Iowa baseball fans who are headed to the College World Series opening in Omaha this weekend will notice changes around the stadium in light of recent violence and terrorist attacks overseas. Omaha Police Captain Adam Kyle says one obvious addition is the placement of some 300 large concrete barriers around T-D Ameritrade Park. “I won’t say they run a 360-degree circle around the entire T.D. Ameritrade area, but we’ve got almost all of the area covered,” Captain Kyle says.

The 48-hundred-pound, 12-foot-long barriers, known as jersey curbs, don’t restrict the movement of fans on foot or in vehicles. “It’s provided a barrier between traffic flow and the citizens or pedestrians on the sidewalk,” Kyle says. “It’s just a normal barrier that would divide the street from the sidewalk. There’s a curb there but we’ve enhanced that by putting a jersey curb up on the curb.”

The curbs were brought in for last month’s Berkshire Hathaway stockholders meeting at the nearby CenturyLink Center and they got good reviews. “We did exactly what we’re doing now, we surrounded the CenturyLink perimeter with jersey curbs to protect the citizens,” Kyle says. “We got a lot of positive reinforcement, a lot of good attitudes from the citizens. They felt safer.”

A local art center has already given the barriers a coat of colorful paint for more visual appeal. Omaha has hosted the College World Series since 1950 and the opening ceremonies are Friday night, with the first games on Saturday. Play runs daily through the finals next weekend.

(Radio Iowa)

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Eric Thames homered and drove in three runs, Matt Garza pitched five innings in his first start after a short stint on the disabled list, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-6 Wednesday night.

AHSTW 10, Essex 2
Atlantic 2, Lewis Central 0 (2 runs scored in the bottom of the 2nd held up for Atlantic. Catherine Leonard singled. Reagan Pellett walked. Leonard scored on a single by Alyssa Derby and Pellett scored on a fielders choice hit by Olivia Engler. Aly Anderson threw a 2 hit, 2 strikeout shutout)
Boyer Valley 4, Ar-We-Va 3
Carroll 4, Kuemper Catholic 3
Exira-EHK 9, Coon Rapids-Bayard 6
Lawton-Bronson 10, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 5
Perry 7, A-D-M, Adel 5 (8)
Red Oak 11, CB Abraham Lincoln 0 (6 innings)
River Valley 8, West Monona 4
Shenandoah 6, Sidney 5
Underwood 15, Griswold 2
Westwood, Sloan 8, OA-BCIG 1
Winterset 11, Boone 8 (10)

Orient-Macksburg Tournament

Lenox 17, Orient-Macksburg 1
Diagonal 5, East Union 3
Nodaway Valley 4, Melcher-Dallas 1
Murray 20, Mormon Trail 3

AHSTW, Avoca 17, Essex 2 (4 innings)
Ar-We-Va, Westside 14, Boyer Valley, Dunlap 1 (5 Innings)
Ballard 15, Carroll 0
CAM 12, West Harrison 3
Clarinda 17, Southwest Valley 0
EHK-Exira 3, Coon Rapids-Bayard 2 (9 innings)
Earlham 3, Winterset 2
Lewis Central 5, Atlantic 3
Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 12, Lawton-Bronson 7
Mount Ayr 17, Murray 2 (4 innings)
Orient-Macksburg 12, East Mills 9
Shenandoah 6, Fremont-Mills 1
Tri-Center 13, Logan-Magnolia 2

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Eric Thames homered and drove in three runs, Matt Garza pitched five innings in his first start after a short stint on the disabled list, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-6 last night. Eric Sogard added a two-run double to lead a four-run second inning as Milwaukee improved to 18-13 on the road.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis second baseman Kolten Wong left last night’s game against Milwaukee in the sixth inning after suffering tightness in his right forearm. Wong, who went 1 for 2 with an RBI double in the second inning, was replaced by Greg Garcia. Wong has hit safely in all six games since returning from the disabled list on June 6.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Mike Moustakas hit his 18th home run leading off the second inning, Jorge Bonifacio and Lorenzo Cain followed with back-to-back shots in the third and the Kansas City Royals beat the San Francisco Giants 7-2 yesterday to complete a two-game sweep. Bonifacio finished with two hits and three RBIs.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Former Iowa State coach Kevin Jackson has been hired by USA Wrestling. The governing body announced yesterday that Jackson will be a developmental coach for the men’s freestyle team. Jackson was an Olympic champion at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, and he also won two world titles.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Former Iowa State coach Kevin Jackson has been hired by USA Wrestling. The governing body announced Wednesday that Jackson will be a developmental coach for the men’s freestyle team.

Jackson was an Olympic champion at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, and he also won two world titles. Jackson later served as the national freestyle coach from 2000-2008, helping Cael Sanderson and Henry Cejudo take home Olympic gold medals.

Jackson was let go by Iowa State at the end of last season after the Cyclones lost their last 10 dual meets. Jackson will work alongside national team coach Bill Zadick.

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Atlantic 8, Denison-Schleswig 7 (8 innings)
Alta/Aurelia 11, OA-BCIG 4
Audubon 18, Griswold 9
Bedford 11, Southwest Valley 1 (5 innings)
CAM, Anita 10, Woodbine 0 (5 innings)
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 4, Sioux City, North 3 (8 innings) (Game 1)
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 10, Sioux City, North 7 (6 innings, darkness) (Game 2)
EHK-Exira 16, Boyer Valley, Dunlap 1 (4innings)
Glenwood 7, Creston 6
Harlan 5, Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 4
I-35 13, Central Decatur 0 (6 innings)
IKM-Manning 18, Riverside, Oakland 0 (4 innings )
Lenox 6, Nodaway Valley 4
Lewis Central 7, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 5
Missouri Valley 8, Underwood 2
Mount Ayr 14, East Union, Afton 1 (5 innings)
Pleasantville 5, Southeast Warren 2
Red Oak 12, Shenandoah 3
Sioux City, West 11, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 3
Sioux City, West 14, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 4 (5 innings)
Stanton 15, Essex 5 (6 innings)
Treynor 17, Logan-Magnolia 0 (4 innings)
Tri-Center, Neola 7, AHSTW, Avoca 6
West Harrison 15, Glidden Ralston 0 (4 innings)
Woodward-Granger 10, Earlham 0 (5 innings)

ACGC 12, Panorama 2
A-D-M, Adel 13, Greene County 3
Carroll 5, Ballard 4
Charter Oak-Ute 12, AR-WE-VA, Westside 9
Denison-Schleswig 6, Atlantic 5
Earlham 12, Woodward-Granger 0
Exira-EHK 5, Boyer Valley 4
Glenwood 6, Creston 2
Griswold 14, Audubon 13
IKM-Manning 13, Riverside, Oakland 5
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 7, Harlan 3 (Game 1)
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 11, Harlan 6 (Game 2)
Lenox 5, Nodaway Valley 0
Lewis Central 6, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 4
Logan-Magnolia 7, Treynor 5
Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 12, East Sac County 0
Ogden 19, West Central Valley, Stuart 0
Red Oak 12, Shenandoah 1
Sidney 9, Fremont-Mills 3
Sioux City, West 3, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 1
Sioux City, West 5, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 4 (9)
Stanton 12, Essex 10
Tri-Center, Neola 16, AHSTW 15
Underwood 7, Missouri Valley 6
West Harrison 16, Glidden-Ralston 15 (8)
Westwood, Sloan 15, West Monona 2
Winterset 4, Saydel 3