Girls State Golf Tournaments begin today for all classes and continue into Wednesday.

Class 1A Tournament – American Legion Golf Course, Marshalltown
Local Teams: Boyer Valley
Local Individuals: Sammi Jahde, CAM. Mateya Peters, Griswold.

Class 2A Tournament – Jester Park Golf Course, Granger
Local Teams: Treynor.
Local Individuals: Madison Lease, Missouri Valley.

Class 3A Tournament – Lake Panorama, Panora
Local Teams: Atlantic, Kuemper Catholic.
Local Individuals: Grace Davidson, Clarinda.

Class 4A Tournament – Elmwood Country Club, Marshalltown
Local Teams: Carroll, Creston.

Class 5A Tournament – Coldwater Links, Ames

The Atlantic Girls Golf team will begin play today in the Class 3A State Golf Tournament at Lake Panorama National Golf Course in Panora and the Trojans are ready to defend their title from last season. The Trojans qualified for state with a Regional Final win at 5×80 Golf Course in Menlo last week. The Trojans shot 361 at that final to win it by 26 strokes over Kuemper Catholic but despite the big win Atlantic Head Coach Kathy Hobson said they can play even better.

Brooke Newell was Runner-Up at the Regional Final with an 85 and she has been a strong leader for the Trojans throughout her career. Coach Hobson said there is strong leadership throughout the whole group but it definitely helps having Brooke lead the charge.

The Trojans have made an effort to challenge themselves with tough tournaments all season and Coach Hobson knows that will certainly help at the State Tournament because they have already competed against a lot of those teams. When asked about a number goal for the weekend Coach Hobson said she thinks they will need to go a little lower than last year to defend their title.

Coach Hobson thinks the experience of winning it last year should make the girls comfortable and give them a slight advantage playing there again. She said she doesn’t fell like there is pressure on them as defending champs. Play will continue Wednesday in Panora.

The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast w/Jim Field.

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ST. LOUIS (AP) – Chase Utley, Cody Bellinger and Logan Forsythe hit solo home runs, leading Rich Hill and the Los Angeles Dodgers over the St. Louis Cardinals 5-1 Monday for their fifth straight victory.

Hill (2-2) recovered from a bout of wildness in his last start to pitch five innings, giving up one run and two hits. In his previous outing, also against the Cardinals, he permitted five runs on four hits and seven walks in four innings.

Mike Leake (5-3) entered the game leading the majors with a 1.91 ERA, but allowed a season-high four runs in 6 2/3 innings.

The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast w/Ric Hanson.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Sixteen teams representing seven conferences will host regionals in the NCAA Division One baseball tournament. Five Atlantic Coast Conference teams and four from the Southeastern Conference were chosen as hosts Sunday night. Last year, 13 of the 16 hosts were from the ACC and SEC.

Each of the host schools are guaranteed spots in the 64-team tournament, with the rest of the field, including the top eight national seeds, and pairings to be announced today (Monday). The ACC hosts are North Carolina, Louisville, Florida State, Clemson and Wake Forest. SEC hosts are LSU, Florida, Kentucky and Arkansas.

Oregon State and Stanford are hosts from the Pac-12, and Texas Tech and TCU are home teams in the Big 12. Other hosts are Southern Mississippi of Conference USA, Long Beach State of the Big West and Houston of the American Athletic Conference.

DENVER (AP) – German Marquez pitched into the sixth inning, Gerardo Parra hit a three-run homer and the Colorado Rockies beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-4 Sunday. Marquez (4-2) allowed two runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings. He went 4-1 in May to help the Rockies’ rookie starters finish 12-3 for the month, the most wins by rookie starting pitchers since Oakland got 11 in September 2009, according to Elias Sports Bureau.

Parra finished with three hits as the Rockies won a series for the 12th time this season. They have dropped two and split two others. Up next for the Cardinals, is the L-A Dodgers. Pre-game coverage on KJAN begins this afternoon at 12:20.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) – Drake Robison held Northwestern to one run in seven innings, Jake Adams homered twice, and Iowa won the Big Ten Tournament for the first time with a 13-4 victory over Northwestern on Sunday. The fifth-seeded Hawkeyes (38-20) earned the Big Ten’s automatic NCAA bid and will make their second appearance in the national tournament in three years.

Robison (4-2), a senior used mostly as a reliever, limited seventh-seeded Northwestern to four hits and struck out six in the longest outing of his career. Adams homered in the seventh and eighth innings to increase his total to 27, tied with Morehead State’s Niko Hulsizer for the national lead.

Freshman Matt Gannon (0-4) didn’t make it out of the first inning as Iowa took a 5-0 lead. Northwestern (27-30) won eight of its last 10 and finished with 12 more wins than a year ago.

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