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Officials with the Atlantic High School report AHS Fuel will host a tailgate event at the State Softball tournament in Fort Dodge, on Monday, July 16th. Students will be transported on a pep bus to the game leaving the high school at 2:30-p.m. Sign-up in the HS office by 3-p.m. Friday or email Dan Vargason to sign up. The Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund will cover the cost of the bus and pay for admission to the game for any student who rides the bus.
In addition to the bus, there will be tailgating at the Fort Dodge Soccer Association fields by Harlan Rodgers Park. The first 150 people will receive a hamburger, chips and a drink thanks to HyVee, Fareway and Atlantic Bottling. Grilling is expected to begin by 5-p.m. There will also be yard games, giveaways and some fun before the game. The 5th seed Atlantic Trojans will take on the 4th seed Humboldt Wildcats in State softball, Monday, at the Harlan Rogers Sports Complex in Fort Dodge. Game time is 7:30-p.m.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Slumping outfielder Dexter Fowler hit his fourth career grand slam, All-Star Miles Mikolas tossed six innings of three-hit ball and the St. Louis Cardinals routed the Chicago White Sox 14-2. Kolten Wong had four hits, including a two-run homer and a double, as every St. Louis starter except catcher Yadier Molina got at least one hit.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Adalberto Mondesi had a three-run homer and a career-high four RBIs, and the Kansas City Royals snapped a 10-game skid with a 9-4 win over the Minnesota Twins. The Royals scored more than five runs for the first time since June 4 and improved to 26-65 overall, percentage points ahead of Baltimore to avoid owning baseball’s worst record. Mondesi went deep in the second inning and added an RBI single in the sixth.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa typically asks a ton out of its running backs. The problem is that the Hawkeyes don’t have a ton of proven backs these days _ which is why the offseason has been so crucial for the youngsters they hope will be ready by September. Iowa has a pair of sophomores atop its depth chart, the bruising Toren Young and the speedy Ivory Kelly-Martin. Behind them are redshirt freshman Camron Harrell and Kyshaun Bryan, true freshman Henry Geil and junior college transfer Mehki Sargent.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An Ohio man has admitted defrauding NFL players out of money meant for charities. Thirty-nine-year-old Camario Richardson, of Maple Heights, Ohio, pleaded guilty Monday to mail fraud in federal court in Kansas City. Prosecutors say Richardson told the players he could deliver Nike-branded merchandise to charitable events but didn’t deliver the goods. The five players involved weren’t identified in the indictment.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Former NBA player Kermit Washington has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in charity donations on vacations, shopping sprees and plastic surgery for his girlfriend. The U.S. attorney’s office says the 66-year-old Las Vegas man also was ordered Monday to pay nearly $970,000 in restitution. Washington pleaded guilty in November to making a false statement in a tax return and aggravated identity theft.
Class 1-A District Baseball Quarter-Finals
District 13
@ Greenfield
@ Lenox
District 14
@ St. Albert
@Tabor
District 15
@ Madrid
@ Anita
District 16
@ Neola
@ Westside
Class 2-A District Baseball Semi-Finals
District 15 @ Underwood
District 16 @ Kuemper Catholic
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Class 4A and 5A softball Regional Finals will be played Tuesday night around the state with trips to State at stake. Here’s the area schedule for Class 4A.
Region 1: Sergeant Bluff-Luton @ Denison-Schleswig 7:00pm
Region 2: Des Moines Hoover @ Lewis Central 7:00pm
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Eduardo Escobar had three hits and drove in the game-winning run in the seventh to support Jose Berrios’ strong outing as the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 3-1 on Monday night. Escobar plated Joe Mauer with a seventh-inning single as Minnesota took advantage of Kansas City’s struggling bullpen to win its fifth straight game.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kaito Yuki is headed to the Kansas City Royals organization instead of attending high school in Japan. The team signed Yuki, a 16-year-old right-hander pitcher out of junior high to a minor league contract with a $322,500 signing bonus. He is thought to be the youngest Japanese player to sign with a major league club _ and the first to do so out of junior high school.
NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Stock car racing team Venturini Motorsports has had a tradition of employing women that stretches back for decades. The ARCA outfit recently made history _ starting three female drivers in the same race for the first time in the modern era of the sport. Natalie Decker, Leilani Münter and Toni Breidinger competed at Chicagoland Speedway. By starting as a trio, they helped raise the profile of women in a sport long dominated by men.
