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An assistant soccer coach for the University of Nebraska was killed Saturday morning during a crash on Interstate 80 in western Iowa. KETV in Omaha reports 31-year old Peter Underwood was traveling on a recruiting trip near Atlantic, when the eastbound car he was in was struck by a pickup truck traveling in the wrong direction on I-80, near the Marne exit. The crash happened at around 7-a.m. Additional details about the crash had not been released as of 8-p.m. Saturday.
University officials said Underwood had just completed his fourth season with the Nebraska women’s soccer program, serving the last two as a full-time coach and the previous two as a volunteer assistant. He is survived by his wife, Austin, and their two young children, daughter, Lyla, and son, Jude.
A statement issued by Huskers Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst, said “The University of Nebraska Athletics family is deeply saddened by the loss of Peter Underwood and our deepest sympathy and prayers go out to his wife, Austin, their children, Lyla and Jude, and his extended family and friends.” Eichorst said also,”Peter was a beacon of positive light, a wonderfully talented coach, and an even better family man of great character and faith. He will be missed by all of us.”
Underwood helped the Huskers to the Big Ten Conference regular-season and tournament titles in 2013, as Nebraska posted a 19-4-1 record and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. A native of London, England, Underwood moved to the United States and played one season of varsity soccer at Concord before the program was dropped.
Services are pending. Condolences can be sent to: Underwood Family, P.O. Box 880120, One Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, NE 68588-0120.
NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Drew Herring was the fastest during qualifying Saturday for the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Iowa Speedway as a fill-in for Erik Jones. But Jones, who was in Charlotte, North Carolina, with teammate Kyle Busch for the Sprint Cup All-Star race, will start from the back because he didn’t qualify his own car.
Daniel Suarez and Brian Scott will make up the first row for Sunday’s race, which will be the first stand-alone event of the year for NASCAR’s second-tier series. Chris Buescher and Brandon Jones, who’ll make his series debut Sunday, were fourth and fifth.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Miguel Cabrera hit his 400th career home run and nearly five hours later Jose Iglesias had an RBI single in the 10th inning that sent the Detroit Tigers over the St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 on a rainy Saturday. Cabrera’s milestone shot gave him the most homers by a Venezuelan-born player, passing Andres Galarraga. The solo shot came in the first inning just before a rain delay of 1 hour, 20 minutes.
Cabrera has hit four homers in three games, 10 overall and 262 with Detroit, tying him with Willie Horton for fourth on the franchise list. Adrian Beltre of Texas hit his 400th homer Friday. Cabrera tied Beltre for 52nd place on the career list, with Duke Snider next at 407.
In Class 1A tennis Friday, that was postponed from Thursday, in Carroll Atlantic’s Nick Podhajsky defeated Matt Moran of Denison-Schleswig in the singles final to take the district championship. Both players will advance to state.
Mitch Kinsey and Spencer Pauley took the district title in doubles play to make it to state.
The team title went to Denison-Schleswig who will move on to play either Atlantic or Kuemper Catholic. They will play in a Preliminary Substate match on Monday in Atlantic.
In Class 2A play in Johnston Abraham Lincoln’s Kyle Crowl won the singles district championship. Abraham Lincoln finished second in the team race and is set to take on Johnston Saturday in a Preliminary Substate match.
Substate tennis will be held Saturday, May 23rd. The state individual and doubles tournament is Friday, May 29th and Saturday, May 30th. State team tennis is June 2nd.
Girls Soccer
Boys Soccer
Here are the results from the Class 1A State Track Qualifying Meet at Mt. Ayr on Friday, May 15, 2015.
Girls Team: 1st Griswold 164. 2nd Essex 104. 3rd Lenox 91. 4th Mount Ayr 87. 5th Bedford 76.
Griswold’s Rebekah Topham won the 800, 1500 and 3000 meter runs. Jackie Rush from Griswold won the shot put and the tigers’ 4×800 team won.
Boys Team: 1st Mount Ayr 164. 2nd Griswold 120. 3rd Nishnabotna 91. 4th Lamoni 7. Stanton 62.
Derek Kirchhoff of Griswold won four events. The 100 meters and was part of the 4×100, 1600 medley and shuttle hurdle relay teams. Griwold’s David Thompson won the 3200 Meter Run.
All event winners automatically qualified for the state meet next week.
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Miguel Cabrera ended a season-long slump in night games with a two-run homer and two singles and the Detroit Tigers also got homers from Yoenis Cespedes and J.D. Martinez in a 10-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night.
Cabrera entered batting just .158 with no homers and one RBI at night – he’s hit .471 with eight homers and 25 RBIs in day games. Manager Brad Ausmus called those numbers an “anomaly” before the game.
Cabrera hit his 399th career homer and third in two games in the seventh inning off Mitch Harris, tying Andres Galarraga for most by a Venezuelan-born player, and Martinez followed with his eighth homer to make it 5-0.
Shane Greene (4-2) allowed five hits in five scoreless innings before being removed due to numbness in his pitching arm.
Results from the Boys Class 1A District Tennis Meet at Red Oak Thursday.
Singles Championship:
Weston Rolenc of Red Oak beat Ryan Kucera of Creston O-M. Both will advance to the state meet.
Team Scoring:
1. Glenwood 14
2. Creston O-M 12.
3. St. Albert
Preliminary Substate Dual in Creston is Saturday, May 16th with Creston facing St. Albert. Glenwood receives a bye to substate.
The 1A meet at Kuemper Catholic was postponed to Friday, May 15th featuring Atlantic, Audubon, Ballard, Denison-Schleswig, Harlan, Kuemper Catholic, and Saydel.
The 2A meet at Johnston was postponed to Friday, May 15th featuring Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln, Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson, Johnston, Lewis Central, Norwalk, and Waukee.
Boys
Perry 11, Carroll 1
Sioux City East 8, Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln 2
Girls
Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln 2, Tri-Center (Neola) 1
Glenwood 10, Creston 0
Perry 5, Carroll 0
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