MEET WITH GJ HORIZONS TO DISCUSS LHA FACILITY
GRAND JUNCTION, IOWA—Bob and Joyce Ausberger, Jefferson, were the winning bidders for the T.R. Watts & Son Building at 201 East Main Street in Grand Junction this morning. Joyce Ausberger told Eye on Grand Junction the bid was $2,800. The auction was conducted by Dale Higgins Auction of Grand Junction.
The Ausbergers had met with the Grand Junction Horizons board of directors in a special board meeting late Thursday afternoon at the Grand Junction Public Library to outline the Ausbergers’ plans to use the building as a welcome center for the local chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association.
The board asked the Ausbergers about the input required of GJ Horizons and who would be in charge of renovating the building, utility costs and general upkeep. At that time the Ausbergers had yet to make their bid, so they did not have a definitive purchase cost or possible renovation and upkeep costs for the building. They did tell Horizons they were interested if the price was in the $2,000 to $3,000 range.
Horizons members and the Ausbergers discussed monthly costs for electric, water and sewer from Grand Junction Municipal Light and Water and heating costs from Black Hills Energy.
If the Ausbergers did get the winning bid, Horizons agreed to help staff the proposed LHA welcome center and discussed how the community could work to make the welcome center an integral component of revitalization of Grand Junction’s Main Street.
The local LHA had a center on Lincolnway in Jefferson, next to the Hy-Vee Drug Store, but the building is owned by Hy-Vee and the company had other uses planned for the building, so the center was closed a few years ago.
Joyce Ausberger told Horizons that a similar office in Grand Junction would be opened between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. during the heavy tourism months in spring and summer, fewer hours in the fall, and not opened at all during the coldest months of winter. The office would offer free travel information and sells maps, brochures, and other items of interest to travelers on the Lincoln Highway, in addition to serving as a gathering spot for local residents and area Lincoln Highway enthusiasts.
Horizons members shared with the Ausbergers the community’s deep history with the Lincoln and there were a number of members present whose fathers were businessmen during the Lincoln’s hey-dey in the 1950s, when it was U.S. Highway 30.
They discussed with the Ausbergers some of the local memorabilia related to the Lincoln that is available from Grand Junction residents.
The Ausbergers are long-time supporters of the Lincoln Highway on a national, state and local level. They helped save the historic original Lincoln Highway bridge just north of the Union Pacific railroad tracks that serves as key component to the historic bridges and Grand Junction Lion’s Club Tree Park just east of Grand Junction on the section of the Lincoln built in the 1920s, which replaced the original route on the north side of the tracks.
Copyright Eye on Grand Junction 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Hawkettes Advance to Regional Semifinals
EG VS. WG FRIDAY @ 7 IN WOODWARD
East Greene advanced to the Class 1A regional volleyball semifinals with a definitive 25-11, 25-19, 25-23 blowout of Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg) tonight in quarterfinal action at Burnside.
This sets up a “Battle of the Hawkettes” (and the “Greens”) as the Hawkettes of EG (green and white school colors) travel to Woodward to face 10th-ranked Woodward-Granger in a semifinal tilt on the WG Hawkettes’ (green and gold) home court in Woodward at 7 p.m. on Friday night, Oct. 28.
WG rolled over Madrid 25-9, 25-14, 25-17 in a quarterfinal match tonight in Woodward. The WG Hawkettes, winners of the West Central Conference, with a perfect 9-0 record, improved to 18-5. The EG Hawkettes improved to 10-15.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: This is a big win for the Hawkettes and shows they are really peaking at the right time. A tough non-conference slate that included matches against teams like Guthrie Center and Coon Rapids-Bayard—both ranked during the season—has paid off.
EG is the lone Rolling Hills Conference team still playing as Adair-Casey was beaten at home tonight by Earlham, another West Central team, 17-25, 25-17, 25-12, 28-26. Earlham (17-6) advances to a semifinal face-off with Coon Rapids-Bayard (22-8), a quarterfinal winner over Guthrie Center, 25-21, 25-16, 22-25, 25-23, on Friday night in Guthrie Center.
The Guthrie Center and Woodward semifinal winners advance to the Region 5 final on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Adel.
Jefferson-Scranton dropped its 2A quarterfinal match to Roland-Story in Roland, 25-21, 25-23, 25-23.
East Greene advanced to the Class 1A regional volleyball semifinals with a definitive 25-11, 25-19, 25-23 blowout of Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg) tonight in quarterfinal action at Burnside.
This sets up a “Battle of the Hawkettes” (and the “Greens”) as the Hawkettes of EG (green and white school colors) travel to Woodward to face 10th-ranked Woodward-Granger in a semifinal tilt on the WG Hawkettes’ (green and gold) home court in Woodward at 7 p.m. on Friday night, Oct. 28.
WG rolled over Madrid 25-9, 25-14, 25-17 in a quarterfinal match tonight in Woodward. The WG Hawkettes, winners of the West Central Conference, with a perfect 9-0 record, improved to 18-5. The EG Hawkettes improved to 10-15.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: This is a big win for the Hawkettes and shows they are really peaking at the right time. A tough non-conference slate that included matches against teams like Guthrie Center and Coon Rapids-Bayard—both ranked during the season—has paid off.
