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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Grant Kraemer threw for 304 yards and two touchdowns, Conley Wilkins rushed for two scores, and Drake held off Campbell for a 33-21 win on Saturday. Drake (4-4, 3-2 Pioneer Football League) took advantage of two early Campbell mistakes en route to a 17-0 lead after one quarter.
After a Camels fumble, Kraemer found Andrew Yarwood for a 6-yard TD to put the Bulldogs up 7-0. Campbell (3-4, 1-3) drove 57 yards on 12 plays on its next possession, but an interception and 58-yard return put Drake on the Camels’ 17-yard line. Two plays later, Kraemer threw another TD pass – this time to Zach Zlabis for 12 yards.
Anthony Robbins, who threw for 298 yards for the Camels, had touchdown passes in the second and third quarter to get Campbell within 20-14. But Wilkins scored on second-half touchdown runs of 2 and 5 yards, the latter with 8:35 remaining to give Drake a 33-21 lead, and the Bulldogs’ defense held firm.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Jesse Ertz rushed for a career-high 106 yards on just nine carries and Kansas State held off host Iowa State 31-26 on Saturday for its third win in four games. Ertz added 151 yards passing with a TD for the Wildcats (5-3, 3-2 Big 12), who beat the struggling Cyclones (1-7, 0-5) for the ninth year in a row.
The Cyclones had some promising moments on offense in the second half, outgaining K-State 493-398. But Kansas State converted eight of 12 third downs and scored on all five of its trips to the red zone. The Cyclones have let up at least 27 points in all five of their league games.
Iowa State has Oklahoma coming in on Thursday. The Cyclones haven’t beaten the Sooners in Ames since 1963.
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Its Homecoming in Ames today (Saturday), as the Iowa State Cyclones take a 1-6 record against Kansas State. The Wildcats have won the last eight games in the series and ISU coach Matt Campbell says to get things turned around the Cyclones must find a way to solve one of the best defenses in the Big-12. Campbell says one of the strengths of the K-State defense is the linebacking corps.
Iowa State has been good in the red zone this season and that will need to continue against the Wildcats. Kickoff in Jack Trice Stadium is 11:00 a.m. The game will be televised by Fox Sports Net.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Cody Allen escaped a ninth-inning jam and the Cleveland Indians pitched their fifth shutout this postseason, holding off the Chicago Cubs 1-0 Friday night for a 2-1 lead as the World Series returned to Wrigley Field for the first time since 1945. The Cubs put runners on second and third with two outs in the ninth before Allen struck out Javier Baez to end it. Pinch-hitter Coco Crisp hit an RBI single in the seventh off Carl Edwards Jr. for the lone run.
Indians starter Josh Tomlin went 4 2/3 innings, then Andrew Miller, Bryan Shaw and Allen took over. The Cubs have been blanked four times in the last eight games this postseason. It was their first 1-0 loss in the World Series since Babe Ruth and the Boston Red Sox beat them in 1918. Game 1 winner Corey Kluber starts for Cleveland on Saturday night on three days’ rest, and John Lackey goes for Chicago.
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Big 12 officials have decided not to split the conference into two football divisions. Instead, conference officials say the two highest-placed teams in the conference standings will play when the Big 12 brings back its title game next season.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Seventh-ranked Nebraska looks to silence the doubters as the Cornhuskers play at No. 11 Wisconsin today. Nebraska is off to its best start in 15 years and leads the Big Ten West but has yet to play a true ‘statement’ game.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Kansas is on the road today at No. 16 Oklahoma. Sooners coach Bob Stoops says he’s told his team they can’t take the Jayhawks lightly after Kansas held a lead through much of the first half last weekend against Oklahoma State.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — It will be a matchup of the Big 12’s oldest coach and the conference’s youngest today when Kansas State takes on Iowa State. Bill Snyder is 78 while Matt Campbell is the youngest Power Five coach in the country at 36.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City running back Jamaal Charles is out for Sunday’s game in Indianapolis against the Colts, with Charles having some swelling this week in his surgically-repaired right knee. Chiefs coach Andy Reid says Spencer Ware and Charcandrick West will split the running back duties Sunday.
