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

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Adeiny Hechavarria danced around catcher Salvador Perez with an inventive slide at home plate to score the go-ahead run, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Kansas City Royals 2-1. Hechavarria dashed home on Matt Duffy’s single to right field in the sixth inning, sidestepped Perez to the right, then dived back toward the plate. Hechavarria faked toward the dish with his right hand, then jabbed his left hand just past Perez’s outstretched glove to tag the plate.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Anthony Holman has been named the NCAA managing director for championships operations and playing rules. Holman will be the lead administrator for the College World Series as successor to Ron Prettyman. Holman also will oversee championships in bowling, men’s ice hockey, FCS football, women’s volleyball, beach volleyball and rifle. Holman also will have responsibilities related to playing rules, governance duties and sport committee activity for multiple championships.

The Denison-Schleswig vs. St. Albert boys tennis Preliminary Substate match was postponed from Saturday to Monday and the Monarchs came out victorious 5-4. The Class 1A Substate at Kuemper Catholic on Saturday is now all set.

Atlantic will take on Denison-Schleswig and Kuemper Catholic will face Creston O-M. Winners of those matches will then play in the State Quarterfinal one hour after the final Substate match is finished.

Girls Soccer

Atlantic 6, Riverside 0
Glenwood 5, Kuemper Catholic 0
Lewis Central 10, Harlan 0
Treynor 9, Underwood 2

Boys Soccer

Kuemper Catholic 1, Atlantic 0
Denison-Schleswig 5, Glenwood 0
Harlan 3, Creston 0
Riverside 6, Nodaway Valley 0
Treynor 3, Underwood 0
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 5, Thomas Jefferson 2

Class 1A and 2A girls golf teams competed in the first round of Regional play on Monday. The top two teams and top 8 individuals will move on to the next round of competition. If a host school is one of the top two teams then the third place team will also qualify. Ties will not be broken for eight place individually so all players tied will advance.

Class 1A

Region 2B at Coon Rapids (Coon Rapids-Bayard)

Team Scores

1. Griswold 278 (Qualify)
2. Audubon 396 (Qualify)
3. Riverside 419
4. Exira-EHK 425
5. IKM-Manning 429
6. Glidden-Ralston 448
7. Coon Rapids-Bayard 467
8. East Mills 510

Individual Scores

1. Jasmine Turner, Audubon, 84
2. Jacey Anthofer, Exira-EHK, 87
3. Mateya Peters, Griswold, 90
4. Roni Hook, Griswold, 96
5. Bry Carlisle, Griswold, 96
6. Alyssa Brink, Riverside, 96
7. Jenna Reynolds, Griswold, 96
8. Whitney Reever, Glidden-Ralston, 99

Region 2A at Fox Run (Heartland Christian)

Team Scores

1. Boyer Valley 404 (Qualify)
2. Woodbury Central 418 (Qualify)
3. Tri-Center 442
4. Logan-Magnolia 460
5. Woodbine 512
6. St. Albert 543

Heartland Christian and Treynor had no team scores.

Individual Scores

1. Sally Gallagher, Woodbury Central, 81
2. Kayla Chapman, Treynor, 83
3. Anna Puck, Boyer Valley, 89
4. Katy Puck, Boyer Valley, 101
5. Jesse Decker, St. Albert, 105
6. Ashlyn Eckrich, Tri-Center, 106
7. Reagan Frazier, Boyer Valley, 107
8. Abby Miller, Boyer Valley, 107

Region 2C at Anita (CAM)

Team Scores

1. Mount Ayr 401 (Qualify)
2. CAM 406 (Qualify)
3. East Union 411 (Qualify)
4. Woodward-Granger 432
5. Lenox 494
6. Southwest Valley 509

Individual Scores

1. Sammi Jahde, CAM, 85
2. Abbey Schafer, Mount Ayr, 86
3. Quinn Eslinger, East Union, 88
4. Anna Collins, East Union, 93
5. Ericka Stender, CAM, 94
6. Katelyn Dolecheck, Mount Ayr, 98
7. Aubrey Mescher, Woodward-Granger, 101
8. Cierra DeHoet, Woodward-Granger, 101

Class 2A

Region 2A at Red Oak

Team Scores

1. Kuemper Catholic 368 (Qualify)
2. Clarinda 401 (Qualify)
3. Shenandoah 423
4. Missouri Valley 434
5. Underwood 441
6. Red Oak 459
7. Southwest Iowa 460
8. AHSTW NTS

Individual Scores

1. McKenna Ludwig, Kuemper Catholic, 86
2. Katie Schweers, Kuemper Catholic, 93
3. Kate Carlson, Red Oak, 95
4. Rachel Teten, Underwood, 95
5. Gracie Brown, Clarinda, 97
6. Lexy Knop, AHSTW 99
7. Carly Rahn, Clarinda, 99
8. Payton Hilts, Missouri Valley, 99