After Regional Final play on Monday night the IGHSAU released the State Softball pairings for Classes 1A, 2A, and 3A.
Atlantic drew the #5 seed in Class 3A and will open up in the quarterfinals against the #4 seed Humboldt. That game is set for Monday, July 16th at 7:30pm on Diamond 2 at Harlan Rogers Park in Fort Dodge.
In Class 2A Logan-Magnolia also drew the #5 seed and will play the #4 seed Central Springs on Monday, July 16th at 3:00pm on Diamond 2.
Take a look at the full brackets here: 2018-state-softball-brackets
Trips to the State Softball Tournament were on the line in Classes 1A, 2A, and 3A in Regional Finals on Monday. Here’s the full scoreboard for area games.
Class 1A
Region 6: Martensdale St. Marys 6, Wayne 5
Region 7: Collins-Maxwell 7, Glidden-Ralston 4
Region 8: Akron-Westfield 6, West Monona 5
Class 2A
Region 2: Logan-Magnolia 2, Mount Ayr 1
Region 3: Earlham 9, IKM-Manning 3
Class3A
Region 4: Atlantic 2, Clarke 1
Photo Atlantic Softball
The Atlantic Trojans softball team is heading to the State Tournament in Fort Dodge for the second time in program history, and the second time in three years. The Trojans were able to earn their place in the Class 3A State Tournament with a Region 4 Final win over Clarke 2-1.
It was quickly paced game with mostly solid defensive play but the few miscues are what made the difference. Atlantic got the scoring started in the bottom of the first with Ally Anderson driving in Alexis Handel who singled to get on with two out. Anderson hit what went down as a triple after a shot to the corner got by the right fielder. Those two hits were the only damaging ones from either team for a long time. The Trojans came away empty with runners on at second and third with just one out in the 4th.
Then came the 6th inning. Clarke led off with a Sidney Marker single, got another runner aboard with a bunt by Emma Bolton that included an Atlantic rotation miscue, and advanced the runners over with a ground out. Audrey Kindred then executed a squeeze nicely to bring Marker home to tie the game at one. But that’s all the Indians would get across as Ally Anderson forced a couple of ground-outs to end the threat.
The Trojans would answer back in the bottom half of the inning. Alyssa Derby led off with a single down the third base line. Alexis Handel flew out to center on a deep hit. Then Ally Anderson came through with a huge double that nearly lined out of the park and hit off the left field fence. That put runners at 2nd and 3rd again with just one out. That’s when the defining miscue of the game occurred. Reagen Pellett appeared to strike out but Indians catcher Audrey Kindred dropped the ball and Pellett was able to attempt to get to first. Kindred then instinctively chose to throw to first, allowing Alyssa Derby to take off for home and get across to give Atlantic a 2-1 lead. A fly out by Olvia Engler then ended the inning. Clarke was unable to get anything going in the 7th and went down in order to send Atlantic to Fort Dodge.
After the game Atlantic Head Coach Terry Hinzmann talked about the great effort from Ally Anderson against a good hitting Clarke team.
Atlantic came up just shy of getting to state last season and Coach Hinzmann said the girls talked at their first meeting of the season about not letting that happen again.
Atlantic third baseman Alexis Handel talked about that decisive 6th inning.
Handel talked about the feelings the team had about state tournament goals way before the season started.
Winning pitcher Ally Anderson allowed one run on 5 hits with 2 strikeouts and no walks. After the game she talked about how good it felt to get the job done.
Atlantic improved to 30-5 with the win and will head to the Class 3A State Tournament next week. Alexis Watson took the loss for Clarke allowing 2 runs on 5 hits with 1 strikeout and 1 hit batter. Clarke ends their season with a 17-14 record.
2018 Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association Baseball Rankings
Week 7 Rankings (Released July 8, 2018) – FINAL 3A and 4A RANKINGS
Class 4-A (Record)
Others: Cedar Rapids Jefferson; Linn-Mar, Marion; North Scott; Western Dubuque
Class 3-A (Record)
Others: Boone; Central DeWitt; Fairfield; Grinnell; Oskaloosa; Saydel
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