SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Tyler Peyton limited Oregon to one run in 7 1-3 innings to help second-seeded Iowa beat the third-seeded Ducks 3-1 on Friday in their NCAA regional opener. Peyton (7-4) struck out five and didn’t walk a batter to help the Hawkeyes (40-16) win for the first time in NCAA tournament play since the 1972 College World Series.

Iowa had baserunners in every inning but the first. Nick Day’s RBI single in the second inning put the Hawkeyes in front, and Nick Roscetti added RBI groundouts in the third and fifth innings. Iowa stranded 13 men on base and left the bases loaded in three innings.

Oregon (37-24), making its fourth consecutive NCAA appearance, was limited to a third-inning RBI single from Austin Grebeck. Phil Craig-St. Louis went 2 for 3. On Saturday, Iowa will face the Missouri State-Canisus winner. Oregon will play the loser. The Missouri State vs. Canisus game will be played early Saturday as part of a tripleheader after being rained out on Friday night.

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Baseball:
Exira/EHK 4, Lenox 0
Nodaway Valley 9, Creston 6 (8 inn)
Glenwood 7, St. Albert 3
Fremont-Mills 4, East Mills 3
Coon Rapids-Bayard 3, Southeast Valley 2
South Central Calhoun 13, Glidden-Ralston 3 (5 inn)
Abraham Lincoln 4-0, Thomas Jefferson 0-6

Softball:
Charter Oak-Ute 3, IKM-Manning 1
Lenox 3 Nodaway Valley 2
Kuemper Catholic 12-7, Clarinda 0-4
St. Albert 3-1, Glenwood 2-13
Creston 4-2, Lewis Central 1-5
Fremont-Mills 14, East Mills 2 (3 inn)
Sidney 11, Nishnabotna 8
Glidden-Ralston 12, South Central Calhoun 0 (3 inn)
Southeast Valley 12, Coon Rapids-Bayard 0
Abraham Lincoln 12, Thomas Jefferson 3

The boys state golf tournaments get underway today with 36 holes of competition over two days.

In Class 1-A, Griswold will be batting for a state team title.  The Tigers had the third best qualifying round in regionals and should have a chance to bring home the title.  Griswold’s team includes James Reynolds, Treighton Oakleaf, Jake Reynolds, Tyler Wyman, Jacob Lewis and Joe Schoning.  Chris Shroyer of Guthrie Center, Jackson Lamb of Nodaway Valley and Tyler Krueger of Riverside will compete for individual honors.  The 1-A tourney will be held at the American Legion Golf Course in Marshalltown.

In Class 2-A, Panorama and Kuemper Catholic are in the hunt.  Panorama had the best qualifying score in 2-A.  The 2-A meet will be played at the Ames Golf & Country Club.

In Class 3-A, ADM is the only team from this region in the meet at Spring Valley Golf Course at Livermore.

The Boys State Tennis Tournament gets underway today and will conclude on Saturday.

The Class 1-A meet is being held at Byrne’s Park in Waterloo.  In singles competition, Nick Podhajsky of Atlantic, Weston Rolenc of Red Oak, Ryan Kucera of Creston and Matt Moran of Denison will all compete for the title.  Doubles competitors include:  Travis Miller & Cody Goeser of St. Albert, Mitch Kinsey & Spencer Pauley of Denison and Dedrick Kettwick & Austin Smith of Clarinda.

The Class 2-A at the Veteran’s Memorial Tennis Center in Cedar Rapids will include Kyle Crowl of Abraham Lincoln competing in the singles division.

• CB Thomas Jefferson @ Denison
• Carroll @ Glenwood

CLASS 1-A:
Tri-Center vs. Treynor @ Oakland
A-H-S-T-W @ St. Albert
Chariton @ West Central Valley

CLASS 2-A:
Atlantic @ ADM
Creston @ Glenwood

CLASS 3-A:
Sioux City East @ CB Thomas Jefferson

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Baseball:
Atlantic 17, Logan-Magnolia 1
CAM 12, Adair-Casey 2 (6 inn)
A-H-S-T-W 6, Griswold 4 (9 inn)
Exira/EHK 1, Ar-We-Va 0
IKM-Manning 11, Audubon 0 (5 inn)
Tri-Center 13, Treynor 7
Missouri Valley 2, Underwood 1
Glidden-Ralston 9, Boyer Valley 5
Denison-Schleswig 3, Carroll 2
Coon Rapids-Bayard 11, Woodbine 0
Guthrie Center 5, Madrid 3
Martensdale-St. Marys 13, Panorama 1 (5 inn)
Creston 1, Indianola 0
Lenox 3, Interstate 35 2

Softball:
IKM-Manning 13, Audubon 1 (6 inn)
Griswold 7, A-H-S-T-W 4
CAM 2, Adair-Casey 1
Exira/EHK 17, Ar-We-Va 1 (6 inn)
Treynor 7, Tri-Center 2
Missouri Valley 7, Underwood 0
Bishop Heelan Catholic 5, Harlan 4
Shenandoah 10, Essex 3
Abraham Lincoln 7, Denison-Schleswig 2
Logan-Magnolia 8, Sidney 0
Nodaway Valley 10, Stanton 7
Woodbine 10, Coon Rapids-Bayard 4
Interstate 35 11, Lenox 2
ADM 10, Carroll 0

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jason Heyward atoned for a critical error with a game-tying homer leading off the ninth inning and the St. Louis Cardinals scored the winning run on catcher Jordan Pachecho’s throwing error, completing a three-game sweep with a 4-3 victory on Wednesday night.

Mark Trumbo homered for Arizona, which has lost nine of its last 10 against the Cardinals. The Diamondbacks have re-tooled with former Cardinals Tony La Russa as chief baseball officer, pitching consultant Dave Duncan and first base coach Dave McKay.

Pacheco replaced Tuffy Gosewisch, who jammed his left knee on a groundout in the sixth. Third baseman Yasmany Tomas threw home for a force out on Jhonny Peralta’s grounder against Brad Ziegler (0-1) and Pachecho tried for a double play but threw well above first baseman Paul Goldschmidt’s head.

Seth Maness (1-0) got the last two outs of the ninth for St. Louis to get the victory.