Dowling and Valley Football

Romelle Slaughter, Paul Yeager, Brian Morris and Dave Marcouiller at the 2010 4A title game at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.

2012 brings a new adventure to my broadcasting career. I’ll be going behind the mic, but this time for the web. Specifically football in West Des Moines. Valley Stadium will be my home on Friday nights this fall.

I’ll be doing home games on the internet for the West Des Moines Dowling Catholic Maroons and hold on to your hats, the West Des Moines Valley Tigers.

We experimented with the web last year at http://www.DowlingWebcasting.com and this year will expand to http://www.ValleyWebcasting.com.

Romelle Slaughter and I will be together each Friday, but our dancing partners will rotate. Some nights it will be the KWKY crew of Dave and Brian with their old pal Mark Amadeo returning to the radio. We will split some time in the pregame, halftime and post game and Mark and I may trade spots once a game for a few plays.

My analyst is still being determined and it should be fun to have a new adventure each week.

I will likely only post game preview and reviews of the games I’m doing play-by-play.

Here are the games you can expect coverage on this blog:

August 24 – Southeast Polk at Dowling Catholic

August 31 – Dowling Catholic at Valley

September 7 – Ankeny at Dowling Catholic

September 14 – Urbandale @ Dowling Catholic

September 21 – Indianola @ Valley

September 28 – Urbandale at Valley

October 5 – Ottumwa at Dowling Catholic

October 12 – Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson at Valley

October 19 – Sioux City East at Valley

We have a couple of ways to watch our coverage.

For Valley home games on the web, go to ValleyWebcasting.com you can also follow the broadcast crew on Twitter @ValleyWebcast

For  Dowling home games on the web, go to DowlingWebcasting.com and for the Tweets follow @DowlingWebcast

Enough options yet?

I will provide start times for broadcasts once they are ironed out.

—Past info on football—

I also do some radio work for KWKY Radio covering the West Des Moines Dowling Catholic High School Maroons football team. This tab is full of links to post about the team and some interviews.

I’ll be doing play-by-play on 1150 KWKY-AM radio. Here’s some information on the broadcasts.

The game’s audio will stream on the internet or you can start at http://www.KWKY.com for the links. We’ll also have updates on Twitter at Twitter.com/KWKYSports. And you’ll be able to watch the Maroon home games on the internet. Yes, I said watch. Five games will be out on the web. That link is here: or the site of http://www.dowlingwebcasting.com/

Here’s a look at the schedule for the 2011 season featuring the defending 4A champions.

• Aug. 19 — WDM Valley  28 Dowling Catholic 21 (Drake Stadium)  (Game Preview) (Recap)
• Aug. 26 — Dowling Catholic 44 C.B. Thomas Jefferson 7 (Valley Stadium) 7:30 P.M. (Preview) (Game Review)

• Sept. 2 — Dowling Catholic 41 D.M. East 21 (Preview story) (Game Review)
• Sept. 9 — Dowling Catholic 30 Urbandale 14 (Preview story) (Game review)
• Sept. 16 — Dowling Catholic 47 Fort Dodge 7 (Preview Story) (Game review)
• Sept. 23 — Southeast Polk 27 Dowling Catholic 9 (Preview Story)

(Game Review)

• Sept. 30 — 730p Ankeny (Drake Stadium) (Preview Story) (Game Review)
• Oct. 7 — Dowling Catholic 21 Johnston 14 (Drake Stadium) (Preview Story) (Game Review)
• Oct. 14 — Dowling Catholic 21 Indianola 7 (Preview Story) (Game Review)
• 1st round playoffs: Oct. 26 Dowling Catholic 43 Ames 3 (Preview) (Game Review)
• 2nd round playoffs: Oct. 31 – Dowling Catholic at DM Lincoln (Preview) (Game Review)

Here is the 2010 season schedule and results complete with links to preview stories and game reviews.

• Aug 20, 2010 Dowling 34 WDM Valley 7 @Valley (Preview story) (Game Review)
• Aug 27, 2010 Dowling 69 CB Thomas Jefferson 0 @TJ (Preview story) (Game Review)
• Sep 3, 2010 7 Dowling 54 Des Moines East 7 (Preview Story) (Game Review)
• Sep 10, 2010 Dowling 52 Urbandale0 (@Waukee) (Preview Story) (Game Review)
• Sep 17, 2010 Dowling 42 Fort Dodge 3 @ Valley (By the numbers) (Preview story) (Game Review)
• Sep 24, 2010 Dowling 24 Southeast Polk 23 @ Valley (Game Preview) (Game Review)
• Oct 1, 2010 Dowling 42 Ankeny @ Ankeny 0 (Preview Story) (Game Review)
• Oct 8, 2010 Dowling 42 Johnston 0 @Johnston (Preview Story) (Game Review)
• Oct 15, 2010 Dowling 30 Indianola 6 (@ Waukee) (Preview Story) (Game Review)

First Round Playoffs: October 27 Dowling 56 Marshalltown 7. @ DM East. (Preview Story) (Game Review)

Second Round Playoffs: November 1 Dowling 23 WDM Valley 20 @ DM East. (Preview Story) (Game Review)

3rd round or Quarterfinals: November 5 Dowling 48 Ames 10 @ DM East. (Preview) (Game Review)

Semi-finals: November 12, 2010: Dowling 24 Ankeny 21 (Game Preview) (Live Blog) (Game Review)

4A Title game: November 19, 2010: Dowling 38 City High (Iowa City) 31 OT (Game Preview) (Live Blog) (Game Review)