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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) — Jordan Bohannon made six 3-pointers and scored 30 points, Tyler Cook added 29 points and Iowa snapped a two-game losing streak at the Cayman Islands Classic with a 95-85 victory over UAB on Wednesday.

The sophomores set career highs in scoring to help Iowa win the seventh-place game. Cook hit 8 of 11 field goals and 13 of 16 free throws in topping his previous high of 24 points. Bohannon was 9-of-12 shooting, including 6 of 8 from distance, and sank all six of his free throws to best his 25 points in Iowa’s final game last season.

Luka Garza added 14 points and seven rebounds for Iowa (4-2), while Isaiah Moss scored 12.

Chris Cokley led UAB (3-3) with 25 points and eight rebounds. He made 7 of 8 free throws as the Blazers only missed two of 18 attempts. Nate Darling and Jalen Perry each added 13 points.

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Hawkeye Ten Conference

Denison-Schleswig 81, Atlantic 54
Clarinda 57, Lenox 49
Lewis Central 77, Sioux City North 20
Shenandoah 47, Abraham Lincoln 42
Thomas Jefferson 48, Glenwood 42

Pride of Iowa Conference

Nodaway Valley 72, West Central Valley, Stuart 46

Corner Conference

Bedford 32, Stanton 31

Other Scores

Earlham 60, Southeast Warren, Liberty Center 31
Panorama, Panora 54, Gilbert 27
Van Meter 48, ADM, Adel 44
Westwood, Sloan 61, Akron-Westfield 42

Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — King McClure had 19 points, Terry Maston made a series of big baskets down the stretch and No. 22 Baylor rallied to beat Creighton 65-59 in the Hall of Fame Classic title game. Maston finished with 15 points and Jo Lual-Acuil Jr. had 15 points and 15 rebounds for the Bears in earning tournament MVP honors.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State quarterback Jesse Ertz will need surgery on his ailing knee and miss the remainder of the season, while backup Alex Delton remains sidelined after sustaining two concussions. That means Skylar Thompson will again start Saturday against Iowa State. He led the Wildcats to an upset of Oklahoma State last weekend in Stillwater.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — If Iowa can make a few runs at the Big Ten title in the years to come, 2017 might be looked upon as a necessary rebuild. For now, this season feels like a major disappointment. The Hawkeyes have lost two straight games, guaranteeing they will have a losing record in the Big Ten for the first time in five years. They visit Nebraska on Friday in the regular-season finale.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Aaron Holiday got a scooping layup to go just before the buzzer, giving No. 23 UCLA a 72-70 victory over Wisconsin in the third-place game of the Hall of Fame Classic. Holiday led a charge down the stretch to get the Bruins in the game. Then, he drove past the Badgers’ Ethan Happ in the final seconds for the winning basket.

Denison-Schleswig got 20 points from their star guard Alex Mohr on their way to a 81-54 rout of the Atlantic Trojans on Tuesday night. The home opener for the Atlantic girls wasn’t a smooth one as Denison raced out to 24-13 lead by the end of the first quarter and pushed it out to a 43-26 advantage at half.

The game really got away from the Trojans in the third quarter as the Monarchs outscored them 23-13 in the quarter. Transition defense was a tough spot for Atlantic all night long and Coach Kelly Juhl said “We were just downright bad in that category tonight. I think we know what we are supposed to be doing but the execution just wasn’t there and we let them get behind us too much.”

Sarah Heilesen dropped in 14 points for Denison and Jazlyn Beeck had a very strong performance with 15 points and a number of rebounds.

Ally Anderson was the leading scorer for Atlantic with 16 points. and Baylee Newell and McKenzie Waters both had 10.

The Monarchs improve to 1-0 and and Trojans fall to 1-1 on the season. The Trojans have ten days off before they host St. Albert on December 1st.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) — Freshman David Jenkins Jr. scored a season-high 23 points, including big baskets down the stretch, and South Dakota State fended off Iowa 80-72 in a consolation-bracket semifinal at the Cayman Islands Classic on Tuesday.

Tevin King, a junior, added a career-high 16 points with seven rebounds and five steals. Reed Tellinghuisen scored 15 points and Mike Daum 10. The Jackrabbits, preseason favorites in the Summit League, shot 44 percent but were 10 of 20 from the arc and 16 of 19 from the free-throw line.

Isaiah Moss’ basket got the Hawkeyes within 66-64 with 3½ minutes left but Jenkins’ hit a 3-pointer and converted a three-point play, and King added a layup with two minutes left for a 74-66 lead. The Jackrabbits made 6 of 8 free throws from there to hold off the Hawkeyes.

