DES MOINES, IOWA — The Drake University women’s basketball team settled in defensively after a rocky start, but had to come from too far back and lost to South Dakota 61-46 at the Knapp Center on Monday night.

Drake (1-1) shot just 19.2 percent (5-for-26) in the first half and finished at 25.9 percent for the game after shooting a little better over the final two quarters.

Megan Meyer and Maggie Bair led Drake with 10 points each, while Grace Berg had 8 points, 6 rebounds and 3 steals. Bair added 5 rebounds, 2 steals and 2 blocks and Meyer had a team-best 3 assists.

Drake trailed 40-19 at halftime and fell behind by 24 midway through the third quarter. The Bulldogs then found some rhythm offensively and ran off 11 straight points — a run that included 4 points from Meyer and a 3 from Katie Dinnebier — to cut the lead to 52-39 with 8:27 left.

But the rally died there and South Dakota did just enough to pull away and win comfortably, holding the Bulldogs to just one more basket after Dinnebier’s 3.

Center Hannah Sjerven, who went 2-for-10 in the loss to South Carolina, made 9 of 14 shots and led the Coyotes with 25 points and 12 rebounds. South Dakota shot 44.9 percent for the game.

Drake faces another challenging game later this week. No. 14 Iowa State visits the Knapp for a 6 p.m. tipoff on Thursday.

(Radio Iowa) – By a unanimous vote, the Mason City School Board Monday night approved beginning the process of retiring “Mohawks” as the district’s mascot and nickname. The issue of the school’s nickname is tied into logo and branding discussions that the school district has been having for the last year. The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe recently called for the district to end the use of the name and associated imagery. Board member Katie Koehler hopes the community can turn its passion on the issue into finding the best new name possible for the students.  “They are so much more than a label,” Koehler says. “They leave here and they represent us, not as a label, but as an amazing human soul that goes out and does the best they can for the community that raised them and the communities they encounter.”

Board member Peterson Jean-Pierre says it wasn’t hard to make a decision to move forward and find other things that can represent the community as a whole without offending anyone or anything. “No one is taking away your pride and your compassion,” Jean-Pierre says. “The change of a name does not take away the years that you spent as a Mohawk. We’re not asking you to take your jerseys, or your shirts, or your paraphernalia or whatnot that has that logo on it and saying trash it. Love it, you love it, we love it, but if someone is asking you to hear them, and understand them and respect them, it’s our duty to do that.”

Seven people, four for keeping Mohawks and three supporting the name change, spoke to the board prior to the vote. Jan Groff is a retired teacher and coach and graduate of Mason City High School. She says she never saw or read anything disrespectful about the Mohawk and that the name was held in high esteem, pride and respect.  “I’m afraid that the decision will be made in this current atmosphere of what I want to call hypersensitivity,” Groff says. “I would hate in a few years to look back and wonder what we were thinking, dropping or changing the Mohawk after nearly 100 years. That is five generations of Mohawks, and quite the legacy and tradition that we have at our high school here in Mason City.”

Cristy Tass says the Mohawk name has not been used in any disrespect by the school district.  “Mason City has promoted the Mohawk name with values that inspire respect and have used logo images that are not caricatures, but portraits that resemble historic paintings for 97 years,” Tass says. “Not now, nor in our history, have we ever portrayed a negative stereotype of the Mason City Mohawks. Quite the opposite. For 97 years, we have worn this logo with ultimate pride in our school.”

The board approved administrators to start the transition from the use of the Mohawk name and mascot, including Native American images, symbols and likenesses to a new mascot immediately and for the administration to present at the board’s January 17th meeting a timeline to complete the transition from the Mohawk name and a plan to adopt a new mascot before July 1st. The district will immediately stop using Mohawks to introduce athletic teams, and the name will be removed from electronic communications such as the district’s website and other documents that can easily be edited.

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Hawkeye men return to action tonight (Tuesday night) by hosting North Carolina Central. The Hawkeyes are 2-0 and coach Fran McCaffery likes the way the younger players have developed.

Iowa beat the Eagles by 30 a year ago but McCaffery says it is an experienced team despite losing a number of players off that team.

