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Rosenthal to have Tommy John surgery

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August 24th, 2017 by admin

ST. LOUIS (AP) – The St. Louis Cardinals announced Wednesday that closer Trevor Rosenthal was being moved from the 10-day disabled list to the 60-day DL and that the right elbow injury would require Tommy John surgery.

“I think just the timing of it, being right in the middle of this race and the way my personal season had been taking shape and the way the team has been playing recently. Tough timing,” Rosenthal said.

“It felt like we were getting in a groove, I was in a groove, and to kind of have this happen and take a piece away from a really good team is a little bit of a bummer.”

Rosenthal, who recorded 93 saves in 2014-15, lost the closer’s job a year ago to Seung Hwan Oh but reclaimed it this season after Oh struggled. Rosenthal recorded 11 saves, giving him 118 over the past four seasons.

Cardinals general manager Mike Girsch said Rosenthal will have surgery next week.

“We hoped for better news,” Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. “. Somebody is going to have to step in. He was really throwing the ball well.”

State Cross Country qualifying sites released

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August 24th, 2017 by admin

The Iowa High School Athletic Association and Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released state qualifying cross country meet sites on Wednesday.  There will be five co-ed meets in each class.

Those qualifying meets will be held on Thursday, October 19th at 4:00pm around the state. Top runners will advance to the state meet on Saturday, October 28th.

In Class 3A, Atlantic will be one of the hosts for a qualifying meet.

In Class 2A South Central Calhoun is the area host site.

In Class 1A Mount Ayr and Ridge View will be host sites.

Check out the full list of sites here. State qualifying assignments will be released later in the season.

First Volleyball rankings from IGHSAU for 2017

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August 23rd, 2017 by admin

2017 First Iowa High School Volleyball Rankings
Compiled by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union
Monday, August 21

Class 1A

School 2016 Record
1 Janesville 35-8
2 Holy Trinity Catholic 36-3
3 Springville 29-8
4 Starmont 32-9
5 Le Mars Gehlen Catholic 25-12
6 Algona Bishop Garrigan 17-17
7 New London 28-10
8 Montezuma 27-9
9 Tripoli 16-19
10 Iowa Valley 21-15
11 Edgewood-Colesburg 28-12
12 Lamoni 23-8
13 Harris-Lake Park 21-16
14 Marquette Catholic 18-14
15 Southeast Warren 19-11

Class 2A

1 Dike-New Hartford 48-5
2 Western Christian 41-6
3 Grundy Center 25-17
4 Council Bluffs St. Albert 27-5
5 Unity Christian 35-5
6 Sidney 33-4
7 Sumner-Fredericksburg 33-6
8 Jesup 21-14
9 Hinton 24-9
10 Pella Christian 25-13
11 Lake Mills 41-1
12 Treynor 28-7
13 Des Moines Christian 19-13
14 Wilton 32-6
15 Belle Plaine 18-11

Class 3A

1 Kuemper Catholic 29-2
2 Osage 23-12
3 West Delaware 42-5
4 Waterloo Columbus Catholic 29-13
5 Tipton 25-10
6 Sioux Center 34-5
7 Red Oak 30-10
8 Davenport Assumption 28-9
9 Spirit Lake 30-9
10 Beckman Catholic 27-10
11 Gilbert 31-9
12 Mount Vernon 34-8
13 Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont 22-14
14 South Central Calhoun 27-13
15 West Liberty 16-18

Class 4A

1 Cedar Rapids Xavier 32-10
2 Dubuque Wahlert 28-6
3 Pella 38-5
4 Sioux City Bishop Heelan 35-9
5 Charles City 37-6
6 Lewis Central 30-9
7 Waverly-Shell Rock 34-18
8 Center Point-Urbana 24-16
9 ADM 23-11
10 Fort Madison 22-10
11 Independence 30-10
12 Clinton 22-14
13 Marion 34-10
14 Fairfield 21-12
15 Western Dubuque 22-15

Class 5A

1 Ankeny Centennial 35-3
2 Cedar Falls 40-4
3 West Des Moines Valley 41-5
4 Linn-Mar 33-9
5 Dowling Catholic 27-16
6 Bettendorf 20-12
7 Dubuque Hempstead 23-11
8 Cedar Rapids Jefferson 18-18
9 Des Moines Roosevelt 31-20
10 Johnston 26-13
11 Urbandale 23-11
12 Indianola 23-21
13 Iowa City West 23-15
14 Ankeny 38-6
15 Pleasant Valley 19-13

Coach Kirk Ferentz donates $1 million to Iowa hospital

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August 23rd, 2017 by Ric Hanson

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz and his wife, Mary, will donate $1 million to the University of Iowa’s Children’s Hospital to help researchers working to improve survival rates for premature babies.

