IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa senior linebacker Jack Campbell is one of five finalists for the Dick Butkus Award. The Butkus Foundation made the announcement Tuesday.

The 2022 Butkus Award winner will be announced the first week in December. Campbell was a semifinalist for the Butkus Award in 2021. He is joined as a finalist by Jamon Dumas-Johnson of Georgia, Davian Henley of Washington State, Ivan Pace, Jr. of Cincinnati and Drew Sanders of Arkansas.

Campbell (6-foot-5, 246-pounds) has led Iowa’s defense all season. He has totaled 110 tackles, leading the Big Ten and ranking 12th nationally. Campbell also has two interceptions, one recovered fumble and one caused fumble, along with 3.5 tackles for loss. He has 287 career tackles to rank 20th in program history.

Campbell, a Cedar Falls, Iowa native, led the defense in the final minutes of Iowa’s most recent win at Minnesota as the Hawkeyes won their eighth straight game with Floyd of Rosedale on the line. Campbell forced a Minnesota fumble inside the Iowa 10 with 5:07 left to play, which was recovered by teammate Deontae Craig.

On Minnesota’s next possession, Campbell intercepted a pass that was broken up by cornerback Riley Moss. Campbell returned his second interception of the season to the Minnesota 45 with 2:06 remaining. The Iowa offense turned the theft into a Drew Stevens game-winning field goal with 28 seconds to play. Campbell appeared to have a 75-yard return for a touchdown, but it was ruled that he stepped out of bounds at the 45.

For the game he recorded 10 tackles, including six solo stops, as the Hawkeye defense held the Gophers to 10 points.  Iowa’s defense has held eight opponents to 10 points or less in 11 games.

Campbell is also a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy. He was named a semifinalist for the Bednarik Award and Rotary Lombardi Award.

Iowa (7-4, 5-3) closes out the regular season Friday, hosting Nebraska (3-8, 2-6) in the battle for the Heroes Trophy (3:01 p.m. CT, BTN).

The CAM girls basketball team picked up a road win over AHSTW 58-43 to open their season. The Cougars led most of the night but had to fight back from a run by the Lady Vikes to start the second half. CAM led 33-24 at the break but AHSTW opened the second half with an 11-0 run to grab a momentary lead. CAM responded by scoring the next 8 points in the period to seize control again. Some late forced turnovers and transition buckets helped the Cougars pull away.

CAM head coach Joe Wollum said it was a good game to start the season with.

The Cougars got some balanced scoring production with 12 each from Eva Steffensen and Kiera Nichols and 11 each from Meredith Rich and Reese Snyder. Bree Bower also added 7. Coach Wollum was happy they could produce as a group.

The Cougars were able to force 24 Lady Vike turnovers on the night and after a sloppy first half took better care of the ball themselves in the second.

CAM starts the season at 1-0 and will prepare to host Woodbine next Tuesday. AHSTW was led by 20 points from Delaney Goshorn and they start the season at 0-2. The Lady Vikes will head to Riverside next Tuesday.

Fort Dodge hosted a big East/West Dual Girls Wrestling Tournament on Tuesday and Riverside and SWAT both competed.

Riverside beat Anamosa 37-36, lost to East Buchanan 54-24, and fell to Decorah 60-18. Danika Feigenbutz had two fall victories for the Bulldogs and Macy Woods notched a pin against Decorah.

SWAT got a 45-24 win against Central Community (Elkader). They took four losses on the day as well to Anamosa (39-30), Crestwood (48-36), Decorah (48-30), and East Buchanan (48-30). Adyson Lundquist picked up 3 victories by fall on the day. Maddie McCoy had two fall wins.

The UNI men’s basketball team came up a bucket short against Grand Canyon 69-67 in the consolation game of the Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City on Tuesday. Grand Canyon grabbed a 41-27 lead at half and UNI’s rally in the second came up short. The Panthers got close in the final minute, but the Antelopes iced the game at the foul line.

Bowen Born led UNI with 19 points and Tytan Anderson had 18 points and 12 rebounds.

UNI falls to 1-3 on the young season and will next up host Northern Illinois on Saturday at 1:00 p.m.

Atlantic 57, Denison-Schleswig 49 (A: Paytn Harter 18pts, Maddie Richter 14pts, Jada Jensen 13pts)
ADM 64, Van Meter 31
CAM 58, AHSTW 43 (C: Eva Steffensen and Kiera Nichols 12pts each, Reese Snyder and Meridith Rich 11pts each.)
CB Abraham Lincoln 66, Shenandoah 45
Clarinda 60, Lenox 55
Grand View Christian 51, West Central Valley 27
Lewis Central 60, Underwood 39
Mormon Trail 29, Diagonal 26
Mount Ayr 63, Lamoni 24
MVAOCOU 75, Boyer Valley 37
Wayne 59, Melcher-Dallas 38
St. Albert 56, Tri-Center 28
Treynor 48, Harlan 44

Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz says the Hawkeyes turned their season around by focusing on the game in front of them and that can’t change this week. The Hawkeyes host a Black Friday game against Nebraska and with a victory will make a second straight trip to the Big Ten Championship game.

The Hawkeyes were 3-4 and a humiliating loss at Ohio State but have won four straight.

Iowa will be without tight end Sam LaPorta and fullback Monte Pottebaum but Ferentz says both could return before the season is over.

Ferentz says the last two games are why turnovers are the most important stat in a football game. The Hawkeyes won despite being outgained.

Iowa State looks to play the role of spoiler this week with a visit to fourth ranked TCU. The Cyclones are 4-7 and visit a TCU team that is 11-0 after escaping with a last second win at Baylor.

That’s Iowa State coach Matt Campbell who says experience has helped the Horned Frogs in close games. Their last seven wins have been by 10 points or fewer.

