Class 1A @ Kuemper Catholic 5/20

• LeMars def. St. Albert 5-3 (St. Albert had singles wins from Sam Narmi and Carter White. Reed Miller and Jeff Miller won at #1 doubles)
• Spirit Lake-Okoboji def. Denison-Schleswig 5-4 (Denison had singles wins from Colin Reis and Harrison Dahm. Sean Moran and Reis teamed up for a doubles win, as did Dahm and Austin Freese.)

State Quarterfinal: LeMars def. Spirit Lake-Okoboji 5-3

Class 1A @ Norwalk 5/18

• Boone def. Clarinda 5-4
• Norwalk def. Ballard 5-3

State Quarterfinal: Norwalk def. Boone 5-1

Two teams and three individual girls golfers from the area qualified for the Class 1A State Tournament with their play in the Region 2 Final in Atlantic on Monday. Jenna Reynolds and Roni Hook of Griswold, and Sammi Jahde of CAM all advanced on. Boyer Valley and IKM-Manning advanced as teams.

Boyer Valley shot 413 and IKM-Manning 422 at Atlantic Golf and Country Club to advance on. Reynolds and Jahde both shot 90’s to top the individual scores.

Team Scores

1. Boyer Valley 413
2. IKM-Manning 422
3. Griswold 423
4. East Union 430
5. Coon Rapids-Bayard 437
6. Mount Ayr 440
7. Glidden-Ralston 474
8. Central Decatur 477

Individual Qualifiers

1. Jenna Reynolds, Griswold 90
2. Sammi Jahde, CAM 90
3. Quinn Eslinger, East Union 93
4. Roni Hook, Griswold 93
5. Kristin Schaff, Central Decatur 96
6. Kynser Reed, Melcher-Dallas 97

Gilbert and Carroll were the teams to advance to State from the Class 3A Girls Regional Golf Final on Monday at the Carroll Country Club. Britta Snyder of Gilbert was overall Medalist with a round of 71.

Team Scores (State Qualifiers in bold)

1. Gilbert 358
2. Carroll 373
3. Nevada 380
4. Creston 398
5. Ballard 421
6. Winterset 422
7. ADM 445
8. Denison-Schleswig 450
9. North Polk 472
10. Webster City 489
11. Perry 496
12. Greene County 519

Individual Qualfiers

1. Britta Snyder, Gilbert 71
2. Emma Griffin, Nevada 80
3. Rylie Driskell, Creston 82
4. Natalie Drake, Winterset 89
5. Josie Pettit, Carroll 90
6. Lauren Smith, Ballard 92 / Mallory Schultes Carroll 92 / Alli Austin, Gilbert 92

Here’s a look at Girls Regional Final Golf results from play on Monday.

Region 1 @ Mapleton

Team Scores (State Qualifiers in bold)

1. Unity Christian 375
2. Missouri Valley 411
3. West Sioux 421
4. West Lyon 430
5. Clarinda 448
6. Red Oak 454

Individual Qualifiers

1. Madison Lease, Missouri Valley 90
2. Laura Beltman, Unity Christian 91
3. Emily Hulshof, West Sioux 93
4. Kerri Kroeze, Unity Christian 95
5. Justine Malenke, Unity Christian 95
6. Chloe Krommendyk, Unity Christian 96

Region 2 @ Garner

Team Scores (State Qualifiers in bold)

1. Okoboji 347
2. Emmetsburg 378
3. Crestwood 396
4. OA-BCIG 413
5. Kuemper Catholic 416

Individual Qualifiers

1. Delany Conrad, Southeast Valley 70
2. Carlee Frayne, GHV 77
3. Hannah Burtler, Okoboji 81
4. Martha Stein, Okoboji 83
5. Grace Butler, Okoboji 85
6. Katie Schweers, Kuemper Catholic 86

The Atlantic girls golf team has qualified for the Class 3A State Tournament with their play at the Regional Final in Storm Lake on Monday. Humboldt was the champion with a 352 total and Atlantic qualified 2nd with a 390.