The Hawkeyes have two weeks before a difficult stretch of the schedule begins.

(Radio Iowa) – The 14th ranked Iowa State women outscored South Dakota State 21-9 in the second quarter, Monday, and rolled to a 75-56 win in Ames. Lexi Donarski led the Cyclones with 22 points as ISU took control after a sluggish opening quarter.

Asley Joens added 17 as the Cyclones avenged last season’s loss to the Jackrabbits.

ST. LOUIS, MO. – November 15, 2021 – The St. Louis Cardinals today announced their coaching staff for the upcoming 2022 season with two new coaches joining their Major League staff and newly-named manager Oli Marmol.

New to the team’s coaching staff for 2022 are Bench Coach, and former Cardinals outfielder/infielder Jared “Skip” Schumaker, and Assistant Hitting Coach Turner Ward.

Schumaker, 41, served as the San Diego Padres Associate Manager the past two seasons (2020-21) and was the team’s First Base Coach from 2018-19.  Prior to joining San Diego’s Major League coaching staff, Schumaker served as an assistant to baseball operations and player development for the Padres from 2016-17 after concluding his 11-year major league playing career.

Drafted by the Cardinals in 2001 (5th round) out of the University of California-Santa Barbara, Schumaker debuted with the Cardinals in 2005 and was a member of both the 2006 and 2011 World Series Championship teams during his eight seasons (2005-12) in St. Louis.

Schumaker’s playing career concluded in 2015 after stints with the Los Angeles Dodgers (2013) and Cincinnati (2014-15).   Schumaker compiled a career batting mark of .278 in 1,149 games played, posting .300-plus seasons in both 2008 (.302) and 2009 (.303).  Schumaker transitioned from the outfield to playing second base on a regular basis in 2009, and totaled 487 career games played at the keystone along with his 561 career games in the outfield.

Ward, 56, played 12 seasons in the majors from 1990-2001 before transitioning into coaching.  He spent eight years coaching in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization, serving as Hitting Coach at Class AA Mobile (2008-10), Manager at Mobile (2011-12), Assistant Hitting coach for Arizona (2013) and Hitting Coach for Arizona (2014-15).  The Alabama native was the Hitting Coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2016-18, which included consecutive trips to the World Series in 2017 and 2018.   Ward then joined the Cincinnati Reds as hitting coach in 2019.  He also managed in the minors in 2006 with the Gulf Coast League Pirates and in 2007 with the State College Spikes of the New York-Penn League (A).

Ward’s Mobile teams won consecutive Southern League championships in 2011 and 2012, and he was named Southern League Manager of the Year in 2011 as Mobile was voted Minor League Team of the Year by Baseball America.

Drafted by the Yankees in 1986 as an outfielder out of the University of South Alabama, the switch-hitting Ward played for the Indians (1990-91), Blue Jays (1991-1993), Brewers (1994-96), Pirates (1997-99), Diamondbacks (1999-2000) and Phillies (2001).

Those returning to the team’s Major League coaching staff include Pitching Coach Mike Maddux (5th season with Cardinals), Bullpen Coach Bryan Eversgerd (5th season), Hitting Coach Jeff Albert (3rd season), First Base Coach Stubby Clapp (4th season), Third Base Coach Ron “Pop” Warner (4th season) and Coach Willie McGee (5th season).

Also returning for 2022 are Pitching Strategist Dusty Blake (2nd season), Run Production Coach Patrick Elkins (3rd season), Bullpen Catcher/Catching Instructor Jamie Pogue and Bullpen Catcher Kleininger Teran.

ST. LOUIS, MO – Nov. 12, 2021 – Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., announced the winners of the
Rawlings Platinum GloveTM and Team Defense Awards for the 2021 season. Houston Astros’ shortstop,
Carlos Correa, and St. Louis Cardinals’ third baseman, Nolan Arenado, each won a Rawlings Platinum
Glove Award, presented by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Their respective teams,
the Houston Astros and the St. Louis Cardinals, were announced as recipients of the Rawlings Team
Defense Award. The Awards were revealed in a special broadcast that aired earlier in the evening on
MLB Network, co-hosted by Greg Amsinger, Yonder Alonso and Harold Reynolds.