EG is the lone Rolling Hills Conference team still playing as Adair-Casey was beaten at home tonight by Earlham, another West Central team, 17-25, 25-17, 25-12, 28-26. Earlham (17-6) advances to a semifinal face-off with Coon Rapids-Bayard (22-8), a quarterfinal winner over Guthrie Center, 25-21, 25-16, 22-25, 25-23, on Friday night in Guthrie Center.
The Guthrie Center and Woodward semifinal winners advance to the Region 5 final on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Adel.
Jefferson-Scranton dropped its 2A quarterfinal match to Roland-Story in Roland, 25-21, 25-23, 25-23.
Hawkettes Advance to Regional Quarterfinal
SWEEP SWG IN 3; FACE NEH TONIGHT @ BURNSIDE
East Greene swept Southeast Webster-Grand in three games to get a key regional volleyball victory on SWG’s home court in Burnside on Wednesday, Oct. 19. The Hawkettes’ 25-20, 25-20, 25-17 win moved them on to the quarterfinal round tonight against Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg). EG returns to Burnside for the 7 p.m. match.
NEH beat CAL (Latimer) 25-21, 25-19, 25-13 on its home court Oct. 19 to advance. NEH (6-16) finished in a tie for 8th place at 2-6 with CAL and Dunkerton in the 11-team Iowa Star Conference. Tripoli, the No. 1 team in Class 1A and defending three-time state champion, won the Iowa Star with an 8-0 mark. Sixth-ranked Janesville (26-10) tied with North Tama for second place (behind Tripoli) in the Iowa Star. Those two teams square off tonight in Janesville in Region 7.
The Hawkettes improved their season record to 9-15 with the win over SWG, a team they lost to in four games in the season opener, also at Burnside. SWG finished the season 4-18.
The winner tonight advances on to the semifinal round on Friday at Woodward against the winner of a match tonight in Woodward between Madrid (9-12) and 10th-ranked Woodward-Granger (17-5). Madrid advanced with a very close win over Colo-Nesco 15-25, 25-17, 20-25, 25-23, 16-14 while WG rolled over Ankeny Christian 25-9, 25-17, 25-14.
Action in the other side of the Region 5 bracket tonight has Coon Rapids-Bayard (21-8) at 15th-ranked Guthrie Center (15-7) and Earlham (16-6) at Adair-Casey (18-10). Those winners square off Friday at Guthrie Center. Semifinal winners advance to the Region 5 final next Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Adel.
EYE ON GJ: This was a real solid turnaround for the Hawkettes and showed how much they have improved throughout the season. The season opening loss to the Eagles was not really all that close—25-12, 12-25, 25-14, 25-21—although the Hawkettes showed some promise for the season to come with that 25-12 win in the second game. To head back to Burnside in the post-season and come away with a solid three-zip sweep says a lot for how far this young team (no seniors and just two juniors and the rest freshman and sophomores) has come in the 2011 season.
East Greene was a bright spot in an otherwise pretty dismal showing for the Rolling Hills Conference. Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton was sidelined by CRB in a play-in round game last Monday night in Coon Rapids. CRB then dispatched of Glidden-Ralston, RH regular season runner-up with Adair-Casey, on Wednesday. Iowa Christian, winner of both the regular season and conference tournament titles, was beaten handily by Martensdale-St. Mary’s in Martensdale in its Region 4 opener, 25-12, 12-25, 25-14, 25-21.
Paton-Churdan, CAM and Ankeny Christian all lost their opening matches in Region 5 while the same fate befell Orient-Macksburg and Walnut in Region 3.
The only other RH team besides EG to post a win in regional opening round action was Adair-Casey, runner-up in the regular season standings and the conference tourney. The Bomberettes got by Grandview Park Baptist in a very tight match, 21-25, 25-23, 23-25, 25-15, 15-6. This was a pretty significant win, though, as GPB had advanced to the state tourney the last three years in addition to appearances in 2006 and 2002, the Defenders’ state championship season.
Jefferson-Scranton advanced in 2A with an easy win over Prairie Valley (Gowrie) in Jefferson, 25-13, 25-9, 25-19. The Rams head to Story City tonight for a quarterfinal contest against No. 15 Roland-Story, which rolled over Ogden, 25-13, 25-10, 25-13. Ogden is in its first season in the West Central Conference—East Greene’s former league—and found the going pretty rocky as the Bulldogs were 0-9 in conference play along the way to posting an 0-24 volleyball season.
The West Central as a conference fared much better, going 6-4 with one of the losses coming at the hands of a league member, Panorama, to another, Des Moines Christian, in 2A. Also losing in 2A were West Central Valley (Stuart) and Van Meter with all five 1A schools advancing: Guthrie Center, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Earlham, Madrid and Woodward-Granger.
If Jefferson-Scranton gets by the Norse tonight in Story City, the Rams would play in Jefferson in a 2A semifinal match Friday against Kuemper (Carroll) or East Sac County (Lake View).
