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Sports schedule for Wednesday

 

Class 3A Region 1 Girls Basketball First Round 7pm Tip offs

Lower Bracket

Spencer at 2nd ranked MOC Floyd Valley
Broadcast on KIWA FM 105.3. Pregame at 6:45. We’ll stream from the website at www.kiwaradio.com.

Webster City at Humboldt

Winners meet Saturday at Cherokee

Upper Bracket

Iowa Falls Alden at Clear Lake

Algona at Spirit Lake

Winners meet Saturday at Algona

Boys Class 2A District 4 first round game Lower Bracket

Emmetsburg at Sioux Central with the winner meeting South O’Brien at Paullina Thursday night

Class 1A District 3 Play in Games

Siouxland Community at River Valley with the winner at Lawton Bronson Thursday

Remsen St Mary’s at Hinton with the winner at LeMars Gehlen on Thursday

Girls Tournament Results From Tuesday

 

Girls basketball Region quarterfinals

Class 2A Region 1 Lower Bracket

Sioux Central 56
Sheldon 53

5th ranked Western Christian 70
Sibley Ocheyedan 39

Winners meet Friday 2/17 at Sheldon

Upper Bracket

Cherokee 69
Unity 36

4th ranked Kuemper Catholic 73
East Sac 45

Winners meet Friday 2/17 at Cherokee

Class 1A Region 1 quarterfinal Upper Bracket

Clay Central Everly 50
North Iowa 47

11th ranked Central Lyon 34
10th ranked Boyden Hull 29

Winners meet Friday 2/17 at Lake Park

Lower Bracket

Algona Garrigan 34
West Bend Mallard 28

9th ranked LeMars Gehlen 61
8th ranked Marcus Meriden Cleghorn 53 2 OT

Winners meet Friday 2/17 at Laurens

Orab Fourth Quarter Comeback Falls Just Short

 

A fourth quarter comeback attempt came up just short for the Sheldon Orabs as they fell 56-53 to the Rebels of Sioux Central Tuesday night in the Class 2A Region 1 Quarterfinals at Sioux Rapids.

The Rebels led at all the breaks as they opened a 22-11 first quarter lead and were up by 11 at halftime as well 38-27. At the end of three the Sioux Central lead was down to eight points at 46-38. Abbie Provost hit a three pointer with time running down to get the lead to two points. The Rebels Hallie Ehlers hit one-of-two at the line to put the lead back at three and that would be the final margin.

Morgan Walker hit for a game high 23 points for the Rebels. She was joined in double figures by Ehlers with 13 including 4-of -5 free throw shooting in the fourth quarter. As a team Sioux Central Would hit 8-of-12 from the line in the final quarter.

Sheldon was led by senior Crystal Rodger with 18 points on six three point buckets on the night. Michelle Fischer another senior joined her in double figures with 10 points.

With the loss Sheldon ends the season at 8-15. Sioux Central now 20-3 on the season advances to the Region Semifinals Friday night at the Sheldon High School Gym. They will meet fifth ranked Western Christian. The Wolfpack advanced with a 70-39 home win over Sibley Ocheyedan Tuesday night.

We’ll bring you the broadcast on KIWA FM 105.3 Friday night with pregame getting underway at 6:45.

Dordt Men Fourth in Coaches Top 25

 

Dordt College held the No. 4 spot in the NAIA Division II Mens Basketball Coaches Poll released late Monday, February 13. This marked the second week in a row the Defenders were ranked fourth.

Dordt won three games last week to improve to 25-3 for the season and clinched the regular season Great Plains Athletic Conference Championship, the top seed in the post-season GPAC Tournament and an automatic berth in the NAIA Division II National Tournament March 7-13.
The Defenders are one of six teams in the poll with three losses. Oregon Tech moved to No. 1 this week, overtaking Northwood (Florida) who stands No. 2. Davenport (Michigan), the winner of the Wolverine-Hoosier Conference regular season title is No. 3. Dordt took one number one vote in the poll and has 343 points in the voting.

The Great Plains Athletic Conference is also represented by Northwestern (15) and Briar Cliff (18) in the weekly poll. Midland and Morningside are both in the receiving votes category.

Dordt College will conclude the regular season on Saturday, February 18 at Doane in Crete, Nebraska and will host a Great Plains Athletic Conference quarterfinal round contest on Wednesday, February 22.

NAIA DIV II Women’s Basketball Poll

 

1 Indiana Wesleyan (9)26-2
2 Concordia (Neb.) (5) 26-2
3 College of the Ozarks (Mo.) 24-3
4 Morningside (Iowa) 22-6
5 Concordia (Mich.) 24-4
6 Davenport (Mich.) 24-4
7 Jamestown (N.D.) 24-3
7 Northwestern (Iowa) 20-6
9 Grand View (Iowa) 23-5
10 Corban (Ore.) 19-6
11 Briar Cliff (Iowa) 20-8
12 Cardinal Stritch (Wis.) 23-5
13 Mount Mercy (Iowa) 21-7
14 St. Thomas (Fla.) 20-5
15 Bethel (Ind.) 19-8
16 Tennessee Wesleyan 20-7
17 Friends (Kan.) 20-8
18 Hastings (Neb.) 19-8
19 Ave Maria (Fla.) 23-4
20 Saint Mary (Neb.) 20-7
21 Southwestern (Kan.) 19-7
22 Point Park (Pa.) 20-5
23 College of Idaho 17-8
24 Grace (Ind.) 18-10
25 Union (Ky.) 20-7

Final 3A/4A Girls Basketball rankings

 

Class 3A
1 Benton 21-0
2 MOC-Floyd Valley 22-0
3 Sioux City Bishop Heelan 20-1
4 Davenport Assumption 19-2
5 Glenwood 19-1
6 Dubuque Wahlert 17-4
7 South Tama 20-2
8 Union 19-2
9 Bondurant-Farrar 19-2
10 Williamsburg 18-4
11 Washington 17-4
12 Sergeant Bluff-Luton 15-6
13 Denison-Schleswig 13-8
14 Keokuk 15-6
15 Waverly-Shell Rock 16-5

Class 4A
1 Southeast Polk 21-1
2 Iowa City West 20-1
3 Mason City 19-2
4 Ankeny 18-3
5 Cedar Rapids Xavier 16-5
6 Waukee 17-5
7 Iowa City High 15-6
8 Muscatine 18-3
9 Lewis Central 19-2
10 Dowling Catholic 13-8
11 West Des Moines Valley 13-8
12 Cedar Rapids Kennedy 12-9
13 Cedar Rapids Washington 13-7
14 Des Moines East 15-6
15 Cedar Falls 12-9