there was another great matchup in class a, between akron- westfield and lawton- bronson. to say they were evenly matched is an under- statement. sportsfource is "on the road" live in akron, iowa. that's where we find ktiv's sam curtiss. both akron-westfield and lawton-bronson had identical records. they were both 5-2 overall and 4-1 in district play. the winner would probably be home for round one of the playoffs. breast cancer awareness night for the westerners wearing those pink jerseys hosting lawton-bronson. eagles led 7-6 at the half - this 3rd quarter fade to aaron allard - yee haw - gives the westerners a 12-7 lead. but lawton bronson snatched that lead right back - matt herbold to nathan kneifl - pass interference doesn't matter - sure hand kneifl gallops his way to paydirt - eagles reclaim a one-point lead 13-12. westerners after getting stopped on a 4th down earlier - get the ball back and get it to allard again for the 18-13 advantage. lawton-bronson on 4th down - pass soars by austin peters hands. wetserners add another score and the final ends up 24-13 over sp

staying g class a - akron-westfield hosting council bluffs, st. albert. under 2 minutes to go in the first half - st. albert with a big play down the far sideline - elijah finn hauling it in - the falcons take a 21-14 lead. but that would not stop akron- westfield - still just before half, the westerners get a nice kickoff return to start the drive - and austin allard catches a touchdown - 2 point attempt no good, westerners trail 21-20 at half. but a-w poured it on in the second half - check out the grab by allard in the end zone - 20 yard touchdown catch - akron-westfield advances at home, 57-36. in class 1a, number-9 hinton hosting emmetsburg. early first quarter - blackhawks swoop in first - jay small rolls out - skyler beller goes s the camera - gets behind everyone for a 44-yard seven point blackhawk lead. e-hawks use great field poession from a muffed punt as the senior clayton freeman goes wide to knot things up at seven. blackhawks scored on seven on nine poesesons - small to blake vande hoefefs a 35-yard strike this go round - 13-7 blackhawks. a

akron- westfield's first possession of the second half.. eskra keeps it himself and goes twenty-five yards to the forty-five yard line.4. two plays later.. the westerners line up in a trick formation and eskra hits tyler waterbury y down to the falcons twenty-five.5. a few plays 3 the resurgent cherokee braves... winners of more games this year than the past four years combined... taking on central lyon/george-little rock tonight1) opening quarter, lions lead 7-nothing, and the "d" was on the prowl...mitch van beek drops michael herwig deep in the backfield. the braves were forced to punt.2)second quarter, the central lyon/george-little rock offense goes back to work. on the opening play of the drive, c.j. roths (row-ths) motors his way through the secondary, slips a pair of arm tackles, and takes it 80-yards for the touchdown! roths (row-ths) had over 230 yards rushing and three td's on the night. 13- nothing lions.3) late in the half, the braves trail 20- nothing, and opt to go on fourth-and-20, and adam cedar is sacked by jaydon baker. l

chris>> at 5 and 2 lawton-bronson and akron-westfield have the same record and the same dream. get into the playoffs and do damage. someone was going to improve to an impressive 6-2 mark tonight. eagles on a 4 game win streak. akron-westfield's only lost to ranked opponents. 1.econd play of the game here... eagles ball... qb matt herbold hands it off to austin peters... he finds an opening to the right... he takes that all the way down to the 35 yard line and moves the chains. 2.ater in the first... westerners with the ball now... qb cal eskra shows off his arm... tyler waterbury with the 3. left in the first... both teams scoreless... eskra gets caught up here... interception by henri haafke! eagles ball. 4.nd of the first and 4th down for the westerners... but the offense struggling here... eskra kneifl gets a big sack... eagles take over on downs 4-3 southeast polk taking on 1-6 north at morningside's elwood olsen stadium. 1) first quarter it's 14-0 rams. north's d coming up big. cole hauser fumbles it's recovered by north. they would go three and out though. 2) 2nd quarter

