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• Page 2 ()pinion/Editorial The Lone Tree Reporter, November 22, 2 • Well, that was quite a week- end. Sigourney-Keota is the new Class 2A state football champion and Iowa brought Floyd of I : Rosedale home where he belongs. i The Savage-Cobras apparently I moved the ball very effectively 'against Dike - New Hartford in '.the title game last Saturday. I noticed in the paper that they had over 300 yards rushing in that game to go along with over 400 yards on the ground against Mr. Vernon in the semifinal game. So, congratulations to Sigourney- Keota on winning another state championship. The Raiders can say that it took the State Champion to knock them out of the playoffs. While I'm still on the subject of Raiders football, congratula- tions to Mike Poch for making the Class 2A All-State 2nd team in the Des Moines Register. That's the first All-State team I've seen reported. Hopefully, there will be other honors for the Raiders in other publications• And now, on the Iowa scene, By virtue of smashing wins in the last two weeks the Hawks have now made themselves bowl-eligi- ble. Iowa once again got out of the starting gate at full gallop and never looked back. The Hawks took the advice of Satchel Paige, the great Negro pitcher of years ago. "Don't look back. Somebody might be gaining on you." Well, Minnesota wasn't gaining on Iowa until the very end when it was too late to be a serious threat. Kyle McCann started the game at quarterback again and did a very workmanlike job of guiding the offense clown the field. He wound up completing 10 of ll passes for the day. Iowa took the opening kickoff, for the 26th or 27th straight time, and didn't turn the ball over to Minnesota until the Hawks had put seven points on the board. Then, just like the week before at Northwestern, the defense stopped the Gophers and the offense put another touch- down on the board, and then they did it all over again, and Iowa was in front, 21-0 at the end of the first quarter. Minnesota did get the field goal on its next possession, but the Hawks came right back in possession number four and put another touchdown on the board for a 28-3 lead. Then, the defense made a great stand at the end of the half to preserve the lead. Minnesota got close to the goal because, once again, the Iowa powers that we didn't seem to rec- ognize what looked like an obvi- ous situation for a fake punt. It clicked to give the Gophers a first and goal inside the Iowa five, but that is as far as they got. That was a major stand, because the Gophers got the ball first in the second half and came right down the field for a touchdown to make it 28-10• It could have been 28-17, but wasn't. The Hawks came right back with two unanswe red touch- downs and put the game on ice. On the touchdown drive at the start of the second half, Iowa got called for a pass interference penalty that seemed to-me to be the most ridiculous call I have seen in a long time, and there have been some really ridiculous ones this year. MinnesoIa was facing fourth and nine al about tile Iowa 45. The Gophers threw a pass On that particular play I decided to watch the receivers instead of the quarterback. I was zeroed in on the two on the left side. The slot man went down about five yards and cut toward the center. The flanker went straight down the sidelines. About two steps after the slot man turned to the inside he ran smack dab into an Iowa defender who was already there. About one second later the ball came into my view, thrown about five yards behind the slot receiver and about 10 yards short of the flanker• The whistles blew, every- body was getting set for Iowa to take over the ball, and the official from deep in the Iowa secondary came running up and threw his flag and called pass interference on Iowa. I haven't the foggiest idea what he was looking at. If anybody was interfered with it was the Iowa defender who was blocked from getting to where the ball came down. Fortunately, it didn't have any impact on who won the game. Now comes, the finale, post- poned from September. It should be quite a donnybrook Saturday afternoon in Ames. Both teams are coming into the game with 6-4 records and off big wins last Saturday will probably be more to determine where each team goes. Apparently, there are several pos- sibilities for both. So, for right now, I'm not even going to specu- late about where Iowa might go, if it goes. I'll just wait for next week and see what happens. No matter what happens Saturday, Iowa has come a long way from that 1-10 season in 1999 when six of those 10 losses were by more than two touchdowns. THE LONE TREE REPORTER (USPS 318-160) Slechta Communications, Inc. Nick Hillyard Ron Rife Jolene Vance Laura Yoder Publisher Editor Columnist, Sports Writer Staff Writer, Proofreader Typesetter A Slechta Communications, Inc. & Publications Official newspaper of Johnson County and Lone Tree. Published every Thursday, except the week after Christmas, in Lone Tree, Iowa 52755 Entered at the post office in Lone Tree, Iowa for transmission through the mail as Periodical class matter under the act of con- gress of August 24, 1912 and as amended by the acts of March 3, 1933 and July 2, 1948. Periodical class postage paid at the Lone Tree, Iowa Post Office. Weekly Since 1892 with 51 issues (except Christmas - New Year Week) The Reporter Subscription Rates: $21 per year in Johnson and Muscatine counties -- $23 per year elsewhere in Iowa -- $27 per year in the continental U.S. Advertising Deadline .... Noon Mondays News Deadline .... 2 p.m. Friday Postmaster: Send Address Changes to The Lone Tree leporter P.O. Box 235, Lone Tree, IA 52755 Office Hours at • TheLone Tree Reporter Monday: 9 a.m,-5 p.m. Tuesday: 9 a.m.-noon Wednesday: Closed Thursday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Call The Lone Tree Reporter at 629-5207, fax us at 629-4203 or e-mall us at LTReporter@aol.com i Deadline is Friday at 2 pm. Do you have a strong opinion about an issue Impor- tant to Lone Tree? Write a letter to the editor. First reported flu case of the seaso! i High-risk lowans urged to get flu shot Officially opening the flu season, a 24-year-old Sioux City female has the state's first reported case of influen- za. The woman went to her doctor with the classic symp- toms of cough, headache, chills and body aches. The flu season generally lasts from November through earl3) spring, most often peak- ing in January and February• It can take a big toll on seg- ments of the population that are particularly vulnerable, such as people over age 65, people who live in nursing homes or chronic-care facili- ties, people with chronic health problems and weak- ened immune systems and pregnant women. These peo- ple and health-care workers and others who care for them should get a flu shot immedi- ately. All Iowans who want to protect themselves from the flu may also get vaccinated, though the urgency may be less. "There may still be delays in delivery of the flu vaccine in some areas," said Dr. Cort Lohff, assistant state epidemi- ologist, "so it's especially important that high-risk i pie are vaccinated before'. vaccine is expended in t! area. Flu season typic# , • ,| doesn t peak until well l January, so it's never too ! to get vaccinated even December or January." : The flu vaccine can preY! 70-90 percent of flu illnesS but everyone - whether vat': nated or not - should t I other precautions to preY!' influenza and colds duringt season. Among them ] washing hands regularly ; vigorously, staying at h0 when ill and covering n0 and mouths when coughing sneezing• {,i The federal Centers  Disease Control Preventi-on (CDC) does !I recommend getting a flu s' so you can tell if you have!il flu or an anthrax-related I ness. Many illnesses ¢' begin with flu-like sympt0t and most are not causedt! either influenza or anthraX. For more information, s,r the CDC's web s,i}i, www.cdc.gov. Click on ,1 Season Update." a • • Happy birthday to Sherri Nicola and Stephanie Viner Thursday, November 22. 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