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Monday marks the start of Homecoming week in Atlantic leading up the football game on Friday night against the OA-BCIG Falcons and the dance on Saturday.
Atlantic students will be dressing up throughout spirit week and lunch games will be held throughout the week along with a dodgeball tournament for girls. Each class will make a float and judging will be held on Wednesday evening. The dress days are: Monday: Numero Uno – Colors for Each Class: Seniors-Blue, Juniors- Yellow, Sophomores-Green, Freshmen-Red. Tuesday: Glucose World – Pajama Day. Wednesday: Who is You? – Students Dress as Teachers, Teachers as Students. Thursday: Camo Day. Friday: Black and Gold.
Voting for King and Queen will take place on Wednesday. Queen candidates this year are: Halsey Bailey, Alyssa Ginther, Taylor Hansen, Cambry Miller, Baylee Newell, Sadie Welter, Ashley Wendt. King candidates are: Nathan Behrends, Tyler Comes, Matthew Gearheart, Kenneth Jimerson, Chase McLaren, Connor Pellett, and Korben Peterson. Corontation and Pep Assembly will start at 12:13pm on Friday.
The Homecoming parade will begin at 2:30pm on Friday. Parade entry forms are available in the high school office or online at www.atlanticiaschools.org. Entry forms are due by Thursday, September 27th at 3:00pm. Businesses and individuals are encouraged to join the parade.
Awarding of the spirit stick will take place at halftime of the football game and the Homecoming dance is on Saturday night.
You can contact the high school office at 243-5358 if you have any questions about Homecoming festivities.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Miles Mikolas’ outing against the San Francisco Giants was typical, and typical for him is pretty good.
Mikolas won his fourth straight start, Matt Carpenter hit his NL-leading 36th homer and the Cardinals beat the Giants 9-2 to complete a three-game sweep and remain on track for the NL’s second wild card.
St. Louis (87-69) has won three straight games and six of seven. The Cardinals remained 1½ games ahead of Colorado (85-70) and two games behind Milwaukee, the wild card leader. St. Louis hosts the Brewers (89-67) in a three-game series starting Monday night.
“We feel pretty good,” Mikolas said. “We feel strong. We feel like we’re a team that’s real dangerous and a team that’s going to come out and give a lot of people trouble.”
Mikolas (17-4) allowed two runs — one earned — and two hits in seven innings with eight strikeouts and no walks. John Brebbia and Giovanny Gallegos, who made his Cardinals debut, finished a five-hitter.
“I had some good sink of my fastball so I tried to use that a lot,” said Mikolas, tied with Washington’s Max Scherzer and Chicago’s Jon Lester for the NL lead in wins. “Just pound the zone. They took some swings early so I was able to get some quick outs.”
Mikolas has made 11 starts of at least seven innings and the two hits he gave up were a season low.
“He works ahead in the count so that creates doubt,” Cardinals manager Mike Shildt said. “He can pretty much throw any pitch he wants at any time in the count. He throws inner half, which sets up the outer half, which disrupts the balance of the hitter and he can change speed which disrupts the timing of the hitter. That combination is what pitching is.”
Andrew Suarez (7-12) gave up two runs and six hits in five innings as San Francisco gave him three runs or less of run support during his time in the game for the 21st time this season. The Giants finished 31-50 on the road for a two-year record of 57-105 away from home.
San Francisco has lost 10 straight road games against NL Central teams since winning at the Chicago Cubs on May 27.
“It’s a tough lineup,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said of the Cardinals. “They’ve got power, speed, good athletes.”
The bottom two in the Cardinals batting order built a 2-0 lead with two-out singles, by Yairo Munoz in the second and Mikolas in the fourth.
Harrison Bader bunted in a run to spark a five-run sixth that includes RBI singles by Munoz and Paul DeJong around Jose Martinez’s two-run double. Carpenter hit a two-run homer off Casey Kelly in the eighth.
“Everybody contributed,” Carpenter said. “Guys finding a way to score even when we’ve got some guys that aren’t getting it done. It’s the making of a good team.”
