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No. 1 Kirkwood sweeps past MCC netters

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Top-ranked Kirkwood turned away the Marshalltown Community College volleyball team in Wednesday’s Iowa Community College Athletic Conference clash in three sets, winning 25-19, 25-14, 25-16 inside the Student Activity Center. The visiting Eagles (27-0, 10-0) remained unbeaten behind a balanced offensive attack that featured seven different players with at least three kills. Carly Wazac led Kirkwood with seven kills and Madalyn Boyer added six more. MCC (8-11, 2-8) suffered its fourth straight defeat despite a match-high 11 kills from Morghan Harvey. Stella Remer contributed six kills ...

BIG JOHN STUD

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By the time his senior season is over, John “JJ” Schoenfelder will have left more than his share of blood, sweat and tears on the turf at Leonard Cole Field. Through the first seven games of his senior campaign, Schoenfelder has left a trail of tackled ball-carriers as far as Bobcat fans ...

’Cats crowned Alliance champs

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DES MOINES — Marshalltown senior Preston Johnson successfully defended his Iowa Alliance Conference meet title in leading the Bobcats to their first team championship on Wednesday at the James W. Cownie Soccer Complex. Johnson won his second-straight Alliance meet title with a blistering ...

SPORTS SHORTS: Comets lead locals in own tourney

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CONRAD — The BCLUW volleyball team was bested by Dunkerton in an all-Iowa Star Conference final at the Comet Invite on Saturday in a rematch of last year’s Class 1A state quarterfinal clash. The seventh-ranked Raiders (20-10) toppled the No. 12 Comets (27-12) in Saturday’s finals, 25-19, 25-17, to close out the eight-team tournament with the only two ranked teams still playing. Dunkerton also defeated BCLUW in a five-set thriller last November in Coralville, and the two teams had not reunited since until Saturday. BCLUW beat PCM (21-12, 21-5), Gladbrook-Reinbeck (21-14, 21-15) ...

Drake women set MVC schedule

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ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The Drake women’s basketball team will begin its Missouri Valley Conference slate with a pair of league matchups before the Christmas holiday. Drake is set to host Evansville on Dec. 18 before welcoming Southern Illinois to Des Moines on Dec. 20. The Bulldogs’ final game of 2026 will be their first of a four-game road swing with a Dec. 30 trip to Peoria for a date with Bradley. Head coach Allison Pohlman’s squad will then ring in the new year with trips to Indiana State (Jan. 3), Illinois State (Jan. 7), and Illinois-Chicago (Jan. 9). Drake will return home to ...

Jackson's suspension reduced to one game

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Los Angeles Rams offensive lineman Alaric Jackson to had his two-game suspension for punching a member of the Buffalo Bills reduced to one game on Wednesday after appealing the initial ruling. Hearing officer Derrick Brooks, jointly appointed by the NFL and the NFLPA, reduced the ...