Griswold Tiger Relays
04/21/2022

Class 1A Team Scores

1. Riverside 188
2. Southwest Valley 116
3. Bedford 103
4. Griswold 84
5. Audubon 68
6. Heartland Christian 42
7. Essex 36
8. ISD

Riverside won the 4x100M Relay and 4x200M Relay.

Gavin Smith of Audubon won the 400M Hurdles and was overall runner-up in the 110M Hurdles.

Class 2A Team Scores

1. Clarinda 172
2. Underwood 123
3. Red Oak 97
4. Shenandoah 76
5. Logan-Magnolia 70
6. Tri-Center 40

Clarinda’s Trenton Shaapherder won the 800M and 3200M, Isaac Jones won the high jump and long jump.

Full results HERE.

The Iowa Hawkeye baseball team has a difficult assignment with a visit to Big Ten leading Rutgers beginning this (Friday) afternoon. The eighth ranked Scarlet Knights have been the surprise of college baseball. They are 31-7 and had a 16-game win streak snapped with 9-7 loss mid-week loss to Princeton.

That’s Iowa coach Rick Heller. Rutgers is 11-1 in the Big Ten while the Hawkeyes have won five straight games and are 6-3 in the league race after sweeping Minnesota.

The Scarlet Knights rank in the top ten nationally in hitting, earned run average and fielding.

Heller says Rutgers is confident and has remained healthy.

The series begins with a single game this afternoon.

Iowa running backs coach Ladell Betts says the competition between the Iowa and defense this spring has gotten heated at times. The Hawkeyes close out spring drills Saturday morning with an open practice in Kinnick Stadium.

Betts likes the way the offense has competed in practice.

There is a different look at running back. With Tyler Goodson leaving early to pursue an NFL career sophomores Gavin Williams and LeShon Williams are the featured backs. That duo combined for 140 yards of rushing in a Citrus Bowl loss to Kentucky.

LeShon Williams says the Citrus Bowl experience was a plus for both.

Williams on becoming a featured back during spring drills.

Drake football coach Todd Stepsis would love to have one starting quarterback next season. Because of injury and illness the Bulldogs had five different starters during last year’s 2-9 campaign. Junior Ian Corwin has the most experience. He won the job as a freshman in 2019 but has struggled with injuries.

The Bulldogs close out spring drills with an intra squad game on Saturday.

Midwest League rivals the Quad Cities River Bandits and Cedar Rapids Kernels will collide August ninth near the “Field of Dreams” movie site in Dyersville. It is the same site that hosted last year’s game between the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox. River Bandits General Manager Joe Kubly says discussions about a possible game had been ongoing for a several months.

Both teams will wear throw back jerseys honoring their early days. The Kernels will play as the Cedar Rapids Bunnies while the River Bandits will be the Davenport Blue Sox.

Kernels General Manager Scott Wilson says it will be part of a busy week in Dyersville.

The Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds will play on August 11th. The history of baseball in Cedar Rapids dates back to 1890 and the team was known as the Bunnies for nearly three decades.

The Miami Marlins avoided the series sweep with a 5-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night.

The fish scored their five runs on just 7 hits. Jesús Sánchez and Jesús Aguilar each had 2 hits, with Sanchez also scoring 3 runs and earning an RBI and walk.

Pablo Lopez got the win on the mound with 9 strikeouts and 3 hits allowed in 7 innings of work. The Marlins improved to 5-7 overall.

Nolan Arenado had three of the five hits for the Cardinals as they fall to 7-4 on the season. They will head to Cincinnati for a three-game set over the weekend. Friday’s game will have a 4:45 p.m. pregame start on KJAN.

Council Bluffs Girls Invitational
04/21/2022

Team Scores

1. Glenwood 167.50
2. Harlan 93
3. Lewis Central 86
4. Treynor 85
5. CB Abraham Lincoln 71
6. St. Albert 65
7. Underwood 63.50
8. Logan-Magnolia 60
9. CB Thomas Jefferson 9

Glenwood got a win from Zoie Carda in the 100M and the Rams won the 2x100M Relay, 4x200M Relay, and 4x800M Relay.

Harlan got a win from Lindsey Sonderman in the 3000M and Kaia Bieker in the 800M.

Full results HERE.

East Union Co-Ed Meet
04/21/2022

Girls Team Scores

1. Central Decatur JV 150
2. East Union 101
3. Murray 101
4. Mormon Trail 85
5. Lamoni 71
6. Orient-Macksburg 29

Full results HERE

Boys Team Scores

1. Lamoni 191
2. East Union 151
3. Central Decatur JV 68
4. Murray 54
5. Mormon Trail 45
6. Orient-Macksburg 22

Full results HERE

OABCIG Co-Ed Meet
04/21/2022

Girls Team Scores

IKM-Manning won the Distance Medley and Boyer Valley won the 4x800M Relay.

Full results HERE

Boys Team Scores

IKM-Manning got wins from Caden Keller (800M), Lane Sams (1600M), and 4x800M Relay.

Boyer Valley’s Patrick Heffernan won the 3200M.

Ar-We-Va’s Cooper Kock won the High Jump, 110M Hurdles, and 400M Hurdles.

Full results HERE

Martensdale-St. Marys Boys Invite
04/21/2022

Team Scores

Nodaway Valley got a win from Doug Berg in the 3200M.

Devin Whipple of Lenox won the Discus and the Tigers won the Shuttle Hurdle Relay.

Full resutls HERE