SPORTS • Charles City Press • www.charlescitypress.com Monday, february 3, 2020 6 HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PREP SPORTS CALENDAR CHARLES CITY Comets Monday, Feb. 3 Northeast Iowa Conference Girls Wrestling Tournament at Oelwein, TBD Tuesday, Feb. 4 Girls Basketball vs. Crestwood at Comet Gym, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7 Bowling vs. North Iowa at Comet Bowl, 4 p.m. Girls Basketball vs. Waukon at Comet Gym, 7:30 p.m. Boys Basketball at Waukon, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8 Wrestling Sectionals at Decorah. Tuesday, Feb. 11 Wrestling Team Dual Regional at TBD Boys Basketball vs. Waverly-Shell Rock at Comet Gym, 7:30 p.m. Girls Basketball at Waverly-Shell Rock, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14 Boys Basketball vs. Decorah at Comet Gym, 7:30 p.m. Girls Basketball at Decorah, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15 Bowling Tournament at Comet Bowl, TBD Wrestling Districts, TBD Nashua-Plainfield HUSKIES Monday, Feb. 3 Girls Basketball vs. Waterloo Christian at home, 6:15 p.m. Boys Basketball vs. Waterloo Christian at home, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7 Girls Basketball at West Fork, 6:15 p.m. Boys Basketball at West Fork, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8 Wrestling Sectionals at Nashua-Plainfield, noon. Monday, Feb. 10 Girls Basketball vs. North Butler at home, 6:15 p.m. Boys Basketball vs. North Butler at home, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14 Boys Basketball vs. Tripoli at home, 7:30 p.m. Press photo by John Burbridge Saturday, Feb. 15 Charles City senior Lauren Connell, center, battles with several Oelwein players for control of a rebound during Friday’s Northeast Wrestling Districts, TBD Iowa Conference girls basketball game. The Comets won big 69-19 while reaching a season-high in points scored. north Butler Bearcats Tuesday, Feb. 4 Girls Basketball vs. West Fork at home, 6:15 p.m. Boys Basketball vs. West Fork at home, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7 Girls Basketball at Rockford, 6:15 p.m. Boys Basketball at Rockford, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8 Wrestling Sectionals at Nashua-Plainfield, noon. Monday, Feb. 10 Girls Basketball at Nashua-Plainfield, 6:15 p.m. Served by Youth Boys Basketball at Nashua-Plainfield, 7:30 p.m. Breakout game Jacob King led all scorers Thursday, Feb. 13 Girls Basketball Regionals, TBD with 18 points for the Huskies from Comet frosh Boys Basketball vs. Hampton-Dumont-CAL at home, (2-14, 0-9 Northeast Iowa Con- 7:30 p.m. helps put away ference). Saturday, Feb. 15 The NEIC win improved the Wrestling Districts at Denver Athletic Complex, noon. pesky Huskies Comets’ league-leading record at 8-1 with three conference Rockford Warriors By John Burbridge games left on the schedule. Tuesday, Feb. 4 [email protected] With a subsequent 61-47 loss Girls Basketball at Osage, 6:15 p.m. OELWEIN — These are a to Xavier on Saturday in Cedar Boys Basketball at Osage, 7:30 p.m. few more examples why betting Rapids, Charles City’s overall Thursday, Feb. 6 Girls Basketball vs.Riceville at home, 6:15 p.m. on point spreads is a death- record is 9-7. Boys Basketball vs. Riceville at home, 7:30 p.m. trap … or rather debttrap … * The Charles City girls Friday, Feb. 7 for gamblers who think they’re basketball team picked up its Girls Basketball vs. North Butler at home, 6:15 p.m. smarter than the sports they’re fifth win of the season and the Boys Basketball vs. North Butler at home, 7:30 p.m. wagering on. second against Oelwein with a Saturday, Feb. 8 Early in the boys basketball 50-point (69-19) victory. Wrestling Sectionals at TBD Monday, Feb. 10 season, Charles City defeated It was the most points the Girls Basketball vs. Saint Ansgar at home, 6:15 p.m. Oelwein by 28 points, but the Comets scored all year as well Boys Basketball vs. Saint Ansgar at home, 7:30 p.m. game wasn’t even “that close.” as the largest margin of victory. Tuesday, Feb. 11 On Friday, the Comets de- Yet if it weren’t for a running Wrestling Dual Team Regional at TBD feated