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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jack Flaherty got an extra day of rest and a chance to pitch against Milwaukee, and took advantage of both.
Kolten Wong and Marcell Ozuna drove in two runs apiece, Flaherty pitched six shutout innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Brewers 5-2 on Friday night.
The Cardinals won for the ninth time in 10 games and pulled within a half-game of the Brewers for the National League’s second wild-card spot.
Milwaukee has dropped three of four.
Flaherty (7-6) gave up three hits, walked three and struck out seven. The Brewers had only two runners reach second base against the rookie, who has allowed two earned runs in his past 19 innings pitched.
Friday marked his third start against Milwaukee this year and fourth in his young career. In 18 innings this season, he’s allowed two earned runs in 18 innings and struck out 29.
Bud Norris earned his 24th save in 28 opportunities.
Freddy Peralta (5-4) went six innings, giving up three earned runs. He allowed three hits, walked three, and struck out five. It was his third loss in his last four decisions.
Wong made a nifty play to start the eighth by charging a hopper that bounded over pitcher Jordan Hick’s head. Wong snagged the ball in his glove and made a hard sidearm throw to get Keon Broxton at first. That turned out to be important because the Brewers scored twice that inning and cut the lead to 3-2.
He capped his night with a two-run double in the eighth to pad the Cardinals’ lead to 5-2.
Jedd Gyorko hit his 10th home run of the season to open the fourth. The shot to left field gave the Cardinals a 3-0 lead.
St. Louis took an early lead after Ozuna followed Yadier Molina’s single and a double from Jose Martinez with a hard grounder up the middle.
The Brewers threatened a comeback in the eighth. They loaded the bases against Hicks, and Jesus Aguilar hit a two-run single to pull the score to 3-2 with one out. But Travis Shaw fouled out to left field and Jonathan Schoop’s flair to shallow center field was caught by shortstop Paul DeJong.
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Braves: LHP Wade Miley (2-1, 2.23) looks for his first win since he went seven innings July 21 in a 1-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was his longest outing of the season.
Cardinals: RHP Miles Mikolas (12-3, 2.85) has won five consecutive games. He went seven innings in each of his last three starts and the Cardinals have lost just one of the past eight games in which he started.
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released the 2018 Preseason Volleyball rankings on Friday.
Locally in Class 1A East Mills is ranked 7th to start the season. In Class 2A Sidney checks in at 6th, St. Albert 7th, Tri-Center is 8th, and Treynor is 10th. In Class 3A Kumper Catholic opens as the top ranked team. Red Oak comes in at #7. In Class 4A Lewis Central opens the year at 9th.
Check out the full rankings here: preseasonvbrankings81718
The Atlantic Trojans football team has some confidence coming off a winning season in 2017 and has set their goals high for the 2018 season that begins next week. Atlantic is coming of a 5-4 record in Class 3A play last season and will make the transition down to Class 2A this season. Atlantic Head Coach Mike McDermott was asked if the transition to Class 2A will change much for the Trojans?
Atlantic lost some key players to graduation including John McConkey on the offensive and defensive lines and quarterback Jaxson Eden. Coach McDermott is confident that their are guys on the team ready for their chance to make an impact this season. After spending the 2017 season as a hybrid player, Chase Mullenix will take over the signal-caller duties.
The Trojans tried to find ways to get their athletes the ball in space last season and Coach McDermott thinks speed will be a strength of this team out of the backfield as well.
Coach McDermott said tasting some success last season has grown the confidence of the players. He feels the program is settling in to a better groove with a few seasons of his staff at the helm and the players are setting their goals high.
The Trojans will open up the season next Friday on the road at Saydel. We’ll have coverage of that game on KJAN with pregame at 6:30pm and kickoff at 7:00pm. We’ll have our weekly chat with Coach McDermott Trojan Preview at 4:45pm next Friday. Our weekly pick ’em show Who’s Gonna Win? is back for another season and will air at 6:00pm on Friday nights throughout the season once again. We will also have all the scores from around the state on the Iowa High School Scoreboard Show from Radio Iowa once again each week after our broadcast game from 10:00pm-11:30pm. This season we will also provide a live video stream of all of our broadcast games via Facebook Live on our page KJAN AM 1220.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Koda Glover rewarded his manager’s faith.
