Chris Parks, Jim Field, Matt Mullenix, and Doug Leonard take a look at 8 area high school football games each week. We try to provide some insight into the match-ups while competing for top prognosticator and the Whosman Trophy.

Last Week:

Matt Mullenix 4-4
Chris Parks 4-4
Doug Leonard 6-2
Jim Field 4-4

Overall Standings:

Matt Mullenix 22-10
Chris Parks 22-10
Doug Leonard 21-11
Jim Field 20-12

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KJAN Sports Director Chris Parks’ Weekly discussion with Atlantic Head Football Coach Mike McDermott. They talk about the loss last week at Harlan and look forward to opening up district play at home against Kuemper Catholic.

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Audubon Co-Ed Invite

Boys Top 5 Individual

1. Joshua Baudler, Nodaway Valley 17:53
2. Justin Ambrose, Boyer Valley 18:06
3. Jordan Hustak, Missouri Valley 18:47
4. Brett McGee, Tri-Center 19:12
5. Wynn Yeager, Winterset 19:15

Varsity Boys Results Audubon 2018

Boys Team Top 5

1. Nodaway Valley 35
2. Winterset 62
3. Tri-Center 91
4. Riverside 104
5. Missouri Valley 111

Audubon Boys Team Results 2018

Girls Top 5 Individual

1. Peyton Pogge, Tri-Center 21:06
2. Darci Wiseman, Winterset 23:01
3. Sophia Broers, Nodaway Valley 23:07
4. Micah Yeager, Winterset 23:32
5. Reagan Weinheimer, Nodaway Valley 23:54

Varsity Girls Results Audubon 2018

Girls Team Top 5

1. Winterset 41
2. Tri-Center 56
3. Nodaway Valley 71
4. Audubon 79
5. Boyer Valley 117

Audubon Girls Team Results 2018

AC/GC XC Invitational

Boys Top 5 Individual

1. Noah Nelsen, AC/GC 18:05.74
2. Logan Berg, Baxter 18:12.97
3. Louden Foster, West Central Valley 18:43.70
4. Isaac Timmerman, Mount Ayr
5. Chase Smith, Mount Ayr

Boys Team Top 5

1. AC/GC 70
2. Red Oak 98
3. Perry 119
4. Mount Ayr 122
5. Martensdale St. Marys 135

ACGC Boys 2018

Girls Top 5 Individual

1. Ella Waddle, Panorama 20:23
2. Courtney Sporrer, Logan-Magnolia
3. Taylor Sporrer, Logan-Magnolia
4. Kate Crawford, AC/GC
5. Brenna Thomson, Baxter

Girls Team Top 5

1. Logan-Magnolia 64
2. Panorama 71
3. Collins-Maxwell 87
4. AC/GC 90
5. Baxter 104

ACGC Girls 2018

The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast with Jim Field.

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(Radio Iowa) — The future of sports betting in the state could look a lot like what’s been put in place in Delaware. The Iowa Lottery has been following the issue at the request of state lawmakers after a U-S Supreme Court ruling in May made sports betting legal across the county. Lottery spokesperson Mary Neubauer says Delaware approved sports betting shortly after the court ruling. “We think Delaware did a really good job of designing its system to try to provide the convenience factor that all of the experts have said is so important in terms of trying to beat back the black market,” Neubauer explains. “You have to make it convenient for people to be able to place wagers or they’ll just stick will the illegal means.”

The largest share of the betting in Delaware is on N-F-L and college football games. Gamblers bet two-point-eight million of the overall five-point-one million dollars in sports betting on the pro game in the first week of the N-F-L season. They bet nearly two-point-six million on the N-F-L in its second week out of the and five-point-five million total for sports betting. Neubauer says Delaware has a system where you can bet in casinos or at retail locations, such as convenience stores. “In Delaware the way it works is that full blown sports betting — meaning sports betting with every possible variation that you could imagine — is done at casino locations. But then retail locations offer what are called parlay bets — which is bets on more than one game at a time. So, obviously the offerings at retail are more limited.”

Neubauer says there’s a distinct difference in the types of betting. “The numbers are showing that the bets that are being placed at retail locations are smaller — which what I think is what the experts would have told us to anticipate. That those are just casual betters, maybe they just place a bet on the way home,” according to Neubauer. “The bets that are being placed at casino locations in Delaware are larger. So, the true sports betting enthusiasts seem to be going to the casinos.” The wagers at the retail location in Delaware average almost 11 dollars, while the casino wagers average nearly 51 dollars. She says she can see the same type of plan working in Iowa. “I think that same kind of model already exists here in Iowa within our gaming market here — where you have lottery at retail locations and then casino locations as well. There seems to be room for both,” Neubauer says. There’s also a link between the Iowa and Delaware gaming markets. “The system provider in Delaware that is providing the equipment and the communications system for the sports betting that’s occurring in casinos and locations is Scientific International. That is the Iowa Lottery’s vendor here in Iowa,” Neubauer explains. “So that is the way we are able to get access to a lot of the numbers that we’ve already been sharing.”

