ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals will remain on their longtime radio flagship station through at least 2024, and with the same team of announcers. The Cardinals on Friday announced a five-year extension of their radio rights agreement with the media company Entercom Communications, the owner of KMOX. Financial terms were not disclosed. A news release from the Cardinals says that announcers Mike Shannon, John Rooney, Ricky Horton and Mike Claiborne will continue.

Most of the Cardinals Radio Network will also remain under the new agreement. The network consists of 147 stations in eight states — Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Tennessee in addition to Missouri. You can listen for St. Louis Cardinals Baseball on KJAN during the season.

The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast with Jim Field.

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(Radio Iowa/Learfield Sports) — Mackenzie Meyer led for players in double figures with 21 points as the Iowa Hawkeye women held off North Alabama 86-81 in Iowa City, Thursday night.

Iowa coach Lisa Bluder. Meyer scored 14 of her 21 points in the second half as the Hawkeyes built a 12 point third quarter lead.

Iowa is now 2-0 and visits 3-0 Northern Iowa on Sunday.

(Radio Iowa/Learfield Sports) — After getting blown out by DePaul the Iowa basketball team returns to action at home on Friday night against Oral Roberts. Iowa fell behind 19-2 at the outset and coach Fran McCaffery says his team needs to do a better job of handling a rough start.

Oral Roberts is 1-2 with close losses at Tulsa and Oklahoma State.

McCaffery says the Eagles will be tough to guard.

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

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Big 12 has seen plenty of upsets and close games this season. Parity makes for fierce competition and games that are fun to watch. It also presents a quandary about the league’s chances of making the College Football Playoff.

UNDATED (AP) — Everyone hopes the playing surface at Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium will not be the main story of Monday night’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers. Coaches Andy Reid and Anthony Lynn said they have received favorable updates about the turf going into the game. Last year’s game between the Chiefs and Rams was moved back to Los Angeles less than a week before the game when the field was deemed unplayable due to rain and the stadium hosting concerts before the game.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Attorneys for the family of a 19-year-old football player who died of heatstroke after conditioning practice at a Kansas community college says they plan to sue the school, unless it wants to discuss a settlement. Attorney Chris Dove spoke Thursday after the college released a scathing independent report on Garden City Community College’s conduct the day Braeden Bradforth died. Dove calls it a damning investigation.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas coach Bill Self knew it was important to fill the majority of his upcoming recruiting class during the early signing period, given the uncertainty that surrounds the Jayhawks when it comes to potential NCAA violations. The school was hit with a series of allegations earlier this year, the majority of them tied to recruiting violations, and Self was personally fingered for supposedly failing to monitor the program.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Markquis Nowell had 20 points as Arkansas-Little Rock defeated Southwest Baptist 77-59. Ben Coupet Jr. had 18 points and seven rebounds for Arkansas-Little Rock.

Class 5A 10:00am WDM Valley vs. Cedar Falls
Class 4A 12:15pm Sergeant Bluff Luton vs. Western Dubuque
Class 3A 2:30pm Kuemper Catholic vs. Mount Vernon
Class 2A 4:45pm Beckman Catholic vs. Western Christian
Class 1A 7:00pm Wapsie Valley vs. Sidney

CLASS 5A
(3-1) Cedar Falls 21-25-25-25-25, Ankeny 25-18-16-15
(3-0) WDM Valley 25-25-25, Pleasant Valley 23-13-16

CLASS 4A
(3-0) Sergeant Bluff-Luton 25-25-25, West Deleware 22-15-15
(3-1) Western Dubuque 25-19-25-25, Marion 14-25-23-22
CLASS 3A

(3-2) Mount Vernon 25-22-18-25-15, Union 21-25-25, 10-13
(3-2) Kuemper Catholic 25-25-23-23-15, Red Oak 19-13-25-25-10

CLASS 2A

(3-0) Western Christian 25-25-25, Osage 20-23-21
(3-0) Beckman Catholic 25-25-25, Clarion-Goldfield-Dows 15-18-18

CLASS 1A

(3-1) Sidney 25-16-25-25, North Tama 23-25-16-17
(3-0) Wapsie Valley 25-30-25, Holy Trinity Catholic 23-28-19

State Football Semifinal Scoreboard 11/14/2019

Friday, November 15

Class A

10:00—#3 Saint Ansgar vs. #5 Grundy Center

1:00—#1 West Hancock vs. #6 Woodbury Central

Class 4A

4:00—#1 Valley, West Des Moines vs. #7 Bettendorf

7:00—#3 Dowling Catholic, W.D.M. vs. #5 Cedar Rapids, Kennedy

The Audubon Wheelers avenged their only loss of the regular season with a 38-29 win over Remsen, St. Mary’s in the 8-Man Semifinals on Thursday. The Wheelers lost a 25-26 battle against the Hawks in Week 1, but a strong ground attack gave the Wheelers the victory this time.

The Wheelers scored on their first possession of the game and a back and forth battle ensued for a good chunk of the first half. Blaine Harpenau’s third touchdown run of the first half put the Hawks ahead 22-20 with 9:37 left in the half. The Wheelers answered with a 5 play 63 yard drive, capped off by a Skyler Schultes 29-yard touchdown run to put the Wheelers ahead 26-22 and that was the score at the half.

The Wheelers then took control in the second half. They forced a punt on Remsen’s first possession, gave it back on a fumble 3 plays later.  A fourth down pass attempt for the Hawks was ruled knocked away by Gavin Smith in the end zone. Two plays later Skyler Schultes ripped off a 55 yard touchdown run. The Wheelers would score again after a Kaiden Smith interception to lead 39-22. The Hawks got one more score before the Wheelers ground out the clock.

Skyler Schultes ran for 227 yards and 3 touchdowns to lead the Wheelers. Audubon outgained Remsen, St. Mary’s 357 to 284 in total offense.

Audubon improves to 12-1 on the season and will play for the 8-Man State Championship next Thursday against Don Bosco. The Dons won the first Semifinal game on Thursday 50-6 over Turkey Valley.

Listen to the full postgame interviews with Audubon Head Coach Sean Birks and Quarterback Skyler Schultes below.

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