i've gotta go with akron-westfield. cal eskra he threw a football in my stomach on my first weekend on accident. we're like kindred spirits now so i'm sticking with the westerners. stuart vs. randolph we differ on this one as well. curtis: realal they've just come off two straight losses. they'y' played really well. both those losses are to undefeated teams. they're going to bounce back and beat randolph. chris: randolph averages almost 2 touchdowns in the first quarter. stuart a little over one. i think they're going to start fast and they're going to hold that ad. i'm going with randolphph west holt vs. lutheran high ne curtis: i'm going to go with the road team again their only loss is to an undefeated battle creek team. it was a lopsided loss. i'm going west holt on the road again baby. chris: i'm going to go with them for the same reason. west holt looks like they'rereoing to be too tough. alta-aurelia vs. gehlen catholic curtis: gehlen does not get their first win this year. they're having a hard time scoring poin

akron-westfield - wearing pink for breast cancer awareness - aaron allard, catching 2 passes for touchdowns - the westerners push past lawton-bronson, 24-13. out to nebraska - crofton's tanner crosely on the halfback dive from 2 yards out -- the warriors move to 6-2 with a 26-14 win over hartington cedar catholic. stanton's michael sieh goes into the endzone on the keeper as stanton shuts out ponca, 20-0. that's the sportsfource rewind. the new iowa ap football poll is out. no siouxland schools make the 4a rankings - dowling catholic is still first. in 3a, sgt. bluff-luton stays at number-9. bishop heelan is still receiving votes after edging storm lake. in 2a, spirit lake stays at number-2, with four first place votes. they are one of four undefeated teams in the class. in 1a, south central calhoun is 6th. hinton and western christian are 8-9. ridge view and pocahontas area get votes - west lyon drops out. west sioux, still unbeaten, is third in class a. logan-magnolia is sixth, with two first place votes. and in 8-man, newell-fonda drops into a first place tie with gilbertville don bosco.

to class a, akron- westfield travels to lo-ma. lawton-bronson goes to west sioux. in 8-man, m-m-c is home against ar-we-va. graettinger terril, ruthven, ayrshire goes to newell-fonda -- both teams are ranked. west bend-mallard visits janesville. see another playoff edition of sports fource extra on monday. it won't count in the standings, but the hawkeye men's basketball team opens their season tonight. iowa hosts sioux falls in an exhibition game. it's the start of the senior season for the "sioux crew", mike gesell and adam woodbury. they are two of the four starters back from last year's 22 and 12 team that won a game in the ncaa tournament. gesell should go over the 1-thousand point mark, and the 500 assist mark this season. the south sioux grad wants to finish on a high note. "i'm really excited to get this season started," said gesell. "we've been beating each other up in practice so it's nice to finally go against another opponent. we're ready to get this season going. we've got a lot of returners, a lot of experience so we got great chemistry." game time is

bishop heelan hosts boyden hull rock valley mvao heads totothird rankededwest oux.we've also got akron westfield hosting council bluffs abe lincoln and 9th emmestburg.then we've got spencer headed to 9th ranked sergeant bluff luton. west lon heading to number 8 western christian.(ad-lib)we'll brin you highlights of those games tonight. and head to the tyson friday night as the muskies host 1st place lincoln.. coach best of luck this weekend and we'll talk to you next wednesday. diana, larry, chad, back to you. 3 <> pelley: a military blimp goes rogue across two states, knocking out pow

akron westfield's only losses are to ranked teams. somethings got to give there. meanwhile in nebraska lutheran high northeast plays a 6-1 west holt team and undefeated battle creek next week. gotta win one of those games to avoid the first losing regular season since 2008. sergeant bluff luton has the number nine ranking and a 6 game winning streak. they're hosting a denison schleswig team looking for their first win. and north is on a six game losing streak. they try to right the ship against a 4-3 southeast polk team. alta-aurelia is playing a lot better than their record may indicate. gehlen is hoping they can turn them into their first win. stuart has lost 2 in a row. randolph has won 2 in a row. they meet up. how does hinton respond to their first loss of the season against west monona. heelan off a huge comeback win over carroll. they host storm lake. and 8th ranked gtra heads to harris lake park who is trying to avoid their first losing streak of the season. it's all on game night tonight on siouxland news at 10! chad, diana, larry, chris>> . it looks like