East Greene swept Southeast Webster-Grand in three games to get a key regional volleyball victory on SWG’s home court in Burnside on Wednesday, Oct. 19. The Hawkettes’ 25-20, 25-20, 25-17 win moved them on to the quarterfinal round tonight against Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg). EG returns to Burnside for the 7 p.m. match.
NEH beat CAL (Latimer) 25-21, 25-19, 25-13 on its home court Oct. 19 to advance. NEH (6-16) finished in a tie for 8th place at 2-6 with CAL and Dunkerton in the 11-team Iowa Star Conference. Tripoli, the No. 1 team in Class 1A and defending three-time state champion, won the Iowa Star with an 8-0 mark. Sixth-ranked Janesville (26-10) tied with North Tama for second place (behind Tripoli) in the Iowa Star. Those two teams square off tonight in Janesville in Region 7.
The Hawkettes improved their season record to 9-15 with the win over SWG, a team they lost to in four games in the season opener, also at Burnside. SWG finished the season 4-18.
The winner tonight advances on to the semifinal round on Friday at Woodward against the winner of a match tonight in Woodward between Madrid (9-12) and 10th-ranked Woodward-Granger (17-5). Madrid advanced with a very close win over Colo-Nesco 15-25, 25-17, 20-25, 25-23, 16-14 while WG rolled over Ankeny Christian 25-9, 25-17, 25-14.
Action in the other side of the Region 5 bracket tonight has Coon Rapids-Bayard (21-8) at 15th-ranked Guthrie Center (15-7) and Earlham (16-6) at Adair-Casey (18-10). Those winners square off Friday at Guthrie Center. Semifinal winners advance to the Region 5 final next Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Adel.
EYE ON GJ: This was a real solid turnaround for the Hawkettes and showed how much they have improved throughout the season. The season opening loss to the Eagles was not really all that close—25-12, 12-25, 25-14, 25-21—although the Hawkettes showed some promise for the season to come with that 25-12 win in the second game. To head back to Burnside in the post-season and come away with a solid three-zip sweep says a lot for how far this young team (no seniors and just two juniors and the rest freshman and sophomores) has come in the 2011 season.
East Greene was a bright spot in an otherwise pretty dismal showing for the Rolling Hills Conference. Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton was sidelined by CRB in a play-in round game last Monday night in Coon Rapids. CRB then dispatched of Glidden-Ralston, RH regular season runner-up with Adair-Casey, on Wednesday. Iowa Christian, winner of both the regular season and conference tournament titles, was beaten handily by Martensdale-St. Mary’s in Martensdale in its Region 4 opener, 25-12, 12-25, 25-14, 25-21.
Paton-Churdan, CAM and Ankeny Christian all lost their opening matches in Region 5 while the same fate befell Orient-Macksburg and Walnut in Region 3.
The only other RH team besides EG to post a win in regional opening round action was Adair-Casey, runner-up in the regular season standings and the conference tourney. The Bomberettes got by Grandview Park Baptist in a very tight match, 21-25, 25-23, 23-25, 25-15, 15-6. This was a pretty significant win, though, as GPB had advanced to the state tourney the last three years in addition to appearances in 2006 and 2002, the Defenders’ state championship season.
Jefferson-Scranton advanced in 2A with an easy win over Prairie Valley (Gowrie) in Jefferson, 25-13, 25-9, 25-19. The Rams head to Story City tonight for a quarterfinal contest against No. 15 Roland-Story, which rolled over Ogden, 25-13, 25-10, 25-13. Ogden is in its first season in the West Central Conference—East Greene’s former league—and found the going pretty rocky as the Bulldogs were 0-9 in conference play along the way to posting an 0-24 volleyball season.
The West Central as a conference fared much better, going 6-4 with one of the losses coming at the hands of a league member, Panorama, to another, Des Moines Christian, in 2A. Also losing in 2A were West Central Valley (Stuart) and Van Meter with all five 1A schools advancing: Guthrie Center, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Earlham, Madrid and Woodward-Granger.
If Jefferson-Scranton gets by the Norse tonight in Story City, the Rams would play in Jefferson in a 2A semifinal match Friday against Kuemper (Carroll) or East Sac County (Lake View).
Friday, October 21, 2011
Hawks Roll Over Coon Rapids-Bayard 39-14
PLAY TONIGHT IN GJ FOR PLAYOFF SPOT
East Greene upended a favored Coon Rapids-Bayard football team Friday, Oct. 14, in Grand Junction and positioned itself favorably for a possible 8-Man State Playoff spot.
EG ended years of frustration at the hands of the Crusaders with a convincing 39-14 win. The Hawks took command early and never let up.
Quarterback Tory Beger was an offensive force, passing for four touchdowns and running for another. Beger was 27 of 46 through the air with one interception for 304 total yards. He ran for 59 yards on 16 carries. Reed Ostrander had another outstanding night with 12 receptions for 135 yards and three touchdown catches. TJ Lint had 8 catches for 78 yards and 1 touchdown. Harrison Johnston caught 7 passes for 66 yards, and Broc Timm had 1 reception for 25 yards.
Johnston had an outstanding game returning a CRB kick for a touchdown and two interceptions, one returned for a 48-yard TD. Johnston added to the EG cause with a 2-point conversion, and Zach Hiller capped off the evening with a successful PAT kick.
