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Coon Rapids-Bayard 10, South Central Calhoun 4
Creston 10, Winterset 7
Denison-Schleswig 9, IKM-Manning 1
Earlham 9, Glidden-Ralston 1
Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 2, Kingsley-Pierson 0 (Western Valley Conference Tournament)
OA-BCIG 6, Westwood, Sloan 5
Sioux City, West 9, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 3 (5 innings (weather))
Stanton 18, East Union, Afton 4 (5 innings )
Treynor 8, Van Meter 1
Underwood 12, Sidney 2
West Harrison, Mondamin 12, Whiting 2 (6 Innings)

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Rookie Luke Voit hit his first major league homer and drove in four runs, Tommy Pham reached base five times and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Miami Marlins 14-6 on Monday night. St. Louis scored four runs in the first inning and seven in the third on the way to an 11-0 lead. Voit added a two-run homer in the eighth in the Cardinals’ fifth win in six games.

Adam Wainwright (9-5) picked up his second successive win and also drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single. The Marlins have lost five of six. Miami starter Jeff Locke (0-5) gave up 11 hits and 11 earned runs in 2 2/3 innings. Pham had three hits and two walks. He drove in a pair of runs.

Class 1A, Region 1

East Mills 8, Fremont-Mills 5

Remsen St. Mary’s 11, Whiting 1

Woodbine 8, West Harrison 3

Boyer Valley 11, St. Albert 4

Class 1A, Region 8

Bedford 11, Essex 1

Mt. Ayr 12, Diagonal 0

Lenox 11, Stanton 1

Griswold 6, East Union 5

Riverside 14, Orient-Macksburg 8

Class 1A, Region 3

Audubon 8, Glidden-Ralston 4

Exira/EH-K 8, CAM 3

Ft. Dodge/St. Edmond 3, Coon Rapids-Bayard 2

Colo-Nesco 20, GMG 0

Montezuma 4, Tri-County 3

Class 1A, Region 2

Harris-Lake Park 2, Trinity Christian 0

Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn 13, Clay Central-Everly 2

Charter Oak-Ute 14, Ar-We-Va 8

River Valley 11, Storm Lake/St. Mary’s 4

Class 2A, Region 8

Nodaway Valley 15, West Central Valley 5

AHST-W 13, Southwest Valley 7

Class 2A, Region 7

Woodward-Granger 11, Panorama 7

Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 9, AC-GC 7

The Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association has released their latest rankings on Monday. For Classes 1A and 2A these are the final rankings before postseason play begins. There will be one final set of rankings for Classes 3A and 4A next week.

Class 1A

1. North Linn 33-2
2. Newman Catholic 23-3
3. Martensdale-St. Marys 32-3
4. Akron-Westfield 24-2
5. Exira/EHK 19-1
6. Lisbon 25-5
7. Don Bosco 24-4
8. Ar-We-Va 15-1
9. West Sioux 18-5
10. St. Albert 21-10

Class 2A

1. New Hampton 26-2
2. Treynor 26-3
3. Wilton 21-5
4. Dike-New Hartford 24-3
5. Woodward-Granger 26-3
6. Cascade 23-6
7. Beckman Catholic 21-11
8. Van Meter 24-3
9. Iowa City Regina 21-7
10. Forest City 23-3

Class 3A

1. Davenport Assumption 30-3
2. Harlan 24-2
3. Vinton-Shellsburg 27-3
4. Saydel 24-4
5. Marion 24-7
6. Sergeant Bluff-Luton 21-7
7. Gilbert 21-7
8. Bishop Heelan 23-11
9. Knoxville 23-6
10. Decorah 18-5

Class 4A

1. Johnston 26-3
2. Dowling Catholic 27-4
3. Iowa City West 25-7
4. Southeast Polk 22-10
5. Ankeny Centennial 21-11
6. Iowa City High 24-10
7. Indianola 26-6
8. Epworth Western Dubuque 26-4
9. Cedar Rapids Prairie 20-11
10. Urbandale 21-12