taking a look at some of tonight's n-bronson visits akron westfield....the winner all but locks up home field in the first round of the playoffs. both teams are 5-2, with the westerners winning last year's matchup 28-26. out in nebraska, hartington cedar catholic is set to host crofton in a huge cornhusker state showdown. both teams need to win their final two games plus get some help to make the postseason. the trojans are 4-3. while the warriors hold a 5-2 mark heading into tonight's matchup. chris: back out here in sioux center..... weweill have all ththaction for you u night at 10:30 on the sportszone half hour show. live in sioux center...i'm chrisis palmquist...tim,m, let's send it back to you in the studio. " " it's time for our submit a facebook page. at ten.... woodbury county has an expensiveve price tag... bututhe jail strugglgl with over- crowding. hear what one woodbury county board d supervisors member is suggesting the county should do... again that's ming up tonight at ten. jenna/tim/chris/fred: & submit a facebook fan photo, just post it on our abc-9 facebook page. come

trinity christian hosts akron-westfield with the winner playing at 14th ranked george little rock. and river valley hosts siouxland community. the winner plays the winner of kingsley pierson and charter oak ute. you could make a pretty good case that 12th ranked iowa is catching a bye week at the perfect time. record-setting running back jordan canzeri headlines the list of injured players from the first 7 games of the season, all wins. the hawkeyes won't play again until halloween when they host the currently 2-4 terrapins. after saturday's blowout victory at on what all the rest will mean to them. yeah, you know it's a big week.. we've e t a lot of guys bangng up right now. me personally i'm banged up and it would be nice to rest and just hand out for a little bit. i mean it's kind of nice to know you're 7-0 and stuff. you've got to remember you're playing more teams. the big ten ia great conference. and we've got a lot more games ahead of us and we need to play good. yeah i mean obviously being a little banged up the bye week is going to help us collect ourselves and be ready to

trinity christian over akron-westfield 3-1. same score for clay central everly over gtra. hms over remsen saint mary's 3-1. newell fonda over mmc 3-0. okoboji over sibley ocheyedan 3-0. ikm manning goes to five sets to beat south central calhoun. ar we va over woodbine 3-0. siouxland community christian over river valley 3-1. kingsley pierson over charter oak ute 3-0. ridge view tops alta-aurelia 3-0. same scores for woodbury central over west monona. also for rock valley over south obrien. boyden hull over west sioux 3-0. westwood over west harrison 3-0. and mvao over oa bcig 3-0. chris>> tonight we continue with our game of the week coach interviews. tonight i caught up with ridge view coach jeff dee hon earlier this evening in schaller to talk about this week's matchup with western christian. did you know that all four teams jockeying for playoff positioning in 1-a district two have been ranked at some point this season. i asked coach what it would mean to be the team that finishes first or even second out of that group, which are both possible outcomes if they can just

jenna/tim/chris: jenna/tim/chris: alex in class a's district 2, akron-westfield finished as the runners up, based on their pass- heavy attack. finished as the runners up, based on their pass- heavy attack. chris westerner quarterback cal eskra leads the westerner quarterback cal eskra leads the state in passing yardage, eskra leads the state in passing yardage, regardless of class. would their offense be enougho handle perennial power council bluffs st. albert tonight on the hill? start of 2nd half. st. albert leads 21-20. luke waters rolls out and finds elijah finn for the first down. st. albert would turn it over. akron quarterback cal for a 24 yard gain and a first down. a few plays later he finds austin allard in the endzone for the 20 yard score. westerners go up 26-21. st. albert would turn it over on downs. this time a-w's cal eskra finds caleb colt on the screen pass. colt takes it 63 yards for the score and puts the westerners up 32-21 final score: aw- 57, st. albert 36 alex over the past few years, mmc has turned into an 8- man power. the eagles won a over the past few years,

-the playoffs--and tonight there were some big games on the schedule alex lawton bronson and akron- westfield battled with a home playoff game on the line... sb-l could clinch it's first ever 3a district title... and out in nebraska, crofton and hartington cedar catholic met in a must win to keep their playoff hopes alive... but as always, we start with our game of the week. chris the playoff rara in class 2a's s district one is still incrediblyly complicated, but here's what i think we know to this point. chris: spirit lake is in as the district championnd sheldon is eliminated from the playoffs anything else--makes my head hurt. sioux center and central lyon george little rock aren't in must-win situations for our game of the week, but a victory would certainly make life much easier heading into next week's regular season finale. let's head up to beautiful open space park for the fifth meeting in the last two seasons between thons and warriors. first drive of the game for cl- glr...and cjcjoths, finds a seam and he's gonna run a a long way. 50 plus yards for the lions, he eventually gets dr

