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LIMA, Peru – University of Iowa freshman thrower Bryce Ruland claimed the U20 World Championships discus title on Saturday.
The Waterford, Wisconsin, native set a personal record of 62.59 meters to win gold. Ruland’s mark, which was achieved on his first throw of the finals, was the sixth-best throw in 2024.
Ruland held off silver medalist Jarno Van Daalen (62.22 meters) of the Netherlands and Mico Lampinen (62.20 meters) of Finland.
On the track, sophomore Luke Knepp placed 29th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, crossing the line in 9:33.17.
The Iowa Association of Track & Cross Country Coaches released their latest state rankings on Monday September 2nd.
BOYS
CLASS 1A
13. Jackson Walter, St. Albert
26. Carter Buttry, Sidney
27. Aiden Gaul, St. Albert
CLASS 2A
3. Kyle Wagoner, Clarinda
6. Emmanuel Grass, Red Oak
12. Hayden Heitbrink, Red Oak
17. Luke Daoust, Shenandoah
20. Osiel Pedersen, Red Oak
22. Bryce Williams, Red Oak
CLASS 3A
7. Dayton Wiederin, Kuemper Catholic
11. Alex Amaro, Bishop Heelan Catholic
18. Daniel Delarosa, Sergeant Bluff-Luton
22. Erik Heslink, Harlan
28. Fletch Badding, Kuemper Catholic
30. Baylen Kueffer, Sergeant Bluff-Luton
CLASS 4A
3. Evan Lillie, Lewis Central
10. Marshall Arkfeld, Lewis Central
14. Kevin Coots, Lewis Central
AHSTW TOURNAMENT
Riverside 6-0
East Mills 5-1
Atlantic 2-3
AHSTW 1-5
CAM 0-6
HARLAN TOURNAMENT
Glenwood 6-0
Treynor 4-2
Underwood 3-3
Harlan 2-4
St. Albert 1-5
Missouri Valley 0-6
LEWIS CENTRAL TOURNAMENT
Lewis Central 5-0
Tri-Center was 3-2
Stanton finished 2-3
Thomas Jefferson 0-5
HUMBOLDT TOURNAMENT
Kuemper Catholic 4-0
Iowa overcame a slow start as the 25th ranked Hawkeyes beat Illinois State 40-0. Quarterback Cade McNamara led the Hawkeyes to 34 second half points and finished 21 of 31 for 251 yards and three touchdowns.
McNamara missed most of last season with an ACL injury.
McNamara spent most of the past two years injured.
The Hawkeyes got a lift from freshman receiver Reece Vander Zee. The former Central lyon/George-Little Rock star had two touchdown receptions and finished with five catches in his collegiate debut. Vander Zee emerged during the second half of preseason camp.
Vander Zee waas asked if he was nervous at the start of the game.
Vander Zee says growing up in northwest Iowa prepared him for this moment.
With Kirk Ferentz suspended for the opener Seth Wallace served as acting coach.
Wallace says it was a good opener despite the slow start.
Wallace says Vander Zee’s play was a big lift for the Hawkeyes.
Iowa State scored on the second play of the game and went on to beat North Dakota 21-3. The Fighting Hawks cotrolled the ball and ran a total of 72 plays to just 48 for the Cyclones. North Dakota finished with 174 yards of rushing.
That’s ISU coach Matt Campbell who was pleased with the effort.
Campbell says there are plenty of areas that need work.
The Northwestern College football team has high hopes heading into Saturday’s season opener at Hastings of Nebraska. The Red Raiders are second ranked in the NAIA poll and have played in the national championship game three times in the last four years. Coach Matt McCarty likes what he has seen in camp.
A pair of freshmen are competing at quarterback after All-American Jalyn Gramstad transferred to Nebraska.
Whoever wins the job will lead an experienced offense.
McCarty says an experienced defense could be the best in program history.
