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Quarterfinal playoffs November 7, 2008

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CLASS 4A
 Ankeny 35  Ames 21
WDM Valley 32  WDM Dowling 27
CR Washington 48  Bettendorf 27
Cedar Falls 43  CR Xavier 6

CLASS 3A
 Clear Lake 27  Carroll 12
Decorah 21  Cresco Crestwood 7
Pella 19  Mt. Pleasent 5
Sioux City Heelan 38 Harlan 21

CLASS 2A
 IKM/Manning 25  Missouri Valley 0
Roland Story 17  Sumner Fredericksburg 0
Central Lyon George Little Rock 28 Okoboji Milford 7
Solon 52  Mid Prairie 27

CLASS 1A
 Emmetsburg 14  Aplington Parkersburg 6
West Branch 39  Maquoketa Valley 6
Prairie Valley 28 Pella Christian 14
West Lyon 28  Council Bluffs St. Albert 21

Class A
 Southern Cal 21  Alta 6
Northwood Kensett  28 East Buchanan 10
North Tama 19  HLV Victor 0
Madrid 42  A-H-S-T 25
 

8 MAN
 CWL 42  Janesville 0
Lenox 32  East Union 6
Armstrong-Ringsted 49  North Sentral Kossuth 14
Stanton 42  Coon Rapids Bayard 17


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Iowa faces Penn State, ISU at Colorado

November 7, 2008 By

The Iowa Hawkeyes can be a BCS spoiler when they host third ranked Penn State. The Nittany Lions are unbeaten and need a win to stay in the national title hunt. The Hawkeyes are 5-4 overall.

Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz says this is a game to get excited about, as he says you don’t get many chances to play and undefeated and highly ranked team in November. He says they will have to play well and get some breaks to have a chance.

Ferentz expects the Nittany Lions to load up to stop Shonn Greene. He says good defense always starts with trying to make you "play left handed," so they will likely try to make his team pass the ball. On the other side, Ferentz says it will be difficult to slow down Penn State by concentrating on one phase. He says they are very balanced and everyone plays their position very well, which makes it tough to take something away from them.

The Iowa State Cyclones try to snap a seven game losing skid at Colorado. The Cyclone offense has been relying on the arm of Austen Arnaud and the Colorado defense has been good against the pass.

Coach Gene Chizik says they have a great blitz scheme that presents a lot of protection problems. Cyclones would like to be balanced. He says you have to be able to try and hit some big runs.

Colorado inserted true freshman Tyler Hansen into a quarterback rotation a couple of weeks ago. Chizik says they have some designed runs for him and he is a good quarterback. The Cyclones are 2-7. Colorado is 4-5.

 

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UNI hosts Missouri State

November 7, 2008 By

The UNI Panthers host Missouri State in their regular season home finale. The Panthers have a share of the Missouri Valley lead and coach Mark Farley says while Missouri State has been inconsistent, the 3-5 Bears are dangerous.

Farley says they are also athletic and talented enough to line up and beat anybody. While the Panthers have put themselves in a good position Farley says there is plenty of work remaining. He says it would be easy to look ahead right now, but doing so would set them up for failure. Farley says if you look ahead three weeks from now, you might not see three weeks from now and be done with your season.

This is the third time that former UNI coach and quarterback Terry Allen has gone up against his alma mater and Farley says his familiarity with the program effects the game plan. 

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Winter Weather Awareness Day is next week, but winter is already here

November 7, 2008 By

Winter Weather Awareness Day in Iowa is next Thursday, but with snow flying across much of the state already, some folks may benefit from the reminders a week early. Jeff Johnson, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service, says having a well-stocked emergency kit in your vehicle could be a life-saver.

Johnson says, "If you get caught out in the weather, in the elements, and get stranded for a time period, you’re going to need some things: non-perishable food items, blankets, a way to communicate — a good cell phone — just some things to survive six-to-12 hours typically before help arrives." He says motorists need to keep themselves particularly aware of the weather during the winter and heed the travel advisories when they’re issued.

