The Atlantic girls golf team came in 3rd at the Southeast Polk Tournament on Thursday at Copper Creek Golf Course. The Trojans shot 368 and finished behind West Des Moines Valley (317) and Southeast Polk (362).

Alyssa Ginther finished in 3rd place with a 77 on the par 71 course. Baylee Newell was 4th with an 81. Hannah Alff and Anna Wieser both shot 105 for the Trojans. West Des Moines Valley’s Jenna Krogulski was Medalist with a 73 and her teammate Paige Hoffman was Runner-Up with a 74.

Team Scores

1. WDM Valley 317
2. Southeast Polk 362
3. Atlantic 368
4. Indianola 380
5. Marshalltown 386
6. Des Moines Roosevelt 390
7. Dowling Catholic 391
8. Ankeny 393
9. Newton 396
10. Urbandale 417
11. Des Moines East 469
12. Fairfield 474

The Iowa High School Athletic Association has released boys substate soccer pairings for 2018. First round games are set to be played on Monday, May 21st with Semifinals on May23rd and Finals on May 26th. The State Soccer Tournament is scheduled for May 31st, June 1st, June 2nd at Cownie Soccer Park in Des Moines.

In Class 1A Atlantic will play in Substate 7 in the late game of a doubleheader at West Central Valley at 7:00pm on May 21st. AHSTW plays Panorama in the first game at 5:00pm. At Des Moines Christian there will be a doubleheader as well with Creston playing Clarke at 5:00pm, followed by Nodaway Valley vs. Des Moines Christian at 7:00pm.

In Substate 8 first round games are: Clarinda Academy at St. Albert 5:00pm, Tri-Center vs. Logan-Magnolia @ Treynor 5:00pm, Missouri Valley at Treynor 7:00pm, Underwood at Riverside 5:00pm.

Check out all of the pairings below:

Class 1A

Class 2A

Class 3A

State qualifying track meets are on tap tonight around the state. One of the host sites in Class 3A is in Atlantic. Follow the links below to check out all of the host sites and team assignments in each class.

Class 4A

Class 3A

Class 2A

Class 1A

All meets are set to start at 4:30pm with the following schedule of events:

In class 4A, top two place winners in each event, plus the next twelve (12) best performances statewide from qualifying meet place winners (1st-8th place) will advance to the state meet.

Class 3A and 2A, the top two place winners in each event, plus the nest eight (8) performances statewide from qualifying meet place winners (1st-8th place) will advance to the state meet.

In Class 1A, the top place winner in each event, plus the next fourteen (14) best performances statewide from qualifying meet place winners (1st-8th place) will advance to the state meet.

If there are ties, the highest qualifying meet place winner will be the qualifier. If the tie still remains, the school name, as printed in the IHSAA Directory, will be used as the tie breaker. The last school name alphabetically will become the qualifier. There will be no more than 24 qualifiers in any event.

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Dewitt, IA (Radio Iowa) — A 48-year-old who’s running across the country to raise awareness about childhood sexual abuse crossed into Iowa Wednesday. Christian Griffith of Atlanta, Georgia, says his goal is to get people to talk openly about abuse — just like they’d talk about any other disease. “If I was to do just another marathon, nobody would be paying attention,” Griffith says, “but I chose to do something big, something that’s seemingly insurmountable because I wanted a platform to talk about something that people are just simply not talking about.”

Griffith is calling his three-thousand mile trek “Run 2 Heal” and he’s trying to raise a million dollars for a group called “Help for Children.” The group gives grants to local child abuse prevention and treatment programs. Griffith first told someone he had been abused as a child in the fall of 2015 — when he was 45 years old. Griffith began getting counseling and treatment in February of 2016 — and Griffith says he’s found talking frankly about the abuse he endured as a child is important. “I know and understand what it feels like to isolate and hide from that and feel like your situation’s different or you’re unique and you can’t talk about it,” Griffith says, “and I want people to feel comfortable with the fact that they absolutely can talk about it and all of the fears that they have and the labels that are going to come at them when they do — none of that’s going to happen.”