Class 5A
1. WDM Valley (1-0), LW #2 vs #2 Dowling
2. Dowling Catholic (1-0), LW #4 vs #1 Valley
3. Waukee (1-0), LW #6 vs Waukee Northwest
4. Ankeny Centennial (1-0), LW #7 vs Ames
5. Southeast Polk (0-1), LW #3 vs #6 Ankeny
6. Ankeny (0-1), LW #1 @ #5 S.E. Polk
7. Cedar Falls (1-0), LW (X) @ #9 Johnston
8. Cedar Rapids Kennedy (0-1), LW #5 vs Pleasant Valley
9. Johnston (1-0), LW #10 vs #7 Cedar Falls
10.Bettendorf (1-0), LW (X) vs Davenport West
Class 4A
1. Lewis Central (1-0), LW #1 @ Creston
2. North Scott (1-0), LW #2 @ Waverly-Shell Rock
3. Cedar Rapids Xavier (1-0), LW #3 @ 3A #1 Williamsburg
4. Western Dubuque (1-0), LW #4 @ Dubuque Wahlert
5. Gilbert (1-0), LW #5 @ Carroll
6. North Polk (1-0), LW #7 @ Carlisle
7. Indianola (1-0), LW #8 vs Norwalk
8. Decorah (1-0), LW #9 @ 3A #6 West Delaware
9. Bondurant-Farrar (0-1), LW #6 vs Grinnell
10.Pella (1-0), LW (X) vs Keokuk
Class 3A
1. Williamsburg (1-0), LW #1 vs 4A #3 Xavier
2. Clear Lake (1-0), LW #2 @ New Hampton
3. Algona (1-0), LW #3 @ Forest City
4. Solon (1-0), LW #4 @ Clear Creek-Amana
5. Independence (1-0), LW #6 @ Crestwood
6. West Delaware (0-1), LW #5 vs 4A #8 Decorah
7. Humboldt (1-0), LW #7 vs Ballard
8. Nevada (1-0), LW #8 @ 2A #8 Roland-Story
9. Mount Vernon (1-0), LW #9 vs Union
10.Sioux City Heelan (1-0), LW (X) vs CB Abraham Lincoln
Class 2A
1. Van Meter (1-0), LW #2 @ #9 DSM Christian
2. Spirit Lake (0-1). LW #1 @ Sioux Center
3. West Lyon (1-0), LW #3 @ Lawton-Bronson
4. PCM (Monroe) (1-0), LW #7 vs Pella Christian
5. Western Christian (1-0), LW #5 vs @ Hinton
6. Clarinda (1-0), LW #8 vs Red Oak
7. Carroll Kuemper (0-1), LW #4 @ 1A #5 Underwood
8. Roland-Story (1-0), LW #10 vs 3A #8 Nevada
9. DSM Christian (1-0), LW (X) vs #1 Van Meter
10.Northeast (Goose Lake) (1-0), LW (X) vs Central DeWitt
Class 1A
1. OABCIG (1-0), LW #2 vs East Sac County
2. Grundy Center (1-0), LW #3 @ Aplington-Parkersburg
3. Wilton (1-0), LW #6 @ West Liberty
4. Treynor (1-0), LW #5 vs Tri-Center
5. Underwood (0-1), LW #4 vs 2A #7 Kuemper
6. Dike-New Hartford (0-1), LW #1 vs West Branch
7. Emmetsburg (1-0), LW (X) vs Estherville Lincoln Central
8. Iowa City Regina (1-0), LW #8 @ Mid-Prairie
9. AHSTW (Avoca) (1-0), LW #9 vs Riverside
10.MFL MarMac (1-0), LW #7 vs Waukon
Class A
1. Woodbury Central (1-0), LW #1 @ Westwood
2. AC/GC (1-0), LW #2 vs Earlham
3. West Hancock (1-0), LW #4 vs Belmond-Klemme
4. Lisbon (1-0), LW #5 @ Louisa-Muscatine
5. Saint Ansgar (1-0), LW #7 vs North Union
6. Madrid (0-1), LW #2 @ Martensdale-St. Mary’s
7. Nashua-Plainfield (1-0), LW #8 @ North Tama
8. Starmont (1-0), LW #10 @ Clayton Ridge
9. Logan-Magnolia (1-0), LW #9 vs Kingsley-Pierson
10.IKM-Manning (1-0), LW (X) vs Panorama
8-Player
1. Algona Garrigan (1-0), LW #1 vs West Bend-Mallard
2. Bedford (1-0), LW #2 vs Murray
3. Lenox (1-0), LW #3 @ Fremont-Mills
4. Remsen St. Mary’s (1-0), LW #4 vs Siouxland Christian
5. Don Bosco (1-0), LW #6 vs Central Elkader
6. WACO (2-0), LW #7 @ #8 Iowa Valley
7. Audubon (1-0), LW #8 vs #10 Colo-Nesco
8. Iowa Valley (2-0), LW #9 vs #6 WACO
9. CAM (Anita) (0-1), LW #5 @ Griswold
10.Colo-Nesco (2-0), LW (X) @ #7 Audubon
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — UNI football opened the 2024 season inside the UNI-Dome on Saturday with a commanding 35-7 rout of the Valparaiso Beacons in non-conference action. Unipanthers.com reports the Panthers racked up 363 rushing yards on the day, fourth-most in a single-game in the last 15 seasons and most since 2015 and controlled the game clock with nearly 35 minutes of offensive ball possession.
