The 2018 Boys State Golf Tournaments will tee up today. The Class 1A Tournament is being played at Westwood Golf Course in Newton. The Class 2A Tournament is being played at American Legion Memorial Golf Course in Marshalltown. The Class 3A Tournament is being contested at Lakeside Golf Course in Fort Dodge.

In Class 3A Atlantic’s Matt Gearheart and Cyle Renaud will be competing as individuals.

In Class 2A Kuemper Catholic is competing as a team with Kelby Shackelford of Panorama and Ben Clement of Earlham competing individually.

In Class 1A Exira-EHK and IKM-Manning are competing as teams and Tyler Kopp of CAM and Avery Kwirant of Southwest Valley are in the individual competition.

The first softball rankings of the season were released by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union on Wednesday.

Class 1A

1. Kee, Lansing
2. Clarksville
3. Martensdale-St. Marys
4. Akron-Westfield
5. Collins-Maxwell
6. North Union
7. Westwood
8. Belle Plaine
9. Newell-Fonda
10. Sigourney
11. Montezuma
12. Woodbury Central|
13. Lisbon
14. AGWSR
15. Murray

Class 2A

1. Durant
2. Logan-Magnolia
3. Central Springs
4. Des Moines Christian
5. IKM-Manning
6. West Sioux
7. Iowa City Regina
8. Alta-Aurelia
9. Jesup
10. Treynor
11. East Marshall
12. Louisa-Muscatine
13. Earlham
14. North Linn
15. Highland

Class 3A

1. Davenport Assumption
2. Albia
3. Beckman Catholic
4. Waterloo Columbus
5. Humboldt
6. Spirit Lake
7. North Polk
8. Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley
9. Atlantic
10. Crestwood
11. West Marshall
12. Sioux Center
13. Camanche
14. Roland-Story
15. Mount Vernon

Class 4A

1. Winterset
2. Charles City
3. Independence
4. Carlisle
5. Denison-Schleswig
6. Ballard
7. Oskaloosa
8. Lewis Central
9. Sergeant Bluff-Luton
10. Cedar Rapids Xavier
11. Western Dubuque
12. Dallas Center-Grimes
13. North Scott
14. Boone
15. Waverly-Shell Rock

Class 5A

1. Pleasant Valley
2. Indianola
3. Cedar Rapids Kennedy
4. Cedar Rapids Jefferson
5. WDM Valley
6. Johnston
7. Dubuque Hempstead
8. Waukee
9. Urbandale
10. Dowling Catholic
11. Linn-Mar
12. Muscatine
13. Iowa City High
14. Bettendorf
15. Ankeny

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic 7, Logan-Magnolia 2
Carroll 7, Denison-Shleswig 6

Western Iowa Conference

MVAO-COU 11, Missouri Valley 8
Tri-Center 10, AHSTW 0 (6 inn.)

Rolling Valley Conference

Ar-We-Va 6, Boyer Valley 3
CAM 11, West Harrison 2
Coon Rapids-Bayard 14, Exira-EHK 4

Pride of Iowa Conference

I-35 6, Lenox 3

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic 10, Missouri Valley 0 (5 inn.)
Bishop Heelan 3, Harlan 1 (8 inn.)
Denison-Schleswig 10, Abraham Lincoln 0 (5 inn.)

Western Iowa Conference

Treynor 6, Logan-Magnolia 2

Rolling Valley Conference

Boyer Valley 7, Ar-We-Va 4
Coon Rapids-Bayard 9, Exira-EHK 6 (11 inn.)
West Harrison 15, CAM 4 (5 inn.)

Pride of Iowa Conference

I-35 8, Lenox 4
Nodaway Valley 17, Stanton 7 (6 inn.)

