Sioux Central, Sioux Rapids 54, Marcus-Meridian-Cleghorn/Remsen Union (MMCRU) 45

Sigourney 73, Melcher-Dallas 37

East Mills 70, Griswold 39

Glidden-Ralston 67, Riverside, Oakland 51

Manson Northwest Webster 60, West Bend-Mallard 38

North Iowa, Buffalo Center 64, Latimer CAL 49

Nashua-Plainfield 42, Clarksville 40

East Buchanan, Winthrop 57, West Central, Maynard 49

Maquoketa Valley, Delhi 74, Rivermont 8

H-L-V, Victor 57, English Valleys, North English 45

East Sac County 68, Missouri Valley 32

West Lyon, Inwood 79, Sibley-Ocheyedan 55

North Cedar, Stanwood 50, Durant-Bennett 43

Jeremy Morgan had 18 points with five rebounds and four assists and Northern Iowa edged Missouri State 55-52 on Sunday. Bennett Koch added 14 points and seven rebounds and Klint Carlson had 10 points for the Panthers (13-12, 8-6 Missouri Valley), who have won three straight and eight of their last nine.

Dequon Miller and Jarred Miller had 12 each for the Bears (15-12, 6-8), who have lost three straight and five of six. Obediah Church had 12 rebounds and Alize Johnson 10 as Missouri State had a 41-24 advantage on the boards.

The Bears had a 15-0 run in the first half but Morgan had back-to-back 3-pointers in the last minute and the Panthers trailed 28-27 at the break. Morgan’s 3 with 4:57 to play put Northern Iowa up 52-45 with 4:57 to play but the Panthers missed their last four shots. But Missouri State, which missed 10 straight, only made two of its last four down the stretch.

Bob Elliott is leaving his job as special assistant to the head coach at Notre Dame to coach safeties at Nebraska. Cornhuskers coach Mike Riley on Monday announced the hiring of Elliott, who has 38 years of college coaching experience and spent the past five seasons on the Notre Dame staff.

Elliott coached safeties at Notre Dame in 2012-13 when Bob Diaco was the Irish defensive coordinator. Diaco was hired as Nebraska’s defensive coordinator last month. Elliott coached Notre Dame’s outside linebackers in 2014. He was involved in player personnel decisions, analytics, defensive strategy, game planning and on-campus recruiting as Brian Kelly’s special assistant the past two years.

In addition to several stops as a position coach, Elliott has been defensive coordinator at San Diego State, Kansas State and Iowa.

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Seung-hwan Oh enjoyed a breakout rookie season for St. Louis, compiling a 1.92 ERA and evolving into the closer. After finishing with 19 saves, the right-handed reliever enters this spring with a clearly defined role at the end of the Cardinals bullpen.

Cardinals pitchers and catchers have officially reported to camp, but Oh, like most of the players in that group, has actually been in Jupiter for about a month. There one major difference in this year’s spring routine will come when Oh takes leave of the Cardinals to return home to play for South Korea in the World Baseball Classic — one of six Cardinals big leaguers who will take part in the tournament.

It will be Oh’s fourth world baseball classic.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs have promoted Brad Childress to assistant head coach and announced that Matt Nagy will take over as the sole offensive coordinator in a minor shake-up of Andy Reid’s staff. Childress and Nagy served as co-offensive coordinators last season. Their new roles were announced Monday.

Childress takes over from David Culley, who served as assistant head coach and wide receivers coach last season. Culley left in the offseason to be the quarterbacks coach in Buffalo. The Chiefs already have hired Greg Lewis to work with wide receivers.

Nagy began his coaching career with Reid in Philadelphia, then followed him to Kansas City as the quarterbacks coach. Last year was his first as co-offensive coordinator.

The Griswold boys basketball team will head to Malvern tonight to face the East Mills Wolverines and we’ll have coverage on KJAN.  The Tigers and Wolverines met once in the regular season back on January 12th with the Wolverines prevailing 40-28.  Tonight will be win or go home in the first round of Class 1A District 14 play.  The game is one of two pig-tail games in the bracket that will be played at East Mills High tonight. The first game will have Essex taking on Clarinda Academy at 6:30pm with a chance to face top seed Fremont-Mills on the line.  The winner of the Griswold-East Mills game will play second-seeded Stanton on Thursday in Stanton.

Griswold (0-21) has been led on the season by Clay Amos and Morgan Mundorf who are both averaging 8 points per game. East Mills (11-7) has two players averaging 10 points per game: Weston Copperstone and Noah Hillyer.

Chris Parks and Mike Smith will have the call of the game tonight on KJAN with pre-game about 7:50pm and tip-off scheduled for 8:00pm.

The Atlantic girls basketball team came up short on Saturday in Class 3A Region 2 basketball at East Sac County in Sac City 53-48.  The Trojans had multiple chances to take the advantage in the game in the fourth quarter but could never get that momentum changing run to materialize. The Trojans had a chance down three with the final possession to try to tie the game but miscommunication caused a turnover and brought the game to a close.

East Sac County was led by Taylor Houska with 18 points, all of which came in the first half. Houska played much of the game in foul trouble and actually fouled out with about 7 and a half minutes left in the game. That gave Atlantic a big advantage not having to track her on the floor but the rest of the Raiders would do enough to seal a win.  The Raiders improved to 6-18 and will now travel to face Cherokee on Wednesday.

Atlantic was led in the loss by Baylee Newell with 18 points and Catherine Leonard with 9. The Trojans see their season come to an end with a 2-20 record.

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