Girls

Lewis Central 4, Omaha Burke 0

Denison-Schleswig 6, Riverside 0

Kuemper Catholic 10, Greene County 0

Logan-Magnolia 5, Carroll 1

Underwood 2, Treynor 0

Sioux City East 2, Abraham Lincoln 0

Thomas Jefferson 3, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 2

Sioux City North 5, LeMars 0

Bishop Heelan Catholic 10, Sioux City West 0

Boys

Lewis Central 4, Denison-Schleswig 3

Greene County 4, Kuemper Catholic 1

Treynor 7, Underwood 2

Abraham Lincoln 3, Sioux City East 2

Sergeant Bluff-Luton 5, Thomas Jefferson 1

Sioux City North 4, LeMars 1

Girls

Atlantic 7, Glenwood 2

Shenandoah 5, St. Albert 4

Clarinda 9, Southwest Valley 0

Red Oak 8, Audubon 1

Lewis Central 8, Harlan 1

Clarke 6, Creston 3

Denison-Schleswig 8, Storm Lake 1

Bishop Heelan Catholic 7, Sioux City North 2

LeMars 7, Sioux City West 2

Boys

Glenwood 9, Atlantic 0

Shenandoah 8, St. Albert 1

Southwest Valley 6, Clarinda 3

Red Oak 8, Audubon 1

Lewis Central 8, Harlan 1

Sioux City East 8, Denison-Schleswig 1

Sergeant Bluff-Luton 9, Estherville-Lincoln Central 0

LeMars 9, Sioux City West 0

Atlantic 186 Glenwood 213

Medalist: Belle Berg, Atlantic (40)

Clarinda 213 Shenandoah 235

Medalist: Sarah Pickens, Shenandoah (46)

Southwest Iowa Cup (at Creston)

Clarke 421 Winterset 457 Creston NTS East Union NTS Lenox NTS 

Medalist: Sophia Davis, Clarke (99) 

Denison-Schleswig 217 IKM-Manning 218 Boyer Valley 221

Medalist: Maeve Nielsen, IKM-Manning (47) 

Riverside 230 Logan-Magnolia 259

Medalist: Addison Brink, Riverside (51)

Underwood 214 Tri-Center 239 

Medalist: Natalie Ausdemore, Tri-Center (43)

Mount Ayr 195 Wayne 238 Melcher-Dallas NTS

Medalist: Jaylee Shaffer, Mount Ayr (37)

Sergeant Bluff-Luton 411 Bishop Heelan 426 Abraham Lincoln 609

Medalist: Cora Eckhoff, Sergeant Bluff-Luton (95)

Mustang Invitational (at Shenandoah)

Atlantic 302, Syndney 333, Red Oak 35

Atlantic – Tristan Hayes led the Trojans’ efforts and carded the tournament’s top score with a 70 (+1)

Southwest Iowa Cup

1. Winterset 316, 2. East Union 353, 3. Creston 363, 4. Lenox 401

East Union — Zayne Eslinger 81 (4th), Austin Lack 84, Brock Jones 92, Dyson Kessler 96, Josh Lopez 101, Ty Tallmon 103

Creston — Marshall Long 80 (3rd), Carson Rieck 92, Garrick Clausen 93, Chasse Downing 98, Tristian Evans 108, Ethan Holiday 117

Lenox — Laramie Stoaks 92, Kolben Robinson 101, Dayton Tull 103, Patton Adams 105, Cash Brammer 106, Daysen Gregg 113

Riverside 183 Logan-Magnolia 192 

Medalist: Nathan Smith, Riverside (43)

Tri-Center 173 Underwood 188 

Medalist: Danny Stein, Underwood (40)

Wayne 169 Mount Ayr 173 Melcher-Dallas 247

Medalist: Nash Buckingham, Wayne (38)

Central Decatur 225 Mormon Trail 283 

Medalist: Cooper Horton, Central Decatur (47)

DES MOINES – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources annual spring auction is being held online until April 24. To view the firearms for sale and to register to bid, go to https://auctionsolutionsinc.com/auctions.

Items up for auction include firearms, bows, gun cases and scopes. The items are sold “as is” with no guarantee or warranty. The list of items for sale and the terms of service is available at https://www.proxibid.com/Auction-Solutions-Inc/Iowa-State-Firearm-Auction-2024/event-catalog/259840.

Iowans who are winning bidders are required to pick up their firearms on April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the northwest corner parking lot/loading dock of the Wallace State Office Building, 502 East Ninth Street, in Des Moines.

The Iowa DNR reserves the right to reject any bids and withdraw any item from the sale at any time.

(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds says Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder has done a phenomenal job and her pay should reflect that.

