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Hawkeye 10:

• Atlantic 16-11, Sioux City West 0-6
• Glenwood 4, St. Albert 2
• Creston 11, Clarinda 1
• Kuemper Catholic 11, Red Oak 1 (6 innings)
• Carroll 12, Kuemper Catholic 4
• Glenwood 7, Abraham Lincoln 4
• Dallas Center-Grimes 3, Harlan 2
• Shenandoah 11, Nishnabotna 1

Western Iowa:

• Tri-Center 10-1, Griswold 0-9
• Missouri Valley 11-5, A-H-S-T 3-17
• Audubon 4, Guthrie Center 2
• Logan-Magnolia 13, Westwood 0 (6 innings)
• Treynor 10, Riverside 0 (5 innings)

Rolling Valley:

• Ar-We-Va 10, CAM 0 (5 innings)
• Exira/EHK 12, Boyer Valley 2
• Exira/EHK 13, Orient-Macksburg 0
• Coon Rapids-Bayard 6, Underwood 3

Others:

• Southwest Valley 8, Central Decatur 7

CLASS 1-A Quarterfinals:

• Glidden-Ralston 4, Charter Oak-Ute 0
• Exira/EHK 6, Stanton 5
• CAM 1, Griswold 0
• Mount Ayr 5, Lenox 2
• Martensdale- St. Marys 11, Guthrie Center 1 (6 innings)
• Bedford 9, Murray 4
• Westwood 11, West Harrison 6
• Essex 8, Fremont-Mills 3
• Ar-We-Va 9, Woodbine 5

CLASS 2-A Quarterfinals:

• Treynor 8, A-H-S-T 7
• Earlham 12, Van Meter 2 (5 innings)
• IKM-Manning 9, Southwest Valley 0
• Underwood 4, Logan-Magnolia 2
• Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 7, Missouri Valley 3 (9 innings)
• St. Edmond 2, Panorama 0 (suspended in the top of the 3rd. Game will resume Thursday at 7:00 pm at Rogers Park)

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lance Lynn reached double figures in wins before the All-Star break for the third straight year and Kolten Wong homered for the second game in a row, helping the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates for the third straight time, 5-2 on Wednesday night. Matt Adams had three hits and two RBIs for the Cardinals, who will go for a four-game sweep over the NL Central rival they beat in the division series last fall on Thursday, although they might have to do it without All-Star catcher Yadier Molina.

Molina was removed for a pinch-hitter in the third inning with a sprained right thumb from sliding into third base and will be re-evaluated before the finale. He caught another half-inning before leaving the game. Neil Walker homered and doubled for Pittsburgh, which had won 12 of 15 entering the series and dropped the first two on game-winning, ninth-inning homers by Adams and Wong.

Cardinals C Molina leaves game with sprained thumb

ST. LOUIS (AP) — All-Star catcher Yadier Molina has been removed from the St. Louis Cardinals’ game against Pittsburgh in the third inning with a sprained right thumb. The team said the injury will be re-evaluated Thursday. A trainer attended to Molina on the field Wednesday night after he slid feet first into third base in the second inning. Molina remained in the game and caught the top of the third before he was lifted for pinch-hitter Tony Cruz in the bottom half.Cruz then replaced Molina behind the plate.Molina was voted to his sixth straight NL All-Star team Sunday and is a starter for the fourth time. He doubled in the second inning and was hitting .287 with seven homers and 30 RBIs.

CARDINALS-KELLY

Kelly set to return to Cardinals rotation

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Joe Kelly is set to return to the rotation Friday from a hamstring injury that’s sidelined him nearly three months. Kelly was injured running to first on April 17. He’s 1-1 with an 0.59 ERA in three starts heading into the start in Milwaukee and was 10-5 last year with a 2.69 ERA. The right-hander is one of three starters on the 15-day disabled list. Michael Wacha is out indefinitely with a stress fracture in his pitching shoulder sustained in mid-June and lefty Jaime Garcia will undergo season-ending thoracic outlet surgery on Friday in St. Louis to relieve nerve issues that caused numbness and tingling in his shoulder, arm and hand resulting in a loss of feel for his pitches. Lefty Kevin Siegrist was set to begin a minor rehab stint from a forearm strain that landed him on the DL on May 24.