Brandon Crawford’s two-run homer in the seventh stopped an 0-for-9 skid.
“I’ve faced him a few times back in 2012 but other than that I haven’t seen him for years,” Crawford said of Mikolas. “I was just looking for something up that I can put in play and try and just get the bat on and fortunately saw the curve ball enough to put the barrel on it.”
TRAINING ROOM
Cardinals: 2B Kolten Wong missed his second consecutive start after leaving Friday’s game in the seventh inning with cramps in both hamstrings.
DEBUT
INF Edmundo Sosa was recalled from Triple-A Memphis. Sosa made his debut when he walked as a pinch-hitter in the eighth, and he scored on Carpenter’s home run.
UP NEXT
Giants: LHP Derek Holland (7-8, 3.57 ERA) starts the first of a three-game series at home against San Diego and RHP Bryan Mitchell (1-4, 6.16 ERA) on Monday night. Holland will make his first start since July 18, which was also against the Padres, where he allowed four runs in five innings.
Cardinals: RHP Jack Flaherty (8-8, 3.08 ERA) kicks off a three-game home series Monday night against Milwaukee and RHP Chase Anderson (9-8, 3.93 ERA). Flaherty is 1-1 with a 2.35 ERA in four career starts against the Brewers.
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Alabama (60) | 4-0 | 1523 | 1 |
| 2. Georgia | 4-0 | 1422 | 2 |
| 3. Clemson (1) | 4-0 | 1409 | 3 |
| 4. Ohio St. | 4-0 | 1363 | 4 |
| 5. LSU | 4-0 | 1238 | 6 |
| 6. Oklahoma | 4-0 | 1201 | 5 |
| 7. Stanford | 4-0 | 1143 | 7 |
| 8. Notre Dame | 4-0 | 1067 | 8 |
| 9. Penn St. | 4-0 | 1001 | 10 |
| 10. Auburn | 3-1 | 987 | 9 |
| 11. Washington | 3-1 | 946 | 10 |
| 12. West Virginia | 3-0 | 923 | 12 |
| 13. UCF | 3-0 | 727 | 16 |
| 14. Michigan | 3-1 | 698 | 19 |
| 15. Wisconsin | 3-1 | 662 | 18 |
| 16. Miami | 3-1 | 571 | 21 |
| 17. Kentucky | 4-0 | 541 | – |
| 18. Texas | 3-1 | 308 | – |
| 19. Oregon | 3-1 | 297 | 20 |
| 20. BYU | 3-1 | 270 | 25 |
| 21. Michigan St. | 2-1 | 256 | 24 |
| 22. Duke | 4-0 | 244 | – |
| 23. Mississippi St. | 3-1 | 241 | 14 |
| 24. California | 3-0 | 118 | – |
| 25. Texas Tech | 3-1 | 106 | – |
Others receiving votes: Colorado 83, Boise St. 58, Virginia Tech 55, South Florida 50, Oklahoma St. 44, Texas A&M 41, Iowa 31, South Carolina 31, Florida 29, NC State 28, Syracuse 25, TCU 24, North Texas 10, Cincinnati 10, Utah 9, Mississippi 7, Missouri 7, Buffalo 6, Maryland 6, San Diego St. 5, Arizona St. 4.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes is just as efficient at home as he is on the road. He gets the same results, too. After winning his first three starts, all away from Arrowhead Stadium, the second-year pro finally made his regular-season home debut Sunday. Mahomes responded by torching San Francisco’s banged-up pass defense for 314 yards and three touchdowns in a 38-27 victory over the 49ers.
Mahomes now has 13 touchdown passes without an interception, breaking the NFL record for TD passes in the first three weeks of a season. Peyton Manning threw 12 to start the 2013 campaign. Mahomes’ touchdown passes to Chris Conley, Demetrius Harris and Sammy Watkins , along with a pair of TD runs by Kareem Hunt, helped Kansas City (3-0) race to a 35-7 lead late in the first half.