Region 2B at Lake Panorama (Panorama)

Team Scores

1. South Hamilton 408 (Qualify)
2. Roland-Story 416 (Qualify)
3. Panorama 428
4. Ogden 437
5. Des Moines Christian 442
6. Colo-Nesco 497
7. AC/GC 560

Individual Scores

1. Maranda Wheelock, Ogden, 95
2. CeCe Sturdivant, Des Moines Christian, 96
3. Katelyn Sogard, South Hamilton, 98
4. Susie Weaver, Roland-Story, 100
5. Claire Wiseman, Roland-Story, 100
6. Krista Swenson, South Hamilton, 101
7. Madison Fear, Panorama, 102
8. Kenady Campbell, South Hamilton, 104
9. Kayla Walker, Ogden, 104
10. Kaitlyn Rahfelt, Roland-Story, 104

Girls Soccer

Waverly-Shell Rock Tournament
St. Albert 6, Hudson 2
Columbus Catholic 2, St. Albert 1 (SO)
ADM 7, St Albert 0

Urbandale Tournament
Ankeny Centennial 2, Lewis Central 1
Urbandale 1, Thomas Jefferson 0
Lewis Central 2, Southeast Polk 1 (OT)
Thomas Jefferson 2, Dallas Center-Grimes 1

Regular Season
WDM Valley 4, CB Abraham Lincoln 0

Boys Soccer

Lewis Central 2, Sioux City North 0
WDM Valley 1, CB Abraham Lincoln 0

Girls Golf

IKM-Manning Wolves Invite

Team Scores:

1. Boyer Valley 211
2. IKM-Manning 214
3. Audubon 215
4. AC/GC NTS

Individual Scores

1. Anna Puck, Boyer Valley, 47
2. Kena Bair, AC/GC, 50
3. Jasmine Turner, Audubon, 50
4. Hanna Mullen, IKM-Manning, 51
5. Regan Frazier, Boyer Valley, 52

Some of the Boys Preliminary Substate Team Tennis matches were played on Saturday and some were postponed to Monday. These matches determine the final spots for Substate play coming up this Saturday.

Class 1A

@ Creston: Creston 5, Clarinda 2
@ Denison-Schleswig: Denison-Schleswig vs. St. Albert ppd to 5/14 at 3:30pm.

Substate for these teams will be played on Saturday, May 19th at Kuemper Catholic at around 8:30am.

Atlantic vs. Denison-Schelswig/St. Albert winner
Kuemper Catholic vs. Creston O-M

Winners will play in the State Quarterfinal one hour after the final substate match.

Class 2A

@ Sioux City North: Sioux City North vs. Lewis Central ppd to 5/15 at 11:00am.

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Iowa pounded out 14 hits and avoided a sweep at the hands of Northwestern with a 10-7 victory in Evanston. Freshman Jack Dreyer (dry-ur) picked up his fourth victory on the mound as the Hawkeyes improved to 10-9 in the Big Ten.

Iowa coach Rick Heller. Sophomore Ben Norman led the offense with three hits.

Iowa is seventh in the league race and will close out the regular season by hosting last place Penn State beginning Thursday. The top eight teams qualify for the Big Ten Tournament.

(Learfield Sports)

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

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Clayton Richard matched his career high with 10 strikeouts in eight strong innings for his first win in more than a month, and the San Diego Padres beat struggling Adam Wainwright and the St. Louis Cardinals 5-3 to salvage a split of their four-game series. Richard held the Cardinals to two runs and five hits while walking only one to win for the first time since April 9 at Colorado. Wainwright said he re-aggravated an elbow injury that had landed him on the disabled list.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Corey Kluber became the American League’s first six-game winner and the Cleveland Indians beat the Kansas City Royals 11-2. The reigning Cy Young Award winner gave up two unearned runs in seven innings, scattering eight hits.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Creighton guard Khyri Thomas says he will sign with an agent and remain in the NBA draft, meaning he’ll forfeit his final season of eligibility with the Bluejays. Thomas was the Big East defensive player of the year for the second straight season. Creighton coach Greg McDermott says he’s thrilled for Thomas, who is projected as a first-round pick in a number of recent mock drafts. Creighton had a first-round pick last year in center Justin Patton.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The nickname that Kevin Harvick was saddled with was supposed to be a playful jab at his occasional temper tantrums. But after setting a NASCAR record by winning for the fifth time in the first 12 races, Happy Harvick is just, well, pretty darn happy. But he still isn’t content, either. Harvick thinks his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing team can be even better.