UNDATED (AP) — The Missouri Valley conference men’s basketball tournament will remain in St. Louis through at least 2018. St. Louis will host what’s become known as “Arch Madness” for the 25th straight year in March. The Valley announced Wednesday that St. Louis has also been awarded the 2016-18 tournaments and that it has an option to extend its deal with the city through 2020.

League Commissioner Doug Elgin says the Valley targeted St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, Indianapolis and Las Vegas as prospective host cities before choosing to keep the tournament in St. Louis. The Valley’s stay in St. Louis is the second longest for a neutral site tournament, trailing only the Big East’s tenure in New York City

Class 1-A Quarter-Finals:
@ Murray: Bedford vs. Murray (7:00)
@ Lenox: Mount Ayr vs. Lenox (7:00)
@ Griswold: Exira/EHK vs. Stanton (5:30)
@ Griswold: CAM vs. Griswold (7:30)
@ Tabor: Essex vs. Fremont-Mills (7:00)
@ Martensdale: Guthrie Center vs. Martensdale-St. Marys (7:00)
@ Charter Oak: Glidden-Ralston vs. Charter Oak-Ute (7:00)
@ Vail: Ar-We-Va vs. Woodbine (7:00)
@ Sloan: Westwood vs. West Harrison (7:00)

Class 2-A Quarter-Finals
@ Fort Dodge: St. Edmond vs. Panorama (7:00)
@ Irwin: Southwest Valley vs. IKM-Manning (7:00)
@ Logan: Underwood vs. Logan-Magnolia (7:00)
@ Avoca: A-H-S-T vs. Treynor (7:00)
@ Mapleton: Maple Valley vs. Missouri Valley (7:00)

Hawkeye 10:

• Lewis Central 4, Logan-Magnolia 3 (10 inn)
• Winterset 4, Creston 1
• Kuemper Catholic 2, Gilbert 1
• St. Albert 8, Shenandoah 1
• Harlan 15, Clarinda 2
• Glenwood 11, LeMars 4
• Denison 17, Audubon 2

Western Iowa:

• IKM-Manning 5, Griswold 1
• Missouri Valley 5, Shenandoah 1
• Underwood 10, Sidney 1
• Treynor 21, Lenox 3
• Nishnabotna 8, Riverside 4

Rolling Valley:

• Earlham 24, Adair-Casey 1
• Carroll 24, Glidden-Ralston 1
• South Central Calhoun 4, Coon Rapids-Bayard 1
• Exira-EHK 9, Panorama 4
• Ar-We-Va 9, East Sac County 7

Corner:

• East Mills 15-19, Essex 0-12

Others:

• Pleasantville 13, Nodaway Valley 0
• Wayne 12 Southwest Valley 0

CLASS 1-A:

• Bedford 12, Diagonal 2 (6 innings)
• Mount Ayr 8, East Union 0
• Essex 10, Sidney 4

CLASS 2-A :

• Ridge View 11, West Monona 1 (5 innings)
• Southwest Valley 8, Nodaway Valley 3
• Treynor 10, Riverside 0 (5 innings)
• Missouri Valley 9, Tri-Center 6
• Panorama 13, South Central Calhoun 1 (4 innings)
• Underwood 16, St. Albert 6 (6 innings)
• Van Meter 12, Audubon 0 (3 innings)

CLASS 3-A:

• Atlantic 15, Red Oak 3 (4 innings)
• ADM 8, West Central Valley 1
• Sergeant Bluff-Luton 14, Kuemper Catholic 4 (5 innings)
• Shenandoah 14, Clarinda 2 (6 innings)