Bryce Harper had three hits and drove in three runs, Glover earned the save in the first opportunity since Ryan Madson was placed on the disabled list, and the Washington Nationals snapped a four-game losing streak with a 5-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night.
The Nationals won for just the third time in their last 10 games and snapped the Cardinals’ season-high, eight-game winning streak.
Tanner Roark (8-12) gave up four runs, three earned, in six innings.
A beleaguered bullpen that had blown two leads to start the losing streak took care of the rest. Justin Miller pitched two scoreless innings before Glover closed it out.
Glover took the loss in the series opener on Monday, giving up a game-ending homer to Paul DeJong.
Harper drove in the game’s first run with a double in the first and knocked in two more with a bases-loaded single in the fourth to give the Nationals a 4-1 lead.
A pair of errors helped the Nationals extend their lead to 5-1 in the fifth. St. Louis committed three errors in the game after committing just four total errors during the winning streak.
The Nationals had opportunities to pad the lead, leaving the bases loaded in the third and fifth while stranding nine runners in the first five innings.
The Cardinals got within one in the sixth. After DeJong and Kolten Wong came up with back-to-back, two-out RBI hits, Harrison Bader hit a slow grounder to third. Anthony Rendon’s throw to first got away from Ryan Zimmerman for an error, allowing Wong to score from second to cut the Nationals’ lead to 5-4.
Just two of the four runs Luke Weaver (6-11) allowed in his 3 2/3 innings were earned. He gave up seven hits, including two to Roark, who scored both times.
Tyson Ross allowed one unearned run in 3 1/3 innings of relief.
Bader homered in the third and Matt Carpenter walked twice to extend his on-base streak to a career-high 34 games.
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Cardinals: RHP Jack Flaherty (6-6, 3.22 ERA) kicks off a three-game series Friday night as the Cardinals host the Milwaukee Brewers and RHP Freddy Peralta (5-3, 4.47 ERA). Flaherty struck out a career-high 13 batters in his last start against the Brewers on June 22.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa head men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery announced the 2018-19 nonconference schedule on Wednesday.
The Hawkeyes will play eight nonconference games and one exhibition contest on Mediacom Court at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, beginning Sunday, Nov. 4. Iowa will also play three neutral site games: facing Oregon of the Pac-12 Conference and either Syracuse (ACC) or Connecticut (American) in the 2K Classic benefiting the Wounded Warrior Project at Madison Square Garden in New York, and Northern Iowa at The Hy-Vee Classic in Des Moines.
Tipoff times, television/streaming information, and Iowa’s 20-game conference schedule will be released later this summer.
Iowa will play seven Big Ten teams twice and six teams once. The Hawkeyes will compete against Indiana, Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Rutgers, and Wisconsin twice. Iowa will host Illinois, Maryland, and Michigan, and travel to Minnesota, Penn State, and Purdue.
Iowa returns 12 players, including all five starters, from last year’s squad. The Hawkeyes will be led by juniors Tyler Cook and Jordan Bohannon. Cook led Iowa in both scoring (15.3) and rebounding (6.8), while Bohannon led the team in assists (178) and 3-pointers (96), and was second in scoring (13.5).
Fans can request season tickets for the upcoming basketball season at the UI Athletics Ticket Office at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, over the phone at 1-800-IA-HAWKS, or online at hawkeyesports.com/tickets.
2018-19 Iowa Nonconference Schedule
Sun., Nov. 4 Guilford College (exhibition)
Thurs., Nov. 8 UMKC%
Sun, Nov. 11 Green Bay%
Thurs., Nov. 15 vs. Oregon+
Fri., Nov. 16 vs. Connecticut/Syracuse+
Wed., Nov. 21 Alabama State
Tues., Nov. 27 Pittsburgh#
Thurs., Dec. 6 Iowa State*
Sat., Dec. 15 vs. Northern Iowa^
Tues., Dec. 18 Western Carolina
Sat., Dec. 22 Savannah State
Sat., Dec. 29 Bryant
% 2K Classic Preliminary Game, Iowa City, Iowa
+ 2K Classic, New York, New York
# ACC/Big Ten Challenge
* Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series
^ The Hy-Vee Classic, Des Moines, Iowa
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Austin Gomber learned plenty about pressure during a 15-game stint in the St. Louis Cardinals’ bullpen earlier this season.