The Trojans were led by Alyssa Ginther who finished 2nd with an 85. Baylee Newell was 3rd with an 87. Other Atlantic scores were Anna Wieser 119, Hannah Alff 100, and Lauren Nicholas 118.

Team Scores

1. Humboldt 352
2. Atlantic 390
3. Spencer 429
4. Glenwood 437
5. MOC-Floyd Valley 442
6. Algona 443
7. Bishop Heelan 446
8. Harlan 451
9. Spirit Lake 463
10. LeMars 479
11. Sergeant Bluff-Luton 535

Individual Qualifiers

1. Frances Carlson, Humboldt 82
2. Alyssa Ginther, Atlantic 85
3. Baylee Newell, Atlantic 87
4. Nora Carlson, Humboldt 88
5. Kelly Boelyn, Humboldt 88
6. Riley Pohar, Spencer 93

Full score breakdown here: 2019 3A Region 1

The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released preseason softball rankings on Monday.

In Class 1A Collins-Maxwell is top ranked. Glidden-Ralston checks in at #9.

In Class 2A Durant holds the top spot.

In Class 3A Davenport Assumption is #1. Treynor is #6 and Atlantic starts the season at #8.

In Class 4A ADM is #1. Denison-Schleswig is #6 and Glenwood checks in at #15.

In Class 5A WDM Valley is the top ranked team.

Check out full rankings here: Softball-2019-52019rankings

Akron-Westfield and Woodbury Central were the teams to advance on to the State Girls Golf Tournament at Regional play in Moville on Monday. Akron-Westfield shot 378 to win it. Woodbury Central’s Sally Gallagher was the overall Medalist with a round of 81.

Team Scores (State Qualifiers in Bold)

1. Akron-Westfield 378
2. Woodbury Central 406
3. Westwood 430
4. Gehlen Catholic 430
5. Essex 468
6. Riverside 482

Individual Scores and State Qualifiers

1. Sally Gallagher, Woodbury Central 81
2. Brooke Koele, Akron-Westfield 87
3. Alayna Mullinix, Akron-Westfield 93
4. Hannah Vondrak, Hinton 95
5. Troi Galles, Remsen St. Mary’s 96
6. Autumn Bundy, Akron-Westfield 98

Full results here: 2019RegionalGirlsMoville

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — University of Iowa senior Kathleen Doyle has earned a spot on the 2019 U.S. Pan American Games Women’s Basketball Team roster, USA Basketball announced today.

The 12-member team was selected by the USA Basketball Women’s Junior National Team Committee. Team members will return to Colorado Springs for training camp July 23-Aug. 5, before competing in the women’s basketball tournament at the 2019 Pan American Games from Aug. 6-10 in Lima, Peru.

Doyle is the first Hawkeye student-athlete to make the U.S. Pan American Team since 1999 (Amy Herrig). She is the fourth Hawkeye to ever make the team (Herrig, Michelle Edwards, Cindy Haugejorde). Lisa Bluder led team USA to a silver medal as the head coach in 2015.

A native of LaGrange Park, Illinois, Doyle was a first team All-Big Ten selection (coaches) this past season. She registered single-season career-highs in points, 3-pointers made, field goals made, and field goal percentage.

Doyle led the Hawkeyes in assists, averaging 5.9 per game – a mark that led the Big Ten and ranked 15th nationally. She also led the team in steals (2.3 per game) and was second in scoring, averaging 12.0 points per contest.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa put women’s volleyball coach Bond Shymansky on paid administrative leave Monday after reporting what its athletic director called serious rules violations to the NCAA. Athletic director Gary Barta said he took those steps after a two-week investigation by an outside law firm into allegations raised by a former athlete. Barta declined to elaborate on the nature of the allegations at a news conference, citing the pending NCAA investigation. But he said they were likely to be considered Level 1 or Level 2 violations, meaning they gave at least a minimal recruiting, competitive or other advantage to the Hawkeyes.