the Huskies again, this clock being employed for most Thursday, Feb. 13 time by 21 points. But this game the second half, Charles City Girls Baskeball Regionals at TBD was much closer … at least for could have likely reached tri- Saturday, Feb. 15 Wrestling Districts at Denver Athletic Complex, noon. a half. ple-digits. When Spencer Logan hit a Charles City freshman Chase Low goes up for 2 of his team- Instead, they had to settle 3-pointer at the buzzer, it gave high 16 points against Oelwein on Friday. for double-digits while placing Oelwein a 27-26 lead at inter- three in double-figure scoring. LIV mission. Charles City’s shooters while the bench from freshman Chase Comet senior Liz Fiser led all Since the first meeting be- daring the non-shooters to pull Low, who had a breakout game scorers with 13 points. Sopho- tween the two teams, Oelwein the trigger from outside of 16 with a team-leading 16 points more Lydia Staudt and senior had shored up its motion of- feet. and had four steals and two Mackenzy Bilharz both scored Chiefs rally in fense, was no longer prone to But the Comets soon proved blocks on the other side of the 12 points with Bilharz’s total turnovers every other posses- they can play some defense floor. coming from four 3-point shots. sion, and was patient in finding themselves as they limited the Senior Bradley Andrews add- Lynn Hoeft added 9 and Lau- the open man who was hitting Huskies to just 11 points in the ed 15 points, and the Comets ren Connell scored 8 for Charles 4th quarter to open shots. second half on way to a 59-38 got 8 points apiece from the City (5-12, 2-6). On defense, the Huskies were victory. backcourt of Marcus Cranshaw Malayna Kiel had 9 points for able to identify and challenge Charles City got a big lift off and JJ Ritter. the winless Huskies. defeat 49ers 31-20 MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. ous playoff games. Their fans Legal Notice • Legal Notice • Legal Notice • Legal Notice (AP) — Uncomfortable and in the crowd of 62,417 at Hard under duress for much of the Rock Stadium got little oppor- game, sud- tunity to chant and do the tom- denly recaptured his mojo — ahawk chop as KC fell behind and lifted and the 20-10 with 17 1-2 minutes Chiefs to a Super Bowl victory remaining. — the team’s first NFL cham- Mahomes even threw his pionship in a half-century. second interception of the All it took was falling be- night after that. But then came hind by double digits in the the kind of Mahomes magic postseason again. Then Ma- that makes him special. homes, selected MVP, hit two The Chiefs had struggled long passes on touchdown all night to pick up their fiz- drives for a 31-20 victory Sun- zling offense, and fans who day over the San Francisco had watched their defense let $9ers. them down for years looked The vaunted 49ers defense as if they were going to rue its wilted late, particularly on performance once more on the passes of 44 yards to Tyreek game’s biggest stage. Hill and 38 to Sammy Wat- That’s when new coordina- kins. The touchdowns came on tor Steve Spagnuolo’s defense short throws to to penned a different ending to cut the deficit to three and to the script. for the lead. The Chiefs forced the San The first NFL title in Chiefs Francisco 49ers into a pair of coach Reid’s two-decade ca- punts in the fourth quarter, reer was clinched by Williams’ when they were facing a dou- 38-yard TD run, sending red- ble-digit deficit for the third clad Chiefs fan into chants of straight game, and that gave “Andy!” Andy!” Mahomes and Co. a chance. Reid, 61, won a Super Bowl Back in Kansas City, a fan- ring with the 1996 Packers base that hadn’t celebrated a ti- while in charge of tight ends. tle since the Nixon administra- He’s been seeking one as a tion was finally able to exhale. head coach since being hired The Chiefs’ defense has by Philadelphia in 1999. The been the bane of the organi- Eagles lost in their only trip zation for years — especially to the big game after the 2004 in the postseason. There was season. The Chiefs (15-4) trailed No. 19771 02/03/20 24-0 and 17-7 in their previ- CHIEFS, turn to page 7