The Girls State Golf Championships begin today at three locations.  The Class 1-A & 2-A meets will be held at Jester Park Golf Course in Jester, the 3-A & 4-A meets will be held at Coldwater Links in Ames and the 5-A meet is at Lake Panorama National in Panora.

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Local competitors include:

Class 1-A:  Boyer Valley

Class 1-A Individuals: Mateya Peters of Griswold

Class 2-A:  Treynor

Class 2-A Individuals:  Aly Anderson of Treynor, Randi Robinson of Treynor

Class 3-A:  Atlantic & Shenandoah

Class 3-A Individuals:  Brooke Newell of Atlantic, Erin Olsen of Atlantic, Grace Davidson of Clarinda, Anna Carlson of Shenandoah, Allison Schweers of Kuemper Catholic, Courtney Snyder of Kuemper Catholic

Class 4-A:  Creston

Class 4-A Individuals:  Ashton Carter, of Creston, Sophia Groumoutis of Creston, Madison Hance of Creston

In Monday baseball, Red Oak downed Atlantic 3-1 in a game played at Principal Park in Des Moines.  Tigers pitcher Carlos Guerra held the Trojans in check, giving up only one hit and striking out 12 in the complete game.  Ryker Connell belted a two-run single in the sixth inning to break a 1-1 tie and give the Tigers the win.

Also, Abraham Lincoln split a doubleheader with Thomas Jefferson, the Lynx winning 4-1 in the first game and the Yellow Jackets grabbing the second game 5-3.

In Monday softball, Lewis Central swept a pair from Creston 4-2 and 13-10.  Sioux City East beat Thomas Jefferson twice by identical 12-0 scores.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) – Matt Carpenter had four hits and scored three times, Carlos Martinez pitched eight innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-0 on Monday. Martinez (5-5) allowed five singles, walked one and struck out eight, rebounding nicely after having allowed at least four runs in each of his three previous starts. Entering Monday, Martinez had a 1.34 ERA in 15 career games, including four starts, against Milwaukee.

Carpenter sparked the offense from the leadoff spot. He even scored from second in the seventh after catcher Jonathan Lucroy lost track of a wild pitch by Jhan Marinez that trickled to the backstop. The Cardinals built a 3-0 lead after three innings, with the lineup’s top four hitters accounting for 10 of the team’s 12 hits on the day.

The Card’s and Brewers face off again Tuesday evening. Pre-game coverage on KJAN is 6:15, with the first pitch at 7:10-p.m.

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BASEBALL SCORES
Boone 7, Lewis Central 5
Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 9, Missouri Valley 5
East Sac County 15, Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 2
Lawton-Bronson 9, Logan-Magnolia 5
Lewis Central 5, Johnston 3
Shenandoah 15, Sidney 0
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 12, Lawton-Bronson 7
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 20, Logan-Magnolia 0
West Monona, Onawa 8, St. Mary’s, Storm Lake 4

SOFTBALL SCORES
A-D-M, Adel 11, Harlan 2
Bedford 6, Clarinda 4
Bedford 9, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 8
Bishop Heelan, Sioux City 4, Charter Oak-Ute 1
Chariton 11, Earlham 8
Charter Oak-Ute 10, Lawton-Bronson 5
Clarinda 13, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 1
Hinton 14, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 4
Lewis Central 5, LeMars 1
Logan-Magnolia 11, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 0
Logan-Magnolia 9, West Monona 0
West Monona 9, Hinton 4
Westwood, Sloan 12, Alta/Aurelia 7
Westwood, Sloan 9, LeMars Gehlen Catholic 2
Westwood, Sloan 9, St. Mary’s, Remsen 1

WASHINGTON (AP) – Stephen Strasburg won his 12th consecutive decision dating to last season and Jayson Werth connected for a pinch-hit grand slam to help the Washington Nationals close out the season series against the St. Louis Cardinals with a 10-2 win on Sunday.

Wilson Ramos had three hits, including a two-run homer, and drove in four runs. Bryce Harper hit an RBI single during Washington’s three-run fourth inning off Michael Wacha (2-6). Strasburg (9-0) pitched six innings of one-run ball as Washington salvaged a split of the four-game series. The right-hander improved to 12-0 in 15 starts since losing to the Mets on Sept. 9, and the Nationals have won all 15 of those games.

The Cardinals will take on the Milwaukee Brewers Monday afternoon for the first of a three-game set. Pre-game coverage begins at 12:15, here on KJAN. The first pitch is at 1:10.

The two-day Boys State Golf Tournament wrapped up Saturday at courses located in Livermore, Ft. Dodge and Marshalltown.

In Class 3-A, at the Spring Valley Golf Course, in Livermore, the team from Webster City came away with the win, with the best low score of 614 after two rounds of play. Manchester-West Delaware placed second with their score of 625, Gilbert was third, with a score of 630. Atlantic placed 5th with a score of 643. The top Trojan scorer for Atlantic was senior Kyle Nelson, who placed 15th with his best, two-day low score of 157.

In Class 2-A at the Lakeside Golf Course in Ft. Dodge, Panorama took first place at the tournament for the second year in a row. It was the third-straight trip to State for the Panthers, who shot a two-day total of 604. Fort Dodge/St. Edmond was second, shooting a tow-day total of 613, followed by Kuemper Catholic, with a 614. Individually, for the Panther’s, Junior George Appleseth’s tournament score of 145 was the lowest. This is the third-straight trip to State for Panorama.

In Class 1-A at the American Legion Golf Course in Marshalltown, East Buchanon claimed the title, shooting a team-best 620 for the two-day event. Mason City-Newman Catholic was second, followed by Nodaway Valley in third place, with their score of 648. Griswold place 5th, with a two-day best score of 671. Individually, for the Griswold Tigers, senior Jacob Reynolds shot the best low score over the two-day event, of 151, which was good for 6th place. Senior James Reynolds, from Griswold, shot a total of 153, which placed him 8th in the event. Nodaway Valley senior Jackson Lamb took 12th place individually, with his two-day total of 157. Fellow senior Sam Marnin shot a total of 159, placing him in the 14th slot.

For all of the team and individual scores, see our other posts on the kjan.com Sports page, or click on this link: http://www.iahsaa.org/golf/2016-spring-state-leaderboards/

DALLAS (AP) — New Orleans Pelicans guard Bryce Dejean-Jones was fatally shot after breaking down the door to a Dallas apartment, authorities said Saturday. A man living at the apartment was sleeping when he heard his front door kicked open, Dallas Police Senior Cpl. DeMarquis Black said in a statement. When Dejean-Jones began kicking at the bedroom door, the man retrieved a handgun and fired. Officers who responded found Dejean-Jones collapsed in an outdoor passageway, and he later died at a hospital. He was 23.

In 2014, Dejean-Jones transferred to Iowa State to play under coach Fred Hoiberg. He played in 33 games during the 2014–15 season, starting 21, averaging 10.5 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.1 steals, while shooting a career-best 47.6 percent from the field. In Dejean-Jones’ only NBA season, which ended in February because of a broken right wrist, the 6-foot-6 guard started 11 of 14 games and averaged 5.6 points and 3.4 rebounds.

It is legal in Texas for someone to use deadly force in order to protect themselves from intruders. Julie Keel, a spokeswoman for Camden Property Trust, the real estate company that owns the apartment complex in Dallas, confirmed that the complex’s apartment manager had sent out an email to residents saying that the person who had been shot had been trying to break into “the apartment of an estranged acquaintance” and that this person had “inadvertently” broken into the wrong apartment.

Black said he could not confirm that Dejean-Jones was trying to access an acquaintance’s apartment.