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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The rally squirrel has moved on from T-shirts and stuffed animals. The World Series championship rings the St. Louis Cardinals received over the weekend pay homage to the critter that served as a good luck charm last fall. A tiny squirrel appears below the Cardinals logo and just above the player’s number inside a home plate with bats crossed. The Cardinals won two straight to upset the Phillies in the division series after a squirrel scampered across home plate as Skip Schumaker batted against Roy Oswalt.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jake Westbrook allowed one earned run in seven strong innings and rookie Matt Carpenter homered, tripled and drove in five runs in the St. Louis Cardinals’ 10-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday. Cubs starter Paul Maholm (0-2) surrendered six runs in four innings. The left-hander is 0-7 with a 7.03 ERA in nine starts since his last win on July 10, 2011 against the Cubs when he was with Pittsburgh. Carpenter has been getting regular duty while Lance Berkman recovers from a strained left calf and is batting .409 with 10 RBIs in 22 at-bats. He singled his first two trips with an RBI, belted a two-run shot to straightaway center off Lendy Castillo in the fifth for his first career homer and added a two-run triple off Rodrigo Lopez in the seventh.
Dale Erickson Memorial Golf Tournament at Anita (Saturday, April 14, 2012)
CAM and Ankeny Christian Academy had individuals compete for medals but didn’t have 4 golfers for the team competition.
Individual honors (medals):
Audubon players claimed five of the top eight individual scores (46 in the entire field.) Andrew Irlmeier (78) was second, Michael Bylund (80) was fourth, Nick Fett (82) was sixth, and Drew Keller (83) and Andy Hoffmann (83) tied for seventh. Cameron Mennenoh shot 89.
Audubon Coach Gary Keller’s comments: Players teed off into heavy fog about 8:30 a.m. and putted on dewy greens, but there was very little wind and temps were pleasant. The tournament ended at 2:00 p.m. just ahead of the thunderstorms. Audubon’s guys played very steady, consistent golf, with only 2 individual hole scores (out of 108) higher than a 6. The 4-man total of the 2nd 9 was our lowest of the year: 155. Michael (41-39), Andrew (38-40), and Nick (41-41) played the front and back nines pretty evenly, while Drew (44-39) and Andy (46-37) made big comebacks. Andrew had an eagle on #5, the long par-5 hole than runs along the edge of the State Park. Panorama had never lost in all the years that tournament has been held. Mostly the same Audubon players placed 2nd at this tournament two years ago.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lance Lynn pitched effectively into the sixth inning and Yadier Molina had two hits and two RBIs, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5-1 win over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday. The Cardinals snapped a two-game skid with their fourth win in six games. Chicago, which lost five of its first six, had won two in a row. Lynn (2-0) gave up four hits and one run in 5 1-3 innings. He struck out five, walked two and lowered his ERA to 1.50. Lynn, the 39th overall pick in the 2008 draft, allowed one run over 6 2-3 innings in his first start, a 9-3 win at Milwaukee on Sunday. He began the season with a 1-1 career mark. Jon Jay hit his second home run of the season in the seventh off Shawn Camp.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa has long been known for its punishing running attack. But the Hawkeyes will wrap up spring ball next week with serious questions to answer about their running back situation. Iowa is down to a pair of unproven sophomores, Damon Bullock and De’Andre Johnson, after Marcus Coker’s departure and Jordan Canzeri’s knee injury. True freshmen Greg Garmon and Barkley Hill join the team in August. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz says Bullock and Johnson have made consistent improvement this spring. He also says they’ve told Garmon and Hill to do everything they can to be ready to play by the end of the summer.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Nothing has changed in the competition for the starting quarterback job at Iowa State after the Cyclones’ spring game. Jared Barnett and Steele Jantz were even throughout spring practice after both started games last season, and both had good moments in Saturday game, though coach Paul Rhoads was disappointed in their interceptions. Barnett, who started six games in 2011, completed 11 of 21 passes for 67 yards and added 54 yards rushing. He was intercepted twice. Jantz, who started the other seven games last fall, was 20 of 32 for 161 yards, including a nicely thrown ball on a 56-yard completion to Josh Lentz. He threw one interception. Rhoads says he doesn’t have a timetable for naming a starter in the fall.
The University of Iowa Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, Iowa State University Athletics, Learfield Sports, and Iowa Corn announce today that the voting for the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Trophy presented to the winner of the annual football game between the UI and ISU will start on Saturday, April 14, at the spring football exhibitions of the Hawkeyes and the Cyclones and will continue through midnight on April 30.
In August and September of last year, fans of the two teams submitted nearly 500 trophy ideas. Reoccurring themes and top ideas were presented to a panel of former players and coaches from the universities as well as 2 representatives from Iowa Corn. Fans are invited to submit their vote online at www.iowacorncyhawkseries.com.
Voting will be tracked in real time and votes will be tracked by fan base. The winning trophy design will be officially announced during the first week of May. Then the finished trophy will be on the sidelines at Kinnick Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 8, when the Cyclones and Hawkeyes meet in this year’s kickoff event to the 2012-13 Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series.
Girls:
The Audubon boys golf team won a home dual meet against Riverside, 172-201, on Friday. Audubon seniors Andrew Irlmeier and Nick Fett were medalists shooting 42 and 43 respectively. Andy Hoffmann shot 43 and Michael Bylund had 44. Audubon’s varsity record to date is 4-0. The team plays at Anita on Saturday, April 14, and plays a rescheduled dual meet at Treynor on Monday, April 16.
Audubon’s JV had its best showing of the season shooting a team score of 177. Brock Deist and Lucas Smith-Petersen shot 43, Chris LaFoy had 44, and Chase Petersen and Logan McVay finished with 47.
In girls action, Audubon beat Riverside with a 210 team score. Riverside did not have enough players to field a full team. Friday at the Audubon Golf & Country Club. The Wheelers Susie Bylund was medalist with a 49 and Lexie Thygesen was runner-up with a 51. Also for Audubon Rachel Flug shot 51 and Faith Fliflet posted 59. For Riverside, Anna Hildebrand shot 52.
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