Baseball Scores:

ADM 10, Coon Rapids-Bayard, 0
CB Abraham Lincoln 5, Des Moines Hoover 1
Red Oak 7, Missouri Valley 1
Pleasantville 13, ADM 6
Pleasantville 11, Coon Rapids-Bayard 4
Southeast Polk 6, CB Abraham Lincoln 3
St. Albert 11, St Mary’s Remsen 1
St. Albert 14, St. Mary’s Storm Lake 4
Treynor 9, Red Oak 8 (in 9 innings)

Softball Scores:

ADM 10, Beckman, Dyersville 4
ADM 12, Kee, Lansing 0
CB Thomas Jefferson 14, Missouri Valley 6
CB Thomas Jefferson 13, Woodbine 9
Des Moines, East 3, Winterset 0
IKM-Manning 7, Perry 6
Missouri Valley 13, Woodbine 3
Newell-Fonda 12, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 0
OA-BCIG 12, Sioux City, West 2
Perry 14, I-35 4
Van Meter 14, I-35 4
Van Meter 12, IKM-Manning 7
West Harrison 13, CB Thomas Jefferson 3
West Harrison 18, Woodbine 5
West Harrison 9, Missouri Valley 2
West Monona 2, Sioux City, East 1
West Monona 9, Sioux City, North 2
Winterset 4, Cedar Rapids Kennedy 3

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

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jorge Soler hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning, and the Kansas City Royals bounced back after wasting a four-run lead to defeat the Oakland Athletics 5-4 for their third win in four games. Tim Hill, a 28-year-old rookie left-hander, allowed Chad Pinder’s tying single in the eighth and got his first major league win. Soler hit his ninth home run on a curveball from Yusmeiro Petit with an 0-2 count. Kelvin Herrera pitched a perfect ninth for his 13th save in 14 chances.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Kolten Wong’ led off the bottom of the ninth inning with a home run off Richard Rodriguez, giving the St. Louis Cardinals a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Austin Meadows had tied the score in the top half with a home run off Bud Norris, who blew a save for the first time in 12 chances. Wong homered on a slider from Rodriguez, his second game-ending homer this season and the fourth of his big league career. Pittsburgh lost for the sixth time in eight games.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Indiana visits Duke while North Carolina travels to Michigan to headline this year’s ACC/Big Ten Challenge in November. The leagues released the three-day schedule Friday. The Hoosiers travel to Cameron Indoor Stadium on Nov. 27. The Tar Heels visit the Wolverines the next day. The schedule also includes Michigan State’s trip to Louisville and Virginia meeting former Atlantic Coast Conference program Maryland.

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The Girls State Team Tennis Tournaments will be contested today. The Class 1A Final Four is being played at Byrnes Park in Waterloo. The Class 2A Final Four is being played at the University of Iowa Tennis Center in Iowa City.

Class 1A Semifinals

Waterloo Columbus Catholic vs. Glenwood 9:00am
Cedar Rapids Xavier vs. Pella 9:00am

Finals and Consolation Finals will follow at around 12:00pm.

Class 2A Semifinals

Iowa City West vs. Dowling Catholic 9:00am
Ames vs. Pleasant Valley 9:00am

Finals and Consolation Finals will follow at around 12:00pm.

Baseball Scores:

Denison-Schleswig 5 Atlantic 4
CAM, Anita 7, ACGC 6
Interstate 35, Truro 4, Southwest Valley 1

Boone 8, Des Moines, Abraham Lincoln 4

Softball Scores

Atlantic 6 Denison-Schleswig 2
AHSTW 11, Missouri Valley 0
A-D-M, Adel 10, AGWSR, Ackley 0
A-D-M, Adel 5, West Delaware, Manchester 1

Boyer Valley 17, Woodbine 6
Central Decatur, Leon 10, Bedford 9
Coon Rapids-Bayard 14, AR-WE-VA, Westside 6
Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 16, Red Oak 6
Martensdale-St Marys 11, East Union 0
Southeast Warren, Liberty Center 5, Mount Ayr 4
West Harrison 13, Glidden-Ralston 8
Westwood, 4, West Monona 2

Class 1A

Region 1
Heelan Catholic 6, St. Albert 3
MOC-Floyd Valley 2, Western Christian 1

Region 2
Gilbert 5, Panorama 0
Treynor 4, Tri-Center 1

Region 3
Nevada 10, Creston 0
DM Christian 4, Harlan 0

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Just like his teammates, Jameson Taillon had been struggling after a strong start to the season. The promising young Pirates right-hander put it all back together Friday night. Taillon pitched three-hit ball over eight innings and Pittsburgh beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-0 on Friday night for its second win in its past seven games. Pittsburgh had lost three straight to St. Louis during a 3-10 stretch, mostly against NL Central opponents.