The Hawk defense put the clamps on CRB early and did not let up. Beger led the attack with 8 solo and 5 assisted tackles with Ostrander handling 10 solos and two assisted. Hiller had 9 solo and 2 assisted; Johnston 4 and 6; Broc Timm 4 and 7; Cody Hidelbaugh 6 and 3; Alex Gordon 5 and 4; and Lint 5 and 2.
EG completely shut down the Crusaders’ passing attack. In addition to Johnston’s two interceptions, Ostrander also snagged two CRB passes. Overall, the “Hawk D” held Crusader QB Keaton Schlatter to just 9 completions in 29 attempts for 94 yards passing. The Crusaders were held to 71 yards rushing for 165 yards total. EG racked up 104 yards on the ground to add to its 304 yards passing for 408-yard offensive total for the night.
EG takes on Ar-We-Va in the final regular season game tonight, Friday, Oct. 21, at Karber Field. Kickoff is 7 p.m. EG and Ar-We-Va have identical 4-4 records, but the Rockets are 4-1 in District 7 and have already clinched a playoff spot. After the win over CRB, the Hawks are deadlocked with the Crusaders at 2-3 with each team in contention for the fourth of four playoff spots in D7. A win gives Ar-We-Va the No. 2 seed and a possible No. 1 seed if Glidden-Ralston should fall to Coon Rapids-Bayard tonight in Coon Rapids. A win would pretty much give EG the No. 4 spot.
GR, unbeaten in D7 play (5-0) and 7-1 overall, will be a heavy favorite over CRB. Woodbine is 1-4 in D7 but takes on winless Charter Oak-Ute. If CRB and EG both lose and Woodbine wins, all three teams would be tied for the No. 4 spot and the tie-breaker system would be used based on the average point differential in each team’s six division games.
Heading into tonight’s games, CRB and EG are knotted up at -2.6 tie-breaker points. Woodbine is -6.4 but a win would improve that number while losses for CRB and EG would drop them further into the minus category, so unless those two teams’ losses were very, very close, Woodbine would most likely get the No. 4 playoff spot. But if COU should make it close against Woodbine in losing, it could come down to a single point in the scores being the difference.
Boyer Valley (Dunlap) has concluded district and season play at 4-2 and 6-3, and is guaranteed no worse than the No. 3 playoff spot. If EG gets by Ar-We-Va, that would tie up the Rockets and BV at 4-2 in the league for second. The No. 2 playoff spot would be decided by the points differential tie-breaker. BV finished the season with 5.3 points while AWV has 6.67 through 5 games. AWV could lose to EG and keep the No. 2 spot, but only if the Rockets lose by 1 point. A loss of 2 points or more would cut into their total point differential and drop them below BV’s point total differential.
District 7 Standings:
Glidden-Ralston 5-0 7-1
Ar-We-Va 4-1 4-4
Boyer Valley 4-2 6-3
Coon Rapids-Bayard 2-3 4-4
East Greene 2-3 4-4
Woodbine 1-4 2-6
Charter Oak-Ute 0-5 0-8
Oct. 14 Results:
EG 39, CRB 14
GR 62, COU 28
BV 48, WDB 6
AWV open
Games Tonight:
AWV @ EG
GR @ CRB
COU @ WDB
BV open
EYE ON GJ SAYS: At this point of the season there are two things at play—the actual games in GJ, Coon Rapids and Woodbine tonight and the mathematical promulgations that could determine who heads where next week for the first round of the post-season playoffs.
Either way, the Hawks really did themselves proud with a big win over CRB. It was the first win ever in 8-man football over the Crusaders. It was even sweeter to have it come on the Hawks' home field in Grand Junction.
Beger and Ostrander continue to rank high in the passing and receiving stats compiled each week and featured in the Friday morning prep preview in the D.M. Register. Each has been among the Top 10 and climbing. This week, Ostrander is No. 2 among all Iowa high school receivers with 68 receptions for 1,094 yards and 14 touchdowns.
The No. 4 seed in D7 will travel next Wednesday to the No. 1 seed in D8. Fremont-Mills (Tabor) and East Mills (Malvern) are both 5-0 in D8 and meet tonight in Malvern for the district championship. Fremont-Mills (7-0) is ranked No. 2 in the state in 8-Man Football while East Mills (8-0) is ranked No. 5.
East Greene upended a favored Coon Rapids-Bayard football team Friday, Oct. 14, in Grand Junction and positioned itself favorably for a possible 8-Man State Playoff spot.
EG ended years of frustration at the hands of the Crusaders with a convincing 39-14 win. The Hawks took command early and never let up.
Quarterback Tory Beger was an offensive force, passing for four touchdowns and running for another. Beger was 27 of 46 through the air with one interception for 304 total yards. He ran for 59 yards on 16 carries. Reed Ostrander had another outstanding night with 12 receptions for 135 yards and three touchdown catches. TJ Lint had 8 catches for 78 yards and 1 touchdown. Harrison Johnston caught 7 passes for 66 yards, and Broc Timm had 1 reception for 25 yards.
