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

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Miles Mikolas won his fifth straight decision to begin the season and Tommy Pham homered, sending the St. Louis Cardinals past the San Diego Padres 2-1. Mikolas allowed one run in 6 2/3 innings against his former team, lowering his ERA to 2.51.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Adam Jones homered, scored three runs and had three RBIs, and the Baltimore Orioles outslugged the Kansas City Royals 11-6 to emerge with their second winning streak of the season. Manny Machado and Trey Mancini also went deep for the Orioles, who trailed 4-0 in the first inning and 6-3 in the second before rallying to beat the Royals for the second night in a row.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals have put ace Carlos Martinez on the 10-day disabled list because of a strained lat. Martinez leads the National League with a 1.62 ERA. Right-handed reliever Mike Mayers was recalled from Triple-A Memphis.

Girls Team Scores

1. Madrid 156
2. IKM-Manning 111
3. Nodaway Valley 98
4. St. Edmond 83
5. Audubon 73
6. Ar-We-Va 45
7. Glidden-Ralston 42.5
8. Coon Rapids-Bayard 41.5
9. CAM 40
10. Exira-EHK 19
11. Orient-Macksburg 8
12. Ankeny Christian 4
13. Iowa Christian Academy 1

Full Results: 2018DistTrAudubonResults

Boys Team Scores

1. Madrid 144
2. IKM-Manning 106
3. St. Edmond 91
4. Audubon 82
5. CAM 73
6. Nodaway Valley 60
7. Ar-We-Va 44
8. Exira-EHK 36
9. Iowa Christian Academy 30
10. Glidden-Ralston 21
11. Ankeny Christian 17
12. Coon Rapids-Bayard 15
13. Grand View Christian 8
14. Paton-Churdan 7
15. Orient-Macksburg 6

Full Results: 2018DistTrAudubonResults

Girls Team Scores

1. Logan-Magnolia 119
2. Underwood 91
3. Treynor 91
4. AHSTW 85
5. Shenandoah 77.5
6. OA-BCIG 77
7. MVAO-COU 47
8. Kuemper Catholic 41
9. Red Oak 39
10. Missouri Valley 30
11. East Sac County 23
12. Clarinda 20.5

Full Results: 2A state qualifying treynor female

Boys Team Scores

1. Underwood 107
2. Treynor 96
3. OA-BCIG 87
4. Kuemper Catholic 85
5. Missouri Valley 84
6. AHSTW 81
7. Shenandoah 47
8. MVAO-COU 43
9. Logan-Magnolia 41
10. Clarinda 35
11. East Sac County 23
12. Red Oak 12

Full Results: 2A state qualifying treynor male

The latest high school soccer rankings are out for the girls from the IGHSAU and for the boys from the IHSSCA.

In the girls rankings in Class 1A St. Albert checks in a number 10 again this week. Treynor jumped into the rankings at #11.  In Class 2A Lewis Central remains #1, Thomas Jefferson is up a spot to #8, Glenwood stays at #13.

In the boys rankings Abraham Lincoln is #16 in Class 3A. In Class 2A Harlan is #5. In Class 1A St. Albert is #10 and AHSTW is #16.

Check out the full rankings below:

Girls: 5-10-18-girls-soccer-rankings

Boys: 20180507_Week_6_Rankings

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/