The Glenwood Ram Relays that were to be held tonight have been postponed until Thursday, April 5th beginning at 4:30pm.  The Atlantic track and field teams are set to compete at the meet along with Clarinda, Lewis Central, Creston, Red Oak, Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson, Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln, and Missouri Valley.

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The Iowa baseball team scored two runs in the seventh inning to break 2-2 tie to post a series-clinching 4-2 victory over 22nd-ranked Illinois on Sunday at Illinois Field as the Hawkeyes claimed the rubber game of their three game series.

Iowa coach Rick Heller. McDonald struck out six over six and a third innings of work to improve to 2-1 on the season. The Hawkeyes finished the game with 11 hits.

The Hawkeyes are 3-2 in the Big Ten after opening conference play against a pair of rated foes.

It’s Iowa’s first road series win over a ranked opponent since 2015 when it took 2-of-3 games at No. 16 Maryland.

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Iowa defensive line coach Reese Morgan made an effort build more depth a year ago and it has paid off. the Hawkeyes have eight players returning who garnered significant playing time for a unit that may be the deepest on the team.

Morgan says it is an experienced group but one that has not taken over as the leaders on defense just yet.

Morgan says the group needs to develop some vocal leaders.

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Northern Iowa coach Mark Farley says the first goal is to develop players than find a style of play that fits them. After an 8-5 season that included a trip to the second round of the FCS playoffs the Panthers enter their second week of spring drills.

Quarterback Eli Dunne returns to lead an offense that Farley says should benefit from added continuity.

UNI’s spring game is April 27.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Paul DeJong had the first multihomer game of his big league career, Luke Weaver held the Mets to one run in five innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat New York 5-1 on Sunday to avoid an opening three-game sweep. DeJong sent a fastball off the facing of the left-field second deck in the second inning, making him 3 for 3 with a pair of homers in his career against Steven Matz (0-1). DeJong hit his second solo homer in the eighth against Jacob Rhame. DeJong hit .285 with 25 home runs and 65 RBIs as a rookie last year, earning a $26 million, six-year contract.

Marcell Ozuna broke out of an 0-for-9 start with three hits, including an RBI double in the third and a run-scoring single in the fifth. Yadier Molina hit a leadoff homer in the fourth for the Cardinals, outscored 15-6 in the first two games. Weaver (1-0) last summer became the first Cardinals rookie to win seven straight starts since Ted Wilks in 1944. A rare starting pitcher with a single-digit uniform number (7), he struggled through a 27-pitch first inning in his first outing against the Mets and gave up Amed Rosario’s tying single in the second. The 24-year-old right-hander settled in and wound up allowing five hits, four of them singles.

After solid starts by Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom, Matz tried to put behind an injury-decimated sophomore season in which the lefty slumped to a 2-7 record. He struggled with his control and was up to 51 pitches after two innings and 73 after three. He lasted five innings, giving up three runs and four hits. New York has not opened 3-0 since 2012. The Mets kept up their terrible trend of last year, when they were 16-36 in series finales.

Up next for the Cardinals: RHP Miles Mikolas makes his first big league appearance since Aug. 25, 2014, when he starts Monday at Milwaukee. He spent the past three seasons with the Yomiuri Giants in Japan’s Central League. You can hear the game on KJAN beginning with the pregame show at 12:15-p.m., Monday. The first pitch is set for 1:10-p.m.

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

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Kansas never found a way to slow Villanova’s record-setting 3-point barrage in the Final Four. The Wildcats made 18 of 40 3s, repeatedly getting open looks against a Jayhawks defense that couldn’t close out in time to seriously contest many of those open looks in Villanova’s 95-79 win in Saturday’s national semifinals.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Villanova made a Final Four-record 18 3-pointers, playing long ball to snuff out Kansas early in a 95-79 victory. Eric Paschall led the barrage, going 4 for 5 from 3 and finishing with 24 points for the Wildcats. Villanova shot 45 percent from 3. Next up is Michigan, which will try to guard the perimeter Monday night when Villanova (35-5) goes for its second title in three seasons.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Moe Wagner, Charles Matthews and Michigan erased a 10-point second-half deficit and the Wolverines ended Loyola-Chicago’s storybook NCAA Tournament run with a 69-57 victory night in the Final Four. The third-seeded Wolverines (33-7) will take a 14-game winning streak into their first national championship game appearance since 2013, and second under coach Jon Beilein.

NEW YORK (AP) — Yoenis Cespedes and Travis d’Arnaud homered, Todd Frazier drove in three runs and the New York Mets beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-2. Jacob DeGrom pitched effectively into the sixth inning and the Mets, under new manager Mickey Callaway, opened at 2-0 for the first time since 2013.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The national championship matchup between Villanova and Michigan. The Wildcats will play for their second title in three years. Two years after Jalen Brunson and coach Jay Wright’s Wildcats triumphed in Houston, they’ll be the favorites to do it again in the Lone Star State. Villanova beat Kansas while Michigan knocked out Loyola-Chicago

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The Nodaway Valley boys track team competed at the 2018 Winterset Husky Invitational on Friday and Brycen Wallace had a big day. Wallace won the 1600M Run in 4:43.90 and the 3200M Run with a time of 9:52.67.

The Wolverines came in 7th in the team standings.

Team Scores

1.  Carlisle 118
2. Nevada 116
3. Norwalk 105
4. Earlham 56
5. ADM 55
6. Winterset 41
7. Nodaway Valley 23
8. Woodward-Granger 22
9. Mount Ayr 21
10. Clarke 15.5
11. Greene County 11.5
12. Woodward Academy 5

Full results: 2018 Winterset Husky Invitational