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8AM Sportscast 06-17-2013

Podcasts, Sports

June 17th, 2013 by admin

w/ Jim Field

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UCLA makes most of LSU’s errors in 2-1 CWS victory

Sports

June 17th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

 

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Adam Plutko and two relievers limited LSU to five hits, and UCLA turned both of the Tigers’ errors into runs in a tense 2-1 victory at the College World Series on Sunday night. The Bruins (45-17) will play North Carolina State on Tuesday. The No. 4 national seed Tigers (57-10) will meet North Carolina in an elimination game.

LSU scored its only run on Mason Katz’s fourth-inning homer. The Tigers had defensive breakdowns that allowed the Bruins to tie it in the sixth and take the lead in the eighth. Plutko (9-3) allowed four hits in seven innings for the win. David Berg worked out of trouble in the ninth to earn his 22nd save.

Aaron Nola (12-1) gave up five singles in eight innings, and both runs against him were unearned.

 

CWS: Wolfpack tops ‘Heels

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June 17th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — North Carolina State’s Carlos Rodon pitched eight shutout innings and the Wolfpack knocked ACC pitcher of the year Kent Emanuel out of the game early in an 8-1 victory in their College World Series opener Sunday. Rodon (10-2) held the No. 1 national seed Tar Heels hitless into the fifth inning. He allowed five hits and struck out eight. It was the sophomore left-hander’s second straight dominating performance against the Tar Heels. Three weeks ago he allowed one hit and struck out 14 in 10 innings in a 2-1, 18-inning loss in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.

The Wolfpack (50-14) play UCLA — a 2-1 winner over LSU in the late game — Tuesday. The Tar Heels (57-11) are one loss from elimination. They will play LSU on Tuesday night. Brett Williams, Bryan Adametz and Logan Ratledge had two hits apiece for the Wolfpack. Emanuel (11-4) failed to get out of the third inning for a second straight start.

Ricky Nolasco, Marlins beat Cardinals 7-2

Sports

June 16th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

MIAMI (AP) – Ricky Nolasco allowed one run and three hits in seven innings Sunday to help the Miami Marlins take the rubber game of their three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals, 7-2.   NL Central leader St. Louis lost a series for the first time since April 26-28 against Pittsburgh.
 
The Marlins climbed above .300 at 21-47, still baseball’s worst record. They scored 19 runs in the series against a team with the lowest ERA in the majors.  The abundance of offense was a refreshing change for Nolasco (4-7), who has endured the worst run support of any pitcher with at least 14 tarts. Luxuriating in a lead, he retired 11 in a row during one stretch.

Area High School Baseball/Softball Scores from Sat., June 15th 2013

Sports

June 16th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

BASEBALL
Treynor 12 Atlantic 2 (6 inn)
Roland-Story 15 East Mills 0 (4 inn)

West Harrison Tournament
Fremont-Mills 9 West Monona 1
Fremont-Mills 8 West Harrison 5
West Monona 8 West Harrison 1

Other Scores….
Glenwood 4 Pleasant Valley 1
Ames 10 Glenwood 3
Waukee 5 Abraham Lincoln 1
Des Moines Hoover 5 Abraham Lincoln 1
Thomas Jefferson 4 Pleasant Valley 3
Ames 7 Thomas Jefferson 0
Waukee 4 North Scott 3
North Scott 2 Des Moines Hoover 1

Guthrie Center Tournament – Cancelled

Red Oak vs. ClarindaAcademy – postponed

SOFTBALL
Fort Dodge Tournament
Winterset 1 Harlan 0
Atlantic 2 Sioux City East 0 

AHST Tournament
AHST 7 Essex/South Page 1
Woodbine 14 Nishnabotna 11
Essex/South Page 17 Nishnabotna 3

The Griswold, and IKM-Manning Tournaments were cancelled.

GuthrieCenterTournament
Guthrie Center 10 West Harrison 9
(The rest of the Tournament was cancelled)

Treynor Classic
Glenwood 2 Treynor 0
Abraham Lincoln 11 Glenwood 7
Abraham Lincoln 12 Charter Oak-Ute 2
Charter Oak-Ute 8 Treynor 3

Shenandoah Tournament
Shenandoah 12 East Mills 7
Shenandoah 8 Stanton 0
Shenandoah 7 Missouri Valley 0 (called after 5 innings due  to rain)
Missouri Valley 14 East Mills 5
Stanton 7 Missouri Valley 5
East Mills vs. Stanton (did not finish due to rain)

DeNato pitches Indiana to 2-0 win over Louisville

Sports

June 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Joey DeNato threw a four-hitter and Indiana looked right at home in beating Louisville 2-0 on Saturday night in the Hoosiers’ first appearance in the College World Series. The Hoosiers manufactured their runs early, and DeNato (10-2) made them stand up in a masterful performance in front of a TD Ameritrade Park-record crowd of 27,122.
 
