NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — The title sponsor of the IndyCar series race in Iowa says next season’s event will be moved to July and extended by 50 laps. Iowa Corn says the IndyCar race will be held at night on July 12 — a day after a NASCAR Trucks series event at the 0.875-mile oval.

The open-wheel race, traditionally held in late June, will also be 300 laps for the first time since IndyCar started hosting races at Iowa Speedway in 2007. The track is expected to release details of its full 2014 schedule in the near future.

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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — One of the Northern Iowa’s hallmarks under basketball coach Ben Jacobson has been veteran leadership. The Panthers won’t have much of that to lean on this season. Three starters and three of the program’s top four scorers have moved on, leaving Jacobson with the least experienced group in his eight-year tenure in Cedar Falls.

The Panthers have 10 newcomers — including five true freshmen and Tennessee transfer Wes Washpun — that they’ll need to find roles for before the season opener on Nov. 9 at Ohio.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Justin Houston, Tamba Hali and the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs defense doesn’t seem to worry about their place in history. Wins are more important to them.
If they stopped to take stock through the first six weeks, they might be surprised.

After piling up 10 sacks in a win over the Raiders last Sunday, the Chiefs now have 31 this season. That puts them on pace to not only shatter the franchise record of 60 set during the 1990 season, but the NFL record of 72 set by the ’84 Bears. The sack became an official stat in 1982.

Houston leads the Chiefs with 9 1/2 sacks, tied with the Colts’ Robert Mathis for the most in the NFL. Hali is fourth with 7 1/2 on the year.

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A representative of the Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund says the organization recently donated $1,100 to the Atlantic Junior Sports Association (AJSA). Melanie Petty says the funds will help the AJSA to purchase a Football Chute, 5×10-foot Landing Mat and Chute Board Football Training Aides.

Petty says they are excited to learn how much the AJSA has grown in the last few years, and look forward to watching the kids continue to play in years to come. She said also, another donation of over $2,000 was given to the AHS Football Program to purchase items they needed to kick off their 2013 season.

Petty says football was always part of Trevor’s life,  so the two donations are a perfect fit for the Memorial Fund to give back to the community.

Hawkeye 10:

• (3-0) Red Oak 25-25-25, Atlantic 18-13-12
• (3-0) Harlan 25-25-25, Creston 7-12-9
• (3-1) Lewis Central 25-25-21-25, Glenwood 20-19-25-14
• (3-0) St. Albert, Council Bluffs 25-25-25, Denison-Schleswig 13-15-11

Western Iowa Tourney Semi-Finals:

• (3-0) Treynor 25-26-25, IKM-Manning 20-24-16
• (3-2) Underwood 20-26-22-25-15, Missouri Valley 25-24-25-19-12

Others:

• (3-0) Carroll 25-25-32, Winterset 12-21-30
• (3-0) Des Moines Christian 25-25-25, West Central Valley, Stuart 17-15-6
• (3-2) East Union 25-27-23-17-15, Bedford 18-25-25-25-13
• (3-1) Essex 25-24-25-25, East Mills 23-26-23-22
• (2-0) Grandview Park Baptist 25-25, Orient-Macksburg 6-9
• (3-1) Guthrie Center 25-25-21-25, Van Meter 15-19-25-16
• (3-1) Martensdale-St Marys 14-25-25-25, Southwest Valley 25-18-22-21
• (3-0) Martensdale-St Marys 25-25-25, Bedford 10-19-20
• (3-0) Ogden 25-25-25, Panorama 12-12-20
• (3-0) Southwest Valley 25-25-25, East Union 12-9-18
• (3-0) Stanton 25-25-25, Heartland Christian 11-9-13
• (3-0) Fremont-Mills 25-25-25, Clarinda Academy 6-5-4

The three winners of the inaugural Bob Feller Act of Valor Award were announced today. Peter Fertig of New York man created the award in tribute to the former Cleveland Indians pitcher from Van Meter, who struck out 17 batters at the age of 17, and was a decorated World War Two anti-aircraft gunner. Fertig consulted with baseball executives, the U-S Navy and Feller’s widow. “I wanted to find a way to honor Bob Feller, a true American patriot and a hero,” Fertig says. He says it’s important to remember what Feller did on and off the baseball diamond.

“Bob was a major league baseball player, rose to the rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy, and he was a baseball Hall of Famer. My job is to keep his memory alive of what he did. If we forget shame on us,” Fertig explains. Fertig is the president of the award’s foundation which will choose the winners each year. The Act of Valor Award goes to a Hall of Famer, an active baseball player and a Naval officer — each representing a part of what Feller was.

“Bob Feller was a phenom at the age of 23, he had already pitched six years in the major leagues and on December seventh, 1941 he never hesitated, he never wavered, he joined the hardest hit part of our military at that time which was the United States Navy,” Fertig says. The inaugural winners of the award are Yankee’s legend Yogi Berra, Detroit pitcher Justin Verlander, and Chief Petty Officer Garth Sinclair. Berra is now 88, and is cited for his career with the New York Yankees and also for participating in the D-Day invasion in World War Two.

(Radio Iowa)