9 BELOW YESTERDAY MORNING....4 ABOVE YESTERDAY FOR A HIGH....8 BELOW THIS MORNING AND A LITTLE WARMER WEATHER COMING OVER THE WEEKEND. WE MIGHT SEE HIGHS IN THE 20'S TOMORROW AND MONDAY. UP TO 10 INCHES OF SNOW POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY MORNING, MAINLY ON MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. THEN BACK TO A HIGH OF 8 ON TUESDAY. IT HAS BEEN.... AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE ....WINTER AT ITS FINEST HERE IN EASTERN IOWA. SORRY SOME OF YOU DOWN SOUTH HAVE TO MISS IT.

THIS WILL BE A LONGER REPORT THAN USUAL...SO I WILL BREAK IT INTO MORE THAN ONE ENTRY. I HATE TO DO A SEGMENT AND THEN LOOSE IT BY ACCIDENT....GENERALLY CAUSED BECAUSE I TRY TO GO TOO FAST.

SPORTS FIRST: TUESDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA BOYS WON AGAIN...AND LAST NIGHT HERE THEY BEAT SOUTH TAMA, 55 TO 46. ADAM HEPKER HAS 18 POINTS. THE CARDINAL BOYS ARE NOW 10 AND 3 OVERALL AND 10 AND 1 IN THE CONFERENCE. THEY PLAY A NON-CONFERENCE GAME AGAINST NORTH SCOTT AT ELDRIDGE TONIGHT. NORTH SCOTT IS #1 IN CLASS 4-A.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WON TWO TEAM EVENTS THURSDAY NIGHT AT GOOSE LAKE, DEFEATING THERE, BOTH NORTHEAST AND NORTH CEDAR...BOTH TEAMS SCORES WERE CLOSE THOUGH. THE WRESTLERS ARE AT BENTON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL AT VAN HORNE TODAY FOR THE WAMAC INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENT. FINALS AT 4:30 THIS AFTERNOON.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS AREN'T DOING AS WELL AS EARLIER IN SEASON. AGAIN LAST NIGHT, THEY LOST AT TAMA, TO SOUTH TAMA, 82 TO 51. TIFFANY HELMBRECHT HAD 12 POINTS FOR THE CARDS AND THEY NOW ARE 9 AND 3 IN THE WAMAC AND 10 AND 7 OVERALL. THE SOPHOMORE GIRLS LOST THEIR FIRST CONFERENCE GAME LAST NIGHT TO SOUTH TAMA. THE GIRLS PLAY NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT AT MARION.

I WILL POST THIS NOW AND MORE COMING SOON.