Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt hit a solo home run with two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 2-1 victory over the Miami Marlins. Dexter Fowler had an RBI single in the sixth for the Cardinals, who won for the seventh time in 11 games.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Brian Klein hit the tie-breaking home run for Texas Tech and the Red Raiders beat Florida State 4-1 at the College World Series to close the 40-year coaching career of NCAA all-time wins leader Mike Martin. Klein’s homer was his second of the CWS and third of the season. Martin heads into retirement with 2,029 career wins. It’s the most by any coach in any college sport. Each of his 40 teams won at least 40 games and played in the NCAA Tournament.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Kumar Rocker followed up his no-hitter in super regionals with another strong start in his College World Series debut and Stephen Scott homered twice and drove in four runs in Vanderbilt’s 6-3 win over Mississippi State. The win allowed the No. 2 national seed Commodores to gain the inside track to the best-of-three finals next week. Rocker won his fifth straight start and is 9-1 over his last 10.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Louisville has eliminated Auburn from the College World Series in a 5-3 win as the two teams completed a game suspended by rain the day before. The No. 7 national seed Cardinals improved to 32-1 all-time when scoring five or more runs in an NCAA Tournament game. Auburn went 0-2 in its first CWS appearance since 1997.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa has fired volleyball coach Bond Shymansky. The Hawkeyes say an independent investigation by an outside law firm determined he committed a major NCAA rules violation. Iowa says Shymansky intentionally provided an impermissible benefit to a prospect who went on to compete for the Hawkeyes. Iowa has reported the violation to the NCAA.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — NASCAR has denied Ross Chastain’s appeal after his race-winning truck was disqualified following a postrace inspection at Iowa Speedway over the weekend. National Motorsports Appeals Panelist Bryan Moss upheld the penalties assessed by NASCAR for the No. 44 being too low. NASCAR says the last time it disqualified an apparent race winner was in 1960. The decision is a major blow to Chastain’s playoff hopes in the Truck Series.

SEATTLE (AP) — Domingo Santana hit two home runs in a game for the third time this season, Marco Gonzales won his third straight start and the Seattle Mariners avoided an embarrassing series sweep with an 8-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Santana, who had five RBIs, and Daniel Vogelbach hit back-to-back homers in the first inning to give the Mariners a 4-0 lead and they went on to snap Kansas City’s three-game winning streak.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A group led by St. Louis Blues chairman Tom Stillman now owns 100 percent of the reigning Stanley Cup champions. The group has purchased the remaining shares of the team from Sports Capital Holdings, which owned the Blues from 2006-2012. The NHL Board of Governors approved the transaction at its annual June meeting in Las Vegas.