Iowans who love to fish or who want to learn will be able to fish for free this coming weekend. The state is holding its annual opportunity to see what the fishing fuss is all about, according to Joe Larscheid, chief of the Iowa D-N-R Fisheries Bureau. “Currently in Iowa, anybody under 16 years old can fish for free but this allows all residents to try fishing for free,” Larscheid says.  The event runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Given the warm weather, Larscheid says the fish should be biting across the state. “It’s a great time to go fishing,” he says. “The crappies and the bluegills are close to shore, so there’s shore fishing and lakes and ponds and impoundments across Iowa should be very good this coming weekend.”

You don’t need to invest in expensive equipment to give the sport a whirl. “If you go to our Special Events Calendar on the DNR website, you can find events close to where you live,” Larscheid says. “At these events, there’s usually people there to help you fish, even provide fishing tackle, rods and reels to go fishing.”

A fishing license for Iowa residents costs $19 a year, which Larscheid says is a good bargain, as that pays for the state to stock 150-million fish every year, in addition to running the hatcheries and staffing biologists and enforcement personnel.

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The Class 1A Girls State Golf Tournament battled through a lengthy weather delay to complete round 1 on Tuesday at American Legion Golf Course in Marshalltown. Lightning delayed the tournament from around 1:00pm-6:00pm but the round did get completed. The Girswold Tigers sit in 8th place after the first round in the team race. They shot +113 on the first day. New London was the first round leader with a +83 Tuesday.

Individually CAM’s Sammi Jahde and Treynor’s Kayla Champman were tied for 6th place with opening rounds of +12, 82’s. Exira-EHK’s Jacey Anthofer carded a +17, 88 to put her in 11th place. Mateya Peters of Griswold led her team with an +18, 89 to sit in 12th individually. Mount Ayr’s Abbey Schafer was in 2nd place after the first day with a +9, 80.

The second round got underway this morning at 8:30am with a shotgun start.

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Clarinda at Creston SUSPENDED
Glenwood 7, Abraham Lincoln 0
Lewis Central 13, Kuemper Catholic 3 — 5 inn
Shenandoah 10, Fremont-Mills 3

Western Iowa Conference

Audubon at Griswold PPD
IKM-Manning at CAM, Anita PPD
Logan-Magnolia 13, Missouri Valley 1 — 5 inn
Tri-Center at Treynor PPD 5/30
Underwood 9, AHSTW 8

Rolling Valley Conference

Greene County at Coon Rapids-Bayard PPD
Whiting at Boyer Valley PPD
West Monona 16, West Harrison 6

Pride of Iowa Conference

Bedford at Nodaway Valley PPD 6/28
Central Decatur 17, Wayne 5 — 5 inn
Lenox 4, East Union 0
Pleasantville 9, Martensdale-St. Marys 2
Southeast Valley at Mount Ayr PPD
Southeast Warren at Interstate 35, Truro PPD

Bluegrass Conference

Orient-Macksburg at Diagonal PPD
Moravia 17, Lamoni 0
Murray at Mormon Trail PPD
Twin Cedars 1, Seymour 0

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic at St. Albert PPD
Clarinda at Creston SUSPENDED
Harlan at Denison-Schleswig PPD
Kuemper Catholic at Lewis Central PPD
Shenandoah 12, Fremont-Mills 2 — 6 inn
Stanton at Red Oak PPD

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW at Underwood PPD 5/30
Audubon at Griswold PPD 6/14
Missouri Valley 8, Logan-Magnolia 4
Tri-Center at Treynor PPD 5/30

Rolling Valley Conference

Coon Rapids-Bayard at Greene County PPD
Glidden-Ralston at St. Mary’s, Storm Lake PPD
Whiting at Boyer Valley PPD

