also lives in Spirit Lake.
CAM standout senior athlete Lane Spieker announced his intentions on Tuesday to play baseball for Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs.
Spieker just led the Cougars to an 8-Player State Football Championship this fall and has garnered All-State accolades for football and baseball over his career.
The Cougars were one step away from the State Baseball Tournament last season and Spieker had a monster season. He finished the season with 12 homeruns, 54 RBI, 61 runs scored, and 21 stolen bases. Spieker also pitched with a 2.84 ERA and 97 strikeouts.
Quad @ Creston
Creston 60, Glenwood 15
Creston 66, Treynor 9
Creston 73, West Central Valley 0
Glenwood 48, Treynor 27
Glenwood 48, West Central Valley 27
West Central Valley 36, Treynor 22
Quad @ Griswold
Underwood 49, Missouri Valley 27
Underwood 59, Nodaway Valley/O-M 9
Underwood 72. Griswold 6
Missouri Valley 76, Griswold 6
Missouri Valley 54, Nodaway Valley/O-M 22
Nodaway Valley/O-M 54, Griswold 18
Triangular @ Pleasantville
Pleasantville 48, Earlham 28
Pleasantville 58, ACGC 21
ACGC 47, Earlham 21
Quad @ St. Albert
Logan-Magnolia 46, Red Oak 31
Logan-Magnolia 76, St. Albert 6
Logan-Magnolia 54, Riverside 24
Red Oak 32, Riverside 31
Red Oak 54, St. Albert 15
Riverside 48, St. Albert 18
@ Stanberry, MO
Sotuthwest Valley 39, Penney, MO 30
Southwest Valley 42, Stanberry, MO 24
Sourthwest Valley 45, Maryville, MO 18
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Kuemper Catholic 44, Atlantic 38
Creston 49, Shenandoah 31
Glenwood 66, Harlan 45
Norwalk 42, Lewis Central 28
OABCIG 35, Denison-Schleswig 34
Western Iowa Conference
AHSTW 51, Missouri Valley 24
Audubon 42, Riverside 25 (Aleah Hermansen becomes Audubon career scoring leader)
Treynor 51, Tri-Center 18
Underwood 63, Logan-Magnolia 43
Rolling Valley Conference
CAM 61, West Harrison 16
Exira-EHK 57, Coon Rapids-Bayard 30
Glidden-Ralston 77, Paton-Churdan 43
Woodbine 74, Ar-We-Va 21
Corner Conference
East Mills 57, Heartland Christian 12
Sidney 44, Fremont-Mills 43
Stanton 65, Essex 33
Pride of Iowa Conference
Central Decatur 49, SE Warren 43
Lenox 57, Southwest Valley 46
Nodaway Valley 85, Bedford 25
Wayne 48, East Union 46
Other Scores
Earlham 39, West Central Valley 36
Panorama 61, Interstate-35 19
BOYS BASKETBALL
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Kuemper Catholic 67, Atlantic 64
Creston 51, Shenandoah 25
Denison-Schleswig 64, OABCIG 55
Harlan 71, Glenwood 49
Norwalk 53, Lewis Central 30
Western Iowa Conference
AHSTW 79, Missouri Valley 40
Audubon 58, Riverside 43
Treynor 49, Tri-Center 33
Underwood 60, Logan-Magnolia 44
Rolling Valley Conference
CAM 48, West Harrison 45
Exira-EHK 68, Coon Rapids-Bayard 46
Glidden-Ralston 61, Paton-Churdan 55
Woodbine 44, Ar-We-Va 43 (OT)
Corner Conference
East Mills 55, Heartland Christian 42
Sidney 60, Fremont-Mills 43
Stanton 78, Essex 5
Pride of Iowa Conference
Bedford 55, Nodaway Valley 34
Lenox 62, SW Valley 39
Wayne 57, East Union 36
Dayton Templeton’s three point attempt that would of tied the game fell short with about 12 seconds left and Kuemper Catholic was able to poke the rebound up the court and run out the clock for a 67-64 win on Tuesday in Atlantic. Atlantic had rallied from down 8 late in the 4th to give themselves a chance for the tie. Atlantic Head Coach Derek Hall thought they did some good things to have an opportunity late.
