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The Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce will be holding the annual Road Race during
AtlanticFest Saturday, August 8th. The Road Race is available to all ages and offers a
2 and 5 mile run and a 2 mile walk. This year, the Road Race will offer a new route. The 5 mile run will include a loop around the Schildberg Recreation Area. Also, the Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce is also excited to announce Chip Timing in 2015.
Road Race Participants have been requesting chip timing for several years and
Chamber officials say they are excited to be able to offer it all the runners, along with a new route. The pre-registration deadline has been extended to Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015. All pre-registered runners and walkers will receive a high performance t- shirt and runners swag bag, including a water bottle.
You can register on-line at www.atlanticiowa.com. For questions, please call the Atlantic Area Chamber at 712-243-3017.
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Jordan Spieth’s amazing bid for a Grand Slam was stopped Monday by Zach Johnson, no longer just a normal guy from Iowa.
Johnson captured his second major at the home of golf, winning the British Open in a playoff over Louis Oosthuizen and Marc Leishman that capped off a wild five days at St. Andrews and a finish that won’t soon be forgotten.
Most of that was because of Spieth, who came within inches of a shot at the third leg of the Grand Slam. The Masters and U.S. Open champion rolled in a 50-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole to tie for the lead with two holes to play. He missed an 8-foot putt on the tough 17th hole and took bogey, and his final bid to join the playoff was a long birdie attempt from the edge of the Valley of Sin.
It turned left of the hole, ending the latest bid at the holy grail of golf — winning all four professional majors in the same year.
“We gave it a great effort,” Spieth said.
Spieth hung around for the playoff, and walked out to the course to give Johnson a hug before the 39-year-old received the silver claret jug.
Johnson rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole in regulation to close with a 6-under 66. Leishman badly missed his birdie putt that would have won it, while Oosthuizen hit a perfect wedge to 5 feet for birdie and a 69 to join the playoff.
Johnson opened the four-hole playoff with two birdies. When he missed his 18-foot birdie putt on the final hole at No. 18, Oosthuizen had a 12-foot birdie putt to force sudden death. It caught the left edge of the cup, and Johnson was in tears.
He said when he won the 2007 Masters that he was just a normal guy from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now he has two majors among his 12 PGA Tour victories.
“I’m grateful. I’m humbled. I’m honored,” Johnson said. “This is the birthplace of the game, and that jug means so much in sports. I felt great. I’m just in awe right now.”
| Saturday’s Games |
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Nashville 4, Omaha 3, 10 innings
Iowa 10, Memphis 4
| Sunday’s Games |
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Iowa 4, Memphis 2
Omaha 3, Nashville 0
| Monday’s Games |
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Oklahoma City at Omaha, 8:05 p.m.
Round Rock at Iowa, 8:05 p.m.
CHICAGO (AP) — The Kansas City Royals have recalled right-hander Yohan Pino from Triple-A Omaha and optioned reliever Brandon Finnegan to their top farm club. Finnegan pitched two scoreless innings and got the win when Kansas City beat the Chicago White Sox 7-6 in 13 innings on Saturday. The Royals used seven relievers in the victory, and manager Ned Yost wanted another fresh arm in the bullpen for the series finale on Sunday.
Finnegan, the 17th overall pick in the 2014 draft, is 3-0 with a 2.96 ERA in 14 games this year with Kansas City. Pino is 0-2 with a 3.26 ERA in seven appearances with the Royals this season.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ruben Tejada hit a sacrifice fly in the 18th inning and New York Mets outlasted the St. Louis Cardinals 3-1 Sunday despite stranding 25 baserunners. The Mets went 1 for 26 with runners in scoring position, yet still won the majors’ second-longest game this season. Boston beat the Yankees in 19 innings in April.
It took 5 hours, 55 minutes for the Mets to top the NL Central-leading Cardinals and avoid a three-game sweep. Tejada hit a bases-loaded fly for the lead and Eric Campbell drove in another run with a squeeze bunt. The game was scoreless until before both teams got a run in the 13th.
Carlos Torres (3-4), the seventh Mets pitcher, was the winner. Carlos Martinez (10-4) was pressed into relief and was the Cardinals’ eighth pitcher.
Thousands of people have descended on northwestern Iowa’s Sioux City for an annual bike ride across the state. The Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa – or RAGBRAI – was expected to draw as many as 30,000 people, including participating bicyclists and their relatives and friends.
The bike ride begins today (Sunday) in Sioux City. The event’s 468-mile route will pass through Storm Lake, Fort Dodge, Eldora, Cedar Falls, Hiawatha and Coralville before wrapping up July 25 in Davenport. With all of those people comes a boost to Iowa’s economy. Erika Newton, executive director of Sioux City’s events facilities department, says RAGBRAI visitors are expected to spend more than $2.5 million while in Sioux City.
NEWTON, Iowa (AP) – Ryan Hunter-Reay raced to his third IndyCar victory at Iowa Speedway in the last four years Saturday night. Hunter-Reay held off the field on a late restart to give Andretti Autosport its sixth consecutive win on Iowa’s 0.894-mile oval and its seventh in nine series races at the track. The American hadn’t finished higher than fifth all season.
Josef Newgarden was second and rookie Sage Karam was a career-best third, giving American drivers a sweep of the podium. Points leader Juan Pablo Montoya’s night lasted just nine laps after his No. 2 Penske car flew into the wall. Scott Dixon, who entered the race in second, failed to capitalize on Montoya’s misfortune. He finished 18th.
CLASS 1A DISTRICT FINALS:
Coon Rapids-Bayard 9, EHK-Exira 2
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 10, Sidney 5
Van Meter 9, Nodaway Valley 1
Council Bluffs takes on Coon Rapids/Bayard 7-p.m. Tue., (7/21) in Harlan in 1A District 8 Sub-State action.
Van Meter will play next against Martensdale-St. Mary’s 7-p.m.Tue. at Winterset in a 1A District 8 Sub-State game.
CLASS 2A DISTRICT FINALS:
Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 4, East Sac County 3 (12 Innings)
Treynor 9, AHSTW, Avoca 5
Treynor takes on Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto at Denison/Schleswig, 7-p.m. Tue (7/21) in the 2A Substate 8 final.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jason Heyward matched a career best with five hits, Randal Grichuk had two homers and six RBIs, and John Lackey worked seven strong innings as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Mets 12-2 on Saturday night.
Mets starter Bartolo Colon (9-8) trailed by four runs after just one-third of an inning and surrendered seven runs in 4 1/3 innings. Heyward was removed after singling in the eighth, perhaps because he fouled a pitch off his leg earlier in the at-bat. Grichuk was 3 for 3 with a two-run homer off Carlos Torres that capped a four-run fifth and a three-run shot off Alex Torres in the eighth.
St. Louis improved to major league-bests of 58-33 overall and 33-11 at home. Lackey (8-5) scattered 10 hits, one of them to .084-hitting Colon, but was hurt only by Michael Cuddyer’s eighth homer leading off the sixth.
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