High School Football Scoreboard
First Round Playoffs
Friday, October 28, 2016
Ankeny Centennial 34, Ankeny 24
Cedar Rapids, Washington 35, Epworth, Western Dubuque 21
Dowling Catholic, West Des Moines 41, Johnston 6
Iowa City, City High 40, North Scott, Eldridge 14
Iowa City, West 24, Bettendorf 17
Prairie, Cedar Rapids 66, Waterloo, West 35
Valley, West Des Moines 45, Lewis Central 7
Waukee 52, Southeast Polk 21
Boone 22, Creston/O-M 21
Carroll 34, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 14
Glenwood 44, Storm Lake 22
Pella 34, Oskaloosa 14
Solon 49, Benton Community 14
Waverly-Shell Rock 28, West Delaware, Manchester 14
Webster City 33, Norwalk 14
Xavier, Cedar Rapids 52, Assumption, Davenport 20
Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 49, South Central Calhoun 10
Dike-New Hartford 55, Southeast Valley 29
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 21, Central Lyon/George-Little Rock 20
Mount Vernon 48, Centerville 7
North Fayette Valley 21, New Hampton 7
PCM, Monroe 38, Roland-Story, Story City 7
Union, La Porte City 31, Crestwood, Cresco 13
Williamsburg 49, Central Lee, Donnellson 25
Bellevue 26, South Winneshiek, Calmar 8
Denver 50, Clayton Ridge, Guttenberg 6
Hinton 43, Logan-Magnolia 28
Madrid 27, Pleasantville 20
Pella Christian 49, Sigourney-Keota 0
Regina, Iowa City 49, West Branch 15
Van Meter 21, AHSTW 14 (OT)
Western Christian, Hull 28, West Lyon, Inwood 6
Bishop Garrigan, Algona 37, Earlham 6
Gladbrook-Reinbeck 13, Lynnville-Sully 6
Lisbon 31, East Buchanan, Winthrop 20
Montezuma 34, B-G-M, Brooklyn 20
Saint Ansgar 28, Wapsie Valley, Fairbank 10
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 24, Akron-Westfield 21
West Hancock, Britt 30, Hudson 7
West Sioux, Hawarden 49, South O’Brien, Paullina 20
Ar-We-Va, Westside 54, Newell-Fonda 53
Central, Elkader 58, AGWSR, Ackley 26
Don Bosco, Gilbertville 75, Turkey Valley, Jackson Junction 24
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 56, Bedford 12
Fremont-Mills, Tabor 69, Lenox 0
Harris-Lake Park 36, Audubon 26
Midland, Wyoming 80, H-L-V, Victor 24
Twin Cedars, Bussey 24, Iowa Valley, Marengo 22
IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Big 12 Conference isn’t splitting up into divisions for football.
Big 12 officials announced Friday that the two highest-placed teams in the conference standings will play in the league’s championship game when that resumes next season.
Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said with the 10-team league’s round-robin schedule that he expects the Big 12 champion to be uniquely positioned for College Football Playoff consideration. He said the guaranteed matchup of the top two teams for the conference title will make the Big 12 champion a strong contender for a playoff spot.
Athletic directors decided on the 1 vs. 2 format after input from the league’s football coaches.
The league is expected to announce the site of the 2017 championship game in the coming weeks.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — The Big 12’s oldest coach is about to meet the youngest. Kansas State’s Bill Snyder, 78, became just the seventh coach in FBS history to coach at least 300 games at one school earlier this season — and a win Saturday at Iowa State (1-6, 0-4) would give him 198 career victories, good for 25th all time. Iowa State’s Matt Campbell, at 36 the youngest Power Five coach in the country, just finished his seventh game with the Cyclones.
Campbell has only come out on top once, and the matchup against the Wildcats (4-3, 2-2) is one of the few games left that Iowa State has a reasonable chance of winning. “I don’t care what profession you’re in, especially in the world of college football. It’s hard to sustain success, and he’s had this unique ability to do it,” Campbell said of Snyder. “It’s a great matchup for our team (in terms of), where are we in our own culture? Because, to me, it says a lot each other’s culture right now.”
Despite its dismal record, Iowa State has led at halftime in three of its four Big 12 games and is coming off a bye. But lately Kansas State has owned this series, which will be played for the 100th year in a row this weekend. The Wildcats have taken the last eight meetings. But the last two victories in Ames were by just 10 total points — and last year the Cyclones gave up 10 points in the final 40 seconds, losing 38-35 and costing coach Paul Rhoads his job.
“In some cases, we have been fortunate. In all cases, we have been fortunate to have a lot of good young guys who do not give in,” Snyder said.
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