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ST. LOUIS (AP) – Chase Utley, Cody Bellinger and Logan Forsythe hit solo home runs, leading Rich Hill and the Los Angeles Dodgers over the St. Louis Cardinals 5-1 Monday for their fifth straight victory.

Hill (2-2) recovered from a bout of wildness in his last start to pitch five innings, giving up one run and two hits. In his previous outing, also against the Cardinals, he permitted five runs on four hits and seven walks in four innings.

Mike Leake (5-3) entered the game leading the majors with a 1.91 ERA, but allowed a season-high four runs in 6 2/3 innings.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Sixteen teams representing seven conferences will host regionals in the NCAA Division One baseball tournament. Five Atlantic Coast Conference teams and four from the Southeastern Conference were chosen as hosts Sunday night. Last year, 13 of the 16 hosts were from the ACC and SEC.

Each of the host schools are guaranteed spots in the 64-team tournament, with the rest of the field, including the top eight national seeds, and pairings to be announced today (Monday). The ACC hosts are North Carolina, Louisville, Florida State, Clemson and Wake Forest. SEC hosts are LSU, Florida, Kentucky and Arkansas.

Oregon State and Stanford are hosts from the Pac-12, and Texas Tech and TCU are home teams in the Big 12. Other hosts are Southern Mississippi of Conference USA, Long Beach State of the Big West and Houston of the American Athletic Conference.

DENVER (AP) – German Marquez pitched into the sixth inning, Gerardo Parra hit a three-run homer and the Colorado Rockies beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-4 Sunday. Marquez (4-2) allowed two runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings. He went 4-1 in May to help the Rockies’ rookie starters finish 12-3 for the month, the most wins by rookie starting pitchers since Oakland got 11 in September 2009, according to Elias Sports Bureau.

Parra finished with three hits as the Rockies won a series for the 12th time this season. They have dropped two and split two others. Up next for the Cardinals, is the L-A Dodgers. Pre-game coverage on KJAN begins this afternoon at 12:20.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) – Drake Robison held Northwestern to one run in seven innings, Jake Adams homered twice, and Iowa won the Big Ten Tournament for the first time with a 13-4 victory over Northwestern on Sunday. The fifth-seeded Hawkeyes (38-20) earned the Big Ten’s automatic NCAA bid and will make their second appearance in the national tournament in three years.

Robison (4-2), a senior used mostly as a reliever, limited seventh-seeded Northwestern to four hits and struck out six in the longest outing of his career. Adams homered in the seventh and eighth innings to increase his total to 27, tied with Morehead State’s Niko Hulsizer for the national lead.

Freshman Matt Gannon (0-4) didn’t make it out of the first inning as Iowa took a 5-0 lead. Northwestern (27-30) won eight of its last 10 and finished with 12 more wins than a year ago.

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The Atlantic Boys Tennis Doubles team of Grant Podhajsky and Cooper McDermott finished eighth at the Class 1A State Tennis Tournament at Byrne’s Park in Waterloo on Friday and Saturday.

The duo won two of three matches on Friday. They defeated Gannon Courtright and Navin Martin of Fairfield, 6-2, 6-0 in the first round.  Lost to Kyle Marek and Jake Thompson of LeMars in the second round 7-5, 6-1. They then won a consolation match to more on to day 2 with a 6-0, 4-6, and 10-5 in a tiebreaker over Mark Mosher and Brody Echer of Ballard.

On day two Podhajsky and McDermott lost to Mason Hulse and Corhin Wafful of Boone 6-4, 5-7, 1-0 (7) in the Consolation Semifinals. That moved them into the 7th place match where they fell to Alex Hinrichs and Ryan Jasper of Cedar Rapids, Xavier 6-1, 6-0. That result left Podhajsky and McDermott with an 8th place medal on their successful season.