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

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Drew Butera had a two-run single in the 10th inning and the Kansas City Royals earned a 5-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. Butera’s RBIs were his first since May 2. Jon Jay followed with an RBI single as the Royals won their first series since taking three of four from Detroit May 3-6.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Jess Franklin hit a game-winning sacrifice fly to lift third-seeded Michigan past Iowa 2-1 in 10 innings to open the Big Ten Tournament. Franklin also homered for the Wolverines, who held the Hawkeyes to just one hit _ and none after the second inning.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Eli Wilson drove in the go-ahead run in the fifth inning and Minnesota pitchers limited Michigan State to five hits in a 3-2 victory in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. The top-seeded Gophers have won 22 of 25 games. Brett Schulze pitched 3 2/3 shutout innings in relief of starter Jake Stevenson, and freshman closer Max Meyer got the last five outs for his conference-leading 15th save.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Quinn Snarskis and two relievers combined on a two-hitter and Michael Massey’s three-run homer broke open the game in Illinois’ 7-1 victory over Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament. The Illini play top-seeded Minnesota on Thursday night. Snarskis transferred to Illinois after Division II St. Joseph’s College closed last year and became Illinois’ No. 1 starter. He pitched 4 1/3 perfect innings before Luke Miller singled.

The Atlantic softball team opened up the 2018 campaign with a home win over Missouri Valley on Wednesday Night 10-0 in 5 innings. Atlantic got the game started quickly with three runs in the bottom of the first. Alexis Handel homered in her first at-bat of the season, a two-run shot after Alyssa Derby got on base with a walk. Ally Anderson followed that homer with a base hit and that run eventually came across the plate on a throwing error. Atlantic would add one more in the third and four runs in the 4th to lead 8-0. Alexis then ended the game in the bottom of the 5th with a two-out triple that brought in 2 runs to hit the 10-run rule.

Ally Anderson had a great night in the circle for Atlantic with 7 strikeouts and no walks. She allowed just two hits to the Lady Reds. Ashlynn Cook took the loss for Missouri Valley allowing 6 earned runs on 9 hits. Cook had 7 strikeouts and 6 walks on the night.

Alexis Handel finished the night 3-4 with 5 RBI’s including the two-run homer. Alyssa Derby scored three runs after earning walks in each of her 4 plate appearances.

Atlantic will head to Red Oak for a doubleheader on Thursday night.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Drew Butera had a two-run single in the 10th inning and the Kansas City Royals earned a 5-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday.

Butera’s RBIs were his first since May 2. Jon Jay followed with an RBI single as the Royals won their first series since taking three of four from Detroit May 3-6.

Salvador Perez hammered a first-pitch fastball by Cardinals starter Michael Wacha for his eighth home run of the season to lead off the second.

Royals starter Jakob Junis gave up two runs in five innings, while striking out seven.

Blaine Boyer (2-0) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win. Kelvin Herrera earned his 10th save with a perfect 10th.

Abraham Almonte scored on a sacrifice fly in the sixth to tie it 2-2.

Wacha retired 14 of the first 15 batters he faced. He gave up two runs, one earned, in 6 2/3 innings.

Bud Norris (1-1) pitched a perfect ninth, but couldn’t record an out in the 10th, giving up back-to-back singles to Jorge Soler and Alex Gordon before compounding the issue by committing an error on Alcides Escobar’s sacrifice attempt to load the bases ahead of Butera.

Francisco Pena capped a two-run second inning with an RBI double, giving the Cardinals a 2-1 lead. Pena had a pair of hits after going 1-for-12 the previous three games.

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Cardinals: RHP John Gant (1-1, 4.67 ERA) gets the start in the opener of a three-game series Friday at Pittsburgh and RHP Joe Musgrove (2018 debut). Gant is 0-0 with a 3.38 ERA in three appearances against the Pirates.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Jesse Franklin hit a game-winning sacrifice fly to lift third-seeded Michigan past Iowa 2-1 in 10 innings to open the Big Ten Tournament on Wednesday. Franklin also homered for the Wolverines (33-19), who held the Hawkeyes to just one hit — and none after the second inning. Michigan lost starting pitcher Tommy Henry in the second inning after he was hit in the throwing arm by a ball. But reliever Alec Rennard threw 5 2/3 innings of scoreless relief, and Franklin tied it up at 1-all in the fourth.

Big Blue then loaded the bases in the 10th, and Franklin’s sacrifice to deep right field scored Christian Bullock easily. Zach Daniels (6-2) took the loss for the sixth-seeded Hawkeyes (33-19), while William Tribucher (4-3) picked up the win for Michigan.