Friday, October 28, 2011

CVYSA Dyno-Mites, Select academies end fall session



The Cedar Valley Youth Soccer Association held the final practices for the fall session for the Dyno-MItes U6 and CV Select U7-8 academies on Oct. 16.

The Dyno-Mites held their usual activities, while the CV Select Academy held a round-robin 4-on-4 soccer tournament.

Author's Note: The wind was howling out of the northwest at about 40 miles per hour that afternoon, and into the camera's microphone. The interview with Dyno-Mites director Kathy Bering could not be heard, so a transcription of a simultaneous audio recording was used for the subtitles.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Iowa City West 21, No. 1 Cedar Falls 10


The Iowa City West football team handed top-ranked (Radio Iowa and Des Moines Register) Cedar Falls its first loss of the season Friday, Oct. 21, 21-10, to win the Valley Division of the Mississippi Valley Conference in the UNI-Dome.

Cedar Falls dropped from a No. 2 seed in the eastern half of Class 4A to a No. 4 seed to face Muscatine in the first round of the playoffs Wednesday in the UNI-Dome at approximately 8:45 p.m.

I, however, will be covering the Waverly-Shell Rock-Webster City Class 3A first-round game Wednesday night.

Friday, October 7, 2011

ABC show, local fair board hold fund-raiser


The design crew of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" -- Ty Pennington, Paul DiMeo, Tracy Hutson, Sabrina Soto and Jeff Dye -- along with Larson Construction of Independence, the National Cattle Congress and rocker Bret Michaels helped raise a large amount of money for the Audrey Gibbs family of West Union Thursday night, Oct. 6, 2011, with a community event on the NCC grounds.
There was an auction and raffle that raised the bulk of the money, while the audience was entertained by an exhibition truck pull, lawnmower races and demolition derby. Pennington told the crowd how Gibbs would be surprised by the support they have given the family, and Michaels also told of his personal connection to the Gibbses.

Monday, October 3, 2011

No. 1 Cedar Falls 55, Dubuque Wahlert 21



The top-ranked Cedar Falls football team won its homecoming game Friday, Sept. 30, over Dubuque Wahlert, 55-21, in the UNI-Dome.

Barkley Hill had four rushing touchdowns, while James Harrington had two scores, one on a 71-yard punt return and the other on a 16-yard pass from Ike Boettger. Shawn Hagarty (29-yard interception return) and Ben Challgren (23-yard catch) also scored touchdowns.

Cedar Falls High School homecoming coronation


Cedar Falls High School crowned Elizabeth Kosmicki and Brady Cervetti as the homecoming queen and king for 2011 on Sept. 29 in the Clair C. Stanard Auditorium. Kosmicki's reaction was one of stunned disbelief, while Cervetti was cool about his win.