Girls Regional Soccer play continues tonight. Here is a look at area match-ups.

Class 1A Regional Semifinals

Region 1
MOC-Floyd Valley at Western Christian 5:00pm
St. Albert vs. Bishop Heelan 6:00pm

Region 2
Panorama at Gilbert 6:00pm
Tri-Center at Treynor 6:00pm

Region 3
Creston at Nevada 6:00pm
Harlan at Des Moines Christian 6:00pm

Boys State Soccer Semifinals will be played today at the Cownie Soccer Complex in Des Moines.

Class 1A

#1 Iowa City Regina vs. #4 Gilbert 12:00pm (Field #9)
#2 Williamsburg vs. #3 Des Moines Christian 12:05pm (Field #6)

Class 2A

#1 Pella vs. #5 Cedar Rapids Xavier 2:30pm (Field #9)
#2 Storm Lake vs. #3 Marion 2:35pm (Field #6)

Class 3A

#8 Waukee vs. #5 Iowa City West 5:00pm (Field #9)
#7 Ankeny vs. #3 Bettendorf-Morningstar-Rivermont 5:05pm (Field #6)

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Denison-Schleswig 5, Clarinda 0
Harlan 2, Creston 1 (Game 1)
Harlan 10, Creston 0 (Game 2)
Kuemper Catholic 3, Glenwood 2 (Game 1)
Kuemper Catholic 7, Glenwood 4 (Game 2)
Lewis Central 14, Red Oak 1
St. Albert 4, Shenandoah 3

Rolling Valley Conference

Boyer Valley 7, Whiting 5
Pocahontas Area 15, Coon Rapids-Bayard 4

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 10, Griswold 0
Audubon 3, Missouri Valley 2
Logan-Magnolia 9, IKM-Manning 2
Treynor 9, Cherokee 3
Tri-Center 4, Underwood 3

Corner Conference

Fremont-Mills 26, Clarinda Academy 10
Stanton 3, CAM 1

Pride of Iowa Conference

Lenox 11, Southwest Valley 3
Mount Ayr 12, Bedford 7
Nodaway Valley 12, East Union 3

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Denison-Schleswig 17, Clarinda 1 (Game 1)
Denison-Schleswig 9, Clarinda 2 (Game 2)
Glenwood 13, Kuemper Catholic 2 (Game 1)
Glenwood 9, Kuemper Catholic 0 (Game 2)
Harlan 14, Creston 2 (Game 1)
Harlan 7, Creston 4 (Game 2)
Lewis Central 10, Red Oak 0 (5 inn.) (Game 1)
Lewis Central 13, Red Oak 5 (Game 2)
Shenandoah 15, St. Albert 4 (Game 1)
Shenandoah 12, St. Albert 4 (Game 2)

Rolling Valley Conference

Boyer Valley 17, Fremont-Mills 6
CAM 9, Stanton 6
Glidden-Ralston 18, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 6

Western Iowa Conference

Griswold 13, AHSTW 3
IKM-Manning 7, Logan-Magnolia 5
Missouri Valley 10, Audubon 9
Treynor 8, Riverside 3
Underwood 22, Tri-Center 1

Pride of Iowa Conference

East Union 8, Nodaway Valley 7
Lenox 10, Southwest Valley 4
Mount Ayr 13, Bedford 2

Other Scores

Grand View Christian 10, Orient-Macksburg 0
Saydel 12, Carroll 2

The Boys State Soccer Tournaments kicked off on Thursday at Cownie Soccer Park in Des Moines and will continue through Saturday. Quarterfinals are being played Thursday, Semifinals on Friday, and Finals and Consolation Finals on Saturday.

Class 1A

#1 Iowa City Regina 3, #8 Treynor 0
#4 Gilbert 1, #5 Davenport Assumption 0 (2 OT)
#2 Williamsburg 2, #7 Nevada 1
#3 Des Moines Christian 4, #6 Iowa Mennonite 0

Class 2A

#1 Pella 2, #8 Perry 1
#5 Cedar Rapids-Xavier 3, #4 Dallas Center-Grimes 0
#2 Storm Lake 6, #7 Hudson 0
#3 Marion 5, #6 Newton 4

Class 3A

#8 Waukee 2, #1 WDM Valley 1 (OT)
#5 Iowa City, West 2, #4 Ankeny Centennial 1 (OT)
#7 Ankeny 3, #2 Cedar Rapids Prairie 0
#3 Bettendorf-Morningstar-Rivermont 1, #6 Iowa City, City High 0

The Girls State Singles and Doubles Tennis Tournaments finished on Thursday. Class 1A played at Byrnes Park in Waterloo and Class 2A competed at the Hawkeye Tennis Center in Iowa City. Here is a look at results from area athletes.

Class 1A

Singles-Consolation Semifinals
Nichole Gilbert, Shenandoah def. Anna Freiburger, Wahlert Catholic 6-1, 7-6

Singles- Consolation Final (5th Place Match)
Nichole Gilbert, Shenandoah def. Kate Rietz, Ballard 6-4, 6-1

Doubles-Semifinals
Sophie Walker/Sydney Streicher, Red Oak def. Madi Overmann/Katie Wichman, Waverly-Shell Rock 6-2, 2-6, 6-3

Doubles-Championship
Olivia Fain/Taylor Hogan, Columbus Catholic def. Sophie Walker/Sydney Streicher, Red Oak 6-0, 6-1

Champions

1A Singles: Anatta Charoenkul, Fairfield
1A Doubles: Olivia Fain/Taylor Hogan, Columbus Catholic
2A Singles: Cari Naanep, Johnston
2A Doubles: Emma Koch/Audrey Koch, Iowa City West

State Girls Team Tennis will be played on Saturday. Glenwood will be competing in Class 1A at Byrnes Park in Waterloo.