She says it is possible the vendor could work it out so sports betting could be done through the existing lottery machines and infrastructure. Neubauer says the Delaware model and the connection with the service provider gives an early indication of how things might work. “The expertise is there, it’s just a question of what do Iowa lawmakers want to do. And once they’ve made that decision, then we can provide whatever assistance they may need,” Neubauer says.

Neubauer updated the Iowa Lottery Board at their meeting Thursday. She says they will continue reviewing the sports gambling landscape and keep lawmakers updated, so they have the latest information if they decide to move ahead with the issue.

Friday (09/21/2018)

CLASS 4A

District 7
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln at Urbandale
Des Moines, North at Ames
Valley, West Des Moines at Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson

CLASS 3A

District 1
Denison-Schleswig at Spencer
Sergeant Bluff-Luton at Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City
Storm Lake at LeMars

District 2
Boone at Humboldt
Dallas Center-Grimes at Perry
Webster City at Carroll

District 9
Harlan at ADM, Adel
Lewis Central at Creston-O/M
Winterset at Glenwood

CLASS 2A

District 9
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll at Atlantic
OABCIG at Red Oak
Shenandoah at Greene County

CLASS 1A

District 8
Clarinda at Panorama, Panora
Mount Ayr at West Central Valley, Stuart
Van Meter at AC/GC

District 9
East Sac County at Treynor
Missouri Valley at Cherokee, Washington
Underwood at MVAOCOU

CLASS A

District 2
Alta/Aurelia at Manson Northwest Webster
IKM-Manning at St. Edmond, Fort Dodge
Sioux Central, Sioux Rapids at Ridge View

District 9
Earlham at St. Albert, Council Bluffs
Nodaway Valley at Southwest Valley
Riverside, Oakland at AHSTW

District 10
Logan-Magnolia at Westwood, Sloan
West Monona at Lawton-Bronson
Woodbury Central, Moville at Tri-Center, Neola

CLASS 8

District 6
East Union, Afton at Southeast Warren, Liberty Center
Lamoni at Moravia
Lenox at Mormon Trail, Garden Grove
Seymour at Murray

District 7
Clarinda Academy at Essex
Fremont-Mills, Tabor at Griswold
Sidney at Bedford
Stanton at East Mills

District 8
Audubon at Boyer Valley, Dunlap
Coon Rapids-Bayard at West Harrison, Mondamin
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton at CAM, Anita
Glidden-Ralston at Woodbine

Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

AMES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa State community will close out a horrible week by coming together to watch the Cyclones at Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday. The game against Akron will be more about helping the school, alumni and fans remember one of their own than football. Former Big 12 champion golfer Celia Barquin Arozamena was found stabbed to death while playing golf at a local course earlier in the week and the team plans to honor her by wearing a helmet decal.

VILAMOURA, Portugal (AP) — Sergio Garcia dedicated his round in the Portugal Masters to the Spanish women’s college golfer killed in Iowa. Celia Barquin Arozamena, the Big 12 champion this year for Iowa State, was found stabbed to death Monday. Garcia shot a 5-under 66, leaving the Spanish star three strokes behind leader Lucas Herbert

UNDATED (AP) — The first Big Ten game of the season for No. 18 Wisconsin and Iowa could end up being the biggest one in the West division this season. The Badgers lost to BYU last weekend but still look like the class of the division. Iowa and its dominant defense looks like Wisconsin’s most dangerous threat. Saturday’s game in Iowa City could go a long way in determining who reaches the Big Ten title game.

DETROIT (AP) — Christin Stewart hit his first two big-league homers and drove in six runs Thursday night, leading the Detroit Tigers past the Kansas City Royals 11-8. Stewart, a September call-up playing in his 11th game, became the first Tigers rookie to drive in six runs in a game since Ryan Raburn had seven against the Chicago White Sox on July 25, 2007.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has already won three games on the road. Now, he’ll try to win one at Arrowhead Stadium. The young record-setting quarterback makes his home debut on Sunday against San Francisco, which boasts its own dynamic young signal-caller in Jimmy Garoppolo. It’s a meeting of two teams that appear to be on the rise.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs have poured draft picks and free-agent money into building their offensive line, and so far it has paid off. Not only did the group help Kareem Hunt win the NFL’s rushing title last year, it has been nearly perfecting in protecting Patrick Mahomes. The group has allowed just two sacks through the first two weeks of the season.