UP NEXT:
The Panthers hit the road for a three-game road stand which begins on Saturday, Sept. 7 at St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. CT.
AMES, Iowa (via Iowacyclones.com) – Rocco Becht got the 50th season at Jack Trice Stadium off to a rousing start, Saturday. Becht completed a 54-yard pass on the game’s first play, then lofted a 21-yard touchdown pass on the very next play to start the Cyclones on their way to a 21-3 victory over North Dakota on a picture-perfect Saturday afternoon.
Coming off a redshirt freshman season in which he threw for 3,120 yards, Becht also threw a second TD pass and scored once himself as Iowa State won its fourth-straight season opener on the turf at MidAmerican Energy Field. Becht finished 20-of-26 for 267 yards, with eight of those completions going to Jaylin Noel, who passed Charlie Kolar to move into fifth place on ISU’s career receiving list with 173. Noel compiled 135 receiving yards and is just three catches behind fourth-place Todd Blythe.
The Cyclones needed Becht’s sharp performance to turn back their feisty FCS opponent. North Dakota, 22nd in the preseason FCS rankings, made the playoffs last year and caused the Iowa State defense some problems with its ball-control offense, running 72 plays to 48 for ISU. But the ISU defense came up with enough stops, including Beau Freyler’s interception, to keep the Fighting Hawks out of the end zone. They got their only points on C.J. Elrichs’ 26-yard field goal, which came on the 23rd play of a drive that started at the North Dakota 3 and took up almost all of the second quarter.
Becht went deep to his favorite target on the first play, Noel catching the ball in stride between two defenders for a 54-yard gain to the North Dakota 21. On the next snap, Becht hit Jayden Higgins on a fade in the left corner of the end zone, and the Cyclones were up 7-0 just 38 seconds into the game. It was Iowa State’s first scoring drive to open the season since the Cyclones went 85 yards in eight plays the first time they had the ball in a 42-10 win over Southeast Missouri in the 2022 opener. After Elrichs’ field goal with 3 minutes left in the first half, the Cyclones answered quickly, driving 65 yards in seven plays for Becht’s 14-yard strike to Noel in the middle of the end zone for a 14-3 halftime lead.
The Cyclones marched 96 yards for their final touchdown after North Dakota punter Luke Silvernale dropped the snap but somehow got off a 49-yard bouncing kick that was downed at the ISU 4. Becht went 7-for-7 for 73 yards on the drive, which he finished with a 2-yard sneak. He had hit Higgins on a beautifully thrown ball for a 21-yard touchdown five plays earlier, but it was nullified by an illegal formation penalty.
Higgins finished with five catches for 75 yards. He and Noel were targeted a combined 13 times and they caught all 13 balls. North Dakota State transfer Eli Green also was a major contributor in the passing game, catching four passes for 44 yards.
Iowa State hits the road next Saturday for its annual Cy-Hawk matchup with Iowa at Kinnick Stadium. CBS will televise the game which kicks off at 2:30 p.m. KJAN will carry the game beginning at 12:30-p.m., next Saturday.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (via Hawkeyesports.com) – The 25th ranked University of Iowa football team defeated Illinois State, 40-0, on Saturday afternoon on Duke Slater Field at Kinnick Stadium. The Hawkeyes led 6-0 at the half, before an explosion of offense in the second half saw Iowa score on five of seven drives. Cade McNamara connected on 21-of-31 pass attempts for 251 yards and three touchdowns. Reece Vander Zee led the way for Iowa receivers hauling in five receptions for 66 yards and two touchdowns. Luke Lachey caught six passes for 63 yards and Jacob Gill pulled down a touchdown.
Kaleb Johnson rushed for 119 yards and two touchdowns on 11 attempts that all came in the second half. Kamari Moulton had 65 yards on 19 attempts. Defensively, Jay Higgins led the team with seven tackles (three solo). Nick Jackson had five tackles (two solo), and Aaron Graves had four solo tackles with three sacks.
Jermari Harris pulled in an interception and Sebastian Castro forced a fumble that TJ Hall recovered.
Game notes:
UP NEXT
The Hawkeyes will return to action Saturday, Sept. 7th, when they host an Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series matchup against Iowa State. The game will kickoff at 2:30 p.m. (CT) and is sold out. Listen for the game on KJAN, beginning at 12:30-p.m., Sept. 7th.
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