i was perfect with my picks of randolph and akron-westfield. curtis picked stuart and lawton so i'm now up two on curtis. 29-11 to 27-13. check back in with us next week to see how we stand. that'll do it for this week's game night pick 'em. outside after the break. kayla, larry, chris>> . sprinkles and showers have starteacross the area and will continue throughout tonight and the day tomorrow. temperatures will be back in the 60's for the rest of the week and continue to drop into the 50s during the weekend into the beginning of next week. larry>> finally tonight... halloween came early for some sioux city elementary students. tonight the staff at unity elementary school... and some volunteers from morningside college... teamed up to hold a special *early* trick- or- treat event at unity. the kids were urged to bring their siblings along... as well as their parents! but it wasn't only candy on the menu. chili and cinnamon rolls could also be purchased for a small fee. and the kids also had a chance to get their *early* halloween photos taken

trinity christian over akron-westfield 3-1. same score for clay central everly over gtra. hms over remsen saint mary's 3-1. newell fonda over mmc 3-0. okoboji over sibley ocheyedan 3-0. ikm- manning goes to five sets to beat south central calhoun. ar- we- va over woodbine 3-0. siouxland community christian over river valley 3-1. kingsley- pierson over charter oak- ute 3-0. ridge view tops alta-aurelia 3-0. same scores for woodbury central over west monona. also for rock valley over south o'brien. and mvao over oa- bcig 3-0. the royals are now one win away from another trip to the world series... defeating the toronto blue jays tuesday afternoon 14-2 to take a 3-1 series lead in the american league championship series! alcides escobar with 4 rbis in this one. starting pitcher chris young and four releivers combined to allow just 2 earned runs in this one. you could make a pretty good case that 12th ranked iowa is catching a bye week at the perfect time. record-setting running back jordan canzeri headlines the st of injured players from the first 7 games of the season, all w

akron-westfield - wearing pink for breast cancer awareness - aaron allard, catching 2 passes for touchdowns - the westerners 24-13. out to nebraska - crofton's tanner crosely on the halfback dive from 2 yards out -- the warriors move to 6-2 with a 26-14 win over hartington cedar catholic. stanton's michael sieh goes into the endzone on the keeper as stanton shuts out ponca, 20-0. that's the sportsfource rewind. the new iowa ap football poll is out. no siouxland schools make the 4a rankings - dowling catholic is still first. in 3a, sgt. bluff-luton stays at number-9. bishop heelan is still receiving votes after edging storm lake. in 2a, spirit lake stays at number-2, with four first place votes. they are one of four undefeated teams in the class. in 1a, south central calhoun is 6th. hinton and western christian are 8-9. ridge view and pocahontas area get votes - west lyon drops out. west sioux, still unbeaten, is third in class a. logan-magnolia is sixth, with two first place votes. and in 8-man, newell-fonda drops into a first place tie with gilbertville don bosco. m-m-c is fourth. graettin

akron, iowa... is kathryn. she too turned 4 on monday, october 19th. kathryn loves coloring, playing with dolls, and minnie mouse. alaska turned 4 on tuesday, october 20th. she's from westfield, , wa. alaska loves riding horsesesnd playing dress up. also celebrating a tuesday october 20th birthday, is joscelyn. she's from estherville, iowa. joscelyn loves the movie frozen. she also likes hello kitty and playing with her dolls. a happy birthday to ellie of sioux city. her birthday was tuesday, october 20th. ellie enjoys dancing and singing. she loves horses and spending time with her family. from schaller, iowa... we have madelyn. shshturned 4 on thursdada october 22ndnd madelyn n kes to play with dolls and dress up. she enjoys playing outdoors with her older siblings. up next... is millie. she also celebrated her 4th birthday on thursday, october 22. millie is from bloomfield, nebraska. her favorite color is pink. she likes to play dress up, paint, and play with her brother. and our last 4 on 4 birthday of the week is carter. carter is from le mars, iowa and celebrates his birthday tomorrow, saturday, october 24th. he enjoys playing outside,e, reading, putting puzzleletototh