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NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA Development League will begin its 16th season on Nov. 11. The league announced its schedule on Monday. This season features 22 teams, including three NBA-owned expansion teams. The Long Island Nets and Windy City Bulls will make their league debuts on opening night against each other in Chicago. The Greensboro Swarm, owned by the Charlotte Hornets, is the other new franchise.
The Northern Arizona Suns and Salt Lake City Stars have both relocated to the homes of their parent clubs. The league champion Sioux Falls Skyforce will open the season on Nov. 12 at home against the Stars. Canton plays Grand Rapids, Maine will play Oklahoma City and Iowa will visit Los Angeles in the other games on opening day.
Each team will play 50 games.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bijan Rademacher homered and doubled, scoring two runs as the Iowa Cubs beat the Memphis Redbirds 7-2 on Monday. Tim Federowicz homered and singled with two RBIs for Iowa. Iowa went up 2-0 in the fifth after Munenori Kawasaki hit an RBI triple, driving in John Andreoli.
The Cubs later added four runs in the sixth and one in the eighth. In the sixth, Federowicz hit a two-run home run, while Rademacher hit a solo home run in the eighth. Armando Rivero (4-3) got the win with two innings of scoreless relief while Memphis starter Kurt Heyer (2-3) took the loss in the Pacific Coast League game.
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Spencer Newman was 4 for 5 with four RBIs and Bowling Green, Kentucky scored 11 runs in the seventh inning for a 14-4 victory over Johnston, Iowa on Monday night in the Little League World Series. Kentucky had the bases loaded in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.
With the bases full in the seventh, Patrick Forbes and Devin Obee were both walked and Tate Hanks crossed home plate on a wild pitch for a 6-3 lead. Newman drilled a two-run double and Turner Nottmeier hit a RBI double to right to make it 9-3.
Iowa loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the seventh but was held to one run on Josh Larson’s RBI single. Iowa starter Kaiden Dinh left with an apparent injury to his throwing arm in the top of the third. Kentucky will play New York on Wednesday night. Iowa faces Rhode Island in an elimination game today (Tuesday).
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs took pass rusher Tamba Hali off the physically unable to perform list Monday, though the team said he will practice on a limited basis. Hali had surgery in the offseason on his balky knees, which forced him to miss nearly every practice late last season. He was still able to play in games but hardly looked 100 percent.
Hali has spent training camp working out with trainers, but his removal from the PUP list means he can begin working out with the rest of the team. Still, it is unlikely he will play in the Chiefs’ remaining preseason games against Chicago and Green Bay.
The 32-year-old Hali played in 15 games and had 6 1/2 sacks last season.
Atlantic Senior Basketball player Garrett Franken made a verbal commitment on Sunday to play his college basketball at the University of North Dakota. Franken made the announcement after spending some time with the team on a visit this past weekend. He received an offer from the Division 1 program back in early July. “I have been talking to their coaches since I was a Sophomore. I wanted to wait until I visited campus to commit and I just loved everything about the school.”, Franken said.
Franken just completed his Junior season with Atlantic in which the Trojans went 18-5 and only lost to three teams. The 6’7″ Franken averaged 16 points per game on 43% shooting for the season. He also collected 125 rebounds, had 89 assists, and 39 steals while primarily playing the Point Guard position.
Franken said he also received offers from Sioux Falls and Dordt (where his brother Dalton plays) but ultimately liked the fit with North Dakota. He also said he wanted to get a decision made now, “I wanted to make my decision before my Senior year so I didn’t have to worry about it and could just go out and play during the season.”
The North Dakota Fighting Hawks are located in Grand Forks, North Dakota and play in the Big Sky Conference. The Fighting Hawks went 17-16 overall last season and 10-8 in conference play.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Mike Leake pitched seven strong innings and hit a two-run single and the St. Louis Cardinals homered four times Sunday to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 9-0. Jedd Gyorko, Stephen Piscotty, Brandon Moss and Jeremy Hazelbaker went deep. The Cardinals had hit multiple home runs in nine straight games, tying a major league record, before failing to connect Saturday night in a 4-2 loss.
Jhonny Peralta added three hits as the Cardinals finished a 6-3 road trip. They remained 1 1/2 games ahead of Miami for the final wild-card spot in the National League.
The Cardinals got six extra-base hits to set a club record of 14 straight games with at least three extra-base hits. Leake (9-9) gave up seven hits and struck out eight. Philadelphia had homered in 14 straight games before getting blanked by Leake and two relievers. Vince Velasquez (8-6) fell to 0-4 with a 6.23 ERA in his last seven starts.
New Atlantic Head Football Coach Mike McDermott is looking for maximum effort from his players as they begin the 2016 season. “We’ve talked recently with our team that hey we want you compete. Just like we’ve done in practice, we want you to go out and compete. We want you to go hard and play hard.” McDermott said. “We can correct missed assignments but it’s a little bit tougher to correct if you’re not playing hard. The opportunity is going to be there Friday night in our scrimmage to get some guys on film and see what we have, then get ready for Clarinda next Friday night.”
Coach McDermott takes over a program that won just one game last year but suffered through numerous injuries and was forced to play a lot of young players. McDermott said he has been pleased with the effort from his players in summer workouts and early on in practice. He said they were shooting for 70 players on the roster and fell just short of that with 61 players out this year. That number is an improvement from last season and the Senior class is larger this year as well.
McDermott himself is a former player in Atlantic and was a long time member of the coaching staff previously. He was Offensive Coordinator for the 2002 State Championship team under Head Coach Gaylord Schelling and he has spent time coaching numerous levels of the program.
Many familiar faces will be on McDermott’s staff including the former Head Coach he worked with. Gaylord Schelling is coaching Junior Varsity and working with the Offensive Line. Lee Saathoff is back as Defensive Coordinator after working with McDermott for many years under Schelling. Justin Williams will work with the Running Backs and Outside Linebackers. Alan Jenkins will coach the Freshman team and will work with Wide Receivers and Defensive Backs. Brandon Crouse will work with the Defensive Line and Offensive Line. Coach McDermott said it’s been a smooth transition bringing those familiar coaches back together. “We a lot of discussions before the season of what kind of my vision was for them, and they were all on board with ‘Yep, that’s kind of where I fit in’. So we have really hit the ground running.” McDermott said.
Coach McDermott says there has been good competition for position battles and there are still some spots that are up for grabs. He said Zac Stork and John McConkey will be the stalwarts leading the charge on the Offensive Line. Garrett Franken and Jaxson Eden are battling for the Quarterback spot. Eden will spend some time at Running Back early due to a summer injury to last year’s starter Drake Roller. They plan to ease Roller back into the mix. Noah Bruckner is looking to start at Fullback. The Tight End position has Grant Podhajsky coming back. The guys battling for outside skill position playing time are Chase Mullenix, Austin Alexander, Dillon Sonntag, and Gratt Reed.
The Trojans have a scrimmage scheduled tonight at Red Oak and then will open up their 2016 campaign at home against Clarinda on August 26th.
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