"it's good to have that experience under your belt," said junior guard lexi ackerman. "it makes people more comfortable playing, it makes all of us more comfortable with each other. it's a good feeling." "we've got high expectations, just like every year. so we're coming at practice strong, and we're attacking this season with a lot of new girls. we're ready to go." morningside opens the season on the road against william penn on october 30th. the muketeers are in sioux falls tonight -- trying to snap a two-game losing skid. sioux city is 2 and 3 on the young season after losing twice to bloomington last weekend, 2 to 1, and 1- nothing. sioux falls is 1 and 3. game time is 7-05 and we'll have tonight on k-t-i-v and n-b-c, a new episode of best time ever with neil patrick harris starts at 7 followed by a new episode of the voice at 8 and a new chicago fire at 9. then tonight on news four at ten.... five democratic candidates will be taking the stage tonight for the first debate of the democratic party. for many americans, tonight will be their first chance to hear from

"it's good to have that experience under your belt," said junior guard lexi ackerman. "it makes people more comfortable playing, it makes all of us more comfortable with each other. it's a good feeling." "we've got high expectations, just like every year. so we're e ming at ractice stroog, and we're attacking thth season with a lot of new girls. we're ready to go." rningside opens theeason at william penn on october 30th. the cubs had a chance to win a playoff series -- at home -- for the first time in team history. chicago trying to close out thth cardinals and advance totohe national leaguchampionship series. chicago takes the lead in the 2nd inning by scoring 4 runs. javier baez caps it off with a 3-run homerun to rightn it's 4-2 chicago. it's tied 4-4 in the sixth. the cubs respond. anthony rizzo with a no- doubter to right. chicago back in front 5-4. chicago hit 6 homers yesterday and 3 more in this one -- kyle schwarber's went the farthest. cubs win 6-4 and take the series 3-1. cubs advance to the nlcs for the before we let you go...a family from siouxland made a

lexi ackerman--"it all comes down to our focus and practice really and how we're all going to work together and come together as a team because you can see teams fall apart from that, from being at the top and then not being able to get back there the next year. but if we can stick together, we'll be pretty hard to beat." jamie sale--"we talked to them about not worrying about being defending champions. we want to go out and get another one, and you can't look at it as what you've done in the past because we can't change that whether it's for the good or for the bad, you know? so you know, we really want them to stay hungry and just enjoy playing basketball and i think if we have enough talent and as long as we stay focused we'll have a chance for success." the mustangs open up the season on october 30th with a road trip to william penn. chris: there are 128 universities playing fbs football this season and only 16 of them are undefeated through six weeks of the season. one of those, is the iowa hawkeyes who are 6-0 for the first time since 2009. this weekend the hawkeyes face a big road ch

lexi ackerman--"it all comes down to our focus and practice really and how we're all going to work together and come together as a team because you can see teams fall apart from that, from being at the top and then not being able to get back there the next year. but if we can stick together, we'll be pretty hard to beat." jamie sale--"we talked to them about not worrying about being defending champions. we want to go out and get another one, andyou u n't look at it what you've done in the past because we can't change that whether it's for the good or for the bad, you know? so you know, we really want them to stay hungry and just enjoy playing basketball and i think if we have enough talent and as long as we stay focused we'll have a chance for success." the mustangs open up the season on ctober 30th with a road trip to season on october 30th with a road trip to william penn. chris: after scoring 12 goals in their first three games, the musketeers' offense slowed over the weekend, lighting the lamp just once in a pair of losses to bloomington. tonight they made the short trip to sioux falls.

lexi ackerman - "i would say just on every night we've got to bring our game 100%. last year we had a aew games where we started off a little slow. weren't really focused in the beginning of the game." jamie sale - "i think we're used to expectations that even through the last year we were number one throughout the year and players learned to deal with that and that's what other people p p on us. we know thee reality that we have our fauaus too. thehe's a lot of things we need to get better at. there several games last year that could have gone the other way if some breaks had went the wrong way." the lady stangs open their defense on the road at william penn. their home opener is november third against peru state. let's take a look at the rest of the gpac preseason rankings. there's morningside at number one. briar cliff is in third place. northwestern rounds out the top five. dordt is picked 10th. not pictured is wayne state's lady wildcats who are picked to finish 2ndndn the northern sun conference. briar cliff's mens team wants to get back to the national tourna