After a slow start for both teams Atlantic outscored the Knights 20-14 in the second quarter to lead 28-25 at half. The Knights grabbed the lead back early in the third and led by as much as 10 at two different points of the second half. The Knights went just 10-21 at the free throw line in the second half, and 11 of 26 for the game, helping Atlantic stay within striking distance. Coach Hall thought the Trojans did a better job of attacking the paint in the second half.
Kuemper was led by 12 points from Isaac Evans, 11 from Dawson Gifford, and 9 from Dennis Vonnahme. The Knights improved to 2-4 and picked up wins on back to back nights.
Atlantic got 17 from Colton Rasmussen, all in the second half. Dayton Templeton added 13 and Carter Pellett had 12 on four threes in the game. Atlantic fell to 0-5 and will travel to Lewis Central for their next game on Friday.
The Atlantic girls basketball team got within four points of Kuemper Catholic for a long stretch of the fourth quarter but couldn’t get the key basket needed to get closer. Kuemper came away with a 44-38 win and improved to 2-4 on the season.
It was a very close game throughout the first half with both offenses struggling mightily against zone defenses from both squads. Kuemper hit a couple shots in the last minute of the half to lead 17-15 at the break. The Knights then opened the second half on a 7-0 run but Atlantic quickly responded with an 10-2 run to get back within 1. Kuemper led by 5 at the end of the third and hung on with a lead near that mark the rest of the way.
Akuet Malek led the Knights with 12 points, Catherine Mayhall had 11, and Kora Thomsen added 10. The Knights will travel to Greene County on Saturday.
Atlantic got 20 points from Paytn Harter and 13 from Jada Jensen. The Trojans fall to 1-6 on the season and will next up host Lewis Central on Friday before traveling to Nodaway Valley on Saturday.
DES MOINES – Today (Tuesday), Gov. Reynolds and four other governors sent a letter to the Department of Defense requesting the withdraw of vaccine mandate directives to National Guard members that are in Title 32 duty status.
The Governor’s office says the U.S. Supreme Court has for decades affirmed that the National Guard is under the command and control of the Governor of each state until those members are called up to active-duty status under Title 10. Therefore, Gov. Reynolds is requesting the federal government abide by the law, allowing her to retain authority over the Iowa National Guard members and allow them personal choice without penalization of their status with the National Guard.
“The federal government continues to overreach further into the lives of Americans and especially those serving our country and protecting our very freedoms,” said Gov. Reynolds. “These are the very men and women who have selflessly devoted their lives to protecting us and responding to major disasters and times of crisis at the drop of a hat to provide peace and comfort, and now the federal government is giving them an ultimatum to get the vaccine or be separated from serving their country. It’s unconscionable to think the government will go so far as to strip these honorable men and women of the nation’s top duties if they don’t comply. They protect the very freedoms that the federal government apparently doesn’t believe they too deserve.”
The letter was sent to Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III by Governor Mark Gordon, Wyoming; Governor Mike Dunleavy, Alaska; Governor Kim Reynolds, Iowa; Governor Tate Reeves, Mississippi; and Governor Pete Ricketts, Nebraska. The deadline for U.S. National Guard members to be vaccinated was Dec. 2.
According to reports, nearly 50,000 military members across all branches refuse to get vaccinated at this time.
(Radio Iowa) – Two juvenile suspects have been arrested after separate online threats led to some Sioux City schools being placed on lock-down Tuesday. A 14-year-old girl was taken into custody after a threat against Sioux City East High School after allegedly posted a picture of a gun and stating she was headed to the school. Police say she had created a fake profile on Snapchat and made the post to alarm people, but had no plan to carry out the threat. She’s been charged with Class D felony counts of terrorism threats and harassment.
In an unrelated incident, a 15-year-old oby was identified and taken into custody for making a threat against Sioux City West High School. The Woodbury County Attorney’s Office is considering charged against the boy. Because of the threats, a middle school and Bishop Heelan Catholic High School were also locked down as authorities investigated.
Sioux City Police say students and staff at all the schools were safe in their buildings.
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