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

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Yairo Munoz capped St. Louis’ five-run ninth inning with a three-run homer, rallying the Cardinals to a 10-8 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Francisco Cervelli hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the eighth to give Pittsburgh an 8-5 lead. But the Pirates couldn’t hold on and lost in St. Louis for the fifth straight time and 12th in the last 14.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alex Reyes’ return to the St. Louis Cardinals after a 20-month absence lasted just four innings. The 23-year-old right-hander was put on the 10-day disabled list because of a strained latissimus dorsi muscle in his right side. Coming back from Tommy John surgery, Reyes was hurt on Wednesday when he allowed three hits over four scoreless innings at Milwaukee in his first big league appearance since Sept. 29, 2016.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — No one was less surprised that Tyler Cook decided to come back to Iowa than coach Fran McCaffery. The biggest question now for the Hawkeyes is whether Cook’s return will be enough to get them back on track after a disappointing season. Cook, who will be a junior next winter, is withdrawing from the NBA Draft. He led the team last season with 15.3 points and 6.8 rebounds per game.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — No one was less surprised that Tyler Cook decided to come back to Iowa than coach Fran McCaffery. The biggest question now for the Hawkeyes is whether Cook’s return will be enough to get them back on track after a disappointing season.

Cook, who will be a junior next season, announced on Wednesday that he was withdrawing from the NBA Draft. Though it seemed like at times that Cook’s days in Iowa City might be numbered — and he acknowledged Thursday that he was unsure about his future until Wednesday morning — McCaffery said that the process went almost exactly as he envisioned it.

Cook, who averaged team highs with 15.3 points and 6.8 rebounds a game in 2017-18, wasn’t expected to be selected. “It was time for him to explore his options, and that’s exactly what he did … and I’m sort of baffled by everybody’s surprise. I mean, the kid wants to play in the NBA. I want him to play in the NBA. I want to be part of him reaching his dream,” McCaffery said. “If the indications were that he was going to be a first-round pick, he’d be gone. … I think everybody overanalyzed what happened. He did exactly what he said he was going to do.”

Cook and fellow junior-to-be Isaiah Moss both went through the NBA draft evaluation process before deciding to re-commit to the Hawkeyes. That left Iowa in the position of bringing nearly every key contributor back in 2018-19. That could be either a good or a bad thing for a team that lost 19 games and was just 4-14 in the Big Ten.

The Iowa defense was, at times, perhaps as bad as any Power Five team in America. Iowa allowed nearly 80 points a game and let opponents shoot 46.2 percent from the floor. Both McCaffery and Cook said Thursday that Iowa’s defense will have to improve if the team wants to escape the league basement. The Hawkeyes should have the depth to make that happen, as they return all five starters from a year ago.

We need to “make sure everyone is locked in and ready to go,” Cook said. As for Cook’s future, McCaffery said that NBA scouts want to see Cook improve as much next season as he did between his freshman and sophomore seasons, when his points, rebounds and assists all went up. They also want him to improve defensively to the point where Cook would be able to guard all five positions.

If Cook can become a better defender next season, it should help the Hawkeyes make the necessary strides on that end of the floor — and solidify Cook’s status as the leader Iowa has been looking for. “He wants to lead this team. That’s what I love about this guy. He has to be the guy that leads in the locker room and on the court. I encourage him to be that guy,” McCaffery said.

AMES, Iowa – The 2018 Iowa State football season is right around the corner and the ISU Athletics Department has confirmed television and kickoff times for the first three games of the season.

Iowa State will open the 2018 season under the lights, playing host to South Dakota State on Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. Cyclones.tv will carry the game.

The annual Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series game vs. Iowa in Iowa City on Sept. 8 will be a 4 p.m. kickoff on Fox.

The Iowa State-Oklahoma matchup in Jack Trice Stadium on Sept. 15 will kick at 11 a.m. The game will be carried on one of the ESPN family of networks channels (ABC/ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU).

Iowa State returns 16 players from last year’s 8-5 Liberty Bowl champion team, including 10 players who earned preseason All-Big 12 honors from Athlon Sports.

Over 50,000 fans have attended a game in Jack Trice Stadium a school-record 45-straight games.

2018 Iowa State Schedule
Sept. 1                  SOUTH DAKOTA STATE (Cyclones.tv) – 7 p.m.
Sept. 8                  %at Iowa (Fox)  – 4 p.m.
Sept. 15                *OKLAHOMA (ABC/ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU) – 11 a.m.
Sept. 22                AKRON – TBA
Sept. 29                *at TCU – TBA
Oct. 6                    *at Oklahoma State – TBA
Oct. 13                  *WEST VIRGINIA – TBA
Oct. 27                  *TEXAS TECH (Homecoming) – TBA
Nov. 3                   *at Kansas – TBA
Nov. 10                 *BAYLOR – TBA
Nov. 17                 *at Texas – TBA
Nov. 24                 *KANSAS STATE – TBA
*Big 12 Conference game
%Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series
Times are CDT