The Atlantic Trojan football team is ready to get on the field Friday night and hit someone other than teammates. The Trojans open up their second season under Head Coach Mike McDermott on the road at Clarinda Friday night and we’ll have coverage of the game on KJAN. Coach McDermott said he liked some of the things the Trojans did in their scrimmage a week ago but he thinks the guys are ready for a little more excitement this week with an actual opponent.

Atlantic is coming off a 1-8 season a year ago and Coach McDermott feels like the team has made big strides in all three facets of the game in the preparation for this year.

The Trojans have a strong core of returning players and should have a lot of speed to work with in the backfield.  Coach McDermott said they know they need to do more to get the ball in the hands of those speedy players on offense but he also feels speed will be a strength in the defensive secondary.

The opponent for Atlantic in week one is also coming off a 1-8 season. Clarinda has less experience returning from a year ago and they will also have a new Head Coach. Long time Assistant Coach Roger Williams stepped into the Head Coaches chair this summer after the departure of Mark Schilb.  Trojan Head Coach Mike McDermott expects a tough team to line up for Coach Williams.

The Cardinals are hoping to re-establish a tough-physical mentality according to Coach Williams and he said there is a lot of fighting for positions going on early in the year.

Coach Williams said his team will change a few things here and there with the coaching transition but a lot has stayed the same. He felt like the Cardinals didn’t do a good enough job up front against Atlantic last year and is working to improve that this time around.

The Trojans and Cardinals are set to kickoff in Clarinda at 7:00pm Friday night. Tune in to KJAN as Chris Parks and Mike Smith bring you all the action on AM1220, FM101.1, online at kjan.com, and on the free KJAN mobile app. You can also watch live streaming video of the game on KJANTV. You can hear a full interview with Coach McDermott on Trojan Preview at 4:45pm, then listen in to our pick ’em show Who’s Gonna Win? at 6:00pm, followed by the Dvorak Tire and Service Pregame Show at 6:30pm, and then kickoff at 7:00pm.

The first full week of High School Football is upon us in the state of Iowa and we are gearing up for another fun season of coverage on KJAN. Join Chris Parks and Mike Smith for our KJAN High School Football Game of the Week each Friday night on KJAN!

Our weekly football coverage will begin each Friday afternoon at 4:45pm with Trojan Preview, Chris Parks’ weekly discussion with Atlantic Head Football Coach Mike McDermott about Trojan Football. Our weekly High School pick ’em show Who’s Gonna Win? airs each Friday at 6:00pm. Chris Parks, Jim Field, Matt Mullenix, and Doug Leonard join you each week to discuss and pick eight weekly high school football games including our broadcast game that week. The Dvorak Tire and Service Pregame Show will follow Who’s Gonna Win? at 6:30pm each week with kickoff for our game that week to follow at 7:00pm or 7:30pm.

This season following our game broadcast each Friday we will bring you the Iowa High School Scoreboard Show from Radio Iowa. Tony Atzeni, Todd Mortensen and the rest of the crew will bring you scores, recaps, and features each week from 10:00pm-11:30pm.

Here’s a look at the KJAN High School Football broadcast schedule for 2017:

• Friday, August 25th: Atlantic @ Clarinda 6:30pm/7:00pm
• Friday, September 1st: Audubon @ CAM 6:30pm/7:00pm
• Friday, September 8th: Atlantic @ Denison-Schleswig 6:30pm/7:30pm
• Friday, September 15th: Southwest Valley @ Griswold 6:30pm/7:00pm
• Friday, September 22nd: Treynor @ AHSTW 6:30pm/7:00pm
• Friday, September 29th: Atlantic @ Glenwood 6:30pm/7:30pm
• Friday, October 6th: Fremont-Mills @ Exira-EHK 6:30pm/7:00pm
• Friday, October 13th: Atlantic @ Carroll 6:30pm/7:30pm
• Friday, October 20th: CAM @ Fremont-Mills 6:30pm/7:00pm
  *Schedule is subject to change

You can listen on AM1220 and FM 101.1, online at kjan.com, and on the free KJAN moblie app. You can also watch each game with live streaming video on KJANTV. Just head to the TV page at kjan.com and click play on the embedded video player near game-time.  Complete coverage with Chris Parks and Mike Smith each week on KJAN!