The Jackrabbits (4-2) led 36-33 at halftime but Moss tied it with a 3-pointer in the first minute of the second half. Jenkins gave the Jackrabbits the lead for good at 54-52 with a basket with 12 minutes to go. South Dakota State gradually built an eight-point lead with 8½ minutes left but then went nearly four minutes without scoring with Ahmad Wagner drawing the Hawkeyes, 63-62, within a point with a 3-pointer before King ended the drought with a layup and free throw.

The victory was South Dakota State’s fourth in 11 meetings with Iowa and seventh against a Power Five school since joining the Summit League in 2007.

Moss led Iowa (3-2) with 18 points, Jack Nunge added 14 and Tyler Cook and Wagner 11 apiece. Luka Garza grabbed 10 rebounds while Jordan Bohannon dished seven assists. The Hawkeyes shot 51 percent but commited 15 turnovers that led to 25 points.

South Dakota State will play for fifth place on Wednesday while Iowa will try to end a two-game losing streak in the game for seventh place. We’ll have the Iowa game on KJAN with a pregame at 10:00am and Tip-off at 11:00am.

Two men, credited with saving the lives of strangers, will be honored during Friday’s Iowa-Nebraska football game in Lincoln. The recognition of “citizen heroes” from each state has become a halftime tradition in the annual battle between the Hawkeyes and Cornhuskers. Mark Tauscheck, spokesperson for the Iowa Red Cross, says this year’s Iowa honoree is 40-year-old Jerry Goeders of Dayton. Goeders and his family were at Lake Rathbun in southern Iowa this summer when they heard a girl screaming across the lake. She was struggling in the water with no one near her to help. “She was only about 15 feet from the shore, but she could not touch and was flailing and struggling to keep her head above water,” Tauscheck said. “Jerry Goeders’ wife, Stacey, said ‘you’ve got to go.’ So, Jerry took off running down the hill and jumped in and Stacey said her husband swam for probably four minutes or so to get to her. He was pretty exhausted by the time he got to her.”

Jerry Goeders

Goeders grabbed the girl, 8-year-old Jersie Ostino, and got her safely to shore. “He said he’ll never forget getting his foot to a rock and feeling that rock with his big toe,” Tauscheck said. “He said that’s when he knew he and the girl were going to be OK, but it was a very frightening experience for him as well.”

This year’s Nebraska citizen hero is 26-year-old Geoffrey Bennett, a soldier in the Army National Guard, who moved with his family to Norfolk, Nebraska from Illinois as a teenager. Bennett was driving through Omaha last December, in a snowstorm, when he stopped to help a woman near her broken down car. The 34-year-old woman had been critically injured when she was struck by passing vehicle. “(Bennett) showed up and saw how bad she was bleeding. He used his own belt as a tourniquet on her leg to slow the bleeding down. Authorities credit him with saving her life,” Tauscheck said.

Geoffrey Bennett photo

Bennett stayed with the woman and her friend, a 28-year-old man who was also badly injured, until an ambulance arrived. The woman’s leg was later amputated. Bennett graduated from high school in Norfolk before attending Morningside College in Sioux City where he was a pitcher on the baseball team. Bennett joined the Army National Guard in 2011. He recently started a new job as a technician at Camp Dodge in Johnston (Iowa). He previously served as perimeter security guard at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha. Earlier this year, fans of both schools were invited to nominate residents of Iowa and Nebraska for this “Citizen Hero” award. Staff and volunteers from the American Red Cross selected the winners.

(Radio Iowa)

The Iowa State women’s basketball team (2-1, 0-0 Big 12) took care of UMKC (0-4, 0-0 WAC) on Monday night as the Cyclones defeated the Kangaroos 61-45.

The Cyclones had four players in double-digits. Freshman Madison Wise led all scorers in the contest with 15 points and also hauled in a game high 15 boards.

The Cyclones opened separated themselves from UMKC in the second quarter with a 13-1 run to lead 39-15 at the break. ISU held the Kangaroos to just 5-39 (13%) from the field in the first stanza.

ISU out rebounded UMKC by a margin of 61-38 and the defense held UMKC to 16-75 shooting, which included 7-32 from behind the arc.

Next up for Iowa State they will travel to the Bahamas for the Junkanoo Jam. The Cyclones will open the tournament on Friday afternoon with a matchup with Tulane at 2:45 CT.

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