Few leads are safe against the Chiefs’ porous defense, though. The 49ers (1-2) rallied behind running backs Matt Breida and Alfred Morris, who kept gouging the Chiefs’ defensive front, and Jimmy Garoppolo, who threw for 251 yards and two scores . It was Garoppolo’s 11-yard pass to Marquis Goodwin early in the third quarter that started the comeback, and Morris scored on a short touchdown run later in the quarter to make it 35-24.
After the Chiefs tacked on a field goal early in the fourth to extend their lead, the 49ers came back with a grinding, 17-play drive that wiped out more than half the period. But it ended in a strange sequence that began with Garoppolo taking a hard hit from Steven Nelson along the sideline. Garoppolo easily could have stepped out of bounds, but instead he was crushed on his throwing shoulder and had to leave.
C.J. Beathard came in and threw what appeared to be a fourth-down touchdown pass to George Kittle, but it was wiped out by offensive pass interference. There was only 5:17 left, but rather than go for it on fourth-and-goal at the Kansas City 25, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan elected to kick a field goal — keeping it a two-possession game.
San Francisco proceeded to kick it deep rather than try an onside kick. The Chiefs picked up a first down on a penalty, and Hunt churned his way for two more first downs to put the game away.
The 49ers have not won in Arrowhead Stadium since Dec. 26, 1982.
UP NEXT…49ers: Play the Chargers in Los Angeles next Sunday. Chiefs: Visit the AFC West-rival Broncos next Monday night.
(2-1) AHSTW, Avoca 21-14-15, Atlantic 13-21-10
(2-0) AHSTW, Avoca 21-21, CAM, Anita 15-13
(2-0) AHSTW, Avoca 21-21, Southwest Valley 11-17
(2-1) AHSTW, Avoca 27-23-15, Panorama 25-25-13
(2-1) Atlantic 21-13-17, CAM, Anita 18-21-15
(2-0) Audubon 21-21, Exira-EHK 15-14
(2-1) Bishop Heelan 21-10-15, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 16-21-12
(2-0) Bishop Heelan 22-21, Sioux City, North 20-16
(2-1) Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 13-21-15, Lewis Central 21-11-11
(2-0) Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 21-21, Hinton 17-7
(2-0) Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 21-21, Sheldon 12-15
(2-0) Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 21-21, Sioux City, East 8-15
(2-0) Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 21-21, Sioux City, North 10-15
(2-1) Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 21-9-15, Fremont-Mills 16-21-6
(2-0) Dallas Center-Grimes 21-21, Carroll 11-17
(2-1) East Mills 19-21-15, Central Decatur, Leon 21-9-9
(2-1) East Union 11-21-15, Central Decatur, Leon 21-11-12
(2-1) Griswold 21-8-15, Fremont-Mills 17-21-3
(2-1) Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 12-21-16, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 21-16-14
(2-0) Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 21-21, LeMars 9-14
(2-0) Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 21-21, Sioux Center 11-8
(2-0) Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 21-21, Southwest Christian 14-12
(2-1) Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 23-19-15, Unity Christian 21-21-12
(2-0) Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 24-21, Sioux Falls Christian 22-10
(2-0) Lenox 21-21, Audubon 12-18
(2-0) Lenox 21-21, Exira-EHK 13-11
(2-0) Mount Ayr 25-25, Central Decatur, Leon 13-19
(2-1) Panorama 14-21-15, AHSTW, Avoca 21-14-13
(2-1) Panorama 21-18-15, Lenox 16-21-4
(2-0) Panorama 21-21, Atlantic 18-12
(2-0) Panorama 21-21, CAM, Anita 17-19
(2-0) Sergeant Bluff-Luton 21-21, LeMars 17-8
(2-0) Sidney 21-21, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 12-9
(2-0) Sidney 21-21, East Atchison 4-8
(2-0) Sidney 21-21, Fremont-Mills 6-8
(2-0) Sidney 21-21, Griswold 11-9
(2-1) Southwest Valley 17-24-15, Audubon 21-22-5
(2-0) Southwest Valley 21-21, Lenox 16-16
(2-1) Southwest Valley 23-15-15, Lenox 21-21-6
(2-0) Unity Christian 21-21, LeMars 9-10
(2-1) West Monona 21-14-15, Westwood, Sloan 10-21-7
