Class 1-A District 1st Round:

• District 11: Woodward Academy 68, East Union 35
• District 12: Melcher-Dallas 67, Colfax-Mingo 60
• District 13: Nodaway Valley 68, Diagonal 27
• District 14: Hamburg 56, Essex 42
• District 15: Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 71, West Harrison 47 (Austin Rasmussen led Exira/EHK with 25 points, including seven 3-pointers, 22 of those in the second half.  Cannon Hansen scored 13, Josh Nelson had 11 and Owen Juhl had 10 to lead the Spartans.)

Hawkeye Ten:

• Harlan 60, Creston 58
• Glenwood 92, Denison-Schleswig 50

Missouri River:

• Abraham Lincoln 67, Bishop Heelan Catholic 44

Non-Conference:

• Atlantic 51, Lenox 43 (Gavin McLaren led Atlantic with 16 points and Hunter Nelson & Grant Petty had 9 points each to lead the Trojans)
• Sergeant Bluff-Luton 67, Lewis Central 33
• Johnston 78, Thomas Jefferson 40

Hawkeye Ten:

• Glenwood 60, Denison-Schleswig 34

Missouri River:

• Bishop Heelan Catholic 69, Abraham Lincoln 40

Non-Conference:

• Lewis Central 54, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 45

The 10th ranked Iowa State men return to Big 12 play at home on Saturday against Cincinnati. The Cyclones are 9-4 in the league race. The Bearcats are 5-8 but they enter the game riding a three game win streak.

That’s ISU coach T.J. Otzelberger who says Cincinnati is playing with a lot of confidence.

Otzelberger says a key will be slowing down Cincinnati point guard Jizzle James.

• Riverside 54, Shenandoah 53
• AHSTW 41, Denison-Schleswig 28
• AC/GC 80, Underwood 52
• IKM-Manning 61, MVAOCOU 58
• Interstate 35 62, Nodaway Valley 39
• Chariton 59, Clarinda 53
• Treynor 60, Harlan 42

CLASS 1-A REGION 1 — FIRST ROUND 

• CAM 66, Griswold 36
• Woodbine 63, Boyer Valley 49
• Sidney 38, Bedford 33
• Stanton 67, Essex 20
• East Mills 63, Heartland Christian 26
• Fremont-Mills 67, Hamburg 20

CLASS 1-A REGION 3 — FIRST ROUND 

• Glidden-Ralston 52, Storm Lake St. Mary’s 30
• River Valley 58, Ar-We-Va 29
• St. Edmond 71, Paton-Churdan 24

CLASS 1-A REGION 6 — FIRST ROUND

• Moravia 46, Mormon Trail 32
• Melcher-Dallas 55, Southeast Warren 43
• Murray 52, East Union 31
• Lamoni 63, Seymour 41
• Lenox 46, Southwest Valley 42
• Wayne 61, Diagonal 20

 CLASS 1-A REGION 8 — FIRST ROUND 

• Madrid 41, Orient-Macksburg 38
• Ankeny Christian 31, Collins-Maxwell 21

Regular Season:

• Newell-Fonda 81, Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 37
• AHSTW 50, Denison-Schleswig 32
• MVAOCOU 81, IKM-Manning 46
• Clarinda 60, Chariton 32

Class 1-A District First Round

District 11: East Union at Woodward Academy

District 13: Diagonal at Nodaway Valley

District 14: Essex at Hamburg

District 15: West Harrison at Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton – on KJAN (5:00 pm)

The Iowa Hawkeye women had to grind out their sixth straight victory. Lucy Olsen scored 27 points as the Hawkeyes beat Rutgers 55-43. Iowa won despite shooting only 37 percent and committing 16 turnovers.

That’s Iowa coach Jan Jensen. The Hawkeyes built a 16 point lead midway through the fourth quarter but only scored nine points in the final quarter as they improve to 8-6 in the Big Ten.

Olsen finished 11-of-19 from the field and four-of-five from three point range.

The McLeod Center in Cedar Falls hosts an in-state wrestling dual on Sunday afternoon when fourth ranked UNI hosts 14th rated Iowa State. The Panthers are 12-1 in duals and coach Doug Schwab is hoping to set an attendance record against the Cyclones.

Schwab on what this series means to him.

The Cyclones have won the last five duals in the series. UNI will be in search of its first victory over the Cyclones since 2019.

The Cyclones are 10-4 and will open the weekend Friday night at 11th ranked South Dakota State.

That’s ISU coach Kevin Dresser who expects an electric atmosphere in the McLeod Center.

Dresser says it will be a challenging weekend for the Cyclones.

Iowa baseball coach Rick Heller is looking for improved pitching as the Hawkeyes get set to open the season Friday night with the first of a three game series at South Florida. Last season Hawkeye pitchers walked or hit 424 batters and it was a big factor in a disappointing 31-23 record.

Heller says the focus has been on limiting free bases.

Heller believes if the pitching and defense is good the Hawkeyes will score enough runs to be successful.

(Radio Iowa) – Lawmakers who represent two northeast Iowa school districts struggling to join a new athletic conference are sponsoring bills to establish a new committee to review conference re-alignment. The Decorah school district, for example, has lost its appeals to state officials and its teams will not be in a conference next year. Representative Michael Bergan, of Dorchester, represents Decorah in the Iowa House.

The bill calls for a new committee to be formed to evaluate the enrollment in conference schools, traditional rivalries and the compatibility of extracurricular activities among conference members.

Bergan says this is similar to the process used in Wisconsin.

House Speaker Pat Grassley is co-sponsoring the House bill with Bergan. Grassley represents the Waverly-Shell Rock District, which left the Northeast Iowa Conference at the end of the last school year and its bid to join the WaMac Conference was denied. A senate bill on the topic of conference realignment that’s identical to the House bill is co-sponsored by Senators Mike Klemish, of Spillville, and Sandy Salmon, of Janesville.