The left-hander used that experience to his advantage on Wednesday night.
Gomber tossed six shutout innings in his fourth start of the year, Marcell Ozuna homered and the Cardinals won their season-high eighth straight game, 4-2 over the Washington Nationals.
The Cardinals, who are 18-9 since the All-Star break, captured their sixth successive series after taking the first three of the four-game set.
Gomber gave up three hits, struck out six and walked four. He wriggled out of a pair of jams while nursing a 1-0 lead.
Gomber ended his 99-pitch outing by striking out three successive batters after giving up a leadoff double to Bryce Harper in the sixth.
Gomber (3-0) struck out Michael A. Taylor looking with the bases loaded to end the fourth. He retired Anthony Rendon on a flyball with runners on first and third in the fifth.
Daniel Murphy homered in the ninth for Washington, which has lost four in a row and seven of nine to fall below .500 and nine games behind the first-place Atlanta Braves in the NL East. The current skid began with a loss to the Cubs on a two-out, walk-off grand slam.
Ozuna homered in the second inning, his 14th of the season and his first since July 30, covering 62 plate appearances.
Harrison Bader and Yadier Molina added run-scoring hits for St. Louis, which improved to 19-9 since Mike Matheny was fired and replaced by Shildt on July 15.
Bud Norris pitched the ninth to pick up his 23rd save in 27 opportunities,
St. Louis infielder Matt Carpenter extended his on-base streak to 33 games with a walk in the fifth. It’s the longest current streak in the majors. Carpenter left the game in the seventh after he was hit on the hand by a pitch from Matt Grace, but X-rays were negative.
Washington starter Jeremy Hellickson (5-3) left in the fifth inning after he fell on his wrist on a play at the plate following a wild pitch. Hellickson gave up three runs, two earned, on three hits in 4 1/3 innings. He struck out two and walked two.
Bader, who had three hits, also made a diving catch of a liner off the bat of Harper in the fourth. Bader scampered home on a wild pitch in the fifth inning for a 2-0 lead.
The Cardinals, who have an NL-best 12-2 mark in August, remain one game behind Philadelphia for the second wild-card spot. They are four games behind Chicago in the NL Central.
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RHP Tanner Roark (7-12, 4.12) will face RHP Luke Weaver (6-10, 4.66) in the finale of the four-game series on Thursday. Roark has won his last four decisions. Weaver is 1-4 with a 5.13 ERA in nine career games against NL East foes.
At their regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday night, the Atlantic City Council unanimously approved a street name change to honor Atlantic native Ed Podolak. The small section of East 11th Street in front of the Atlantic Middle School and Schuler Elementary will now be known as Ed Podolak Drive.
Ed was born and raised in Atlantic and is a 1965 graduate of Atlantic High School. He went on to star as a multiple position football player at the University of Iowa before playing professionally for the Kansas City Chiefs. Podolak was part of the 1970 Super Bowl Champion Chiefs during his rookie season in professional football. Ed lead the Chiefs in rushing for four seasons and currently sits 5th on the team’s all-time rushing list with 4,451 career yards and 34 touchdowns. In the Chiefs’ playoff loss to the Miami Dolphins on Christmas Day in 1971 Podolak had a playoff-record 350 total yards: 85 rushing, 110 receiving, and 155 return yards. He was inducted into the Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame in 1989.
Following his playing career Podolak turned to broadcasting where he currently serves as the Color Commentator for Iowa Hawkeyes Football broadcasts alongside Gary Dolphin.
New black and gold street signs will go up this week and a dedication ceremony is set to be held on Sunday at 2:00pm at the Trojan Bowl. The ceremony will be at the end of the Atlantic Sesquicentennial Block party on the Atlantic Middle School grounds from 11:00am-3:00pm.
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