Indiana (49-18) has beaten the Cardinals (51-13) in three of four meetings, shutting them out twice. The Hoosiers will play Monday against Mississippi State, and the Cardinals will face Oregon State in an elimination game. DeNato allowed three singles and a double in his second complete game. He struck out eight and walked three. Louisville starter Chad Green (10-4) left after Indiana loaded the bases with none out in the third inning. 

Indiana is the first Big Ten team in the CWS since Michigan in 1984 and gave the conference its first win in Omaha since the Wolverines beat Stanford in 1983.

Beltran homers twice as Cards beat Marlins 13-7

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June 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

MIAMI (AP) – Carlos Beltran homered from each side of the plate and tripled to lead a 17-hit attack Saturday, and Lance Lynn notched his ninth victory when the St. Louis Cardinals outslugged the Miami Marlins 13-7. Swinging left-handed, Beltran hit his 15th home run in the second inning and tripled for the first time since May 2012 in the eighth. He hit another home run from the right side in the ninth – the 11th time he has homered from both sides in a game. 
 
Yadier Molina singled home two runs in the Cardinals’ five-run first inning, and David Freese’s fourth homer in the third inning put them ahead to stay. Lynn (9-1) allowed a career-high seven runs in five innings against the lowest-scoring team in the majors, but his two-run single hit in the fifth inning gave the Cardinals a three-run lead to help them pull away.

Rea doubles in MSU’s 5-4 win over Beavers at CWS

Sports

June 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Mississippi State took the lead on Wes Rea’s two-run double in the eighth inning, closer Jonathan Holder turned back two Oregon State threats, and the Bulldogs beat the Beavers 5-4 on Saturday in the opening game of the College World Series. The Bulldogs (49-18) advanced to a Monday game against Indiana or Louisville. The Beavers (50-12), the No. 3 national seed, are one loss from elimination.Hunter Renfroe’s comebacker off Matt Boyd (10-4) put runners on first and second in the eighth. Rea then sent the go-ahead double into the right-center gap.

Holder got out of a jam after Oregon State put two runners on base in the eighth. The Beavers had two runners on in the ninth when Danny Hayes drove a ball to right that Renfroe caught on the warning track to end the game and give Holder his 19th save. Ross Mitchell (13-0) got the win.

(Podcast) Saturday Sports – 6/15/13

Podcasts, Sports

June 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

A podcast of the 7:19-a.m. Sports report with Ric Hanson….

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ISU economics proffessor tries to use stat analysis for sports

Sports

June 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

An assistant professor of economics at Iowa State University is trying to use what he’s learned through statistical analysis to give sports fans a better breakdown of games and make projections on future matchups. Gray Calhoun created a website he calls VisualScoreboard.com.  The website has statistical graphs to visually represent scoring at points during a game. “So that way you can see if one team makes a big run and gets a big lead, and you can if the other team comes right back, or if they chip away for 15 minutes. So, you can see a lot more about what’s going on during the game,” Calhoun says. He started with calculations for N-F-L games as well as N-H-L at the request of a friend. Calhoun says his graphs use a number of variables.

“For different leagues instead of looking at win-loss percentage…just use statistics to keep track of what their opponents were. And so adjust the win loss percentage to kind of account for all the records of all the other teams that they’ve played,” he explains. While the website can give you an idea of the team that is statistically likely to win, there’s one factor that Calhoun says you can’t factor in. “If you follow sports then you kind of know this already — there’s a lot of luck,” Calhoun says. He cites the Baltimore Ravens which were a top 10 team, but not many people had them picked to win the N-F-L championship. Calhoun says the Ravens played well and they won. He says using statistics gets even tougher in the playoffs because most of the teams are usually pretty evenly matched. But Calhoun says the stats do give you an idea of past performance of teams and that can be an indicator of what they might do.

“So they tell you that about the stock market, past performance doesn’t predict the future, but if a fund has been doing badly, then you probably don’t want to invest in it. But you can still learn something,” Calhoun says. He says the website is something that’s a work in progress and he hopes to be able to do more with it in the future. Calhoun says the website for now is just a hobby, as the data collection and processing is very time consuming.

(Radio Iowa)