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Class 1A Quarterfinals
Friday, July 24
Kingsley-Pierson 3, Martensdale-St. Marys 2 (8 innings)
Kingsley-Pierson pulled off an upset over No. 1 ranked Martensdale-St. Mary’s in the opening game of the tournament thanks to a two-run comeback in the sixth and a run in the eighth inning. The Blue Devils had five hits in the defeat, which came from the bats of Cole Cassady, Isaac Gavin, Carson Elbert, Kasey Carter and Jack Franey. Martensdale’s season comes to a close at 26-2.
Don Bosco, Gilbertville 3, South Winneshiek, Calmar 1
Saturday, July 25
10:30—St. Albert, Council Bluffs vs. Newman Catholic, Mason City
1:30—St. Mary’s, Remsen vs. Notre Dame, Burlington
The 2-A Quarterfinals begin Monday at Principal Park in Des Moines.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jack Flaherty pitched seven solid innings, Paul DeJong hit a two-run homer and the St. Louis Cardinals opened the season by beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-4. Tyler O’Neill and Dexter Fowler added solo homers for St. Louis in the first game of an unprecedented 60-game season shortened due to the coronavirus pandemic. Flaherty, who went 7-2 with an 0.91 ERA over his final 15 regular season starts last year, did not give up a run until Jacob Stallings hit two-out, two-run single just under the glove of first baseman Paul Goldschmidt in the seventh.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Shane Bieber dominated Kansas City’s hitters, striking out 14 in six innings as the Cleveland Indians beat the Royals 2-0 in their delayed home opener. Bieber has become Cleveland’s ace in no time. The 25-year-old began last season as the club’s No. 5 stater but appears ready to take over as the staff leader after two-time Cy Young winner Corey Kluber was traded last winter. Oscar Mercado and César Hernández drove in runs for the Indians. Cleveland’s players wore their blue road jerseys to make a statement for minorities as the Indians consider changing their name after 105 years.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif of the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs became the first player to opt out of the upcoming NFL season due to the coronavirus pandemic. Duvernay-Tardif chose to put his medical degree to use on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. He has been working to fulfill his requirements to become a doctor in the offseason and has spent this summer working at a clinic in his native Canada. He said that experience helped him decide that if he was going to take any risks with his health, it would be to help patients dealing with the virus.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Austin Hill dominated the longest green-flag run all the way to the checkered flag to win the opening race of the first NASCAR Truck Series doubleheader at Kansas Speedway on Friday night. Brett Moffitt won the opening stage before finishing second, nearly three seconds behind the winner. Grant Enfinger was third, reigning series champ Matt Crafton came across fourth and Derek Kraus finished fifth.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association has adjusted the 2020 high school football schedule. The board of control approved the change on Friday which will cut the regular season to a 7 game schedule and all teams will qualify for the postseason. The first practice date of August 10th and first competition date of August 27th will stay the same. The first two weeks will become optional dates and District play will start in Week 3. 4A schools will be creating their own schedules. Here is the full breakdown from the IHSAA.
REGULAR SEASON: A seven-week regular season will be conducted. Teams will have the option of scheduling five, six, or seven games within those seven weeks.
POSTSEASON: All teams in all classes will qualify for the postseason. Brackets will consist of six rounds for each classification. The IHSAA will determine postseason pairings with geography, quality, and team availability as primary considerations. This is intended to be a one-time measure for postseason formatting.
OPTIONAL DATES: Week 1 and Week 2 will be optional game dates. Opponents, locations, and participation may determined by member schools in 11-player football.
RPI FORMULA: With all teams allowed entry into the postseason, the Ratings Percentage Index will not be utilized in 2020 to determine at-large berths or seeding.
DISTRICT GAMES: Teams in Classes 3A, 2A, 1A, and A will play their scheduled district games in the previously established order. This change means the prior Week 5 becomes Week 3, Week 6 becomes Week 4, etc., in this revised plan.
CLASS 4A: Participating schools will schedule their own regular season games. The previously announced group format and success model will not be implemented in 2020. The IHSAA encourages conferences to collaborate in creating their schedules.