Johnston had an outstanding game returning a CRB kick for a touchdown and two interceptions, one returned for a 48-yard TD. Johnston added to the EG cause with a 2-point conversion, and Zach Hiller capped off the evening with a successful PAT kick.
The Hawk defense put the clamps on CRB early and did not let up. Beger led the attack with 8 solo and 5 assisted tackles with Ostrander handling 10 solos and two assisted. Hiller had 9 solo and 2 assisted; Johnston 4 and 6; Broc Timm 4 and 7; Cody Hidelbaugh 6 and 3; Alex Gordon 5 and 4; and Lint 5 and 2.
EG completely shut down the Crusaders’ passing attack. In addition to Johnston’s two interceptions, Ostrander also snagged two CRB passes. Overall, the “Hawk D” held Crusader QB Keaton Schlatter to just 9 completions in 29 attempts for 94 yards passing. The Crusaders were held to 71 yards rushing for 165 yards total. EG racked up 104 yards on the ground to add to its 304 yards passing for 408-yard offensive total for the night.
EG takes on Ar-We-Va in the final regular season game tonight, Friday, Oct. 21, at Karber Field. Kickoff is 7 p.m. EG and Ar-We-Va have identical 4-4 records, but the Rockets are 4-1 in District 7 and have already clinched a playoff spot. After the win over CRB, the Hawks are deadlocked with the Crusaders at 2-3 with each team in contention for the fourth of four playoff spots in D7. A win gives Ar-We-Va the No. 2 seed and a possible No. 1 seed if Glidden-Ralston should fall to Coon Rapids-Bayard tonight in Coon Rapids. A win would pretty much give EG the No. 4 spot.
GR, unbeaten in D7 play (5-0) and 7-1 overall, will be a heavy favorite over CRB. Woodbine is 1-4 in D7 but takes on winless Charter Oak-Ute. If CRB and EG both lose and Woodbine wins, all three teams would be tied for the No. 4 spot and the tie-breaker system would be used based on the average point differential in each team’s six division games.
Heading into tonight’s games, CRB and EG are knotted up at -2.6 tie-breaker points. Woodbine is -6.4 but a win would improve that number while losses for CRB and EG would drop them further into the minus category, so unless those two teams’ losses were very, very close, Woodbine would most likely get the No. 4 playoff spot. But if COU should make it close against Woodbine in losing, it could come down to a single point in the scores being the difference.
Boyer Valley (Dunlap) has concluded district and season play at 4-2 and 6-3, and is guaranteed no worse than the No. 3 playoff spot. If EG gets by Ar-We-Va, that would tie up the Rockets and BV at 4-2 in the league for second. The No. 2 playoff spot would be decided by the points differential tie-breaker. BV finished the season with 5.3 points while AWV has 6.67 through 5 games. AWV could lose to EG and keep the No. 2 spot, but only if the Rockets lose by 1 point. A loss of 2 points or more would cut into their total point differential and drop them below BV’s point total differential.
District 7 Standings:
Glidden-Ralston 5-0 7-1
Ar-We-Va 4-1 4-4
Boyer Valley 4-2 6-3
Coon Rapids-Bayard 2-3 4-4
East Greene 2-3 4-4
Woodbine 1-4 2-6
Charter Oak-Ute 0-5 0-8
Oct. 14 Results:
EG 39, CRB 14
GR 62, COU 28
BV 48, WDB 6
AWV open
Games Tonight:
AWV @ EG
GR @ CRB
COU @ WDB
BV open
EYE ON GJ SAYS: At this point of the season there are two things at play—the actual games in GJ, Coon Rapids and Woodbine tonight and the mathematical promulgations that could determine who heads where next week for the first round of the post-season playoffs.
Either way, the Hawks really did themselves proud with a big win over CRB. It was the first win ever in 8-man football over the Crusaders. It was even sweeter to have it come on the Hawks' home field in Grand Junction.
Beger and Ostrander continue to rank high in the passing and receiving stats compiled each week and featured in the Friday morning prep preview in the D.M. Register. Each has been among the Top 10 and climbing. This week, Ostrander is No. 2 among all Iowa high school receivers with 68 receptions for 1,094 yards and 14 touchdowns.
The No. 4 seed in D7 will travel next Wednesday to the No. 1 seed in D8. Fremont-Mills (Tabor) and East Mills (Malvern) are both 5-0 in D8 and meet tonight in Malvern for the district championship. Fremont-Mills (7-0) is ranked No. 2 in the state in 8-Man Football while East Mills (8-0) is ranked No. 5.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
EG Prepares for ‘Second’ and ‘Third’ Seasons
RH LEAGUE TOURNEY THURSDAY; REGIONAL NEXT WEEK
East Greene dropped a tough volleyball match to Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton on Tuesday, Oct. 4 in Rippey, 25-18, 25-14, 12-25, 29-27 to fall to 3-5 in the Rolling Hills Conference. The Hawkettes were back in action on Saturday winning two matches and losing three at the Walnut Tournament, moving their season record to 7-12.