Taillon (3-4) hadn’t won since April 8, when he one-hit the Cincinnati Reds in a 5-0 win. He was nearly as good this time against St. Louis, striking out six and walking one to slim his ERA to 3.97. St. Louis has dropped three of five. Miles Mikolas (6-1) gave up two runs — one earned — in six innings. He allowed six hits, struck out two and walked one. This was his first loss since returning to the U.S. following a stint in the Japanese professional league.

The Cardinals’ Yadier Molina is scheduled to make rehab starts for Double-A Springfield today (Saturday) and Sunday. He expects to return to the Cardinals for their Tuesday game with Milwaukee. Molina suffered a pelvic injury with a traumatic hematoma on May 5 that required emergency surgery. Pirates RHP Chad Kuhl will face Cardinals RHP Luke Weaver today in the third game of a four-game set. Kuhl is looking for his first win since May 6. He lost his last outing, which followed three consecutive no decisions. Weaver has dropped three straight decisions and four of his past five.

Listen for the pre-game show at 12:20-p.m. here on KJAN, with the first pitch at 1:15.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa men’s basketball team will host Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Nov. 27 on Mediacom Court inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena as part of the 2018 ACC/Big Ten Challenge, it was announced Friday by the league office.

ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU will combine to televise all 14 games of the event and all games will be available to stream via the ESPN app.  Tip times and network designations will be announced at a later date.

The Hawkeyes have won their last two Challenge games in Iowa City, topping Notre Dame (98-93) in 2013 and outlasting Florida State (78-75) in overtime in 2015.

This will be Iowa’s eighth all-time meeting against Pitt and the first as part of the Challenge. The Hawkeyes are 2-5 against the Panthers, but Iowa has won the last two matchups, winning 73-66 at Pittsburgh in 1950 and 103-70 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1976.

This will mark Iowa’s 18th appearance in the 20-year history of the Challenge.

Iowa finished the 2017-18 season with a 14-19 overall record. The Hawkeyes return their top nine scorers and 11 letterwinners, including honorable-mention All-Big Ten selections Tyler Cook and Jordan Bohannon.

Pitt went 8-24 last season and was winless in ACC play (0-18) in 2017-18.  Jeff Capel is in his first season as the Panthers’ head coach after spending the past seven seasons at Duke.  He was Mike Krzyzewski’s associate head coach the past four seasons.

The ACC won last year’s Challenge by the count of 11-3 to retain possession of the Commissioner’s Cup. The Big Ten has won five of the last nine Challenges (2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2015). The ACC and Big Ten split the 2012 and 2013 Challenges, with each conference notching six victories.

Girls Regional Soccer play continues tonight. Here is a look at area match-ups.

Class 1A Regional Semifinals

Region 1
MOC-Floyd Valley at Western Christian 5:00pm
St. Albert vs. Bishop Heelan 6:00pm

Region 2
Panorama at Gilbert 6:00pm
Tri-Center at Treynor 6:00pm

Region 3
Creston at Nevada 6:00pm
Harlan at Des Moines Christian 6:00pm

Boys State Soccer Semifinals will be played today at the Cownie Soccer Complex in Des Moines.

Class 1A

#1 Iowa City Regina vs. #4 Gilbert 12:00pm (Field #9)
#2 Williamsburg vs. #3 Des Moines Christian 12:05pm (Field #6)

Class 2A

#1 Pella vs. #5 Cedar Rapids Xavier 2:30pm (Field #9)
#2 Storm Lake vs. #3 Marion 2:35pm (Field #6)

Class 3A

#8 Waukee vs. #5 Iowa City West 5:00pm (Field #9)
#7 Ankeny vs. #3 Bettendorf-Morningstar-Rivermont 5:05pm (Field #6)