ST. LOUIS (AP) — Star catcher Yadier Molina of the St. Louis Cardinals left Game 2 of the NL Championship Series with a strained muscle on his left side. Molina was replaced by Tony Cruz in the top of the seventh inning with the score tied 2-all Sunday night. Cruz’s passed ball helped the Giants go ahead in the seventh.

Molina hardly budged from the batter’s box when he grounded into a double play against San Francisco reliever Jeremy Affeldt in the sixth. The six-time All-Star remained hunched over until a trainer and manager Mike Matheny came out to meet him. Molina walked off on his own, but was clearly in pain.

Molina, who missed seven weeks this season with a thumb injury, has won six straight Gold Gloves and finished third in NL MVP voting last year. His loss was a huge blow to the Cardinals, who had trailed 1-0 in the best-of-seven series.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright insists he’s fine physically, though he’s failed to make it through the fifth inning in both of his postseason starts. St. Louis general manager John Mozeliak said Sunday that he thinks Wainwright’s workload is simply taking a toll. The GM said it might be a good idea in the offseason to figure how to cut down on all those innings.

Counting the postseason, Wainwright has thrown 512 2-3 innings the last two years. That’s by far the most in the majors. In nine postseason innings, Wainwright has surrendered eight earned runs and 17 hits. He blamed mechanical woes and not a chronic elbow issue after losing Game 1 of the NL Championship Series to San Francisco on Saturday night.

A big September may have worn down Wainwright. He was 5-0 while totaling 39 innings, although he was scratched from the regular-season finale after the Cardinals clinched the NL Central.

ST. LOUIS (AP) – The St. Louis Cardinals shelled Madison Bumgarner the first time they faced him in the National League playoffs before last night, torching him for six runs in three 2/3 innings during the 2012 division series. Bumgarner turned the tables on the Redbirds Saturday while leading the Giants to victory in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series.

Bumgarner struck out seven while allowing four hits over 7 2/3 innings of a 3-0 shutout at St. Louis. He was breezing until the seventh, when the Cardinals collected consecutive one-out singles before Kolten Wong tapped out and pinch-hitter Tony Cruz fanned. Bumgarner also set a major league postseason record with 26 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings on the road.

Travis Ishikawa put the Giants ahead with an RBI single in the second before Hunter Pence scored on Matt Carpenter’s error at third base later in the inning. Brandon Belt added a sacrifice fly one inning later. That was more than enough offense for the Giants to win for the 12th time in their last 13 playoff games.

Loser Adam Wainwright allowed two earned runs and six hits in just 4 2/3 innnings.  Game 2 is tonight (Sunday) in St. Louis, where Lance Lynn will get the starting nod for the Cards against Jake Peavy. Pre-game coverage on KJAN begins at 6:12-p.m., with the first pitch at around 7:07.

Western Christian Tournament:
1st place: Western Christian (W/C def. Harlan in the Championship 2-1)
2nd place: Harlan
3rd place: Sioux City Bishop Heelan

CAM Tournament:
1st Place: Guthrie Center (GC def. Nodaway Valley 2-1 for the Championship)
2nd Place: Nodaway Valley

Individual games results:
Adair-Casey 2 Iowa Christian Academy 1; Adair-Casey 2 Orient-Macksburg 0; Guthrie Center 2 Adair-Casey 0; Guthrie Center 2, Panorama 0; Nodaway Valley 2 Adair-Casey 0; Nodaway Valley 2 CAM 0; Nodaway Valley 2 Panorama 0; Nodaway Valley 2 Riverside 0; Panorama 2 CAM 1; Panorama 2 Riverside 0.

Other scores from around western Iowa:
(2-1) Charles City 25-20-15, Kuemper Catholic 19-25-9
(2-0) Independence 21-21, Kuemper Catholic 19-19
(2-0) Kuemper Catholic 21-21, Hampton-Dumont 11-9
(2-0) Kuemper Catholic 21-21, West Fork 19-15
(2-0) Kuemper Catholic 25-25, Denver 23-17
(2-1) Sidney 20-25-25, Tri-County, NE 25-5-11
(2-0) Sidney 25-25, Fairbury, NE 22-17

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Sam Richardson threw for a career-high 351 yards and three second-half touchdowns Saturday, rallying Iowa State to a 37-30 victory over Toledo. Unable to finish drives in the first half, Richardson and the offense got rolling in the second and gave the Cyclones (2-4) a much needed victory in a rare October break from Big 12 play.

