Non-Conference 

Atlantic – 15 vs Griswold – 5

Bedford – 20 vs Southwest Valley – 5

Fremont-Mills – 2 vs AHSTW – 0

Exira/EHK – 3 vs IKM-Manning – 0

West Central Valley – 18 vs Nodaway Valley – 8

East Union – 9 vs East Mills – 4

Pleasantville – 4 vs Southeast Warren – 1

Ankeny Christian – 19 vs AGWSR – 3

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Harlan – 12 vs Clarinda – 2

Western Iowa Conference 

Treynor – 10 vs Missouri Valley – 0

Rolling Valley Conference

Coon Rapids-Bayard – 2 vs Woodbine – 1

Missouri River Conference 

Sioux City West – 14 vs Le Mars – 8

Le Mars – 7 vs Sioux City West – 4

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic – 13 vs Kuemper Catholic – 2

Clarinda – 7 vs Harlan – 2

Western Iowa Conference:

Treynor – 5 vs Missouri Valley – 2

Rolling Valley Conference 

Woodbine – 10 vs Coon Rapids-Bayard – 0

Non-Conference 

West Central Valley – 10 vs Nodaway Valley – 2

Thomas Jefferson – 11 vs Tri-Center – 10

Shenandoah – 11 vs Sidney – 0

St. Albert – 12 vs East Mills – 0

Fremont-Mills – 9 vs Lenox – 8

Lamoni – 10 vs East Union – 5

Southeast Warren – 13 vs Twin Cedars – 3

Bishop Heelan Catholic – 5 vs Spencer – 3

The Atlantic baseball team is starting to warm up as the middle of the season approaches including a road victory at Hawkeye Ten Rival, Kuemper Catholic Monday. The 3-11 Trojans put together their all-around best team effort according to Head Coach Nathan Block.

Hudson McLaren is one of eleven juniors on the roster and the chemistry is only growing.

Outside of the juniors, Sophomore duo Collin Harris and Grant Petty both have 30+ at bats this season and have appeared in every game so far. On the pitching side of things, Jack Muller leads the team with a 1.50 ERA and hitters are slugging a low .154 average against him. The quality pitching has given the rest of the team both confidence and energy.

The Trojans have look to hit their stride as the 2025 season has hit its halfway point.

The Southwest Valley baseball team doesn’t have a single senior on the team and only two juniors. Nonetheless, the Timberwolves are a .500 team 12 games in and 12 games to go. Southwest Valley has won their first two games of the week by beating Nodaway Valley and Stanton on the road.

Head Coach Keegan Longabaugh believes this team is improving game after game.

Southwest Valley Sophomore Walker Bissell is hitting .500 while driving in 25 runs. Bissell leads the team in doubles, triples and stolen bases as well.

On the pitching side, the Timberwolves have six pitchers who have all thrown five innings or more. Everywhere from juniors to eighth graders.

In the final 12 games for the Timberwolves, eight of those are at home. Longabaugh believes his team can be soaring in time for postseason play.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Three student-athletes — Nailyn Marshall, Leah McAnally, and Avery Sapp, — have signed with the University of Iowa softball program. It was announced Wednesday by head coach Stacy May-Johnson.

Marshall has three seasons of eligibility remaining, while McAnally and Sapp have two.

Nailyn Marshall
Infield | R/R
Elk Grove, California
Franklin High School / Cal

• Appeared in 55 games with 49 starts
• Hit .244 with 30 hits, six doubles and four home runs
• Recorded first-career home run against Maryland on February 8
• Collected 19 runs, 14 walks, and two stolen bases while registering a .326 on base percentage

Leah McAnally
Catcher | R/R
Edmond, Oklahoma
Edmond Memorial High School / Boise State

• All-Mountain West Second Team (2025)
• In 2025, played in 52 games, including 39 starts
• Hit .311 with nine doubles, six home runs and 39 RBIs
• As a freshman in 2024, appeared in 50 games with 42 starts
• Hit .292 with eight doubles, seven home runs and 30 RBIs
• Accumulated 32 runs in two seasons with and OBP of .368
• Mountain West Scholar-Athlete (2023-24)
• Academic All-Mountain West (2024)

Avery Sapp
Pitcher/Utility | R/R
Spanish Fork, Utah
Spanish Fork High School / Utah Valley

• Named third team All-Mountain region as Pitcher/Utility by the NFCA in 2025
• In 2025, played in 45 games with 37 starts in first full season as a two-way player
• Made 36 appearances in the circle, including 26 starts
• Led pitching staff with career-high 97 strikeouts in 139.1 innings, collecting 11 wins
• Struck out a career-high nine batters against Boise State on February 8
• Named to Academic All-District team
• Holds a career .241 batting average with 19 runs and five doubles
• In the circle has 160 career strikeouts in 230.1 innings

Not only are tickets gone for the August third return of the NASCAR Cup Series to the Iowa Speedway but camping spots and suites as well. Officials announced on Tuesday that the Iowa Corn 350 is officially sold out. Eric Peterson is president of the Iowa Speedway.

There will be two other races as part of the weekend. There will be an ARCA Menard Series race on Friday night and the Hy-Vee Perks 250 is August second. That is part of the Xfinity series.

Peterson has been pleased with the response, especially considering the date change from mid-June in 2024 to early August.

