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AMES, Iowa – Two-time All-Big 12 center Tom Farniok was named to the 2014 Rimington Trophy Award Spring Watch List, announced today by the Rimington Award.
The Rimington Award is given annually to the nation’s best center and is named after Dave Rimington, who is considered one of college football’s greatest centers during his All-American career at Nebraska (1979-82).
A native of Sioux Falls, S.D., Farniok enters his senior season with 35 career starts, the most by any current Cyclone. He was Iowa State’s Arthur Floyd Scott Award winner in 2013 as the Cyclones’ top offensive lineman.
Farniok was an honorable mention All-Big 12 pick as a sophomore (2012) and added second-team All-Big 12 accolades by the San Antionio Express-News as a junior (2013).
Farniok will earn his degree in the summer and begin coursework in graduate school.
AMES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa State says it has signed 7-foot-1 Greek center Georgios Tsalmpouris (sal-BORE-us) to a letter of intent. Tsalmpouris, who doesn’t turn 18 until next month, is a member of Greece’s national team. Tsalmpouris will be just the fifth 7-foot player in school history, and he’ll be eligible to play starting next season.
Tsalmpouris and 6-foot-9 center Jameel McKay should help provide Iowa State with the post presence it lacked at times last season. But it’s unclear if Tsalmpouris will redshirt or be ready to contribute as a freshman
Cyclones coach Fred Hoiberg says Tsalmpouris fits Iowa State’s style of play because he can run the floor and shoot from the perimeter.
Girls golf teams will begin their post-season run today with regional meets held around the state. In each region, the top two teams and the top five individuals advance to the regional finals on Tuesday, May 27.
Among today’s events:
Class 3-A @ Atlantic Golf & Country Club:
Atlantic, Clarinda, Clarke, Greene County, North Polk, Red Oak, Shenandoah, West Central Valley
Class 2-A @ Quail Run Country Club in Neola:
A-H-S-T, St. Albert, Nodaway Valley, Riverside, Southwest Iowa, Southwest Valley, Treynor, Tri-Center, Underwood
Class 2-A @ Lake City Country Club:
Audubon, IKM-Manning, Madrid, Missouri Valley, Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto, Ogden, South Central Calhoun, West Monona, Woodward-Granger
Class 1-A @ Dunlap Golf Course:
Boyer Valley, Charter Oak-Ute, East Mills, Griswold, Heartland Christian, Logan-Magnolia, Nishnabotna, Woodbine
Class 1-A @ Mount Ayr Golf & Country Club:
Bedford, CAM, Earlham, Guthrie Center, Lenox, Martensdale-St. Marys, Mount Ayr, SE Warren
Class 1-A @ Dayton Golf & Country Club in Burnside:
Coon Rapids-Bayard, Exira/EHK, Glidden-Ralston, Laurens-Marathon, Newell-Fonda, SE Webster-Grand, Storm Lake St. Mary’s
Class 1-A Girls @ Atlantic
Class 1-A Girls @ Glenwood
Class 1-A Girls @ Kuemper Catholic
Class 1-A Girls @ LeMars
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals activated left-handed pitcher Jaime Garcia to start against the Atlanta Braves, yesterday (Sunday). Garcia had surgery for a torn labrum and rotator cuff last May. Sunday was his first appearance in just over a year and the 100th of his career. He is 39-25 with a 3.45 ERA in his career. To make room for Garcia, the Cardinal optioned right-handed reliever Jorge Rondon to Memphis.
NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Sam Hornish Jr. beat Ryan Blaney off a restart with 21 laps to go and hung on to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series race Sunday at Iowa Speedway. Pole-sitter Ryan Blaney was second, followed by Regan Smith, Chase Elliott and Elliott Sadler in the first stand-alone event of the season.
Hornish, in the No. 54 car usually driven by Kyle Busch, led 167 of 250 laps to win in second Nationwide start of the season for Joe Gibbs Racing. Elliott has a two-point lead over Sadler and Smith in the series points standings.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ryan Doumit scored on a wild pitch and the Atlanta Braves got two runs in the ninth inning to rally past the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Freddie Freeman started a ninth-inning rally with a leadoff single off St. Louis closer Trevor Rosenthal (0-2).
With two outs, Freeman went to third on pinch hitter Ryan Doumit’s double to right. Rosenthal intentionally walked pinch hitter Evan Gattis to load the bases and then walked Jordan Schafer to force in the tying run. Carlos Martinez relieved Rosenthal and had a wild pitch while facing Ramiro Pena that scored Doumit to make it 6-5.
Dan Carpenter (3-0) pitched 1 1-3 innings of scoreless relief for the win. Craig Kimbrel pitched a scoreless bottom of the ninth for his 11th save in 13 chances. The save was the 150th of Kimbrel’s career.
NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Ryan Blaney will start from the pole today (Sunday) in the NASCAR Nationwide race at Iowa Speedway after winning qualifying Saturday. Blaney, who won a NASCAR Truck Series race in Iowa in 2012, took the pole for the first time in the Nationwide Series. Sam Hornish Jr. will join Blaney on the front row, followed by Michael McDowell, Regan Smith and Dylan Kwasniewski. Series points leader Chase Elliott will start sixth in the Nationwide’s first stand-alone race of the season.
CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Chase Elliott’s early success hasn’t forced Hendrick Motorsports to speed up its long-term plan for the driver. Elliott has two Nationwide Series wins this year for JR Motorsports and heads into today’s (Sunday’s) race at Iowa Speedway leading the points standings. He also graduated high school in Georgia on Saturday.
The 18-year-old is in the Hendrick driver development program, and JR Motorsports co-owner Dale Earnhardt Junior says that’s where he’ll stay for now
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