“I won’t talk specifically about what it was, but I am comfortable enough to say that everyone who works in college athletics is very familiar with this line that can’t be crossed,” he said, adding that the violations were not criminal in nature.

Iowa named assistant coach Vicki Brown as the interim head coach. Barta said the 30-day leave upon which Shymansky was placed is consistent with the coach’s contract, which requires a 30-day written notice if the university plans to terminate him for cause. Barta said he planned to decide on the coach’s future with the program soon. Barta hired Shymansky, who previously coached at Marquette, in 2014 to turn around a struggling program. Iowa went 15-16 under Shymansky in 2018, his fifth season in charge of the Hawkeyes. The team won 18 games in 2017, its most since 1994. Shymansky’s contract runs through the 2022 season and pays him a base salary of $215,000.

Barta said Iowa learned of the allegations on May 1 and hired the New York-based Bond, Schoeneck & King law firm to investigate. He said the investigation found that no other Iowa staff members or players were involved in or aware of the violations. Barta, who has long operated under the mantra of “Win, Graduate, Do it Right,” said staff and current and incoming players were informed of the situation Monday and reacted with anger and sadness. “Clearly in this case we have an employee who came up short on the ‘Do it Right’ part,” he said.

The Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association has released the preseason Baseball rankings for the 2019 season.

2019 IHSBCA Baseball Rankings
Pre-Season Rankings

Class 4A (2018 Record)

1. Johnston (34-6)
2. Epworth, Western Dubuque (34-10)
3. Southeast Polk (29-11)
4. Cedar Rapids Prairie (31-9)
5. Dowling Catholic (28-12)
6. Urbandale (36-6)
7. Iowa City West (30-11)
8. Cedar Rapids Jefferson (27-14)
9. Sioux City East (25-14)
10. Cedar Rapids Washington (27-18)

Others: Ankeny (21-17); Ankeny Centennial (21-19); Davenport Central (25-10); Valley, West Des Moines (28-16); Waukee (29-11)

Class 3A (2018 Record)

1. Davenport, Assumption (34-10)
2. Central DeWitt (29-12)
3. Xavier, Cedar Rapids (30-10)
4. Sergeant Bluff-Luton (26-13)
5. Bishop Heelan, Sioux City (32-11)
6. Harlan (33-4)
7. Solon (32-11)
8. Marion (22-15)
9. Waverly-Shell Rock (34-8)
10. Grinnell (26-11)

 Others: Bondurant-Farrar (17-16), Carlisle (33-8), Centerville (27-7), Dubuque Wahlert Catholic (22-18), Oskaloosa (23-13), Pella (18-16), Washington (21-12), Winterset (18-11)

Class 2A (2018 Record)

1. Wilton (26-6)
2. Van Meter (30-9)
3. Cascade (31-5)
4. Dike-New Hartford (22-11)
5. Treynor (19-14)
6. North Linn (41-4)
7. Beckman Catholic, Dyersville (29-12)
8. Alta-Aurelia (20-4)
9. Underwood (19-5)
10. New Hampton (27-6)

Others: Aplington-Parkersburg (22-8); Mediapolis (23-5); Ogden (23-6); Pocahontas Area (20-11); West Sioux (20-6)

Class 1A (2018 Record)

1. Newman Catholic, Mason City (40-1)
2. St. Albert, Council Bluffs (31-10)
3. Alburnett (34-7)
4. Don Bosco (25-9)
5. Southeast Warren (26-7)
6. Martensdale-St. Mary’s (37-7)
7. New London (21-3)
8. South Winneshiek (25-8)
9. St. Mary’s, Remsen (27-4)
10. Lisbon (36-1)

Others: Akron-Westfield (20-6), Bishop Garrigan (21-13), CAM (20-8), Gladbrook-Reinbeck (21-11), HLV (20-7), Hudson (19-10), Moravia (21-7), Pekin (17-6), Saint Ansgar (18-11), Woodbury Central (18-8)