Reynolds, though, is not suggesting what Bluder’s salary should be. Fran McCaffrey’s been coach of the men’s team at Iowa for 13 seasons and his annual salary this year is about three-point-two MILLION. Bluder, in her 24th season as the Iowa women’s coach, is earning 310-thousand dollars worth of bonuses due to her team’s run in this year’s N-C-Double-A tournament. That’s on top of her one-point-four MILLION dollar salary for this season.

Governor Reynolds spoke with reporters outside her Iowa Capitol office on April 9, 2024. (RI photo)

Iowa’s governor says the Hawkeye women have changed the landscape of women’s sports, capped by a championship game that was the most-watched basketball game since 2019 — surpassing college men’s basketball and N-B-A games over the past five seasons.

While speaking with reporters earlier today (Tuesday), Reynolds praised National Player of the Year Caitlin Clark and her Hawkeye teammates.

Reynolds played six-on-six girl’s basketball for Interstate 35 and graduated from the high school in Truro in 1977. Bluder graduated from high school two years later after playing six-on-six basketball at Linn-Mar. Bluder went on to be a three-year starter for the University of Northern Iowa women’s basketball team.

Naples, Fla. – The University of Iowa men’s golf team concluded the final round of the Calusa Cup on Tuesday afternoon at Calusa Pines Golf Club. The Hawkeyes finished 7th as a team, just five shots off 5th place. Iowa was 28-over par (293/298/301 = 892) after 56-holes. Freshman Noah Kent was the low scorer for Iowa at 2-over par (71/73/74) tying for 9th.

Kent shot 2-over (38) on the front nine before carding 36 (E) on the back nine for a final round 74 (+2). Kent eagled a par five with a putt that came from off the green. Just 10 players eagled throughout the tournament.

Senior Mac McClear tied Kent for the low round of the day at 2-over. McClear had three birdies in the final round, tying sophomore Hogan Hansen and freshman Max Tjoa, for a team high. McClear finished the tournament at 8-over par to tie for 22nd.

Junior Ian Meyer placed 26th at 9-over par.

Florida won the tournament at 3-under par. Scotty Kennon of Wake Forest won the individual medalist at 6-under par.

HAWKEYE NOTABLES

Iowa led the field with 162 pars as a team.
Noah Kent was one of 10 players to record an eagle.
Kent led the field in pars with 39.
Kent’s par four average of 4.03 (+1) tied for fifth in the field.

UP NEXT

The Hawkeyes return to Iowa City where they host the Hawkeye Invitational at Finkbine Golf Course April 13-14.

The Council of Presidents of the colleges and universities of the N-A-I-A has voted unanimously to ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports competitions. Corey Westra is the commissioner of the Great Plains Athletic Conference, which includes Iowa N-A-I-A schools Morningside, Briar Cliff and Dordt Universities, along with Northwestern College. He says the decision was made after a lot of examination.

(as said)”Two years of work in study group at our Council of Presidents level in the N-A-I-A. Our National Council of Presidents is our governing body,” Westra says. Westra has been the co-director of the N-A-I-A national tournaments for women’s basketball and volleyball that have been held in Sioux City the last several years.

(as said)”When you look at the N-A-I-A as a whole, you know, it’s a decision that’s about fairness in competition and this is an organization the N-A-I-A that has been committed and worked very, very hard to promote and grow women’s sports,” Westra says. “That goes back over 40 years back to Title Nine, the N-A-I-A was at the forefront of having women’s sports and having a championship opportunity for women’s sports.” Westra says the new policy expands to cover regular season sports.

(as said)”The prior policy only dealt in championship competition and it wasn’t encompassing of maybe where we are today on this particular issue of transgender athletes participating,” he says. Westra says he supports the decision as a lot of though went into it.

(as said)”It’s a decision that was wise. It was a decision that I think was done with tremendous deliberation,” he says, “this was not a ‘hey we’re gonna just throw something on the table and vote on it,’ not at all. I think you can look at it from many angles, and at the end of the day, I think it’s better to have a clear policy than to not.” The policy takes effect with the start of the 2024-2025 fall ports season in August.

New Drake basketball coach Ben McCollum hopes to take the program to the next level. After 15 years and four division-two national championships at Northwest Missouri State the Storm Lake native takes over a Bulldog program that enjoyed six straight seasons of 20-wins or more and three trips to the NCAA Tournament under former coach Darian DeVries.

McCollum hopes to build on the success enjoyed under DeVries.

McCollum interviewed for the Drake job six years ago when DeVries was hired.

McCollum feels the Drake job was the right fit for him and his family.

McCollum’s first chore is to rebuild the roster. More than a half dozen players from last year’s team are in the transfer portal.

McCollum on the challenge of moving to division one.

McCollum hopes to have his staff in place in about a week.