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IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa student-athletes Nia Carter (softball) and Austin Kresley (men’s track and field) were named May’s Student-Athletes of the Month, the University of Iowa Student-Athlete Advisory Committee announced.
Carter, a senior outfielder from Rancho Cucamonga, California, hit .467 in 10 starts in right field. Carter was 14-for-30 with three RBIs and eight runs scored. She also had an OBP of .543 and slugging percentage of .567. During May, Carter broke Iowa’s single season hit record with 101 base hits. She was named first team all-Big Ten and NFCA first team all-region. Carter finished her season by helping lead the Hawkeyes to an NISC championship, while earning all-tournament team honors.
Kresley, a junior sprinter from Oakley, California, won the 200-meter Big Ten title and broke his own school record with a 20.26 finish. Kresley ran the second leg of the 4×100-meter relay that also won the Big Ten title. His performances in May qualified him in both events for the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas, in June.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Iowa State freshman Omaha Biliew has been named to the 2023 USA U19 Men’s National Team. The 12-member team will compete at the 2023 FIBA U19 Men’s World Cup, scheduled for June 24-July 2 in Debrecen, Hungary.
Biliew was one of three Cyclones that participated in a 30-player training camp, as Milan Momcilovic and Jackson Paveletzke also joined Biliew in Colorado Springs for five days of training camp.
The roster consists of Mark Armstrong (Villanova), Tobe Awaka (Tennessee), Omaha Biliew (Iowa State), Kylan Boswell (Arizona), Myles Colvin (Purdue), Eric Dailey Jr. (Oklahoma State), Dylan Harper (Don Bosco Prep), Ian Jackson (North Carolina), Tre Johnson (Lake Highland Prep), Ven-Allen Lubin (Vanderbilt), Asa Newell (Montverde Academy) and Cody Williams (Colorado).
The roster was selected by the USA Basketball Men’s Junior National Team Committee. Athletes eligible for this team must be U.S. citizens, born on or after January 1, 2004.
Leading the 2023 USA Men’s U19 National Team is head coach Tad Boyle (University of Colorado). He is assisted by Mike Boynton Jr. (Oklahoma State University) and Leon Rice (Boise State University).
The United States will square off with Lebanon, Madagascar and Slovenia in pool play. The U.S. will face off against Lebanon and Madagascar for the first time at a FIBA Men’s U19 World Cup. The U.S. own a 2-0 record against Slovenia at this event.
The United States has won the competition eight times, including three of the last four competitions—in 2015, 2019 and 2021. During the 2019 World Cup, former Cyclone Tyrese Haliburton led the United States to the gold medal.
Cyclones with USA Basketball
1959 – Gary Thompson (Pan American Games)
1979 – Joe Ashley (U.S. Olympic Festival)
1985 – Jeff Grayer (U.S. Olympic Festival)
1988 – Jeff Grayer (Seoul Olympics)
1989 – Victor Alexander (World University Games)
2000 – Jamaal Tinsley (U.S. Select Team)
2001 – Marcus Fizer (Goodwill Games)
2009 – Craig Brackins (World University Games)
2019 – Tyrese Haliburton (U19 World Cup)
2021 – Tyrese Haliburton (U.S. Select Team)
Former Drake and Iowa high school basketball standout Lisa Brinkmeyer has died from brain cancer. Radio Iowa’s Dar Damielson reports,
Brinkmeyer was Miss Iowa basketball in 1993 after leading Hubbard-Radcliffe to the state’s final six-on-six state championship. She moved on to Drake where she played under current Iowa coach Lisa Bluder and helped lead the Bulldogs to three Missouri Valley Conference Tournament titles and three trips to the NCAA Tournament. She had a brief stint as an assistant coach at Drake before becomng an administrator at the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
The HLV school board has approved a sharing agreement with the Tri-County school district. Kevin Smith is head coach for what will now be HLV/Tri-County.
Tri-County has had difficulty with numbers the past few years.
Smith is not sure how many of the Tri-County players will be joining the team.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa volleyball head coach Jim Barnes announced the remainder of the 2023 schedule on Friday.
The Hawkeyes nonconference schedule is highlighted by two home tournaments. They will host Middle Tennessee State, Kent State, and South Dakota State in the FRYfest Invitational on Sept. 1-3, and Central Michigan, Missouri State, and Grand Canyon in the Hawkeye Invitational on Sept. 9-10.
Iowa will also host Iowa State in the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series match on Sept. 6 to round out its home nonconference slate.