Corner Conference

West Harrison at East Mills PPD

Pride of Iowa Conference

Bedford at Nodaway Valley PPD 6/28
Central Decatur 17 Wayne 0 — 4 inn
Lenox 11 East Union 1
Pleasantville 10 Martensdale-St. Marys 0 — 6 inn
Southeast Warren at Interstate 35, Truro PPD
Southwest Valley at Mount Ayr PPD

Missouri River Conference

CB Thomas Jefferson at Sergeant Bluff-Luton (DH) PPD

A number of area Girls Regional Soccer games were postponed from Tuesday to Wednesday night. Here is a look at scores from games on Tuesday and the schedule for area games tonight. Class 1A Schools are playing Regional Quarterfinals and Class 2A Schools are playing Regional Semifinals.

Scores Tuesday, May 29th

1A Region 1: St. Albert 11, Missouri Valley 0
1A Region 2: Treynor 10, Underwood 1
1A Region 3: Creston 7, Clarke 0 (Rain shortened)

2A Region 1: CB Thomas Jefferson 3, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 0
2A Region 2: Lewis Central 10, Atlantic 0

Schedule Wednesday, May 30th

1A Region 2: Kuemper Catholic at Panorama (7:00pm)
1A Region 2: Logan-Magnolia at Tri-Center (6:00pm)
1A Region 3: Riverside at Harlan (5:00pm)

2A Region 2: Denison-Schleswig at Glenwood (6:00pm)

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

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Michael Wacha pitched two-hit ball for 6 2/3 innings and the St. Louis Cardinals, boosted by three home runs, beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-1 victory. Harrison Bader, Matt Carpenter and Francisco Pena homered to help St. Louis top the NL Central leaders.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Alcides Escobar homered with two outs in the 14th inning to give the Kansas City Royals a 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Escobar hit a 3-1 pitch from Taylor Rogers to left field, ending a game that took 4 hours, 12 minutes.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa guard Isaiah Moss says he’ll be back for his junior season with the Hawkeyes in 2018-19. Moss announced he intends to return to Iowa City after getting feedback from NBA personnel on his future in the league. Moss averaged 11.1 points a game last season and was second on the team in steals. Moss wasn’t expected to be picked in the upcoming draft.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif has graduated from McGill University’s medical school. Duvernay-Tardif has been spending his offseasons the past few years doing school work and hospital rotations. He plans to pursue medicine once his playing days are over. He signed a $41.25 million five-year deal with Kansas City last offseason.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Von Miller’s pass rushing summit was such a hit last year and he’s going bigger and better this year. The Denver Broncos superstar secured a title sponsor for his gathering of the NFL’s elite pass rushers next month. Miller said he’ll hold his second camp in Brandon, Missouri during his summer break.

The Class 4A and 1A State Girls Golf Tournaments have been hampered by lightning delays on day one. Both tournaments are being played in Marshalltown and were suspended around 1:00pm for lighting in the area and had not resumed as of 4:45pm. Only a few rounds had been completed before the delay set in.

The Kuemper Catholic girls golf team sits in 8th place out of 10 teams after day one of the Class 2A State Golf Tournament at Lake Panorama National Golf Course. The Knights shot an opening team round of +114. Van Meter shot a +73 team total to grab the day one lead.

Kuemper’s Katie Schweers is the top area golfer after day one with a +24, 96. Dike-New Hartford’s Morgan Weber and Alta-Aurelia’s Annika Patton shot +6, 78’s to lead the tourney.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa guard Isaiah Moss says he’ll be back for his junior season with the Hawkeyes in 2018-19. Moss announced on Tuesday he intends to return to Iowa City after getting feedback from NBA personnel on his future in the league.

Moss averaged 11.1 points a game last season and was second on the team in steals. But Moss wasn’t expected to be picked in the upcoming draft. Iowa coach Fran McCaffery says the experience was a positive one for Moss, who could be counted on for even more production next season depending on what star Tyler Cook decides about his future.

Cook is expected to announce whether he’s returning to Iowa on Wednesday.