(2-0) West Monona 21-21, Lawton-Bronson 13-12
(2-0) West Monona 21-21, River Valley 15-6
(2-1) Woodbury Central 21-14-15, West Monona 16-21-13
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Eli Dunne threw three touchdown passes, Trevor Allen and Marcus Weymiller each ran for a score and Northern Iowa forced five turnovers in shutting out Hampton 44-0 on Saturday. Dunne was 16 of 23 for 191 yards passing, with TD strikes of 19 yards to Nick Fossey and 12 yards to Deion McShane. Delmon Williams was 4 of 16 for 52 yards passing for Hampton (1-2), with three interceptions.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Alex Hornibrook threw a 17-yard TD pass to A.J. Taylor with 57 seconds left and No. 18 Wisconsin bounced back from last week’s loss by rallying past Iowa 28-17. Jonathan Taylor had 113 yards rushing and Alec Ingold ran for a 33-yard score with 22 seconds left for the Badgers, who also got a major leg up the Hawkeyes _ perhaps their biggest threat in the Big Ten West race _ in their league opener.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Zeb Noland threw for 233 yards and a TD, David Montgomery had 107 yards rushing and a score and Iowa State held off Akron 26-13 for its first win of the season. Connor Assalley added four field goals for the Cyclones (1-2), who put forth an underwhelming performance ahead of a brutal stretch in the Big 12.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Karan Higdon ran for 136 yards and a touchdown in the first half to help No. 19 Michigan build a huge lead and it coasted 56-10 over Nebraska. The Wolverines led 20-0 after the first quarter and 39-0 at halftime. The Cornhuskers are off to their worst start since 1945; they have lost seven in a row for the first time since 1957. Michigan rested Higdon in the second half after he missed the previous game with an injury.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tyler O’Neill hit a solo home run with two outs in the 10th inning and the St. Louis Cardinals held their playoff position, rallying past the San Francisco Giants 5-4. Yadier Molina also homered for St. Louis, which began the day 1 ½ games ahead of Colorado for the second NL wild-card spot. The Cardinals, who have seven games remaining, started three games behind Milwaukee for the top wild-card slot. St. Louis won for the fifth time in six games. San Francisco has lost three in a row.
DETROIT (AP) — Mikie Mahtook hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning, and the Detroit Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 in Victor Martinez’s final major league game. With the score tied at 3, Niko Goodrum led off the eighth with his third hit of the game, a single off Jason Hammel. Mahtook then lined Hammel’s 1-0 slider over the left-field fence for his ninth homer. Martinez had an infield single in his first at-bat and was lifted for a pinch-runner.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — With their season seemingly on the line in late September, Wisconsin showed that the Big Ten West will likely run through Madison yet again.
Alex Hornibrook threw a 17-yard TD pass to A.J. Taylor with 57 seconds left and the 18th-ranked Badgers bounced back from last week’s loss by rallying past Iowa 28-17 on Saturday night.
Jonathan Taylor had 113 yards rushing and Alec Ingold ran for a 33-yard score with 22 seconds left for the Badgers (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten). They also got a major leg up on the Hawkeyes — perhaps their biggest threat in their quest for a third straight West title — in the league opener.
“It wasn’t a perfect game by any means, but it was a great team win,” Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst said. “They stepped up and made plays when they had to.”
Wisconsin marched 88 yards in 10 plays on the game-deciding drive, capped when Hornibrook found an open Taylor for his third touchdown of the game.
Hornibrook finished 17 of 22 passing for 205 yards, and his three TDs were a season high.
