ST. LOUIS (AP) – John Lackey outpitched old teammate Jon Lester, allowing two hits into the eighth inning, and rookies Tommy Pham and Stephen Piscotty each homered late as the St. Louis Cardinals cooled off the Chicago Cubs with a 4-0 victory Friday night in the opener of their NL Division Series.

In front of a standing room only crowd of 47,830 – the second-largest at 10-year-old Busch Stadium – thousands of Cubs faithful mixed into the red throng for the first postseason game between the two long-time rivals.

Game 2 of the best-of-five series is Saturday. The Cardinals turn to lefty Jaime Garcia (10-6), who made 20 starts coming off risky thoracic surgery. Kyle Hendricks (8-7) makes his postseason debut for the NL wild-card winners.

Matt Holliday had an RBI single in the first, giving St. Louis a lead after just three at-bats. Pinch-hitting, Pham homered off Lester and Piscotty had a two-run shot off Pedro Strop in the eighth.

2015 High School Football  Scores
Week 7 – October 9

Class 3-A, District 8
Shenandoah 55 Atlantic 19
Harlan 59  Creston 21
Dallas Center-Grimes  42  Winterset  7
Glenwood  27 ADM  13

Class 2-A, District 8
Kuemper Catholic 21  Clarinda 14
East Sac County 60 West Central Valley 6
Southeast Valley 46 Red Oak 18

Class 1-A, District 1
Underwood 40 A-H-S-T-W 0
IKM-Manning  30 NW Webster 6
Missouri Valley 41 OA-BCIG 34
Treynor 40  West Monona 0

Class A, District 1
Logan-Magnolia 63 Griswold 14
Tri-Center 20 Riverside 13
Audubon 43 Westwood 20
St. Albert  38 Maple Valley 19

Class A, District 8
Bedford  48  Clarinda Academy  0
Pleasantville 63 SE Warren 0
Nodaway Valley 30 Martensdale-St. Marys 13
Mount Ayr 42 Earlham 0

8-Man, District 1
Newell-Fonda  42 Exira/EHK 35
Ar-We-Va 34  Boyer Valley  0
Kingsley-Pierson  83 River Valley 8
Woodbine 68 West Harrison  8

8-Man, District 7
Grand View Christian 57 Adair-Casey 22
Glidden-Ralston  40 Coon Rapids-Bayard 28
East Union  66 Guthrie Center 12

8-Man, District 8
Lenox 40 Fremont-Mills 34
East Mills  54 CAM 12
Stanton  50 Sidney 18
Nishnabotna  55 Essex  20

Listen in tonight for a battle of undefeated teams in 8-man football as Exira-EHK travels to Newell-Fonda. Chris Parks and Seth Christensen will bring you all the action beginning with Pregame at 6:30pm and Kickoff at 7:00pm. You can listen on air at AM1220, FM101.1.  You can also listen online at kjan.com or on the KJAN mobile app that you can download for free on your iphone or android device.  You can also watch the game tonight! Check out the live video stream on the TV page at kjan.com.  Just click play on the embedded video player when pregame coverage starts.

Hawkeye 10 Conference

(2-0) Clarinda 25-25, Mount Ayr 17-18
(2-0) Clarinda 25-25, Southwest Valley 21-15
(3-0) Creston 25-25-25, Glenwood 20-23-19
(3-2) Red Oak 25-26-26-25, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 20-24-28-23
(3-0) Lewis Central 25-25-25, Denison-Schleswig 20-15-20

Western Iowa Conference

(3-0) AHSTW 25-25-26, Riverside, Oakland 20-14-24
(3-0) IKM-Manning 25-25-25, Logan-Magnolia 20-23-20
(3-0) Treynor 25-25-25, Missouri Valley 9-15-14
(3-0) Tri-Center, Neola 25-25-25, Griswold 13-8-10
(3-0) Underwood 25-25-25, Audubon 21-19-13

Rolling Valley Conference

(3-2) AR-WE-VA, Westside 20-26-11-25-15, Boyer Valley 25-24-25-19-9
(3-1) Coon Rapids-Bayard 25-17-25-25, Adair-Casey 23-25-23-11
(3-2) Exira-EHK 25-20-22-25-15, Paton-Churdan 16-25-25-23-11(3-0) Exira-EHK 25-25-25, West Harrison 20-11-13
(3-0) Glidden-Ralston 25-25-25, Charter Oak-Ute 10-21-16
(3-1) Paton-Churdan 15-25-25-25, West Harrison 25-12-14-8
(3-0) Woodbine 25-25-25, CAM, Anita 23-19-23

Corner Conference Tournament

Consolation: (3-2) Stanton 25-25-15-20-15, Essex 23-9-25-25-12
Championship: (3-0) Sidney 26-25-25, Fremont-Mills 24-13-13

Pride of Iowa Conference

(3-0) Lenox 25-25-25, Orient-Macksburg 7-15-10
(2-1) Southwest Valley 22-25-15, Mount Ayr 25-20-8

Other Scores

(3-1) Siouxland Community Christian 25-25-17-25, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 20-17-25-14
(2-0) LeMars Gehlen Catholic 25-25, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 13-12

2015 High School Football  Schedule
Week 7 – October 9

Class 3-A, District 8
Shenandoah @ Atlantic
Harlan @ Creston
Dallas Center-Grimes @ Winterset
Glenwood @ ADM

Class 2-A, District 8
Kuemper Catholic @ Clarinda
West Central Valley @ East Sac County
Red Oak @ Southeast Valley

Class 1-A, District 1
A-H-S-T-W @ Underwood
NW Webster @ IKM-Manning
Missouri Valley @ OA-BCIG
Treynor @ West Monona

