Friday (09/28/2018)

CLASS 4A:

District 7
Ames 49, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 3
Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 34, Des Moines North 12
Valley, West Des Moines 49, Urbandale 10

CLASS 3A:

District 1
Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City 30, Denison-Schleswig 20

District 2
Carroll 36, Boone 0

District 9
Creston/O-M 16, ADM 13
Harlan 42, Glenwood 12
Lewis Central 52, Winterset 14

CLASS 2A:

District 9
Kuemper Catholic 16, Greene County 8
OABCIG 39, Atlantic 16
Red Oak 57, Shenandoah 23

CLASS 1A:

District 8
AC/GC 38, Clarinda 20
Mount Ayr 21, Panorama 13
Van Meter 35, West Central Valley 14

District 9
East Sac County 35, Cherokee, Washington 18
Missouri Valley 68, MVAOCOU 8
Treynor 28, Underwood 26

CLASS A:

District 2
IKM-Manning 39, Manson Northwest Webster 8

District 9
AHSTW 35, Earlham 7
Riverside 30, Nodaway Valley 8
St. Albert 50, Southwest Valley 13

District 10
Lawton-Bronson 12, Logan-Magnolia 7
Tri-Center 36, West Monona 28
Westwood 26, Woodbury Central 6

CLASS 8-Player:

District 6
Mormon Trail 58, Moravia 8
East Union 74, Murray 18
Lamoni 52, Seymour/Moulton-Udell 12
Southeast Warren 28, Lenox 12

District 7
Fremont-Mills 48, Bedford 0
East Mills 35, Sidney 34
Stanton 68, Essex/South Page 8
Griswold 60, Clarinda Academy 42

District 8
Audubon 63, Coon Rapids-Bayard 33
Glidden-Ralston 56, Boyer Valley 26
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 51, West Harrison 6
Woodbine 30, CAM 20

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Cubs are closing in on the NL Central championship and have their sights set on another deep playoff run.

It sure would help if Kyle Hendricks keeps pitching like this. They’ll take a few more big home runs from Kris Bryant, too.

Hendricks went eight innings in another strong start, Bryant connected and the Cubs moved closer to the division title while dealing another hit to St. Louis’ playoff hopes, beating the Cardinals 8-4 on Friday.

“This is what you look for,” Hendricks said. “These are the games you want to play in, games that have meaning like this. That’s why we play the game. Hopefully, we’ve got a lot of these left.”

The Cubs came into the final weekend of the regular season with a franchise-record fourth straight trip to the postseason assured and their third division title in a row in sight. They remained one game ahead of Milwaukee, which beat Detroit 6-5 on Friday night.

The Cubs can clinch the NL Central on Saturday — and home-field advantage throughout the NL playoffs — with a win and a Brewers loss.

St. Louis matched a season high with its fourth straight loss, after being swept by Milwaukee this week. The Cardinals trail Los Angeles by two games for the second NL wild card after the Dodgers won 3-1 in San Francisco late Friday night.

With two games remaining, one more St. Louis loss or Los Angeles win would eliminate the Cardinals from postseason contention.

UP NEXT

Cardinals: RHP Miles Mikolas (17-4, 2.94 ERA) looks to win his fifth straight start, after holding San Francisco to two runs and two hits in seven innings on Sunday.

Cubs: LHP Cole Hamels (4-2, 2.47) tries to shake off back-to-back losses after going 4-0 in his first nine starts for Chicago following a trade from Texas. He homered against Pittsburgh on Monday but got outpitched by Jameson Taillon.