Hawkeye Ten Conference

(3-0) St. Albert, Council Bluffs 25-25-25, Atlantic 11-7-14

Western Iowa Conference

(3-2) IKM-Manning 18-25-25-25-15, Missouri Valley 25-19-27-22-11
(3-0) Tri-Center, Neola 25-25-25, Underwood 7-22-18
(3-0) Treynor 25-25-25, Logan-Magnolia 14-14-23

Rolling Valley Conference

(3-0) Boyer Valley 25-25-25, Woodbine 6-13-11
(3-0) CAM, Anita 25-25-30, Ar-We-Va, Westside 10-11-28
(3-1) Coon Rapids-Bayard 20-25-25-25, Exira-EHK 25-12-18-16
(3-1) Paton-Churdan 25-23-25-25, Woodbine 7-25-17-16

Corner Conference

(3-2) East Mills 25-25-24-22-15, Mount Ayr 15-23-26-25-4
(2-0) Essex 25-25, South Page 22-22
(2-0) Lenox 25-25, Essex 15-16
(2-0) Lenox 25-25, South Page 16-12

AMES, Iowa (AP) — It was decades ago, but Sara Schwendinger remembers perfectly the panic she felt when she realized a car was following her as she ran along a country road at dusk, just outside her small Wisconsin hometown. She desperately tore into a cornfield and listened as the vehicle stopped. “I remember hiding in the cornfield and hearing them and then just running as fast as I could in the other direction and making it out of this cornfield and all the way to my house and being petrified,” she said. “That experience has never left me, and it’s 25 years ago.”

Now 41 and living in Des Moines, Schwendinger often recalls that evening as she hears comments yelled by passing motorists when she trains along city streets. It’s a disturbingly common part of life for female athletes, and it’s suddenly in the spotlight following the deaths of three women who were attacked while engaged in the sports they love. The killings raised alarms about how women can defend themselves and why they must be ready to fight off attackers in the first place.

“It’s not fair that they have a different situation than a man does,” said Steve Bobenhouse, the owner of a Des Moines-area running store and a longtime fixture in the city’s running community. “But it’s the way it is.” Iowa State University golf star Celia Barquin Arozamena was stabbed to death during a random attack while she was golfing by herself in broad daylight on a course not far from the campus, in Ames.

That attack came little more than a month after the body of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts was found hidden among corn stalks near her small hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. She had disappeared weeks earlier after going for a run. Police have charged men with murder in both of the Iowa killings. Tibbetts’ death prompted an outpouring from other runners, especially on social media under the hashtag #MilesforMollie.

Hundreds of women shared their experiences of being harassed and followed and vowed to keep running as a show of defiance. After Tibbetts’ death, Bobenhouse’s store set up a meeting to discuss safety issues and had to move the gathering to the city’s main library due to an overwhelming response. More than 200 women gathered that night to hear from police and share best practices on how to stay safe while running alone.

Kathleen Meek, who helped organize the event, said a key issue is situational awareness. “I’d be the first one to say that, even walking, I’ve had headphones in and I’ve thought ‘Oh my gosh. I don’t even know who’s around me,” Meek said. She urged women to “know what’s going around you so you can be confident in what you’re doing.”

Other suggestions included using the buddy system, joining a running/biking club and informing others of intended routes should something go wrong. Des Moines police spokesman Paul Parizek, who hosted the meeting, also warned women to know their abilities and understand their limitations should they find themselves in imminent danger. “There’s a lot of conversation now, especially since Mollie Tibbetts’ (death), about, do I need a gun? Do I need a stun gun? Pepper spray? What do I need? Well, that depends on what you’re willing to do, what you think you need to do and what you’re capable of doing,” Parizek said.

According to Joseph Giacalon, a retired New York City detective and sergeant who now teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, one of the ways that women can also put themselves in danger is when they share their whereabouts on social media. Giacalon says his warnings to his students not to announce their plans on Instagram, Twitter or Snapchat can “fall on deaf ears.” But he also tells his students to change up their routines as often as they can and make sure their headphones aren’t turned up too loud to for them to not know what’s happening around them.

“These guys are just looking for that opportunity,” Giacalon said. “Women, specifically, need to be mindful of their surroundings, unfortunately, when they’re going out.”
If there’s one thing Parizek, Giacalon and Schwendinger agree on, it’s that women shouldn’t have to face these issues to begin with. But they do, and Schwendinger, the cross country coach at Roosevelt High in Des Moines, said it happens to her so often that she’s “almost” unfazed when she’s harassed while running. Recently, a truck full of men yelled out lewd comments to her in the middle of the day on a busy main street between downtown and the airport.

To Schwendinger, the issue is less about women learning to protect themselves and more about changing the dialogue about women being objectified. “We shouldn’t have to arm ourselves against men who are making those decisions,” she said. “You teaching me how to throat punch a guy is all well and good. But why do I need to be in the position to throat punch a guy?”