EIGHT-PLAYER: Teams will play Week 3 through Week 9 of their previously announced schedules in what is now Week 1 through Week 7. Due to the number of teams in the classification, Eight-Player has opponents scheduled on the optional dates of Week 1 and Week 2. Teams in Eight-Player may opt out of those contests, but may not change opponents or locations unless an agreement is reached with all participating teams and the IHSAA.
MISSING GAMES: Due to the potential of positive COVID-19 cases forcing players and teams to miss games in the 2020 regular season, the revised plan does not penalize teams with a loss or forfeit due to state, county, or local health department determinations. A missed game due to COVID-19 will be considered a “no contest” and will not be made up. Teams may work with the IHSAA and new possible opponents should they have open dates due to scheduled opponents missing games.
OUT OF STATE GAMES: Teams with scheduled games against out of state opponents may attempt to reschedule those contests during the optional Week 1 or Week 2.
TEAM PARTICIPATION: Providing for start dates as currently scheduled, the IHSAA requests member schools state their intent to participate in football’s regular season and postseason by August 17.
| DATE | WEEK | SCHEDULE |
| Aug. 10 | – | First Practice Date |
| Aug. 27 | Week 1 | Optional (All) – Scheduled Game (8P) |
| Sept. 4 | Week 2 | Optional (All) – Scheduled Game (8P) |
| Sept. 11 | Week 3 | District Games (3A-8P) – Selected Game (4A) |
| Sept. 18 | Week 4 | District Games (3A-8P) – Selected Game (4A) |
| Sept. 25 | Week 5 | District Games (3A-8P) – Selected Game (4A) |
| Oct. 2 | Week 6 | District Games (3A-8P) – Selected Game (4A) |
| Oct. 9 | Week 7 | District Games (3A-8P) – Selected Game (4A) |
| Oct. 16 | First Round | Round of 64 – Member School Site |
| Oct. 23 | Second Round | Round of 32 – Member School Site |
| Oct. 30 | Third Round | Round of 16 – Member School Site |
| Nov. 7 | Quarterfinals | Round of 8 – Member School Site |
| Nov. 13-15 | Semifinals | |
| Nov. 20-21 | Finals |
Playing dates listed are Fridays, but subject to change for Thursdays or Saturdays depending on host school and site availability.
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(Radio Iowa) – The 111th Drake Relays has officially been postponed to April 2021. Drake Relays officials announced Thursday that the 2020 relays were canceled due to Iowa’s ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
Blake Boldon, the Franklin P. Johnson director of the Drake Relays, said in a news release that the event will be “postponed” to 2021 to “to preserve the safety and wellbeing of competitors, officials and fans.” The Drake Relays’ Grand Blue Mile and Drake Road Races will be contested virtually in September and October.
Drake Relays leadership first announced a delay in the events in March due to the pandemic. “Our entire staff has worked diligently to explore every possibility of hosting our events in 2020,” Boldon said. “The process has been challenging and the outcome is not what we desired. However, we have been reassured by the incredible show of support we’ve received from fans, coaches and athletes from Iowa, the nation and around the world.”