Class A, District 1
Griswold @ Logan-Magnolia
Tri-Center @ Riverside
Westwood @ Audubon
Maple Valley @ St. Albert

Class A, District 8
Bedford @ Clarinda Academy
Pleasantville @ SE Warren
Nodaway Valley @ Martensdale-St. Marys
Earlham @ Mount Ayr

8-Man, District 1
Exira/EHK @ Newell-Fonda
Ar-We-Va @ Boyer Valley
River Valley @ Kingsley-Pierson
Woodbine @ West Harrison

8-Man, District 7
Ankeny Christian @ Adair-Casey
Coon Rapids-Bayard @ Glidden-Ralston
Guthrie Center @ East Union
Murray @ NE Hamilton

8-Man, District 8
Lenox @ Fremont-Mills
CAM @ East Mills
Sidney @ Stanton
Essex @ Nishnabotna

The Atlantic Trojans hosted their annual Cross Country meet on Thursday, October 8th at the Atlantic Golf and Country Club.  Results are as follows.

Girls

1. Lexi Smith, Dallas Center-Grimes
2. Tiffany Williams, Atlantic
3. Kye Madsen, Lewis Central
4. Ellie Mendlik, Denison-Schleswig
5. Sami Sterbenz, Dallas Center-Grimes
6. Kaitlyn Murano, Dallas Center-Grimes
7. Raegan Andersen, Denison-Schleswig
8. Abby McIntyre, Glenwood
9. Claire Jones, Abraham Lincoln
10. Claire Campbell, Shenandoah

20th Karsyn Rush, Atlantic
21st Ashley Wendt, Atlantic

Team Results

1. Dallas Center-Grimes 51pts
2. Shenandoah  124pts
3. Denison-Schleswig 124pts
4. Glenwood 131pts
5. Harlan 140pts
6. Atlantic 152pts

Boys

1. Brenden O’Brien, Lewis Central
2. Cooper McDermott, Creston
3. Jon Dahlheimer, Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson
4. Evan Wilson, Exira-EHK
5. Alex Thompson, Dallas Center-Grimes
6. McGwire Midkiff, Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson
7. Jerry Jorgenson, Treynor
8. Curtis Harryman, Winterset
9. Michael Sciranko, Harlan
10. Andrew Dick, Winterset

19th Ryan Hawkins, Atlantic
35th Phoenix Shadden, Atlantic

Team Results

1. Dallas Center-Grimes 54pts
2. Winterset 86pts
3. Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson 108pts
4. Harlan 152pts
5. Atlantic 245pts

FULL RESULTS:

Trojan XC Boys JV 10.5.15

Trojan XC Boys V 10.5.15

Trojan XC Girls JV 10.5.15

Trojan XC Girls MS 10.8.15

Trojan XC Girls V 10.5.15

Trojan XC MS Boys 10.8.15

The Exira-EHK Spartans Football team is gearing up for a big 8-Man District 1 road game at Newell-Fonda on Friday night.  Both teams come into the game sporting 6-0 records and a win would go a long way toward winning a district title.  The Mustangs are the defending State Champions in 8-Man football and Exira-EHK Head Coach Tom Petersen says he knows his team will need to play a great game in order to knock off a great team. Newell-Fonda returns 7 of 8 offensive starters from last season and Quarterback Jason Hess actually entered the championship game at that position last year due to injury.  Hess has thrown for 737 yards and 13 touchdowns and just 4 interceptions this season.  Newell-Fonda likes to keep the ball on the ground though and they are lead in rushing by Senior Cole Wise wtih 680 yards and 13 scores on the year.

The Spartans have also gotten some great play out of a Running Back in Junior Drew Buckholdt whom is averaging over 8 yards per carry and has rushed for 10 touchdowns and caught 4 more.  Newell-Fonda Head Coach Brian Wilken says he has a lot of respect for the Spartans and expects a tough game from them.  The Mustangs come into the game having won 17 straight games and Coach Petersen says his team knows the type of focus and execution they need to try get the win.

We’ll have coverage of the game on KJAN.  Chris Parks and Seth Christensen will bring you the broadcast with a 6:30pm Pregame and 7:00pm Kickoff from Newell.  You can listen on AM1220, FM101.1, online at kjan.com, or on the KJAN mobile app.  You can also watch a live video stream of the game online on the KJANTV page at kjan.com.  Our football night begins with our weekly high school pick ’em show Who’s Gonna Win? at 6:00pm.

The Atlantic Trojan football team gets a different kind of match-up this week, that is one not against a top ten ranked opponent.  The Trojans have lost big the last two weeks to top ten rated foes Harland and Dallas Center-Grimes.  This week the Trojans get to take a break from District play and take on fellow Hawkeye Ten Conference member Shenandoah whom is 4-2 on the season. Atlantic Head Coach Eric Waldstein says his team is ready to bounce back and prove they can win this week.

The Trojans (1-5) have battled through a wide variety of injuries forcing a lot of young players to see the field in a variety of positions.  The Trojans are hopeful that they will be a little healthier this week after making it through the Dallas Center-Grimes game with no major setbacks.  The Trojans will rely on leaders like Wide Receiver Brenden Holmes and Running Back Drake Roller to get the Trojans back in the win column.

The Trojans will try to slow down the Mustang rushing attack that is led by Running Back Logan Roberts (574 yards, 4 touchdowns) and Quarterback Jake Johnson (462 yards, 6 touchdowns). Coach Waldstein says assignment defense will be the key and thinks the Trojans offense can have some success on the ground themselves.

You can hear an extended interview with Coach Waldstein on Trojan Preview at 4:45pm Friday on KJAN.

The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast w/Jim Field.

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