The Badgers took advantage of a short field caused by an Iowa fumble to go up 14-10 on Hornibrook’s 12-yard TD pass to Danny Davis. The Hawkeyes responded with Nate Stanley’s second touchdown throw to Noah Fant, from a yard out, to make it 17-14 with 1:37 left in the third quarter.
Iowa (3-1, 0-1) seemed to have the Badgers pinned, but Wisconsin overcame one of the nation’s best defenses in winning its fifth straight in Iowa City.
Stanley threw for 256 yards on 14 of 23 passing, but he was picked off on a deflected ball with 38 seconds left. Ingold then broke free, making the final margin seem a lot bigger.
“They had a good blitz dialed up against us … it was just a tough play and they capitalized on it,” Stanley said of his pick.
THE TAKEAWAY
Wisconsin: Don’t count Wisconsin out of the playoff yet, though after losing last week to BYU 24-21 the Badgers are still way, way out of the picture. Beating Iowa in Iowa City isn’t easy to do — just ask Michigan in 2016 and Ohio State in 2017 — and with road games left against Michigan and Penn State, the opportunity is there for Wisconsin to build a solid postseason resume. The Badgers just can’t lose again. “I think when we’re on the road, we know we’ve got each others’ back and we play for each other,” Ingold said after Wisconsin’s 10th straight road win.
Iowa: The Hawkeyes blew a golden opportunity to move to 4-0, join the Top 25 and start thinking about a special season. But the schedule sets up nicely for the Hawkeyes to end up 9-3 or maybe even 10-2, despite playing four of their next five on the road. “It’s a tough loss…as anyone saw, we had some critical errors,” Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. The Hawkeyes lost a pair of fumbles and had a turnover margin of minus-3, very unusual for a program that prides itself on protecting the ball.
THE NUMBERS
T.J. Hockenson had three catches for 125 yards for Iowa. …Jake Ferguson caught four passes for 58 yards, and his 6-yard TD grab completed a 95-yard drive that opened the scoring. …Iowa. …Wisconsin had eight penalties for 68 yards.
PIVOTAL MOMENT
On a 3rd-down-and-5 in the middle of Wisconsin’s 88-yard drive late in the fourth, Hornibrook found Garrett Groshek for a 5-yard catch that gave the Badgers a first down by barely the nose of the ball. Hornibrook found A.J. Taylor waiting over a fallen Iowa defender three plays later. “I was proud of the way guys stayed in it. We needed to be to give ourselves a chance,” Chryst said.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Wisconsin might move up a few spots by winning at night at Kinnick Stadium.
HE SAID IT
Iowa found itself on the Wisconsin 5-yard line with fourth down and 1 to go in the first quarter. The Hawkeyes sent Stanley on a dive, but it went nowhere. Though it was early, the points the Hawkeyes left on the field came back to haunt them.
“We wanted to play it that way,” Ferentz said. “I’m not sure about the spot we got, but there was a lot of football after that.”
UP NEXT
Wisconsin is off next week. The Badgers host Nebraska on Oct. 6.
Iowa is also heading into its bye week. The Hawkeyes play at Minnesota on Oct. 6 in its first road game.
Southwest Valley Tournament
AHSTW 4-1 (Champion)
Panorama 4-1 (2nd)
Southwest Valley 4-1 (3rd)
Lenox 2-3 (4th)
Atlantic 1-2
Audubon 1-2
CAM 0-3
Exira-EHK 0-3
Bedford Tournament
East Mills 5-0 (Champion)
Mount Ayr 4-1 (2nd)
Lamoni 3-2 (3rd)
Central Decatur 1-4 (4th)
East Union 2-2
Stanton 2-2
Bedford 1-3
Murray 0-4
Fremont-Mills Tournament
Sidney 4-0
CB Thomas Jefferson 3-1
Griswold 2-2
Fremont-Mills 1-3
East Atchison 0-4
Sioux City East Tournament
CB Abraham Lincoln 5-1 (Champions)
Lewis Central 5-1 (2nd)
Unity Christian Tournament
Kuemper Catholic 6-0 (Champions)
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 5-1 (2nd)
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