EG beat Diagonal 21-8, 21-16 and Ankeny Christian 21-6, 20-22, 15-6 while losing to Walnut 21-13, 21-14 to finish 2-1 in pool play and advance with three other teams to the championship round of the 8-team tourney. Woodbine beat the Hawkettes 21-10, 22-20 in a semifinal match. EG closed out the tourney with another loss to Walnut, 21-14, 21-19, in the third-place match to finish fourth in the tourney.
Against EEHK, the Hawkettes got off to a slow start losing the first two games but took command in the third to double up points on the Spartans winning 25-12. EG went to “extra digits” in the fourth match but fell 29-27.
The loss dropped EG from the upper division of the Rolling Hills. Coming into the contest, the Hawkettes were tied with CAM (Anita) and Orient-Macksburg for fifth place at 3-4 with EEHK just behind at 2-5. CAM upset Iowa Christian Academy that night to move to 4-4 with OM breezing by winless Ankeny Christian Academy to move to 4-4 and stay tied with CAM.
EEHK moved up to 3-5 with the win, tying with the Hawkettes for seventh place in the league. The loss to CAM was Iowa Christian’s first conference setback and allowed Adair-Casey to move into a tie for first place with ICA at 7-1.
The conference title is on the line tonight as ICA hosts EEHK in Waukee and Adair-Casey hosts Walnut. All the league games are important this time of the season as teams no longer relevant in the conference regular championship title can still jockey for a good seed in the conference tournament on Thursday in Elk Horn.
This “second season” gives some of the lower division teams another crack at each other and also at the upper division teams. The bottom four teams form a “play-in” round to create an eight-team field. The 10th place team takes on the 7th place team with the winner moving on to face the No. 2 seed. The 9th place team takes on the 8th place team with the winner advancing to face the top seed. In other quarterfinal round games, No. 3 plays No. 6 and No. 4 takes on No. 5.
A “third season” gets underway next Wednesday, Oct. 19, as regional play begins. EG travels to Southeast Webster-Grand (Burnside) in Class 1A first-round action. The winner advances to the quarterfinal round on Tuesday, Oct. 25, in Burnside to take on the winner of the Oct. 19 match in Blairsburg between CAL (Latimer) and Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg).
Adair-Casey 7-1
Iowa Christian 7-1
Glidden-Ralston 6-2
Walnut 5-3
CAM 4-4
Orient-Macksburg 4-4
East Greene 3-5
Exira/EHK 3-5
Paton-Churdan 1-7
Ankeny Christian 0-8
Tuesday, Oct. 5:
EEHK beat EG 25-18, 25-14, 12-25, 29-27
CAM beat ICA 16-25, 25-23, 25-22, 9-25, 15-12
OM beat ANK 29-27, 16-25, 24-26, 25-17, 15-5
AC beat PC 25-19, 25-13, 25-16
GR beat WAL 23-25, 25-15, 14-25, 25-20, 15-11
EYE ON GJ SAYS: It was a tough loss for EG at the hands of EEHK. A win would have moved the Hawkettes to 4-4 in the league and provide some momentum heading into the long trip on Saturday to the Walnut Tourney and the final league match of the season tonight at Glidden-Ralston. GR beat Walnut last Tuesday to take sole command of third place in the Rolling Hills at 6-2, just behind league-leaders Adair-Casey and Iowa Christian at 7-1. Should either of those teams stumble tonight, a win over EG will move GR into a tie for second place. The Wildcats will be a heavy favorite and looking to avenge two softball thumpings from EG this summer.
The conference tournament should be a very competitive event with the co-leaders as solid favorites, but some of the middle-tier teams could have an outside shot at taking the tourney title, considering CAM’s surprise win over ICA, which came on the heels of CAM falling to Paton-Churdan, 28-26, 25-23, 9-25, 20-25, 15-8. It was the Rockettes’ first league win of the season. Look for PC to prevail tonight against Ankeny Christian in its league finale.
Considering how the conference tourney shakes out, some teams could get an updraft heading into the big payoff—the “third season” or regional tournament. Every team’s eye is on the prize of a regional championship and a trip to the state tournament in Cedar Rapids.
SWG got the better of the Hawkettes in the season opener for both teams in late August. The Eagles prevailed 25-12, 12-25, 25-14, 25-21. EG will looking to make amends for that defeat. The Hawkettes play in a very competitive conference as Iowa Christian and Adair-Casey have been ranked most of the season. Two non-conference foes, Coon Rapids-Bayard and Guthrie Center, have also been ranked at different points of the season.
SWG is 1-9 in league play and 4-15 overall.
The winner of the Burnside quarterfinal bracket moves on to the semifinal round at Woodward. Teams in the opposite quarterfinal bracket are Colo-Nesco, Madrid, Ankeny Christian and Woodward-Granger.
The winner in Woodward on Friday, Oct. 28 moves on the regional final in Adel on Tuesday, Nov. 1 to face the winner of a seminal match in Guthrie Center on Oct. 28. Teams on that side of the regional bracket are Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Glidden-Ralston, Paton-Churdan, Guthrie Center, Earlham, CAM, Grandview Park Baptist and Adair-Casey.