Toledo (4-2), which had a three-game winning streak broken, ran the ball well and pulled into a 23-23 tie in the fourth quarter. But the Cyclones took the lead on Richardson’s 5-yard TD pass to E.J. Bibbs and secured the victory with a 16-play, 85-yard drive that Richardson finished with a 14-yard scoring pass to Alan Lazard, making it 37-23.

Richardson finished with a school-record 37 completions in 53 attempts and connected with nine different receivers, including a lineman.

VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — Sawyer Kollmorgen and Brion Carnes each threw touchdown passes as Northern Iowa beat South Dakota 27-16 Saturday. South Dakota (2-4, 0-2 Missouri Valley) opened the game with an 11-play, 76-yard drive which culminated when Trevor Bouma scored on a 17-yard run. He finished with 70 yards on 14 carries. Northern Iowa (3-3, 1-1), however, would score 17-straight points, including Carnes’ 28-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Vereen, Jr., and lead the rest of the way.

Northern Iowa had seven sacks, including three by Brett McMakin, keeping Kevin Earl, who was injured South Dakota’s season opener against Oregon, on the run most of the game. Earl completed 17 of 29 passes for 260 yards, including a 25-yard TD pass to Brandt Van Roekel to cap a 99-yard scoring drive, in his return.

Carnes added 55 yards on nine carries.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Jake Rudock threw for 210 yards and two touchdowns and Iowa rolled past Indiana 45-29 on Saturday for its third straight win. Mark Weisman had a pair of short TD runs for the Hawkeyes (5-1, 2-0 Big Ten), who scored all but seven of their points in the first half.

Iowa scored 28 points in the first quarter — surpassing its total in each of its first four games against Power 5 schools — and led by as much as 21. Indiana pulled within 28-21, but Weisman closed the first half on a 1-yard TD run to give Iowa a 38-21 lead.

Tevin Coleman had 219 yards rushing for Indiana (3-3, 0-2), including TD runs of 83, 69 and 45 yards. Hoosiers quarterback Nate Sudfeld left with an apparent injury in the first half and never returned.

A large group of runners and walkers gathered at the high school in Atlantic this (Saturday) morning to participate in the first of what’s hoped to be an annual event. The “Color the Town” Color Run/Fun walk began just after 8-a.m. with the bang of a starter’s pistol.

All photos by Color Run participant & KJAN News Director, Ric Hanson.

The 5k event ended at the high school with participants throwing open colored packets of corn starch into the air after the last runners/walkers crossed the finish line, creating a rainbow effect and splashing anyone with power who didn’t get hit at any of the four color stations along the 3.1-mile route.

Fresh fruit and water along with donuts were made available by the Atlantic Hy-Vee and Atlantic Fitness. The event served as a fundraiser for the Atlantic High School Student Council.

w/Mark Saylor

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Class 3-A District 8
ADM 45, Glenwood 28
Atlantic 42, Shenandoah 19
Creston 35, Harlan 20
Dallas Center Grimes 10, Winterset 7

Class 2-A District 8
Clarinda 34, Kuemper Catholic 13
East Sac County 48, West Central Valley 6
Southeast Valley 28, Red Oak 13
Atlantic 42, Shenandoah 19

Class 1-A District 1
A-H-S-T-W 31, Underwood 13
IKM-Manning 35, NW Webster 13
OA-BCIG 33, Missouri Valley 0
Treynor 62, West Monona 20

Class 1-A District 8
Central Decatur 38, Woodward-Granger 20
Panorama 56, Des Moines Christian 6
Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont 36, Interstate-35 13
Van Meter 48, Southwest Valley 8

Class A District 1
Audubon 32, Westwood 20
Logan-Magnolia 48, Griswold 16
St. Albert 21, Maple Valley 14
Tri-Center 35, Riverside 0

Class A District 8
Bedford 48, Clarinda Academy 0
Mount Ayr 49, Earlham 26
Nodaway Valley 47, Martensdale-St. Marys 20
Pleasantville 47, SE Warren 6

8-Man District 1
Boyer Valley 46, Ar-We-Va 6
Newell-Fonda 54, Exira/EHK 15
River Valley 60, Kingsley-Pierson 40
Woodbine 58, West Harrison 13

8-Man District 7
Adair-Casey 57, Ankeny Christian Academy 13
Glidden-Ralston 50, Coon Rapids-Bayard 38
Guthrie Center 24, East Union 22
Murray 48 Northeast Hamilton 30

8-Man District 8
CAM 52, East Mills 42
Nishnabotna 86, Essex 38
Fremont-Mills 24, Lenox 22
Sidney 45, Stanton 20