Drake Relays will return to Des Moines April 21-24, 2021. Organizers said ticket holders will receive an email from the Drake athletic ticket office detailing their ticketing options. Ticket holders may choose, by Aug. 17, to donate the value of their tickets as a tax-deductible donation, forward their tickets to the 2021 Drake Relays or request a refund.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Denny Hamlin raced to his series-leading fifth NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season Thursday night, passing Kevin Harvick in the closing laps and holding off Brad Keselowski to make it back-to-back victories at Kansas Speedway. Hamlin had struggled the past three weeks, failing to finish better than 12th. But after showing good speed early, his Joe Gibbs Racing team made all the right calls during a crash-filled final stage to win in front of empty grandstands. Keselowski finished second and Martin Truex Jr. came across third. Harvick wound up sliding to fourth and Erik Jones, who hadn’t been quiet all night, rounded out the top five to cap a banner night for the Gibbs boys.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brady Singer will make his big league debut on the mound for the Kansas City Royals in their second game Saturday in Cleveland. But unlike the thousands of players who have made it to the pinnacle of the sport, and were celebrated by tearful mom and dad and family in the stands, the culmination of Singer’s lifelong dream will only be shared by his teammates. When the decision was made to play an abbreviated 60-game major league season without fans, it meant that anybody making their debut this season would do so without their support system there to enjoy it.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals have placed right-hander Chance Adams and left-hander Randy Rosario on the injured list and right-hander Jesse Hahn on the bereavement list as they pared their roster down to 30 players ahead of opening day. Backup catcher Meibrys Viloria was reinstated from the injured list and recalled, along with right-hander Ronald Bolanos and outfielder Franchy Cordero. Both of them were acquired in a recent trade with San Diego. Left-handers Foster Griffin and Gabe Speier and right-hander Kyle Zimmer also were recalled.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals have recalled outfielder Austin Dean, right-hander Junior Fernandez, catcher Andrew Knizner and infielder Edmundo Sosa as they finalized their roster for opening day against the Pirates. St. Louis also announced that right-hander Kodi Whitley made the initial 30-man roster for the start of the season. The moves came one day after the Cardinals released reliever Brett Cecil, who pitched just 100 innings across 113 games since signing a four-year contract with the club.
DETROIT (AP) — This is the final year of Jordan Zimmermann’s contract with Detroit and also his last chance to make a good impression before free agency arrives again. Now that opportunity may be gone. After going on the 45-day injured list with an arm problem, his best-case scenario is to return for a bit at the very end of the season. This truncated 2020 campaign is also important for a number of other free-agents-to-be. Rick Porcello and Didi Gregorius have a lot to prove this year before they can return to the open market, and they don’t have a lot of time to showcase themselves.
The 2020 State Baseball Tournament brackets have now been finalized for all classes. The Class 1A brackets came out Thursday morning and now the Class 2A, 3A, and 4A brackets were finalized on Thursday afternoon. Here is a look at the Quarterfinal schedule for those classes and links to the full brackets.
10:30—Van Meter vs. Treynor
1:30—Mid-Prairie, Wellman vs. West Lyon, Inwood
4:30—North Linn, Troy Mills vs. Durant
7:30—Dike-New Hartford vs. Des Moines Christian
10:30—Norwalk vs. Clear Creek-Amana
1:30—Sergeant Bluff-Luton vs. Marion
4:30—Dallas Center-Grimes vs. Benton Community
7:30—Gilbert vs. ADM, Adel
10:30—Urbandale vs. Waukee
1:30—Johnston vs. Cedar Falls
4:30—Dubuque, Hempstead vs. Iowa City, City High
7:30—Ankeny vs. Pleasant Valley
(Radio Iowa) — The Field of Dreams movie site in Dyersville will host an unusual baseball game this weekend, pitting officers from the police departments in Chicago and New York City against one another. The field’s operations manager Roman Weinberg says Saturday’s match is part of First Responders Appreciation Day.
The day will be filled with events, including a silent auction with Field of Dreams and sports memorabilia, kids’ activities, and the baseball game at 4 P-M, followed by live music. During the afternoon, there will be three baseball-related skills events.
The grand prize offers a rare treat for some lucky fan of the 1989 film.
The event is a fundraiser for the Dubuque County Emergency Responder Training Facility, the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation and the New York Police Widows and Children Fund. The New York and Chicago police departments are facing off this weekend as this summer’s Major League game was originally to be between the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox.
The lineup for the August 13th game has since been changed to the Sox versus the St. Louis Cardinals.
www.FieldofDreamsMovieSite.com
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals have placed right-hander Chance Adams and left-hander Randy Rosario on the injured list and right-hander Jesse Hahn on the bereavement list as they pared their roster down to 30 players ahead of opening day. Backup catcher Meibrys Viloria was reinstated from the injured list and recalled, along with right-hander Ronald Bolanos and outfielder Franchy Cordero.
Both of them were acquired in a recent trade with San Diego. Left-handers Foster Griffin and Gabe Speier and right-hander Kyle Zimmer also were recalled.
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