The team will hit both coasts in their road tournaments, heading to Sacramento, California, first for the Sacramento State Invitational on Aug. 25-27 to play Cal Poly, host school Sacramento State, and Nevada. Then they’ll head to Syracuse, New York, for the Syracuse Invitational on Sept. 15-16 to play Syracuse and Cornell.
Single-match ticket information, start times, and TV designations will be announced at a later date.
SEASON TICKETS
Hawkeye Ten Conference:
Atlantic 10 Denison-Schleswig, 9 (8 innings)
Harlan 7 Kuemper, Catholic, 6
Clarinda 6 Shenandoah, 0
Lewis Central 7 S.Albert, 1
Red Oak 1 Creston, 0
Rolling Valley Conference:
Exira-EHK 7 CAM, 5
Coon Rapids-Bayard 17 Southeast Valley, 0 (NC)
Western Iowa Conference:
Underwood 12 Audubon, 5
Missouri Valley 10 IKM/Manning, 3
Treynor 8 AHSTW, 1
AHSTW 5 Treynor, 4 (Brayden Lund with the winning walk-off hit)
Tri-Cente 13 Riverside, 0
Pride of Iowa Conference:
Nodaway Valley 10 Southwest Valley, 7
Bedford 15 Mount Ayr, 7
Central Decatur 1 Lenox, 0
Southeast Warren 10 East Union, 3
Martensdale-St. Mary’s 9 Wayne, 3
West Central Activities Conference:
Des Moines, Christian 6 Panorama, 5
Des Moines, Christian 12 Panorama, 5
Ogden 7 Earlham, 1
Earlham 8 Ogden, 7
Interstate 35 16 Madrid, 1
Interstate 35 Madrid, 8
Pleasantville 19 ACGC, 0
Pleasantville 9 ACGC, 3
Hawkeye Ten Conference:
Atlantic 9 Denison-Schleswig, 5
Shenandoah 5 Clarinda, 3
Creston 10 Red Oak, 0
Lewis Central 7 St. Albert, 6
St. Albert 9 Lewis Central, 4
Kuemper, Catholic 8 Harlan, 4
Rolling Valley Conference:
Exira/EHK 12 CAM, 0 (3 innings)
Westwood 15 West Harrison, 3 (NC)
MVAOCOU 13 Boyer Valley, 3 (NC)
Corner Conference:
Fremont-Mills 14 Sidney, 0
West Central Activities Conference:
Des Moines-Christian 9 Panorama, 3
Des Moineis-Christian 20 Panorama, 10
Van Meter 9 Woodward-Granger, 0
Van Meter 11 Woodward-Granger, 1
Earlham 12 Ogden, 0
Pleasantville 6 ACGC, 1
Pleasantville 4 ACGC, 3
Western Iowa Conference:
Audubon 10 Underwood, 0
Missouri Valley 10 IKM/Manning, 2
Treynor 9 AHSTW, 8
Riverside 17 Tri-Center, 4
Pride of Iowa Conference:
Nodaway Valley 12 Southwest Valley, 2
Lenox 12 Central Decatur, 11
Mount Ayr 12 Bedford, 0
Southeast Warren 10 East Union, 0
Martensdale-St. Mary’s 8 Wayne, 2
Two high school teams dueled this evening in Elk Horn. Every inning past the second saw runs exchanged and fierce pitching. In the end, Exira-EHK were victorious with a 7-5 victory over CAM. Thanks to a 10-strikeout performance from Trey Petersen, patience in the box which saw four different batters getting walked, and 8 hits. Coach Randy Kelly took note of his team’s performance at the plate.
Trey Petersen not only caught his coach’s eye with his 10 K’s, but also with his hitting. Petersen went 2-4, with 2 RBI’s.
A win always feels good, but Coach Kelly noted that there still is more work to be done for the Spartan team.
Exira-EHK bumps up to 7-5 and the Cougars record now sits at 6-8. The Spartans will be on the road Friday June 16th facing West Harrison. CAM’s next game is Tuesday June 20th, at home against Grand View Christian.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission fined an online sports betting company five-thousand dollars Thursday at their meeting Waterloo. Racing and Gaming Administrator, Brian Ohorilko says Bally Bet missed the weekly download of the self gambling ban list, which is required every seven days.
He says the Commission reached an agreement on the fine based on the company’s past history.
The fine would increase if Bally Bet had a similar violation within the next 365 days.
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