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()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.
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High-risk lowans urged to get flu shot
Officially opening the flu
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