EEHK and CRB face off in a play-in round match on Monday night with the winner advancing to a first-round match against Glidden Ralston on Wednesday. PC takes on Guthrie Center in another first round pairing in Guthrie Center on Wednesday with the winners that night meeting next Tuesday in a quarterfinal match up in Guthrie Center. Other first-round matches on that side of the bracket are Grandview Park Baptist at Adair-Casey and Earlham at CAM.
Iowa Christian Academy is in Region 4. The Trailblazers’ first-round opponent is Martensdale-St. Mary’s. Walnut and Orient-Macksburg of the Rolling Hills are both in Region 3.
The favorites to make the Region 5 final in Adel are Coon Rapids-Bayard, Adair-Casey and Guthrie Center in the Guthrie half of the bracket with Woodward-Granger as the team to beat in the Woodward side of the bracket. WG is leading the West Central Conference with a 7-0 league mark and 12-4 overall record. The Hawkettes are ranked 11th in Class 1A just behind No. 10 Adair-Casey (14-6) of the Rolling Hills and one spot in front of West Central league foe Guthrie Center (13-5). GC and WG face off on Thursday in Guthrie Center. GC is 4-3 in the West Central behind WG, DMC (7-1) and CRB and Earlham tied for third (5-2).
But Grandview Park Baptist and SWG can’t be overlooked as each plays in a predominantly 2A conference—GPB in the Heart of Iowa and SWG in the Twin Lakes. GPB has a particularly strong history in volleyball with several state tournament appearances in recent years.
Jefferson-Scranton is also in the Heart of Iowa and is in third place with a 5-2 conference record and 14-5 overall mark. The Rams host Prairie Valley (Gowrie) on Tuesday, Oct. 18, in a 2A Region 3 first round match. Roland-Story takes on winless Ogden that same night in Story City with Tuesday’s winners facing off on Tuesday, Oct. 25 in a quarterfinal match up in Story City. The winner there advances to a semifinal match up in Jefferson on Friday, Oct. 28, against either South Central Calhoun, East Sac, IKM-Manning or Kuemper. The Jefferson semifinal winner will take on the Des Moines Christian semifinal winner on Tuesday, Nov. 1, in Ames. Teams on the DMC side of the bracket are Colfax-Mingo, North Polk, CMB, Gilbert, Van Meter, Audubon, Panorama and DMC. The first four are all members of the HOI with J-S while the others are all West Central Conference teams with the exception of Audubon of the Western Iowa Conference.
East Greene dropped a tough volleyball match to Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton on Tuesday, Oct. 4 in Rippey, 25-18, 25-14, 12-25, 29-27 to fall to 3-5 in the Rolling Hills Conference. The Hawkettes were back in action on Saturday winning two matches and losing three at the Walnut Tournament, moving their season record to 7-12.
EG beat Diagonal 21-8, 21-16 and Ankeny Christian 21-6, 20-22, 15-6 while losing to Walnut 21-13, 21-14 to finish 2-1 in pool play and advance with three other teams to the championship round of the 8-team tourney. Woodbine beat the Hawkettes 21-10, 22-20 in a semifinal match. EG closed out the tourney with another loss to Walnut, 21-14, 21-19, in the third-place match to finish fourth in the tourney.
Against EEHK, the Hawkettes got off to a slow start losing the first two games but took command in the third to double up points on the Spartans winning 25-12. EG went to “extra digits” in the fourth match but fell 29-27.
The loss dropped EG from the upper division of the Rolling Hills. Coming into the contest, the Hawkettes were tied with CAM (Anita) and Orient-Macksburg for fifth place at 3-4 with EEHK just behind at 2-5. CAM upset Iowa Christian Academy that night to move to 4-4 with OM breezing by winless Ankeny Christian Academy to move to 4-4 and stay tied with CAM.
EEHK moved up to 3-5 with the win, tying with the Hawkettes for seventh place in the league. The loss to CAM was Iowa Christian’s first conference setback and allowed Adair-Casey to move into a tie for first place with ICA at 7-1.
The conference title is on the line tonight as ICA hosts EEHK in Waukee and Adair-Casey hosts Walnut. All the league games are important this time of the season as teams no longer relevant in the conference regular championship title can still jockey for a good seed in the conference tournament on Thursday in Elk Horn.
This “second season” gives some of the lower division teams another crack at each other and also at the upper division teams. The bottom four teams form a “play-in” round to create an eight-team field. The 10th place team takes on the 7th place team with the winner moving on to face the No. 2 seed. The 9th place team takes on the 8th place team with the winner advancing to face the top seed. In other quarterfinal round games, No. 3 plays No. 6 and No. 4 takes on No. 5.
A “third season” gets underway next Wednesday, Oct. 19, as regional play begins. EG travels to Southeast Webster-Grand (Burnside) in Class 1A first-round action. The winner advances to the quarterfinal round on Tuesday, Oct. 25, in Burnside to take on the winner of the Oct. 19 match in Blairsburg between CAL (Latimer) and Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg).