Griffith began skateboarding in his teenage years and then pursued more “extreme sports” as an adult because it had a calming effect.  “It made it so it didn’t have to think about home,” Griffith says. “…I kept finding greater and greater challenges to numb the pain or kill the demons — whatever you want to call it.”  He says talking openly and frankly about abuse is important and Griffith is making stops along the way to talk with groups about the issue. Griffith runs about 30 miles a day. That means it’ll take him about a week-and-a-half to run across the state. His western Iowa trek takes him through Guthrie Center, Kimballton, and Persia, from May 18th through the 21st. (If you’d like to join him, you must pre-register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeXlMROqK6EgiMzD6o9BXzrM_i94wjCkHs4hXM7ywRba6VNw/viewform) For more information check out his Facebook page at Run2Heal, of go to https://run2heal.hfc.org/run-details/

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

BALTIMORE (AP) — Mark Trumbo delivered a tiebreaking, two-run single in the eighth inning, Chris Davis homered and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Kansas City Royals 5-3 to end a seven-game losing streak. Jonathan Schoop had two hits and scored twice for the Orioles, who lost 18 of their previous 21 games.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The last time the major leagues saw Miles Mikolas before this season, the right-hander was learning how to become a starting pitcher with the Texas Rangers. That was in 2014. Mikolas then spent three years in Japan. It has paid off for the 29-year-old and the St. Louis Cardinals, who signed Mikolas to a $15.5 million, two-year contract during the offseason. Entering Wednesday’s games, Mikolas was 10th in the National League with a 2.70 ERA.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs have promoted Mike Borgonzi to director of football operations and Ryan Poles to assistant director of player personnel as part of a series of front-office moves made following the NFL draft. Three scouts have also been promoted and Mike Bradway has been hired from Philadelphia as an assistant director of player personnel.

The Kuemper Catholic Knights won the District Tennis Tournament at Denison on Wednesday. The Knights racked up 23 points to advance to the Sub-State they will host on May 19th.

In singles play St. Albert’s Reed Miller was the champion with a finals win over Tanner Finken of Kuemper Catholic 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. Both will move on to State in Waterloo.

In doubles action Keumper Catholic’s Cam Pille and Justin Schroeder won the title with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Denison-Schleswig’s Jaden Heiden and Sean Moran. Both duos will head to State as well.

Denison-Schleswig scored 17 points on the day and will now host St. Albert in a Preliminary Sub-State match on Saturday. The Falcons scored 13 points to finish 3rd on Wednesday.

Girls Soccer

Atlantic 3, AHSTW 2 (Completion of game stopped by lightning)
Lewis Central 10, Denison-Schleswig 0

Girls Tennis

Shenandoah 7, Denison-Schleswig 2

Girls Golf

Missouri River Conference Tournament:

1. Sioux City East 355
2. Abraham Lincoln 367
3. Bishop Heelan 387
4. Sioux City North 441
5. Thomas Jefferson 442
6. Sergeant Bluff-Luton 457
7. Sioux City West NTS

Medalist: Kirsten Stykes, Sioux City East, 83.
Runner-Up: Madyson Frichter, Abraham Lincoln, 83

The Atlantic boys tennis team took the title at the Class 1A District Tennis Tournament they hosted on Wednesday. The Trojans notched 21 points on the day to run away from the pack. Creston was 2nd with 14 points and Clarinda was 3rd with 13 points.

The Atlantic doubles team of Grant Podhajsky and Cooper McDermott earned a return trip to the State Tournament with a runner-up finish Wednesday. The duo placed 8th at state a year ago. Atlantic’s Nile Petersen also qualified for State in singles play with a District Championship. He earned his way to the final and then was awarded the title after his opponent forfeited the final match due to cramping issues.

Atlantic will move on to Sub-State play as a team on May 19th at Kuemper Catholic. Creston will host Clarinda in a Preliminary Sub-State match this Saturday to determine which of them will join Atlantic in Carroll.

Full match results can be found here: Boys_Districts_2018

The Atlantic High School and Atlantic Activities Department announced on Wednesday evening that Jeff Ebling will be the next Head Boys Basketball Coach, pending board approval.

Ebling comes to Atlantic from Norwalk where he has been an assistant coach for the past three years. His other coaching stops included 1 year as an assistant at Greene High School, 7 years in Ottumwa as an assistant, 2 years as head coach at Fairfield, and 4 years as an assistant at Des Moines Roosevelt.  He has been a part of three state tournament teams including last season with Norwalk.

Ebling is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa with a bachelors degree in elementary and middle level education. He also obtained a masters degree in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia University-Irvine. He has been teaching at the middle school level for the past 16 years. Mr. Ebling will teach social studies at Atlantic Middle School starting in the fall of 2018.

Jeff and his wife Erin plan to move to Atlantic as soon as possible. Erin Ebling will be teaching English/Language Arts at Atlantic Middle School next fall.

The school stated “Coach Ebling’s experiences and background will be a great asset to the Trojan basketball program. He is looking forward to meeting with the players and working with them and the basketball staff in the near future.”

Ebling takes over for Alan Jenkins who recently announced he is leaving to become the Head Boys Basketball Coach at Southeast Polk High School.