Girls
Shenandoah 9, Atlantic 0 18BGvSHEN
Abraham Lincoln 5, St. Albert 4
Boone 7, Kuemper Catholic 2
Denison-Schleswig 5, Lewis Central 4
Red Oak 6, Harlan 3
Thomas Jefferson 9, Omaha Northwest 0
Boys
Atlantic 9, Shenandoah 0 18BGvSHEN
Abraham Lincoln 5, St. Albert 4
Boone 7, Creston O-M 2
Denison-Schleswig 8, Lewis Central 1
Harlan 9, Thomas Jefferson 0
The Glenwood girls track team came out on top of the Hawkeye Ten pack at the Conference Meet in Harlan on Monday night. Glenwood scored 161 points to run away with the title despite only winning 4 events. The Rams won the Sprint Medley, 4x100M Relay, 4x200M Relay, and Emma Hughes won the 1500M Run.
Atlantic’s Taylor McCreedy won the 3000M Run and came in 3rd in the 1500M Run.
Team Scores
Full Results: Hawkeye 10 Conference Meet
Photo Credit: Matt Mullenix
The Atlantic boys track team took home the Hawkeye Ten Championship on Monday night in Harlan. The Trojans put up 152 points to beat out Lewis Central who finished second with 142.5 points. The Trojans won 8 events on their way to the crown.
Atlantic’s individual winners were: Chase Mullenix in the 800M, Gratt Reed in the 110M Hurdles and 400M Hurdles, Bradley Dennis in the 1600M Run, and Jalen Petersen in the 3000M Run. The Trojans also pulled down relay wins in the 4x400M, 4x800M, and Distance Medley.
Team Scores
Full Results: Hawkeye 10 Conference Meet
MONONA, Iowa (AP) — A man has been sentenced to prison after being arrested during a failed attempt to rob a northeast Iowa bank by sending notes from a drive-up window. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 21-year-old Tyler Koehler, of Monona, was sentenced Monday to three years in federal prison after pleading guilty Nov. 16, 2017, to attempted bank robbery.
Koehler admitted trying to rob the Freedom Bank in Monona on June 9, 2017, by passing repeated notes via a drive-up window that threatened to “blow this place up” unless given cash.
A teller stalled Koehler until police arrived and arrested him.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Although spring storms initially slowed spring planting progress in Iowa and Nebraska, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports farmers have nearly caught up to five-year averages in the past week.
Iowa farmers have 40 percent of the corn crop planted, about three days behind the average at this point in the season. Three percent of corn plants have emerged, a slower pace than the five-year average of 9 percent.
The USDA said Monday in its weekly crop update that Iowa soybean planting is at the average of 12 percent completed. Farmers in Nebraska have 42 percent of the corn planted, near the 46 percent average. About 2 percent of the plants emerged behind the five-year average of 10 percent. Soybean planting is slightly ahead of schedule with 16 percent completed.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a semitrailer struck and killed a pedestrian along Interstate 680 on the north side of Omaha. The trucker called 911 around 4:40 a.m. Monday to report the accident. Traffic was routed off the westbound lanes as authorities investigated.
Omaha police identified the pedestrian as 25-year-old Zachary C.L. Crinklaw of Omaha. The trucker driver was 52-year-old Michael J. Stone, of Rockwell City, Iowa.
Police say the truck hit Crinklaw when he walked from the shoulder and into a freeway lane.
MILFORD, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say four people killed in a crash on Interstate 80 in Nebraska were from eastern Iowa. The victims were identified Monday as 49-year-old Susan Selser, 20-year-old Cody Richardson, 20-year-old Troy Wanzek and 19-year-old Cole Austin, all of Clinton, Iowa.
Authorities say 20-year-old Madison Selser-Smith, of Clinton, was driving westbound in a 2005 Chevy Equinox when she hit rumble bars on the north shoulder, overcorrected, crossed the center median and entered the eastbound lanes. The car was then struck by a 2010 Buick Lacerne driven by 75-year-old Anna Richert, of rural Gresham, Nebraska.
Selser-Smith and Richert were flown to a Lincoln hospital with life-threatening injuries. Authorities say Richert, Selser and Selser-Smith were wearing seat belts. Richardson, Wanzek and Austin were not, and were ejected from the car’s back seats.
The Boyer Valley girls and Exira-EHK boys golf teams came away with Rolling Valley Conference Golf Championships on Monday in Carroll. CAM’s Sammi Jahde was the girls individual champion with a round of 82. That was her second straight conference title. Tyler Kopp of CAM won the boys individual crown with an 81.
Girls
Team Scores
Individual Scores
Other Boyer Valley Scores: Katy Puck 102, Taylor Klein 107, Regan Frazier 107, Katelyn Neilsen 112.
Boys
Team Scores
Individual Scores
Other Exira-EHK Scores: Cole Burmeister 87, Tyler Petersen 109.
NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (AP) — A North Liberty man has pleaded guilty in a murder for hire scheme involving a business associate and the person’s family. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports 38-year-old Justin DeWitt submitted guilty pleas Monday to two counts of attempted murder and two counts of solicitation to commit murder His sentencing is set for July 16.
Police arrested DeWitt in June 2016 on charges he tried to hire a hit man to kill a former business associate, his wife and their two children, then aged 2 and 4. Police say DeWitt paid an undercover agent $1,000 and agreed to pay an additional $8,000.
DeWitt also faces charges of trying to arrange hits from jail of people planning to testify against him.
ANTIGO, Wis. (AP) — The enthusiastic television pitchman who told viewers they could “save big money” at Wisconsin-based home improvement chain Menards has died. Ray Szmanda was 91. Szmanda’s son, Charles Szmanda, says his father died Sunday in home hospice care in Antigo, Wisconsin, of congestive heart failure.
Ray Szmanda was featured in advertising for Eau Claire-based Menard Inc. starting in 1976 until his retirement in 1998. He was known as “The Menards Guy.” A Milwaukee native and World War II Navy veteran, Szmanda founded a broadcasting school in Wausau. He also narrated a recording of the Bible.
Menards said Szmanda’s “friendly, enthusiastic and fun loving personality have made a lasting impression” on the family-owned company and its customers. Menards has stores in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
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