Johnson says: "People just drive too fast and they need to get where they need to go and they think they can make it, especially if they have four-wheel drive, but that doesn’t do any good on the ice. You need to slow down, take it easy, allow yourself a safe distance between vehicles and drive very defensively."

He says some people take it to the opposite extreme — driving over-cautiously and really slowly. That, too, can present a serious hazard. Johnson recommends the Weather Service website for more tips. "We have a lot information about what to do when we have a winter storm, blizzards, ice storms, extreme cold and wind chill." Visit the National Weather Service website .

 

 

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Ribbon cutting held for special prison facility

November 7, 2008 By

A ribbon cutting ceremony was held today for a first of its kind facility within the Iowa Department of Corrections. The ANCHOR Center in Cedar Rapids is specifically designed to serve clients with substance abuse and mental health disorders.

The two-million-dollar facility could begin taking patients sometime next Spring. Malinda Lamb, who will serve as the center’s director, says the building has room for 26 residential clients, but will also include outpatient programming.

Lamb says offenders with substance abuse or mental health issues currently seek treatment in the community. "This center will provide those services on site," Lamb explained. The ANCHOR Center could serve as a model for other future facilities in the state. Lamb says the center will meet the treatment needs of the residents, while also providing the security and supervision those clients require.

"We will have everything from basic budgeting skills and social skills all the way up to more specific therapy treatment oriented groups," Lamb said. "For example, dual-diagnosis groups that deal with the interactions of the mental health (patients) and their substance abuse disorders." The 6th Judicial District consists of Linn, Benton, Iowa, Jones and Tama Counties.

Lamb says corrections officials will work closely with other agencies in the community to address all the needs of the people who come to the ANCHOR Center. She says clients need help with their disorders, but many also require assistance in dealing with housing, employment and family issues. It’s believed that up to 36-percent of the Iowa prison inmates released on parole into the correctional services districts have a diagnosed mental health disorder.

 

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Deer runs into tour bus

November 7, 2008 By

A deer crashed through the driver’s side window of a tour bus in southeast Iowa on Wednesday night, leaving the driver and more than 30 passengers hurt. According to the Iowa State Patrol, the bus was being driven by 57-year-old Oskaloosa native Art Vandeweerdhof, heading into into Fairfield about four-tenths of a mile outside of the city near Reiff Grain and Feed.

At that time, a deer attempting to cross Highway 1 reportedly leapt into the air as the bus was going by. A total of 31 passengers suffered injuries in the accident and were transported to the Jefferson County Hospital.

Several Jefferson County Ambulance crews were called to make trips between the accident scene and the hospital to transport all the injured parties in the accident. Squad cars were also used to move the injured.

 

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Leadership struggle underway in Republican party

November 7, 2008 By

Chris Rants A long-time Republican leader at the statehouse is fighting to keep his job. Christopher Rants of Sioux City was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1992, when he was 25 years old.

A decade later, his fellow Republicans elected Rants as their top leader. Republicans lost majority control of the House in 2006 and House Republicans had more losses in Tuesday’s election.

Representative Kraig Paulsen of Hiawatha is asking House Republicans to choose him as their leader, rather than Rants.

“You know, I appreciate his service to the state and I have no ill will and consider him a friend and all those good things, but I think this is larger than Kraig Paulsen,” Paulsen says. “It’s larger than Chris Rants.” Paulsen says the Republican “brand” has been watered down.

“We should be the party of fiscal constraint and smaller government,” Paulsen says, “and I don’t that we’ve necessarily stayed true to those values the last handful of years.”

Kraig Paulsen Rants is telephoning each Republican who has won a seat in the Iowa House, asking them to keep him as their leader. Rants has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Republican candidates in the past decade and he’s been the leading statehouse critic of Democrats. 

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