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The Boys State Tennis Tournament began Friday and will conclude today.
In Class 1A at Byrne’s Park in Waterloo all local athletes competing in singles play bowed out of the tournament Friday. Atlantic’s Nick Podhajsky lost his opening match 6-1, 6-3 to Brady Plueger of Spencer and then lost in the consolation bracket 6-0, 6-3 to Jackson Takes of Dubuque Wahlert.
Also in Class 1A Red Oak’s Weston Rolenc lost his first match 6-1. 6-3 to Jared McClung of Knoxville and then lost in consolation play 6-0, 6-0 to Ben Albright of Ft. Dodge St. Edmond. Creston O-M’s Ryan Kucera and Desinson’s Matt Moran also dropped their first two matches.
Doubles competitors in 1A also were knocked out on day 1 including Travis Miller and Cody Goeser of St. Albert, Mitch Kinsey and Spencer Pauley of Denison, and Dedrick Kettwick and Austin Smith of Clarinda.
In Class 2A Kyle Crowl of Abraham Lincoln lost out in his first two matches at Veterans Memorial Tennis Center in Cedar Rapids.
The Griswold Boys Golf team sits in 6th place after shooting a 369 team total on day 1 of the Class 1A State Golf Tournament at American Legion Golf Course in Marshalltown. James Reynolds led the Tigers with an opening round of 79 and is tied for 21st individually. Tyler Krueger of Riverside was the top area individual after day one with a 78 and is tied for 17th.
In Class 2A Panorama leads the team standings with a team 300 total at Ames Golf and Country Club. Kuemper Catholic is currently in second with a 311. Will Babcock of Panorama is atop the leaderboard after a day 1 round of 70. Teammate Jordan Eng shot a 74 and is currently in 4th place. Follow the links below to see full standings after the first day of play.
Class 2A Region 2
Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson 10, Denison-Schleswig 0
Glenwood 10, Carroll 0
Both teams move on to regional semifinals on Tuesday, June 2 at 6:00pm
Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson vs Dallas Center-Grimes @ Grimes
Glenwood vs. Winterset @ Earlham
Three individuals were arrested in Red Oak Friday evening after Red Oak Police executed a search warrant. At 4:25pm Friday Red Oak Police officers executed the search warrant at 502 East Coolbaugh Street Apartment #3 resulting in the arrest of 20-year-0ld Cole Ryan Kier of Red Oak. Kier was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance Marijuana and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Kier was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $1,000 cash bond. Also arrested were 23-year-old Aaron Gar Nelson of Red Oak and 25-year-old Dnae Christine Mcconahay of Malvern both for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Nelson and Mcconahay were released on citation.
Baseball
AHSTW, Avoca 14, East Mills 2
Coon Rapids-Bayard 10, Adair-Casey 0
Denison-Schleswig 6, OA-BCIG 1
Guthrie Center 6, CAM, Anita 5
Lenox 16, Clarinda Academy 1
Lewis Central 12, Shenandoah 1 (5 innings)
Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 8, Woodbury Central, Moville 0
Missouri Valley 2, Treynor 1
Pleasantville 10, Mount Ayr 0
Southeast Valley 14, West Central Valley, Stuart 12
Stanton 9, Sidney 2
Underwood 3, Logan-Magnolia 1
Wayne, Corydon 4, Bedford 2
Woodward-Granger 12, Southwest Valley 1
Softball
Glidden-Ralston 2, Exira-EHK 1
Griswold 16, Audubon 2
Lenox 5, Red Oak 3
Wayne 11, Bedford 3
Woodbine 11, AR-WE-VA, Westside 7
ST. LOUIS (AP) – John Lackey worked seven scoreless innings and the St. Louis Cardinals got just enough off Mike Bolsinger to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-0 for their fifth straight victory on Friday night.
The Cardinals ended Bolsinger’s streak of 18 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings on Randal Grichuk’s bases-loaded double play ball in the first. Jhonny Peralta doubled twice with an RBI and Grichuk, starting in left field in place of ailing Matt Holliday, batted cleanup for the first time and had an RBI double in the third.
The Dodgers have been shut out four straight times on the road, inclduing getting outscored 10-0 in a three-game sweep at San Francisco May 19-21.
Lackey (3-3) struck out nine and allowed five hits.
Bolsinger (3-1) gave up two runs on seven hits in six innings.
Skyscan Forecast Saturday, May 30, 2015 Chris Parks
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — State officials say two more probable cases of bird flu have been found at farms in Iowa. The state agriculture department announced Friday that the avian influenza has been detected at a Wright County farm where about 400,000 chickens are being raised and at a Sac County turkey farm with about 42,000 birds.
Initial testing was positive for the bird flu and samples have been sent to a federal lab in Ames for confirmation. If confirmed, the birds will be euthanized. The two cases Friday followed the Thursday announcement that a turkey farm with 17,000 birds in Hamilton County had tested positive for the disease.
The agriculture department says the virus has infected poultry at farms with more than 26 million birds.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa leaders are criticizing a proposal from the Obama administration that would reduce the amount of ethanol blended in U.S. gasoline. Iowa leads the nation in producing ethanol, a fuel additive made mostly from corn. Under the proposal released Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency, the amount of ethanol blended in to gasoline will increase, but not by as much as originally required by law.
Still, the agency didn’t decrease the standards as much as it had proposed in 2013. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad — who has lobbied aggressively for maintaining a strong standard — says in a statement that he was disappointed, but noted that the EPA made slight increases from a previous proposal. Sen. Joni Ernst says in a statement that “we can and must do better.”