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

LSU 9, UCLA 5
Louisville 7, Oregon State 6
Arkansas 7, UCLA 3

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Game 11 – Louisville vs. Coastal Carolina @ 1:00 p.m.| ESPN
Game 12 – Arkansas vs. LSU @ 6:00 p.m. | ESPN

The Riverside Bulldogs softball team hung on for a hard-fought 3-2 win over Exira-EHK-Audubon in Audubon Tuesday night. As with most one-run games, the difference was the right hit at the right time. For Riverside, the big hit came early on and although they had to deal with runners in scoring positions late in the ballgame, Payton Schafer shut the door.

Riverside was looking to get going early on the road, and they did just that. Starting with a double from Madison Kelley, the Bulldogs scored 3 two-out runs in the opening frame. Kelley scored on a ball that leaked into the outfield off the bat of  Schafer. Adaline Martens followed Schafer with a double to put two in scoring position, and then came the big hit. Sydney Somers knocked a ball into right that was just out of the diving reach of Jordan Milford. The 2-RBI base hit would provide all the offense that was needed.

Needless to say, the pitching from both sides was exceptional. Schafer picked up nine strikeouts in her 7.0 innings of work. Through the first 3 innings, she gave up just a pair of hits and worked around leadoff baserunners in all three innings. On the other side, Riley Miller got into a groove after the first. Striking out 10, she allowed just two hits after the opening frame. She held Exira-EHK-Audubon in the game allowing just two baserunners in the final three innings.

In the fourth, it seemed like Exira-EHK-Audubon might break through. After a leadoff base hit from Miller, Abby Wanser brought Miller home with an RBI single. A groundout and a couple of passed balls later, Wanser would score to cut the deficit to one. Looking to replicate the two-out rally Riverside had in the first, Lucy Stanerson grabbed her second hit of the ball game and Alissa Testroet earned a walk. Both would find themselves in scoring position with a chance to give Exira-EHK-Audubon the lead. However, the big hit eluded them. The same was true in the fifth when Taryn Petersen found herself on third after a single and a pair of stolen bases. Schafer shut the door in the final two innings retiring five of the last six batters and striking out the side in the seventh.

Head coach Lacie Patterson was pleased with the early innings after a few slow starts

Schafer was also on point Tuesday, and the staff took notice.

Exira-EHK-Audubon is no easy out and Riverside believes the proves that they are where they should be.

The win is Riverside’s sixth in their last seven games, putting them at 12-2 on the year. For Exira-EHK-Audubon, they fall to .500 on the year dropping to 7-7. Riverside will return home to face Underwood on Thursday, while Exira-EHK-Audubon will head out on the road to face Logan-Magnolia.

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic – 4 vs Clarinda – 2

Creston – 8 vs Shenandoah – 0  

Glenwood – 18 vs Red Oak – 1

St. Albert – 9 vs Harlan – 2

Kuemper Catholic at Denison-Schleswig (suspended bottom 4, Denison leads 8-1)

Western Iowa Conference

Underwood – 8 vs Tri-Center – 0

Riverside – 3 vs Exira/EHK-Audubon – 2

Missouri Valley – 9 vs IKM-Manning – 0

Treynor – 6 vs Logan-Magnolia – 5

West Central Activities Conference

Ogden – 8 vs ACGC – 0

Pride of Iowa Conference

Wayne – 10 vs Lenox – 0

Mount Ayr – 9 vs Nodaway Valley – 6

Southeast Warren – 14 vs Central Decatur – 0 

Martensdale-St. Marys – 12 vs East Union – 3 

Missouri River Conference

Sioux City East – 9 vs Abraham Lincoln – 8 

Sioux City East – 8 vs Abraham Lincoln – 0 

Bishop Heelan Catholic – 6 vs Thomas Jefferson – 1 

Thomas Jefferson – 12 vs Bishop Heelan – 4 

Non-Conference 

Griswold-CAM – 17 vs Coon Rapids-Bayard – 1 

Glidden-Ralston – 7 vs Manson-NW Webster – 2 

OABCIG – 13 vs Boyer Valley – 3

Hawkeye Ten Conference 

Clarinda – 10 vs Atlantic – 2

Creston – 5 vs Shenandoah – 0

Glenwood – 9 vs Red Oak – 0

Kuemper Catholic at Denison-Schleswig (suspended, Kuemper up 5-0 bottom 4)

Western Iowa Conference

Audubon – 9 vs Riverside – 5

IKM-Manning – 5 vs Missouri Valley – 3

Logan-Magnolia – 10 vs Treynor – 0

Underwood – 2 vs Tri-Center – 1

Pride of Iowa Conference 

Mount Ayr – 13 vs Nodaway Valley – 2

Lenox – 16 vs Wayne – 1

Southeast Warren – 5 vs Central Decatur – 0

Missouri River Conference

Sioux City East – 21 vs Abraham Lincoln – 0

Sioux City East – 10 vs Abraham Lincoln – 0

Bishop Heelan Catholic – 9 vs Thomas Jefferson – 0

Bishop Heelan Catholic – 9 vs Thomas Jefferson – 1

West Central Activities Conference 

Ogden – 6 vs ACGC – 4

Non-Conference 

Southwest Valley – 10 vs Stanton – 6

CAM – 13 vs Fremont-Mills – 3

Martensdale-St. Marys – 8 vs Earlham – 1