The donation will fund the Ferentz Program in Neonatal Research. The Ferentzes are donating the money in honor of their granddaughter, who was born at just 21 weeks old in 2014.

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Shenandaoh-Essex wins home early bird cross country meets

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August 23rd, 2017 by admin

The Shenandoah-Essex Cross Country teams wins in their home early bird cross country meets on Tuesday night.

Among the few full girls teams competing Shen-Essex won with a 45 point total. Underwood was second with 62 and Treynor third with 124.

Karley Larson of Underwood was the race winner with a time of 20:11.45.  East Mills’ Janette Schraft was runner-up with a final time of 21:04.79. Erica Rowe of Underwood was third and the next five finishers were from Shenandoah-Essex.

On the boys side Shenandoah-Essex scored 43 points to take the win. Southwest Iowa was runner-up with 53 points. Underwood was third with 66, Treynor fourth with 70, and East Mills fifth with a 131 total.

Jerry Jorgensen of Treynor was the boys individual winner with a time of 17:18.75. Adam Thompson of Southwest Iowa was runner-up at 18:03.85. Trent Finnegan of Shenandoah-Essex was third.

Take a look at the full results here.

QBs undecided, Rugamba out for opener at Iowa

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August 23rd, 2017 by admin

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – Iowa will face Wyoming’s Josh Allen, one of the nation’s most talented quarterbacks, without one of its starting cornerbacks in its opener.

Hawkeyes coach Kirk Ferentz says sophomore Manny Rugamba will be suspended for the Sept. 2 home game against the Cowboys because of an offseason violation of team policy.

Rugamba is one of two new starting cornerbacks this season for Iowa, which lost Desmond King and Greg Mabin to the NFL.

Ferentz said Michael Ojemudia will move into a starting spot for the opener along with first-teamer Joshua Jackson, adding that freshman defensive back Matt Hankins will likely see time as well.

Solarte drives in career-best 6 runs, Padres beat Cards 12-4

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August 23rd, 2017 by admin

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Yangervis Solarte homered and drove in a career-high six runs, Austin Hedges also went deep and the San Diego Padres beat the St. Louis Cardinals 12-4 on Tuesday night.

Solarte hit his homer a projected 455 feet over the right-field bullpen in the eighth inning to cap his career night. The Padres had scored six runs over their previous four games combined.

Solarte capitalized on starter Lance Lynn’s lack of control with a three-run double in the second. Lynn needed 64 pitches to get through the first three innings. He hit two batters, including opposing starter Clayton Richard, ahead of Solarte.

Hedges’ three-run homer off Zach Duke capped a six-run seventh inning that also included three runs off Matt Bowman (3-5). It was Hedges’ first homer since Aug. 8.

Richard allowed three homers and four runs in 5 2/3 innings despite entering the game with the NL’s best groundball percentage at 59.5 percent. Craig Stammen (1-2) got one out in the sixth for the victory.

High School Volleyball Scoreboard Tuesday 8/22/2017

Sports

August 23rd, 2017 by admin

Quad @ Atlantic

Earlham 22-21 Atlantic 20-19
Atlantic 24-21 CAM, Anita 22-12
Atlantic 21-21 ACGC 15-18
ACGC 21-21 CAM, Anita 11-12
Earlham 21-19-15 CAM, Anita 17-21-12

Other Scores
A-D-M, Adel 21-21, Nodaway Valley 9-10
Abraham Lincoln 25-25 Stanton 8-11
Sidney 25-24-16, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 17-26-14
Sidney 25-25, Stanton 20-15
Southeast Polk 21-21, Nodaway Valley 6-14

Iowa baseball moves to 2-0 at World University Games

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August 22nd, 2017 by admin

The Iowa baseball team improved to 2-0 at the World University Games in Taiwan. Todd Kimm reports.