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Baseball Scores from Saturday 7/1/17

Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 11, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 1 (6 innings)
EHK-Exira 12, Griswold 1 (5 innings)
East Mills 11, Essex 1 (Corner Conf. Tr)
Fremont-Mills, Tabor 4, Stanton 1 (Conference tournament )
Harlan 11, Red Oak 1 ( )
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 10, Shenandoah 2
Lewis Central 11, Carlisle 2
Martensdale-St. Marys 4, Treynor 2
Sidney 5, East Mills 4 (Corner Conference Tournament)
Stanton 16, Clarinda Academy 1 (4 innings Conference tournament )

Softball Scores from 7/1/17

Tiger Knight Tourney
Atlantic 4, East Sac County 1
Atlantic 9, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 3
Carroll 6, Coon Rapids-Bayard 1
Carroll 6, East Sac County 0
Coon Rapids-Bayard 13, Sioux City, West 11
Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 5, Carroll 2
East Sac County 13, Sioux City, West 3
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 11, Sioux City, West 4
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 6, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 1
Treynor 3, Coon Rapids-Bayard 2
Treynor 3, Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 2
Championship: Treynor 1, Atlantic 0

Bishop Heelan, Sioux City 11, Alta/Aurelia 1
Bishop Heelan, Sioux City 11, River Valley 0
Exira-EHK 14, Audubon 1
Lenox 21, Orient-Macksburg 0
Lenox 4, West Central Valley, Stuart 3
Lewis Central 10, Shenandoah 3
Martensdale-St Marys 14, Essex 0
Martensdale-St Marys 14, Sidney 0
Mount Ayr 9, Sidney 3
Murray 12, Clarinda 0
Murray 12, Essex 0
Shenandoah 8, Lewis Central 7
Wayne 17, Orient-Macksburg 1

A recent survey indicates at least a third of Iowans have gone fishing and the number of fishing TOURNAMENTS is growing. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued permits to 617 tournaments last year. “By far the most popular fish in tournaments are bass and bass consistently rank in the top two or three fish and usually the first fish in which anglers in Iowa go after.”

That’s Joe Larscheid, the fisheries bureau chief in the Department of Natural Resources. Tournaments aren’t about catching fish to EAT, however. Nearly all tournaments are “catch and release” events. “We have to make sure they have adequate ‘live wells’ which keep the fish alive while they’re in the tournament and they have good release procedures to ensure that the fish survive.”

Releasing the fish back into the wild makes sure a body of water isn’t depleted of fish by a tournament. “These tend to be very good anglers and they can catch a lot of fish very quickly,” Larscheid says. “The fish go back into the water and it creates a lot of excitement for other anglers to see all these big fish that are caught and subsequently re-released back into the water.”

Larscheid says fishing is part of the state’s tourism industry. “We get celebrities that participate in these tournaments and TV coverage — and things like that — that kind of highlight Iowa’s fisheries,” Larscheid says.

Last year, the state’s fisheries stocked 160 MILLION fish in Iowa waters. Most were walleyes and trout, which Larscheid says don’t reproduce well in Iowa waters. There were SIX fishing tournaments in Iowa this past weekend. Today (Monday), the Hawkeye Bass Anglers Club will hold its tournament on Badger Creek Lake near Van Meter. On Saturday, there are at least 17 fishing events scheduled in Iowa, including an all-night CATFISH tournament on the Little Sioux River at Correctionville.

For a complete list of tournaments, click on this link:   http://www.americanfishingcontests.com/contest/List.aspx?Rank=Month&Month=7&State=IA&Page=1

A national survey was conducted six years ago to gauge how many Americans are regularly hunting, fishing and boating. It found 23 percent of IOWANS had gone fishing in a boat. Even more — 36 percent — cast fishing lines from the shore of a lake or river.

(Radio Iowa)

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