Iowa Cubs President and General Manager Sam Bernabe says he has warmed up to a six games series. The new format debuted a year ago during the pandemic to reduce travel and returned this season. Series run Tuesday through Sunday and Monday’s are always an off day.

Bernabe says the format has helped reduce travel headaches for the team.

Bernabe believes regular off days are good for the players.

The I-Cubs opened an International League series in St. Paul last night (Tuesday night), with a 7-to 3 win.

Breece Hall says he is ready to show the New York Jets that he is a three down back. The former Iowa State star was taken by the Jets in the second round of the NFL Draft after a Cyclone career that included being named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year twice.

Hall joins a New York running back group that includes Michael Carter, who rushed for 639 yards and had 325 of receiving as a rookie.

Hall was known for his consistency at ISU and plans to take that into the NFL.

The Trojan Relays will know henceforth be known as the Bruce Henderson Invitational. A large crowd gathered in the Atlantic High School Auditorium to celebrate the renaming of the Trojan Relays in honor of legendary Atlantic track and field and cross country coach Bruce Henderson. Unfortunately the meet itself had to be cancelled due to the rainy and cold weather conditions on Monday.

A number of former athletes and committee members spoke about what Bruce has meant to them, the Atlantic community, and the running community in general. Former athlete Jackie Sampson talked about how they got the process rolling.

Plaques were given out to Bruce along with two of his longtime assistant coaches Don Jenkins and Barb Olsen. Medals for the meet were made with Bruce’s likeness on them and that’s how they will be going forward. T-shirts were also made up for former athletes to wear to honor the occasion and a recording from track announcer Mike Jay was played for the crowd talking about Coach Henderson’s accomplishments. Coach Henderson showed his joy when speaking to the crowd.

Coach Henderson thanked many people that helped him along the way and at the end of his speech brought up his wife Gail to honor her help and share the spotlight with him. You can watch the full ceremony from our KJANTV broadcast below.

The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union has released the sites and assignments for regional tennis tournaments. The tournaments will take place on Wednesday, May 11th starting at 9:00 a.m.

CLASS 1A

Region 1 at LeMars:  Denison-Schleswig

Region 2 at Atlantic: Atlantic, Audubon, Harlan, Kuemper Catholic, Lewis Central, St. Albert

Region 3 at Shenandoah: Clarinda, Creston, Glenwood, Red Oak, Shenandoah, Southwest Valley

CLASS 2A

Region 2 at Johnston: CB Abraham Lincoln

Region 3 at WDM Valley: CB Thomas Jefferson

See the full rundown HERE

GIRLS GOLF

Denison-Schleswig finished 4th at the Spencer Tournament on Monday. Tessa Petersen took third for the Monarchs with a round of 100. The rest of the scores for the Monarchs were: Lillian Schultz 125, Maggie Hennings 126, Gracie Outhouse 133, Bobbi Jipsen 140.

GIRLS SOCCER

Harlan 1, St. Albert 0
Kuemper Catholic 3, Denison-Schleswig 2
Lewis Central 6, Bishop Heelan 0

BOYS SOCCER

St. Albert 1, Atlantic 0
Denison-Schleswig 10, Kuemper Catholic 0
Harlan 2, CB Abraham Lincoln 0
Lewis Central 5, Creston 0

The Hawkeye Ten Boys Tennis Tournament started on Monday in Red Oak with Doubles play indoors.

The Denison doubles team of Carson Seuntjens and Wyatt Johnson won the #1 Doubles bracket. The 3rd-seeded pair beat the top-seeded duo of Josh and Eli Schuster of Shenandoah in the championship match. The Atlantic duo of Ethan Sturm and Clevi Johnson lost in the semifinals to Seuntjens/Johnson 8-1. They ended up taking 3rd place with an 8-5 win over Harger/Kirsch from Glenwood.

In #2 Doubles Paul Schlater and Dylan Gray of Shenandoah took the bracket win with a victory over Gavin Hipnar and Braden Curnyn of Denison-Schleswig in the final. Atlantic’s pair of Easton O’Brien and Bryan York fell in their opening match to a pair from Kuemper Catholic 8-3. They worked their way back to the 5th place match with two subsequent wins. They fell in the 5th place match 8-3 to Kraus/Reincke of Kuemper again to finish in 6th.

Singles play will take place on Tuesday again in Red Oak. Take a look at full results HERE.

Paul Goldschmidt launched a solo homerun off of Zack Greinke in the bottom of the first inning and that was all the scoring that would be had in the Cardinals 1-0 win over the Kansas City Royals on Monday afternoon in St. Louis.

Steven Matz blanked the Royals over six innings of work, allowing 4 hits and registering 4 strikeouts. Goldschmidt finished with 2 hits on the day.

The Cardinals improved to 13-9 on the season. The Royals and Cardinals will move across the state to Kansas City to continue the series Tuesday night. We’ll have coverage on KJAN starting at 6:15 p.m.

An Iowa owned horse will run for the roses out of post number one in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby. Mo Donegal (dun-ih-gul) is one of the favorites after winning the Wood Memorial in New York. It will be the fourth horse that Donegal Racing has run in the Derby. Des Moines attorney Jerry Crawford put the ownership group together after buying eight horses for 410 thousand dollars in 2008.

They have had two horses finish third and another seventh. Mo Donegal used a late charge to win at the Wood Memorial.

Crawford says Mo Donegal is smart and calm and that will help him navigate the large 20 horse field.

Brock Purdy says he is embracing his role as Mr. Irrelevant. The former Iowa State quarterback was the final pick in the NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers.

The four year starter for the Cyclones sees it as an opportunity to get his foot in the door.

Purdy led ISU to four straight bowl games.