Adair-Casey 7-1
Iowa Christian 7-1
Glidden-Ralston 6-2
Walnut 5-3
CAM 4-4
Orient-Macksburg 4-4
East Greene 3-5
Exira/EHK 3-5
Paton-Churdan 1-7
Ankeny Christian 0-8
Tuesday, Oct. 5:
EEHK beat EG 25-18, 25-14, 12-25, 29-27
CAM beat ICA 16-25, 25-23, 25-22, 9-25, 15-12
OM beat ANK 29-27, 16-25, 24-26, 25-17, 15-5
AC beat PC 25-19, 25-13, 25-16
GR beat WAL 23-25, 25-15, 14-25, 25-20, 15-11
EYE ON GJ SAYS: It was a tough loss for EG at the hands of EEHK. A win would have moved the Hawkettes to 4-4 in the league and provide some momentum heading into the long trip on Saturday to the Walnut Tourney and the final league match of the season tonight at Glidden-Ralston. GR beat Walnut last Tuesday to take sole command of third place in the Rolling Hills at 6-2, just behind league-leaders Adair-Casey and Iowa Christian at 7-1. Should either of those teams stumble tonight, a win over EG will move GR into a tie for second place. The Wildcats will be a heavy favorite and looking to avenge two softball thumpings from EG this summer.
The conference tournament should be a very competitive event with the co-leaders as solid favorites, but some of the middle-tier teams could have an outside shot at taking the tourney title, considering CAM’s surprise win over ICA, which came on the heels of CAM falling to Paton-Churdan, 28-26, 25-23, 9-25, 20-25, 15-8. It was the Rockettes’ first league win of the season. Look for PC to prevail tonight against Ankeny Christian in its league finale.
Considering how the conference tourney shakes out, some teams could get an updraft heading into the big payoff—the “third season” or regional tournament. Every team’s eye is on the prize of a regional championship and a trip to the state tournament in Cedar Rapids.
SWG got the better of the Hawkettes in the season opener for both teams in late August. The Eagles prevailed 25-12, 12-25, 25-14, 25-21. EG will looking to make amends for that defeat. The Hawkettes play in a very competitive conference as Iowa Christian and Adair-Casey have been ranked most of the season. Two non-conference foes, Coon Rapids-Bayard and Guthrie Center, have also been ranked at different points of the season.
SWG is 1-9 in league play and 4-15 overall.
The winner of the Burnside quarterfinal bracket moves on to the semifinal round at Woodward. Teams in the opposite quarterfinal bracket are Colo-Nesco, Madrid, Ankeny Christian and Woodward-Granger.
The winner in Woodward on Friday, Oct. 28 moves on the regional final in Adel on Tuesday, Nov. 1 to face the winner of a seminal match in Guthrie Center on Oct. 28. Teams on that side of the regional bracket are Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Glidden-Ralston, Paton-Churdan, Guthrie Center, Earlham, CAM, Grandview Park Baptist and Adair-Casey.
EEHK and CRB face off in a play-in round match on Monday night with the winner advancing to a first-round match against Glidden Ralston on Wednesday. PC takes on Guthrie Center in another first round pairing in Guthrie Center on Wednesday with the winners that night meeting next Tuesday in a quarterfinal match up in Guthrie Center. Other first-round matches on that side of the bracket are Grandview Park Baptist at Adair-Casey and Earlham at CAM.
Iowa Christian Academy is in Region 4. The Trailblazers’ first-round opponent is Martensdale-St. Mary’s. Walnut and Orient-Macksburg of the Rolling Hills are both in Region 3.
The favorites to make the Region 5 final in Adel are Coon Rapids-Bayard, Adair-Casey and Guthrie Center in the Guthrie half of the bracket with Woodward-Granger as the team to beat in the Woodward side of the bracket. WG is leading the West Central Conference with a 7-0 league mark and 12-4 overall record. The Hawkettes are ranked 11th in Class 1A just behind No. 10 Adair-Casey (14-6) of the Rolling Hills and one spot in front of West Central league foe Guthrie Center (13-5). GC and WG face off on Thursday in Guthrie Center. GC is 4-3 in the West Central behind WG, DMC (7-1) and CRB and Earlham tied for third (5-2).
But Grandview Park Baptist and SWG can’t be overlooked as each plays in a predominantly 2A conference—GPB in the Heart of Iowa and SWG in the Twin Lakes. GPB has a particularly strong history in volleyball with several state tournament appearances in recent years.
Jefferson-Scranton is also in the Heart of Iowa and is in third place with a 5-2 conference record and 14-5 overall mark. The Rams host Prairie Valley (Gowrie) on Tuesday, Oct. 18, in a 2A Region 3 first round match. Roland-Story takes on winless Ogden that same night in Story City with Tuesday’s winners facing off on Tuesday, Oct. 25 in a quarterfinal match up in Story City. The winner there advances to a semifinal match up in Jefferson on Friday, Oct. 28, against either South Central Calhoun, East Sac, IKM-Manning or Kuemper. The Jefferson semifinal winner will take on the Des Moines Christian semifinal winner on Tuesday, Nov. 1, in Ames. Teams on the DMC side of the bracket are Colfax-Mingo, North Polk, CMB, Gilbert, Van Meter, Audubon, Panorama and DMC. The first four are all members of the HOI with J-S while the others are all West Central Conference teams with the exception of Audubon of the Western Iowa Conference.
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