Former Lewis Central standout Max Duggan quarterbacks a TCU team that is two wins away from a spot in the College Football Playoff.

Nebraska interim coach Mickey Joseph expects the Huskers to be ready for Friday’s game at Iowa. Joseph took over for Scott Frost after a week three loss to Georgia Southern and the Huskers are 3-8.

Joseph says Iowa’s defense is consistently strong in part because the Hawkeyes don’t rely on the transfer portal.

Joseph hopes he will be considered for the permanent job.

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa bobcat trapping season is underway and D-N-R wildlife biologist, Vince Evelsizer, says trappers should be able to fill their quotas. “Bobcat populations are doing very well across the southern part of Iowa, the extreme western part of Iowa, and they’re continuing to expand northward up through eastern Iowa,” he says. Evelsizer says it’s one of the positive conservation stories. “The bobcats story is a happy one. Their numbers are stable to increasing in almost all counties of Iowa that have ideal habitat, which is typically early successional forest and in fields, natural grass fields, that sort of thing where there’s a good prey abundance,” Evelsizer says.

The limits on bobcat trapping continue based on the populations for each county. “The north-central part of Iowa is still closed to bobcat harvest. And then there’s several counties across central Iowa that are open to one bobcat bag limit for that county,” he says. “And then the three tiers of southern Iowa counties is open to a three bobcat bag limit.” Evelsizer says the trapping helps keep the populations from getting out of control.”They don’t have many natural predators in the Midwest which you know out in the western U-S — or the far north — they would have to watch out for bigger cats such as mountain lions or even gray wolves with their kittens you know that sort of thing,” Evelsizer says.

You can find out more about bobcat trapping on the Iowa D-N-R’s website.

The Iowa Print Sports Writers Association and the Iowa Football Coaches Association have announced their 2022 all-state football teams.

The captains in each class were Cael Ortmann of Remsen St. Mary’s (8-man); Patrick Brown III of Grundy Center (Class A); Nolan Delong of Durant (Class 1A); Zach Lutmer of CLGLR (Class 2A); Aidan Hall of Harlan (Class 3A); Braylon Kammrad of Lewis Center (Class 4A); and Abu Sama of Southeast Polk (Class 5A).

Here’s a look at area athletes that were honored. Check out the full teams HERE.

IPSWA All-State teams

8-man

First Team

RB/FB Isaac Grundman Senior Lenox
OL Tracye Miller Senior Lenox
OL Tate Dierking Junior Southeast Warren
OL Gavyn Jessen Senior CAM
DL Sam Foreman Senior CAM
LB Paxten VanHouten Senior Fremont-Mills

Second Team

DL Cooper Nielsen Senior Audubon
LB Sage Evans Senior West Harrison
DB Mason King Senior West Harrison

Class A

First Team

RB/FB Jackson Dewald Senior Westwood
RB/FB Michael Turner Senior Tri-Center
OL Grant Brix Junior Logan-Magnolia
DB Nick Denning Junior AHSTW
Def Util Jaydon Knight Senior Mount Ayr

Second Team

RB/FB Luke Sternberg Sophomore AHSTW
WR/TE Brayden Lund Senior AHSTW
Off Util Jaixen Frost Senior Mount Ayr
LB Aidan Martin Senior AHSTW
DB Calvin Wallis Senior Logan-Magnolia
DB Holden Skow Senior Tri-Center

Class 1A

First Team

Off Util Alex Ravlin Senior Underwood
Ret Austin Kunkle Senior ACGC

Second Team

WR/TE Mason Boothby Junior Underwood
WR/TE Karson Elwood Junior Treynor
OL Payton Jacobe Junior ACGC
Off Util DJ Vonnahme Junior Kuemper Catholic
LB Kaedon Lindsay Senior West Central Valley
DB Boston DeVault Senior Nodaway Valley/O-M
P Braedon Draper Senior Panorama

Class 2A

First Team

LB Dawson Bond Senior Red Oak
LB Griffin Diersen Senior OABCIG
DB Richard Daugherty Senior Greene County

Second Team

QB Beckett DeJean Senior OABCIG
RB/FB Riley Fouts Senior Red Oak
WR/TE Gabe Winterrowd Senior OABCIG

Class 3A

First Team

QB Teagon Kasperbauer Senior Harlan
WR/TE Cade Sears Junior Harlan
WR/TE Colton Rasmussen Junior Atlantic
OL Ben Gard Senior ADM
OL Jace Gubbles Senior Harlan
K Stephen Leinen Senior Harlan
Off Util Aiden Flora Junior ADM
DL Vince Benetti Senior ADM
DL Gunner Schmitz Senior Harlan
LB Garrett Assmann Senior Harlan
DB Aidan Hall Senior Harlan
P Sam Holloway Senior ADM

Second Team

RB/FB Brennan Hayes Junior Creston
WR/TE Jacob Birch Senior Harlan
OL Drew Hickey Junior ADM
OL Austin Schumacher Senior Harlan
OL Colton Wieland Senior Carroll
DL Zane Bendorf Senior Harlan
LB Christian Madison Senior ADM
LB Matthew Sorfonden Senior Harlan
DB Cade Morse Senior ADM

Class 4A

First Team

QB Braylon Kammrad Senior Lewis Central
RB/FB Jonathan Humpal Senior Lewis Central
OL Parker Matiyow Senior Lewis Central
K Boston Hensley Senior Lewis Central
LB Payton Ludington Senior Lewis Central
DB Curtis Witte Junior Lewis Central

Second Team

WR/TE Cody Krause Senior Glenwood
OL Sam Chadwick Senior Lewis Central
OL Logyn Eckheart Senior Glenwood
P Kayden Anderson Junior Glenwood