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ST. LOUIS (AP) – Rookie Luke Weaver struck out 10 in seven scoreless innings, and Kolten Wong had three hits and three runs to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Diego Padres 6-2 on Wednesday night.

The Cardinals had lost three straight and six of eight following an eight-game winning streak, and had allowed at least five runs in each of the last 12 games.

Weaver (2-1), the right-hander who turned 24 on Monday, allowed three hits in his longest career outing and matched his career best with 10 strikeouts.

San Diego’s Jhoulys Chacin (11-9) allowed five runs – four earned – on six hits in 4 2-3 innings. He struck out three, walked three and hit four batters.

The Cardinals’ leadoff hitters reached and scored in four of the first five innings. Three of those runs scored with two outs.

St. Louis opened the first inning with back-to-back doubles, with Tommy Pham driving in Wong, and Pham scoring on Dexter Fowler’s sacrifice fly to make it 2-0.

Wong led off the third with a single and scored on Jedd Gyorko’s two-out infield single. Greg Garcia scored on Chacin’s two-out throwing error on an errant pickoff in the fourth, making it 4-0. Fowler scored on Chacin’s bases-loaded wild pitch in the fifth.

Manuel Margot’s triple off reliever Seung Hwan Oh in the eighth plated the Padres’ first run, making it 5-1. Cory Spangenberg hit a solo home run, his 13th, off John Brebbia in the ninth.

ST. LOUIS (AP) – The St. Louis Cardinals announced Wednesday that closer Trevor Rosenthal was being moved from the 10-day disabled list to the 60-day DL and that the right elbow injury would require Tommy John surgery.

“I think just the timing of it, being right in the middle of this race and the way my personal season had been taking shape and the way the team has been playing recently. Tough timing,” Rosenthal said.

“It felt like we were getting in a groove, I was in a groove, and to kind of have this happen and take a piece away from a really good team is a little bit of a bummer.”

Rosenthal, who recorded 93 saves in 2014-15, lost the closer’s job a year ago to Seung Hwan Oh but reclaimed it this season after Oh struggled. Rosenthal recorded 11 saves, giving him 118 over the past four seasons.

Cardinals general manager Mike Girsch said Rosenthal will have surgery next week.

“We hoped for better news,” Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. “. Somebody is going to have to step in. He was really throwing the ball well.”

The Iowa High School Athletic Association and Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released state qualifying cross country meet sites on Wednesday.  There will be five co-ed meets in each class.

Those qualifying meets will be held on Thursday, October 19th at 4:00pm around the state. Top runners will advance to the state meet on Saturday, October 28th.

In Class 3A, Atlantic will be one of the hosts for a qualifying meet.

In Class 2A South Central Calhoun is the area host site.

In Class 1A Mount Ayr and Ridge View will be host sites.

Check out the full list of sites here. State qualifying assignments will be released later in the season.

2017 First Iowa High School Volleyball Rankings
Compiled by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union
Monday, August 21

Class 1A

Class 2A

Class 3A

Class 4A

Class 5A

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz and his wife, Mary, will donate $1 million to the University of Iowa’s Children’s Hospital to help researchers working to improve survival rates for premature babies.

The donation will fund the Ferentz Program in Neonatal Research. The Ferentzes are donating the money in honor of their granddaughter, who was born at just 21 weeks old in 2014.

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The Shenandoah-Essex Cross Country teams wins in their home early bird cross country meets on Tuesday night.

Among the few full girls teams competing Shen-Essex won with a 45 point total. Underwood was second with 62 and Treynor third with 124.

Karley Larson of Underwood was the race winner with a time of 20:11.45.  East Mills’ Janette Schraft was runner-up with a final time of 21:04.79. Erica Rowe of Underwood was third and the next five finishers were from Shenandoah-Essex.

On the boys side Shenandoah-Essex scored 43 points to take the win. Southwest Iowa was runner-up with 53 points. Underwood was third with 66, Treynor fourth with 70, and East Mills fifth with a 131 total.

Jerry Jorgensen of Treynor was the boys individual winner with a time of 17:18.75. Adam Thompson of Southwest Iowa was runner-up at 18:03.85. Trent Finnegan of Shenandoah-Essex was third.

Take a look at the full results here.