This marks the first Rawlings Platinum Glove Award for Correa and fifth consecutive Rawlings Platinum
Glove Award for Arenado. Arenado is the first player to secure five Platinum Glove Awards and the first
infielder to begin a career with nine consecutive Rawlings Gold Glove Awards®.

The Rawlings Platinum Glove Award winners are determined by combining votes based on an adjusted
SABR Defensive IndexTM (SDI) for each of the nine Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners in each League
and from baseball fan votes worldwide. Voting for the Rawlings Platinum Glove Award began at the
conclusion of the ‘2021 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Announcement Show’ that aired on ESPN’s ‘Sunday
Night Baseball’ on Nov. 7 and ended on Nov. 10. Fans took to Rawlings.com to voice who they thought
was the best defender in each League.

“Since 2011, fans have passionately chosen the Rawlings Platinum Glove Award winners, and they
continue to impress us with their knowledge and admiration of great defense,” said Scott Bush, chief
executive officer of SABR. “SABR is proud to provide the detailed statistics and pertinent data to aid in
the fans’ informed voting decision process.”

The Rawlings Team Award, in its second year, utilizes an SDI that draws on and aggregates two types of
existing defensive metrics: those derived from batted ball location-based data and those collected from
play-by-play accounts. SDI utilizes MLBAM’s Statcast, Sports Information Solutions data, and STATS, LLC
data as well as traditional statistics with advanced analysis.

“The Rawlings Team Defense Awards represent a new chapter in ‘Gold-Glove’ worthy defense, and the
recipients truly epitomize “The Finest in the Field,” said Mike Thompson, chief marketing officer of
Rawlings. “The Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals had countless, memorable defensive plays this
season and have undeniably earned the distinction of being named winners of the Rawlings Team
Defense Awards.”

Both the Rawlings Platinum and Team Defense Awards will be presented to the athletes and their
teams, respectively, at games to take place early in the 2022 regular season.

The Kansas City Chiefs got the offense back on track Sunday Night in Las Vegas and rolled to a 41-14 win over the Raiders. Patrick Mahomes threw for 406 yards and 5 touchdowns as the Chiefs took sole possession of the lead in the AFC West.

Mahomes completed three short touchdown passes, two to Tyreek Hill in the first half, before showing off a couple of big throws. Early in the fourth quarter after the Chiefs had converted a fake punt to keep the drive alive, Mahomes scrambled away from pressure and heaved one 38-yards to the end zone across the field to running back Darrel Williams who made a spectacular catch. Mahomes later hit Byron Pringle for a 22-yard score.

The Chiefs improved to 6-4 on the season and will now prep for a home game against the Dallas Cowboys next Sunday at 3:25 p.m. We’ll have coverage on KJAN with pregame starting at 2:00 p.m.

The UNI men’s basketball team got into the win column for the first time this season with a 95-58 win over the University of Dubuque on Sunday. The Panthers jumped out to a 49-23 lead by half and outscored the Spartans by 11 the rest of the way.

Noah Carter led UNI with 17 points, 7 rebounds, and 1 assist. The Panthers had struggled to get the offense going in their first two games. The Panthers are now 1-2 and next up will play at Arkansas on Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.

The Drake men’s basketball team picked up a 99-50 win over South Dakota at the Knapp Center on Sunday. ShanQuan Hemphill dropped in 14 points to carry the Bulldogs to 2-0 on the season.

Drake jumped out to a 40-24 halftime lead in the game and really pulled away in the second half outscoring the Coyotes 59-26.

Next up for the Bulldogs is a home game against Richmond on Saturday at 12:00 p.m.

The Iowa women’s basketball team improved to 3-0 on the young season with an 82-61 win over UNI on Sunday afternoon in Cedar Falls. Caitlin Clark recorded a double-double with 25 points and 11 rebounds. She also added 7 assists.

Monika Czinano dropped in 16 points and McKenna Warnock added 15 for the Hawkeyes.

Next up for Iowa is a home game against Southern University on Wednesday, Nov. 17th. Tipoff is set for 6:30 p.m. (CT) and the game will stream live on B1Gt+.